Fernando Nascimento

I teach and research on Digital and Computational Studies, Hermeneutics, and Ethics. My research is organized in three interconnected academic axes and has the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur as its main theoretical reference. The first axis is the study of the ethical concept of practical wisdom and its applicability to contemporary issues. The second axis is the study of the impacts of new technologies in current and future societies, with special emphasis on software development and mobile digital technologies.The third axis deals with hermeneutical philosophy problems, interpretation of texts, and digital analysis of texts, especially narratives. These axes have been overlapping and intertwining in intriguing and productive ways in my research projects.

Short Bio

I worked for almost twenty years in the telecommunication industry developing software for mobile devices worldwide. In parallel, I have also been studying and teaching Philosophy, with a special focus on the ethical and hermeneutical works of the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. I am currently co-director of the Digital Ricoeur project, a digital portal that provides advanced textual analytic tools on Ricoeur corpus. I am also director of the Society for Ricoeur Studies since 2017.

Contact

fnascime@bowdoin.edu