Publications
Books
(with Eric Chown) Meaningful Technologies: How Digital Metaphors Change the Way We Think and Live. (2023)
Co-editor (with Walter Salles), Ética, Identidade e Reconhecimento na obra de Paul Ricoeur [Ethics, Identity and Recognition in Paul Ricoeur´s Works]. Editora PUC-Rio & Ediçoes Loyola 2013) (in Portuguese).
Patents
CONTENT SHARING BETWEEN A UNIVERSAL PLUG AND PLAY DEVICE AND A WIDE AREA NETWORK DEVICE (with John McInerney) United States 2012/0151,006 Issued December 13, 2010
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
Hayton-Ruffner, Dylan, Fernando Nascimento and James Broda. 2022. “Concept Detection in Philosophical Corpora.” Digital Studies/Le champ numérique 12(1): 2, pp. 1–28. DOI: https://doi. org/10.16995/dscn.8106
Exploring Film Language with a Digital Analysis Tool: The Case of Kinolab. A Cooper, F Nascimento, D Francis - DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2021
Chown, Eric, and Fernando Nascimento. “Software and Metaphors.” Interpreting Technology: Ricœur on Questions Concerning Ethics and Philosophy of Technology, 2021, 229.
Crystal Hall, Eric Chown & Fernando Nascimento (2021) A critical, analytical framework for the digital machine, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 46:4, 458-476, DOI: 10.1080/03080188.2020.1865659
Bullock, B.*, Nascimento, F, & Doore, S.A. (2021). Computing Ethics Narratives: Teaching Computing Ethics and the Impact of Predictive Algorithms. Proceedings of the 52st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. ACM SIGCSE 2021. Virtual Meeting. March 13-20.
Doore, S.A. & Nascimento, F. (2021). Workshop: Creating Inclusive Worlds: Lesson Development with Computing Ethics Narratives for Future Technologists. MozFest 2021. Virtual Meeting. March 8-19.
Duffy, K.P., Cipparone, H.C., Johnson, E.S. et al. Leveraging spatial dimensions of news media content analysis to explore place-based differences in natural resource issues. J Environ Stud Sci (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13412-020-00595-9
Nascimento, Fernando. 2020. “Technologies, Narratives, and Practical Wisdom.” Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies. https://doi.org/10.5195/errs.2019.481.
Jockers, Matthew, Fernando Nascimento, and George Taylor. “Judging Style: the Case of Bush v. Gore.” Digital Scholarhip in the Humanities. Accepted for publication on March 2019.
Taylor, George and Jockers, Matthew and Nascimento, Fernando, 'No Reasonable Person', in The Rhetoric of Justice Scalia. Scalia: Rhetoric and the Rule of Law Francis J. Mootz, III & Brian Slocum eds., University of Chicago Press, 2019.
"Da Sabedoria Prática à tolerância como virtude hermenêutica." (From practical wisdom to tolerance as a hermeneutic virtue) Revista Dissertatio de Filosofia, v.8 (2018) 31-44.
“Narrative, Mimesis, and Phronetical Deliberation.” Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, (2014) 29–48. www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/storyworlds.6.2.0029.
"Implicações do conceito de Mal na Ética de Paul Ricoeur." [Implications of the Concept of Evil in Ricoeur’s Ethics] Keynote. Paper presented at Catholic University of Campinas. Perennial Philosophical Concepts Conference. São Paulo, Brazil, 2014.
"Phronetical Deliberation." Keynote. Centenaire Ricoeur (1913-2013): Paul Ricoeur et la philosophie contemporaine de langue anglaise, Paris, November 20, 2013.
"Practical Wisdom in the Face of Crisis and Conflict." International Congress on Ricoeur’s Philosophy. Salento, Italy, 2012.
“Premissas da sustentação de si na ética de Paul Ricoeur” [Assumptions of Self-constancy in Ricoeur’s ethics], in Ruth Leonhardt, Elsio Cora eds. O legado de Ricoeur. UNICENTRO, (2011) 104-18 .
"A sabedoria prática no espaço político a partir da ética de Paul Ricoeur."[Practical wisdom Applied to the Political Environment] Paper presented at the XIV Congresso Nacional da ANPOF. Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil, July 2010.
"The Concept of the Golden Mean in Ricoeur's Little Ethics." Paper presented at Reading Ricoeur Once Again. International Ricoeur Conference. Lisbon, Portugal, 2010.
"Assumptions of Self-Constancy in Ricoeur´s Work: An Approach to his Ethical Proposal." Paper presented at From Ricoeur to Action, International Ricoeur Conference. Canterbury, United Kingdom, 2009.
"A proposta ética de Paul Ricoeur no mundo contemporâneo."[Ricoeur’s Ethical Proposal for the Contemporary World] Paper presented at XII Encontro Nacional de Filosofia da ANPOF. Salvador, Brazil, 2016.
“O Conceito de justo meio na ética aristotélica” [The Concept of the Golden Mean in Aristotle’s Ethics] Phrónesis, v. 6, n.1, (2004) 31-41.
Presentations and Panels
The State of AI in Maine (panel) - 2023
Doore, Stacy, and Fernando Nascimento. “The Role of Imaginative Variations in Ethics by Design.” Paper presented at Ethical Issues in Computing & AI. Harvard University, June 2-3, 2022.
Nascimento, Fernando and Taylor, George. "The Promise of Digital Analysis for Nonprogrammers: The Example of Digital Ricoeur ." Paper presented at 2018 5th Digital Humanities Austria. Empowering Humanities. Salzburg, Austria, November 2018.
McGrath, Philip and Nascimento Fernando. "Digital Ricoeur Data Model." Paper presented at the 2018 European Association for Digital Humanities. Data in Digital Humanities. National University of Ireland, Galway, 7-9 December 2018.
"Software and Metaphors: the Hermeneutical Dimensions of Software Development." Paper presented at 2018 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering and Technology (fPET) at the University of Maryland, Washington, DC, May 2018.
"Ethical Recognition." Paper presented at 2018 Society for Ricoeur Studies Conference.Mount Saint Mary University, Los Angeles, CA, November 2018.
"Through Evil: From tragic wisdom to phronesis and back." Keynote, Annual Summer Workshop of the Fonds Ricoeur, Paris, June 30, 2018.
"Mobile Computing status and perspectives." Paper presented at the Eldorado Institute of Technology Conference. São Paulo, Brazil, 2014.
"Instant Messaging and Presence - Voip, Video and Beyond". Paper presented at World Innovation Conference – Motorola Inc. Schaumburg, IL, 2007.
"Convergência nas tecnologias de comunicação sem fio." [The convergency of Wireless technologies]. Paper presented at Jornada de Informática Conference – Catholic University of Campinas. São Paulo, Brazil, 2006.
"Fronteiras da Engenheira de Software." [Frontiers of Software Engineering].Presentedt at Market and Computing Conference – State University of Campinas. Campinas, SP, Brazil, 2004 .
Tecnologia Java para Celulares [Java technology for Mobile Devices]. Paper presented at Sociedade Brasileira de Computação [Brazilian Society of Computer Science]. Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2003.
Paula, Gustavo and Nascimento, Fernando."Considerations in Implementing a MIDP IM Client." Paper presented at Java One World Congress.San Francisco, CA, 2003.
Interviews and News Articles
Co-Curricular Field Trip to Rural Brazil - Technology and the Common Good - 2024
Meaningful Technologies - Book Launch - Bowdoin College 2023
The ethics of artificial intelligence, and what to beware of as applications of AI expand (2023)
Responsible AI Curriculum - NHC. (2022)
Considering the Why and not just the How of Computer Science. (2021)
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence. Maine Calling. (2019)
Faculty approves DCS major and urban studies minor. (2019)
Bowdoin Selected for Pioneering Computer Science Ethics Challenge. (2019)