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Clara Castro
http://lattes.cnpq.br/8809454042715450
Pedro Galé
Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7799-4686

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Vol. 33 No. 57 (2025): Beyond Dualism: Configurations of the Body in Modernity
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Introduction
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Clara Castro, http://lattes.cnpq.br/8809454042715450

Professor of Modern Philosophy on the tenured faculty of the Department of Philosophy at PUC-Rio (since Nov. 2021), co-principal investigator at NUPEM — the Center for Modern Thought at PUC-Rio (since Nov. 2021) and a fellow in the PUC-Rio Incentive Program for Productivity in Teaching and Research (since July 2022). She served as coordinator of the undergraduate Philosophy program at PUC-Rio from March 2024 to December 2025, during which time the Bachelor’s and Teaching Degree programs in Philosophy underwent the MEC’s accreditation renewal process and received the highest possible score. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from UFPR (2022) and in Language and Literature from UNICAMP (2003), a master’s degree in Philosophy (2006) from the same institution, and a Ph.D. also in Philosophy from USP (2012), with one year of doctoral research (2011) and two years of postdoctoral research (2013 and 2015) at Sorbonne University–Paris 4 (under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Michel Delon and Prof. Dr. Jean-Christophe Abramovici). Between August 2012 and May 2017, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Philosophy at USP, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Maurício de Carvalho Ramos. In the following two years (2017–2019), she served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy at UFPR. From August 2019 through the end of 2020, she taught French classes for the language education extension programs at UTFPR (UTFPR Idiomas) and UFPR (CELIN). She has experience in the field of the history of modern philosophy and 18th-century French aesthetics, particularly with regard to the following authors and topics: Sade, Diderot, d'Holbach, La Mettrie, Gassendi, French empiricism and materialism of the Modern Age, ancient materialism, and 18th-century French philosophical novels, short stories, and dialogues.

Pedro Galé, Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar)

He is a professor at the Federal University of São Carlos. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at USP (2004), a master’s degree in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at USP (2009), and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at USP (2016). His dissertation, “Winckelmann: A History of Art Between Norm and Form,” won USP’s Outstanding Dissertation Award in the humanities in 2017. In 2018, he served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Federal University of São Carlos. He is a member of the “Winckelmann-Gesellschaft” (International Winckelmann Society), as well as executive editor of the journal *Discurso*. He completed his postdoctoral research in the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences—USP, under the supervision of Professor Franklin de Mattos. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the UFSCar Postdoctoral Program (PPD/UFSCar—PNPD/CAPES) in the Department of Philosophy at the Federal University of São Carlos. His research focuses primarily on the following topics: Aesthetics, Modern Philosophy, Art History, the Enlightenment, Philosophy of Nature, Art and Antiquity, Art and Nature, Goethe, Winckelmann, and Diderot.