Renata Arruda



Course of Philosophy/Regional Goiás, Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil

CV Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8381572070775020

Skills and Expertise
Main: Philosophy of Medicine and of Epidemiology – metaphysics, epistemology and methodology of health sciences: causality, manipulability, INUS condition. Other: Philosophy of Science – the problem of induction, theories of scientific confirmation..

Academic Positions

2009 – Federal University of Goiás (UFG), Brazil.
Assistant Professor at the course of Philosophy / Regional Goiás

Education

2017 – University of Salamanca (USAL), Spain
PhD in Logic and Philosophy of Science
Thesis: Causas e Manipulabilidade na Medicina
Advisor: Sebastián Álvarez Toledo (USAL, Spain)

Ongoing research projects

2020 – Philosophy of Epidemiology

2021 – Leader of the research group «Filosofia da Medicina e da Epidemiologia»
Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil. DGP – Diretório dos Grupos de Pesquisa no Brasil, CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brazil. http://dgp.cnpq.br/dgp/espelhogrupo/691493

Recent publications

2019 – A influência do Tractatus no critério positivista de significado. Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso, p. 6-17, 2019.