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Camila Lobo is a PhD student in Philosophy at Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Having graduated in Philosophy from Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto in 2016, she went on to earn a Master's degree in Political Philosophy from Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 2019, having prepared the dissertation "Mulher Inessencial, mas Mulher: Feminismo, Wittgenstein e o problema da diferença" under the supervision of Professor Nuno Venturinha. She was awarded a PhD scholarship by FCT so as to develop the doctoral project "The Perspective of Care - Toward a Feminist Epistemology of Work". Her research interests range from social epistemology, to feminist theory, philosophy of language and wittgensteinian philosophy.
Her current research applies methodologies developed within the field of social epistemology to examine feminist questions and concerns about care labour – that is, domestic and reproductive work. Its prime goal is to consider the extent to which the lack of recognition of care labour as work may constitute an instance of “epistemic injustice”, a concept coined by Miranda Fricker (2007) to account for the obstacles encountered by marginalized groups in the process of acquiring and communicating their experiences. The project follows existing literature about the role played by the gender system in practices of knowledge production – with a special focus on standpoint theory – to respond to questions that pertain to the way epistemic agents perceive unpaid care labour.
Her current research applies methodologies developed within the field of social epistemology to examine feminist questions and concerns about care labour – that is, domestic and reproductive work. Its prime goal is to consider the extent to which the lack of recognition of care labour as work may constitute an instance of “epistemic injustice”, a concept coined by Miranda Fricker (2007) to account for the obstacles encountered by marginalized groups in the process of acquiring and communicating their experiences. The project follows existing literature about the role played by the gender system in practices of knowledge production – with a special focus on standpoint theory – to respond to questions that pertain to the way epistemic agents perceive unpaid care labour.
