Robert Vinten is currently working on an FCT-funded project on epistemic injustice, 'Power, Prejudice, and Perception'. He was previously the postdoctoral fellow in the FCT project 'Epistemology of Religious Belief: Wittgenstein, Grammar, and the Contemporary World' (FCT Project: PTDC/FER-FIL/32203/2017). He gained his PhD at Universidade Nova (2018) and has previously studied at Oxford Brookes University (PGCE, 2008), the University of Reading, Georgia State University (MA Philosophy, 2000) and the University of Glasgow (MA Hons, Philosophy, 1997). His theses at Universidade Nova, Georgia State University, and Glasgow have all been concerned with aspects of the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
He has taught at Georgia State University (Atlanta, USA), the University of Reading (Reading, England), and at the Henley College (Henley-on-Thames, England).
His publications include the booksWittgenstein and the Social Sciences: Action, Ideology, and Justice (Anthem Press, 2020) and the edited collection Wittgenstein and the Cogntitive Science of Religion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) as well as articles such as 'Knowledge, Confidence, and Epistemic Injustice' (Symposion, 2024), 'Wittgenstein, Quasi-Fideism, and Scepticism' (Topoi, 2022), 'Theolologicophilological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein's Tractatus a Modernist Work' (Philosophical Investigations, 2021), ‘Was Wittgenstein a Liberal Philosopher?’ (Teorema, 2017), and Eagleton’s Wittgenstein (Critique, 2015).
Links:
Robert Vinten’s Ifilnova page: https://www.ifilnova.pt/en/pages/robert-vinten
Robert Vinten’s page on academia.edu: https://fcsh-unl.academia.edu/RobertVinten
Robert Vinten’s page on researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Vinten2
He has taught at Georgia State University (Atlanta, USA), the University of Reading (Reading, England), and at the Henley College (Henley-on-Thames, England).
His publications include the booksWittgenstein and the Social Sciences: Action, Ideology, and Justice (Anthem Press, 2020) and the edited collection Wittgenstein and the Cogntitive Science of Religion (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) as well as articles such as 'Knowledge, Confidence, and Epistemic Injustice' (Symposion, 2024), 'Wittgenstein, Quasi-Fideism, and Scepticism' (Topoi, 2022), 'Theolologicophilological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein's Tractatus a Modernist Work' (Philosophical Investigations, 2021), ‘Was Wittgenstein a Liberal Philosopher?’ (Teorema, 2017), and Eagleton’s Wittgenstein (Critique, 2015).
Links:
Robert Vinten’s Ifilnova page: https://www.ifilnova.pt/en/pages/robert-vinten
Robert Vinten’s page on academia.edu: https://fcsh-unl.academia.edu/RobertVinten
Robert Vinten’s page on researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Vinten2