Assis Mariano, Phd Student
I am a second year Ph.D. Student in Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia where I work as a Teaching Assistant and Graduate Instructor for several philosophy courses. I am currently doing research work on Philosophy of Science and Biology under the mentoring of Prof. Dr. André Ariew. This semester I am teaching and TAing for Introduction to Philosophy and Medical Ethics. I am also a Research Assistant for the Vaishnava Concept of God, a US$30,000.00 Research Grant funded by The Global Philosophy of Religion, a multimillion project generously funded by the Templeton Foundation and the Dynamic Investment Fund at the University of Birmingham (UK). I am also one of the members of the executive board of the LARA (The Logic and Religion Association). The purpose of this association is to promote academic research on the intersection between Logic and Religion.
Prior to starting this PhD Program, I was from 2019 to 2020 a Mentoring Fellow from the LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion, a US$ 1,3 Million Project funded by the Templeton Foundation. At that time I was working at the Philosophy Department of Boston College (USA) under the mentoring of Prof. Dr. Daniel McKaughan, and the direction of Prof. Dr. Luis Oliveira (University of Houston), the project leader. The purpose of this Fellowship was to give me the opportunity to produce my own work on Epistemology of Religion.
I am also one of the organizers of a world series of events on Logic and Religion. This is a worldwide initiative that gathers philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, scientists, and theologians to promote academic research on the relationship between logic and religion, reason and faith, rational inquiry and divine revelation.
I hold a MA in Philosophy from the Federal University of Paraiba, UFPB, (Brazil) with a graduate scholarship from The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel(CAPES). My master's dissertation was on the Structure of the Probabilistic Arguments for the Existence of God.
In the past, I was awarded with grants from The God and Space-Time Project (Rutgers University), The Science, Philosophy, and Theology in Latin America Project, from The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (University of Oxford), and The Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Brazil Project, from the Brazilian Association of The Philosophy of Religion, all funded by Templeton Foundation.
My research interests fall in a variety of issues intersecting Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Science. I also have interests on Philosophy of Mind and Language, as well as Philosophy of Religion where I am particularly interested in arguments for and against religious beliefs. I also have interests in Logic, Formal Epistemology, and Analytic and Philosophical Theology.
Prior to starting this PhD Program, I was from 2019 to 2020 a Mentoring Fellow from the LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion, a US$ 1,3 Million Project funded by the Templeton Foundation. At that time I was working at the Philosophy Department of Boston College (USA) under the mentoring of Prof. Dr. Daniel McKaughan, and the direction of Prof. Dr. Luis Oliveira (University of Houston), the project leader. The purpose of this Fellowship was to give me the opportunity to produce my own work on Epistemology of Religion.
I am also one of the organizers of a world series of events on Logic and Religion. This is a worldwide initiative that gathers philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, scientists, and theologians to promote academic research on the relationship between logic and religion, reason and faith, rational inquiry and divine revelation.
I hold a MA in Philosophy from the Federal University of Paraiba, UFPB, (Brazil) with a graduate scholarship from The Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel(CAPES). My master's dissertation was on the Structure of the Probabilistic Arguments for the Existence of God.
In the past, I was awarded with grants from The God and Space-Time Project (Rutgers University), The Science, Philosophy, and Theology in Latin America Project, from The Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion (University of Oxford), and The Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Brazil Project, from the Brazilian Association of The Philosophy of Religion, all funded by Templeton Foundation.
My research interests fall in a variety of issues intersecting Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Science. I also have interests on Philosophy of Mind and Language, as well as Philosophy of Religion where I am particularly interested in arguments for and against religious beliefs. I also have interests in Logic, Formal Epistemology, and Analytic and Philosophical Theology.
