Claudia Maria Passos Ferreira
Claudia Passos Ferreira
Assistant Professor of Bioethics
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Professional overview
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Claudia Passos-Ferreira is Assistant Professor of Bioethics. She studied psychology at the Rio de Janeiro State University and earned her MA and Ph.D. in the program of Human Sciences and Health Sciences in Public Health there. She obtained a second Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Passos-Ferreira has published on philosophy, psychology, and neuroethics. She has collaborated in crosscultural research on moral development and social cognition (on topics such as empathy, fairness, ownership, intersubjectivity). She has published a book on Freud and mental causation. In philosophy of mind, she has published on self-knowledge, introspection, and external mental content. Passos-Ferreira’s current research program focuses on the development of consciousness, including what theories of consciousness say about infant consciousness and machine consciousness, and how these theories shed light on ethical issues.
Prior to joining NYU, Passos-Ferreira was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with the Ethics and Biotechnologies project., and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the State University of Rio de Janeiro with the Ecological Mind and Self-Consciousness project. Earlier in her career, she was awarded a Residency Scholarship from the Brazilian Health Ministry and she received clinical training in Child-Adolescent Mental Health and Mental Health. She has worked as clinical psychologist in private practice and public hospitals as well in Brazil.
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Education
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BA, Psychology, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilMA and PhD, Human Sciences and Health Sciences in Public Health, Rio de Janeiro State University, Rio de Janeiro, BrazilPhD, Philosophy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Publications
Publications
What do recurrent processing theories predict about infant consciousness?
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Failed retrieving data.What do theories of consciousness predict about infant consciousness?
Failed retrieving data.What Do Theories of Consciousness Predict About the Onset of Infant Consciousness?
Failed retrieving data.Freud's views on mental causation
Failed retrieving data.Editorial introduction symposium on pain amnesia and qualitative memory
Failed retrieving data.In Defense of Empathy: a response to Prinz
Failed retrieving data.O self como centro de ação em James e Winnicott
Failed retrieving data.Ownership reasoning in children across cultures
Failed retrieving data.Seria a moralidade determinada pelo cérebro? Neurônios-espelhos, empatia e neuromoralidade
Failed retrieving data.THE MIMICS PROCESS AND THE ARISING OF SELF
Failed retrieving data.A ritalina no Brasil : Produções, discursose práticas
Failed retrieving data.Fairness in distributive justice by 3- and 5-year-olds across seven cultures
Failed retrieving data.From Imitation to Reciprocation and Mutual Recognition
Failed retrieving data.Homo negotiatus : Ontogeny of the unique ways humans own, share and reciprocate
Failed retrieving data.ORGANIC METAPHORS ON SOCIAL ANALYSIS
Failed retrieving data.Kids Deserve Privacy Online. They’re Not Getting It.
Failed retrieving data.Teens on the ethics panel: Why IRBs should hear from young people
Failed retrieving data.Through a baby's ears
Failed retrieving data.Through the Baby’s Ears
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