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
A survey of views about infant consciousness
Failed retrieving data.Infant Consciousness
Failed retrieving data.Tests of Consciousness in Infants
Failed retrieving data.A Imaginação e Agir Moral (Imagination and Moral Agency)
Failed retrieving data.Do Infants Perceive Others as Conscious Subjects
Failed retrieving data.Early Onset of Consciousness: Philosophical and Ethical Implications
Failed retrieving data.Infant Consciousness: How, Where, Whether, When, What?
Failed retrieving data.Infant Consciousness: How, Where, Whether, When, What?
Failed retrieving data.Licensing Children to Assist on Institutional Review Board
Failed retrieving data.TED TALK
Failed retrieving data.The development of consciousness in infants
Failed retrieving data.A Emergência da Perspectiva da Primeira Pessoa (Emergence of First-Person Perspective)
Failed retrieving data.As Origens da Interioridade (The Origins of Interiority)
Failed retrieving data.Can we detect consciousness in newborn infants?
Failed retrieving data.Can We Detect Consciousness in Newborn Infants?
Failed retrieving data.How Can We Detect Consciousness in Newborn Infants?
Failed retrieving data.The development of consciousness in infants
Failed retrieving data.Three Potential Tests for Consciousness in Infant
Failed retrieving data.A developmental perspective on AI consciousness
Failed retrieving data.A developmental perspective on AI consciousness
Failed retrieving data.Are infants conscious?
Failed retrieving data.Empathizing with the Intellectually Disabled
Failed retrieving data.Empathizing with The Intellectually Disabled
Failed retrieving data.Varieties of Infant Experience
Failed retrieving data.Varieties of Infant Experience
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