Dina Mendonça, Ph.D

Dina Mendonça, Ph.D., is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem and a senior research fellow at the Instituto de Filosofia da Nova at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She holds a master’s degree in philosophy for children from Montclair State University in New Jersey, where she studied with Matthew Lipman, and a Ph.D. from the University of South Carolina. Her dissertation, The Anatomy of Experience: An Analysis of Dewey’s Concept of Experience, examined John Dewey’s philosophy of experience.

Mendonça’s current work focuses on a pragmatic analysis of emotion, treating emotions as dynamic and situational occurrences. Her research, informed by Deweyan thought, seeks to clarify different approaches to emotions and related topics. She is developing a bibliography and research database on the philosophy of emotion. Her areas of specialization include the philosophy of emotions, philosophy for children and pragmatism.