Sovereignty as Value (Values and Identities: Crossing Philosophical Borders)

Andre Santos Campos is principal research fellow in political theory in the Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon. His research concentrates on issues that connect contemporary political theory with jurisprudence and intellectual history, such as sovereignty, political representation and intergenerational justice. He is the author of Spinoza’s Revolutions in Natural Law, and the editor of Challenges to Democratic Participation, Spinoza: Basic Concepts, Spinoza and Law, and Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy: New Readings. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Brian Barry Prize in Political Science attributed by The British Academy for his essay ‘Representing the Future’.
Susana Cadilha is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Nova University of Lisbon, where she coordinates its Ethics and Political Philosophy Laboratory. She is a lecturer in ethics at Nova University of Lisbon, and at the Lisbon Master in political philosophy, and was also invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto, and at Católica Porto Business School. She was a guest researcher at NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, North Carolina – EUA), where she was trained in bioethics, and the principal investigator of the Project Conversations on Human Action and Practical Rationality. She teaches and writes in the areas of ethics, metaethics, and philosophy of action.