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
The development of consciousness in infants
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2024Abstract~THE MIMICS PROCESS AND THE ARISING OF SELF
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POLEM!CAAbstract~Three Potential Tests for Consciousness in Infant
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2024Abstract~Through the Baby’s Ears
Passos Ferreira, C. (n.d.).Varieties of Infant Experience
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2023Abstract~Varieties of Infant Experience
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2023Abstract~What do recurrent processing theories predict about infant consciousness?
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2023Abstract~What do theories of consciousness predict about infant consciousness
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2023Abstract~What do theories of consciousness predict about infant consciousness?
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2023Abstract~What Do Theories of Consciousness Predict About the Onset of Infant Consciousness?
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