Hugo Mota

I hold a doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Oslo. I was under the supervision of Joey Pollock and co-supervision of Catarina Dutilh-Novaes. My dissertation, Deep disagreements and power: communication under oppression, was part of the New Models of Knowledge Communication project, funded by the Research Council of Norway.
My work attempted to join multiple philosophical views to explain deep disagreements, with the ultimate goal of providing a better analysis of real cases of deep disagreement: why they arise, what makes them more complex than normal, and which forms of communication are involved with them. The work does not offer a perfect strategy to solve deep disagreements, but tools that broaden the scope of the analysis, which should benefit the development of better communicative strategies in the future.
My future work focuses on understanding what happens when deep disagreements turn violent, whether peace mediation is the best tool for managing and ending conflicts, and how mediation should be improved with the goal of achieving fair and long lasting peace.

I also am:
Co-coordinator of the Oslo Mind, Language, and Epistemology Network,
Executive member of the Argumentation Network of the Americas
Member of the interdisciplinary projects Dataphilo: gender and race in Brazil’s philosophy graduate studies and Ethnic-Racial Inequities in Food, Nutrition and Health in Brazil: An Ecosocial Approach
Affiliated member of the Social Epistemology of Argumentation and the GOODATTENTION projects
Part of the Critical Political Epistemology Network and the Young Network for Wittgensteinian Philosophy

This is my Google Scholar profile.