On September 3, at 3 p.m., Artur Emanuel Ilharco Galvão took the public exams for his PhD in Philosophy, with his dissertation: Rationality and Socialization: the Ritual Factor in the Philosophical Proposals of Richard Rorty and Alasdair MacIntyre.

We would like to congratulate Artur Emanuel Ilharco Galvão on the successful defense of his thesis, which received the highest classification from the jury.

The Vice-Rector of the Portuguese Catholic University, Professor José Manuel Pereira de Almeida, chaired the jury, which was made up of Drs:

• Dr. Sofia Gabriela Assis de Morais Miguens Travis, Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto;
• Dr. José Maria da Silva Rosa, Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the University of Beira Interior;
• Dr. Marta Maria Anjos Galego de Mendonça, Associate Professor at the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon;
• Dr. Manuel Gonçalves Sumares Júnior, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University;
• Dr. Álvaro Manuel Rodrigues Balsas, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University;
• Doctor Bruno Miguel Monteiro Nobre, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University.