Professor Henrique de Morais Ribeiro holds a degree and a degree in Philosophy from the Paulista State University `Júlio de Mesquita Filho´ in 1996 and also a Master's in Philosophy from the State University `Júlio de Mesquita Filho´, in 2000. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo with a doctoral internship at the Universities of Sheffield and London, King's College. He has experience in academic teaching and research in the areas of Epistemology, Philosophy of Natural Sciences, Logic and Metaphysics, working mainly on topics on the causal and ontological relationships between mind and matter in contemporary analytical philosophy of mind, on the philosophy of cognitive science and on persistence of objects in metaphysics.