Education
Ph.D. in Philosophy, University of Lisbon, Portugal (2004)
MA in Philosophy of Mind, University of Lisbon, Portugal (2000)
About
Sara Bizarro has a Ph.D. from the University of Lisbon and was a Visiting Scholar at NYU and Tulane University. Her research focuses on Philosophy and Film, but she has also published on Wittgenstein, Ethics, and Social and Political Philosophy.
Upcoming work: "Do Side Effects Matter?" Foundations of Basic Income: Research Landscape, Political Feasibility and Ecological Impact, Roberto Merrill & Catarina Neves (eds), Palgrave, 2025
Published works include: "Free Will and A Clockwork Orange: A Polythetic View of Free Will," Ethical Perspectives, 29, n. 2, p. 171-185, 2022; "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft," Philosophy Now, December 2021; Unconditional Basic Income, A Defense of Freedom, published in Portuguese with Roberto Merrill, Gonçalo Marcelo and Jorge Pinto, Edicoes 70, 2019; "Acting and the Self", Gerner, A. & Gonçalves J. (eds.), Altered Self and Altered Self Experience, Peter Lang, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2014; "A Hertzian interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus", Eidos, n. 13, 2010
Courses Taught:
PHIL 1000: Introduction to Philosophy
PHIL 2201: Ethics
PHIL 2207: Philosophy of Law
PHIL 2215: Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 3260: Philosophy and Film
PHIL 3500: The Philosophy of Wittgenstein
PHIL 3511: Existentialism
Research Interests
Prof. Bizarro is an editor for the American Philosophical Association Blog for Philosophy of Film, an associated researcher for the Centre for Ethics Politics and Philosophy at the University of Minho, and a consultant for the research project UBIEXP - The Political Philosophy and Epistemology of Basic Income Experiments.
Her research interests include Philosophy and Film, Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Wittgenstein, and Social and Political Philosophy.
Honors and Awards
2019 - First Place Essay Prize, Portuguese Philosophy Society for the Book, Rendimento Básico Incondicional, Uma Defesa da Liberdade, Sara Bizarro, Roberto Merrill, Gonçalo Marcelo e Jorge Pinto, Edições 70.
2006 - Post-Doc Scholarship, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
2001 - Ph.D. Scholarship, Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).