Doctorate
Collaborator
NOVA FCSH
Licentiate degree in Music (UEL); MA in Philosophy (UNESP); PhD in Philosophy of Science, specializing in Philosophy of Technology (CFCUL, University of Lisbon). Vinícius de Aguiar is a postdoctoral researcher at CFCUL, working at the intersection of philosophy and musicology. In his PhD thesis (viva in 2022), he employed C. S. Peirce’s phenomenological semiotics to analyze the role of visual, gestural, and acoustic diagrams in musical composition and listening. Currently, he investigates the relationship between music aesthetics and AI in music recommender systems, specifically the historical-philosophical roots of their entanglement. Broadly, he is interested in how AI and data sciences are appropriating and transforming fundamental categories of music aesthetics (e.g., creativity, taste, experience, meaning) and the epistemic and societal implications of those changes. Other research interests include music and media, aesthetic epistemologies, music semiotics, and the phenomenology of music.