He specializes in American philosophical pragmatism, critical theory and intellectual history of the twentieth century.
[1][2] He is the author or co-author of ten books, and the editor or co-editor of seven others, and he has also published more than thirty articles.
[4] Filipe Carreira da Silva was born in Zimbabwe, but grew up in Lisbon, Portugal.
[6] He is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, which he joined in 2005.
[7] He has been an affiliated lecturer in the department of sociology at Cambridge since 2013, where he teaches contemporary social theory.