Expertise Areas: Metaphysics, Metaethics, Process Philosophy, Phenomenology
Pedro has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of North Texas (2024) and a BS in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas (2019).
Pedro’s scholarship is at the intersection of metaethics, process philosophy, and phenomenology. His current focus on metaethics grows out of his doctoral work on the metaphysics of energy and time, and continues to draw on the process-relational framework developed there. His research focuses on the phenomenology and metaphysics of moral perception. He is currently approaching these questions through a phenomenological investigation of love and empathy (especially through Iris Murdoch and Edith Stein) combined with process-relational metaphysics inspired by Alfred Whitehead and Henri Bergson.
Pedro has published his works in journals such as Research in Phenomenology and Process Studies. His most recent publication explores a process ontology of energy (inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s metaphysics) based on the final chapter of his doctoral dissertation, which investigates how the concept of energy in western philosophy and physics has been historically theorized in relation to time. You can find his published works and dissertation here.
Courses Taught
Couse Descriptions Can Be Found Here
PHIL 1012 Truth, Reality, and the Good Life
PHIL 1020 Introduction to Ethics
PHIL 3333 Happiness and the Good Life
PHIL 5750/4750 Introduction to Phenomenology
Podcasts
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Education & Degrees
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of North Texas, 2024
B.S., Physics, University of Texas, Dallas
Selected Publications
He has recently published papers in Research in Phenomenology and Thaumàzein-Rivista di Filosofia, which published a special issue on "Henri Bergson. Creative Evolution and Philosophy of Life." You can find his published works here.
The Cannibal's Antidote for Resentment: Diffracting Ressentiment through Decolonial Thought in Research in Phenomenology, 2024.
“Towards a Process Ontology of Energy: Deleuze on Energy, Intensity, and Time,” in Process Studies 55(1). Forthcoming in spring 2026.
“Critique of the Concept of Energy in Light of Bergson’s Philosophy of Duration.” Thaumàzein - Rivista di Filosofia 12(1): 108-133, 2024.