Translation of Dooyeweerd’s book is out

My friend Dr. Leonardo Ramos and I translated a couple of political essays by the great Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977).

This collection of essays has just been published by Edições Vida Nova from São Paulo. For this volume, Leonardo and I wrote an extensive introduction to Dooyeweerd’s contribution to the theory of the state. The volume also contains a glossary prepared by Guilherme V. R. de Carvalho.

Leonardo Ramos is a Senior Lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais and Guilherme V. R. de Carvalho is one of the L’Abri Fellowship workers in Brazil. Both are part of the leadership of the Kuyper Association of Brazil.

Also, kudos to Jonas Madureira, editor of the collection, and Norma Braga and Franklin Ferreira, who provided a very positive review of the work.

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Top 2% on academia.edu

The academia.edu website has informed I’ve got one of the top-2% most viewed profiles based on a 30-day average.

I’m not familiar with the methodology for this, so I can’t really say much about this.

Since I completed my PhD I’ve been deliberately opting for an open-source publishing strategy that enables me to share my publications for free. I believe this is the best strategy at an early career stage with scarce funding.

Academia.edu has reported some of the google searches and the keywords people enter to end up on my profile website. They have a direct connection to specific pieces I’ve published, but not necessarily with my main research topics and interests.

In other words, people are searching for specific ideas contained in the publications I’ve shared, so the open-source strategy seems to be working well.