The Short Story
About Luis de Miranda
Luis de Miranda, PhD, is a philosophical practitioner and a researcher in Scandinavian universities, at the moment Senior Research Fellow at the Philosophy Department of Turku University, and affiliated with the Center for Wellbeing, Welfare and Happiness as well as the House of Innovation of the Stockholm School for Economics and the Center for Research Ethics and Bioethics at Uppsala University. He is also an experienced philosophical practitioner and counsellor. A Philosophy Doctor from the University of Edinburgh and a graduate of the HEC-Paris School of Economics, he is an international author of non-fiction and fiction. He is known for his theory and practice of philosophical health and crealectics, which together form the CIPHER model (see illustration below). Some of his books, for example an introduction to Artificial Intelligence and Robotics or the novella Who Killed the Poet? have been translated into a dozen languages. His essay Being and Neonness was published by MIT Press, and the monograph Ensemblance by Edinburgh University Press. Published 2024 are two books on Philosophical Health with Bloomsbury Academic.
Luis has a Master in Philosophy from the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he studied among other topics the phenomenology of life, and primarily French and German philosophy of Mind. Before starting an academic career late in life, de Miranda was between 1996 and 2013 an independent author, and between 2004 and 2012 the editorial director of the Max Milo publishing house in Paris, which he co-founded. He authored his first books in French.