Paulo Faria is full Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and a CNPq Fellow Researcher. He works on metaphysics and epistemology, the philosophies of logic and language, the philosophies of time and memory, and the history of analytic philosophy. He was a visiting researcher at New York University (1995), Rutgers University (1995-1996), the Jean Nicod Institute (2005-2006), the University of Chicago (2014) and again at New York University (2014). He was one of the founding members (2008) and later Vice-President (2010-2012) of the Latin American Association for Analytic Philosophy (ALFAn). His recent works include the book Time, Thought, and Vulnerability (forthcoming), the paper "The vagaries of actions and the verities of meanings" (forthcoming), and the chapter on Bertrand Russell in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory (2017).