Manuela Ungureanu

Associate Professor

Philosophy
Currently on leave
Office: ART 236
Phone: 250.807.9375
Email: manuela.ungureanu@ubc.ca

Research Summary

Social epistemology, philosophy of language, translation studies, philosophy of social sciences.

Courses & Teaching

Philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of social sciences.

Biography

Manuela Ungureanu is an associate professor of philosophy at UBC Okanagan. Born in Romania, she holds a PhD from McGill University, and has received her BA from the University of Bucharest. Her research areas include social epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of social sciences. She has a research interest in communication technologies and their impact on higher education systems in Eastern Europe during the communist regimes. Manuela teaches courses in philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, philosophy of social sciences and literacy studies. She also designed and serves as the coordinator for Minds & Music at UBCO.

Degrees

PhD, McGill University

Selected Publications & Presentations

Recent Publications

Ungureanu, M. 2026. Introduction and Afterword to edited volume Rethinking the Historiography of the Soviet Bloc: The Totalitarianism Paradigm and Institutional Practices under Communism, pp.1-24, and respectively pp.406-413. Berghahn Books, Oxford/New York.

Ungureanu, M. 2026. Framing the totalitarianism paradigm. Chapter in Rethinking the Historiography of the Soviet Bloc: The Totalitarianism Paradigm and Institutional Practices under Communism, pp. 107-129. Berghahn Books, Oxford/New York.

Ungureanu, M. 2026. Following Dumitru half-way: On Davidson and Strawson on meaning, truth and understanding. In C.C. Brîncuș (ed.) From an Analytical Point of View: Logic, Language, and Mind. Essays in Honor of Mircea Dumitru, Synthese Library, Springer, Cham.

Ungureanu, M. (April 2025) Lessons from resistance to systemic indoctrination during communism in Eastern Europe. Panel presentation and discussion (online) on Education, Systemic indoctrination and 21th century authoritarianism, Centre for Mindful Engagement, UBC Okanagan
https://education.ok.ubc.ca/2025/04/02/speak-panel-education-systemic-indoctrination-and-21st-century-authoritarianism/

Ungureanu, M. (April 2025) Rethinking the historiography of the Soviet bloc: The perspective from social ontology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest

Ungureanu, M. (July 2024) Donald Davidson and the limits of a truth-conditional semantics, online presentation for the Institute of Philosophy, Romanian Academy

Ungureanu, M. (May 2021) Coming to terms with Totalitarianism: The word, the paradigm, and the philosophical projects, online presentation for the Poznan Philosophy Colloquium, Faculty of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland

Ungureanu, M. 2020. Olson’s Domestication of Goody’s Literacy Hypothesis: (How) Can Philosophers of Language help? In Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, March 2020 online-first, DOI 10.1007/s10780-020-09399-w

Ungureanu, M. (May 2019) David Olson’s innovations at the interface between cultural anthropology and developmental psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Calgary

Ungureanu, M. (2017) Afara e vopsit gardul, înauntru se citește Hegel si Marx, sau despre rezistența prin “materialismul dialectic și istoric” (Outside the fence is tidy, inside we study Hegel and Marx, or about resistance through “dialectical materialism”) In Un professor de filosofie: Alexandru Valentin, Mircea Flonta, and Liana Ionescu (eds.), Bucharest: University of Bucharest Publishing House.

Ungureanu, M. (2016) Problema întemeierii cunoașterii și străduința comunicării prin limbaj (Founding knowledge in naturalism and the work of linguistic communication). In 60 de ani în universitate: o carte dedicată profesorului Mircea Flonta, Valentin Muresan, Mircea Dumitru, Adrian-Paul Iliescu, Cosmin Vaduva (eds.), vol.1, 2015, Bucharest, University of Bucharest Publishing House.

Ungureanu, M. (2015) A momentous triangle: ontology, methodology and phenomenology in the philosophy of language. In Romanian Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Ilie Parvu, Gabriel Sandu, and Iulian D. Toader (eds.), for Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, pp.55-70, 2015, Dordrecht: Springer.

Ungureanu, M. (2013) On Goody, his critics and beyond: social metaphysics for cultural anthropology. In AVANT 2, pp.97-123, URL: http://avant.edu.pl/en/22013eng

Recent Presentations

  • Canadian branch of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy, Ryerson University, Toronto, May 2017
  • Center for Applied Ethics, University of Bucharest, October 2016
  • Centre for History and Philosophy of Science, University of Bucharest, October 2016
  • Canadian Philosophical Association, University of Calgary, Calgary, June 2016
  • International Conference of the SOPHA (Societe de philosophie analytique), Universite de Montreal and UQAM, Quebec, June 2015
  • Conference of the Polish Academy, University of Torun, Poland, November 2013

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