Publications
This page brings together books, peer-reviewed publications, working papers and preprints developed within my broader research programme. Although the individual works address different empirical domains, they are united by a common interest in understanding the institutional, cognitive and normative conditions that enable more reliable, justified and legitimate decision-making.
Books
Primado do Direito: Justiça Penal, Prova e Decisão no Século XXI
Página UM Ensaios, 2026
This collection of essays examines contemporary challenges in criminal justice, evidence and institutional legitimacy, exploring how legal systems can better realise the principles upon which they are founded.
ISBN: 978-989-36445-1-5
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Selective Epistemic Uptake and the Transformation of Scientific Explanation in Criminal Law
Jus Cogens, 2026
This article examines how scientific knowledge is selectively incorporated into legal reasoning, arguing that institutional and cognitive pressures may reshape scientific explanations before they become part of normative judgement. It proposes the concept of selective epistemic uptake as a mechanism operating prior to legal justification, influencing how evidence is interpreted and responsibility is attributed.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s42439-026-00125-1
Publisher Link: https://rdcu.be/fq1k5
Keywords: Criminal Law, Cognitive Science, Evidence, Philosophy of Science, Epistemology.
Working Papers
From Data to Conviction: Narrative Stabilization and Inference under Uncertainty in Investment Decision-Making
Zenodo Working Paper, Version 1.0, 2026
This paper develops a theoretical account of investment decision-making under fundamental uncertainty. It argues that investment conviction emerges through the stabilization of coherent causal narratives rather than from purely objective evaluation, integrating predictive processing with narrative cognition.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19677208
Keywords: Behavioural Finance, Predictive Processing, Narrative Cognition, Decision-Making, Uncertainty.
Preprints
Political Polarization and Evaluative Architecture: Stabilized Inference and Evidential Uptake
Zenodo Preprint, Version 1.0, 2026
Currently under peer review.
This preprint develops a theoretical model explaining political polarization through asymmetries in evidential uptake. Rather than treating disagreement as a consequence of conflicting evidence alone, it argues that polarization emerges from differences in the very conditions under which evidence is recognised and evaluated.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19763324
Keywords: Political Polarization, Predictive Processing, Political Psychology, Democratic Theory, Evaluative Architecture.