Luis de Miranda
Associate professor of bioethics, philosophical practitioner and researcher in philosophical health and existential creativity. Expertise in philosophical counselling, sense-making methods, and holistic innovation.
Luis de Miranda is a philosophical practitioner and associated researcher at CRB. He conducts research in euduynamic bioethics and has developed the SMILE_PH method, a structured dialogue tool used internationally to explore philosophical aspects of meaning and identity, not least in healthcare and wellbeing contexts. He is also the creator of the Crealectic Method, a five-step approach to fostering existential creativity and reflective thinking. His research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, mental health, and existential creativity.
Luis de Miranda obtained his PhD from University of Edinburgh in 2017. He has held academic positions at several Swedish universities. He regularly works as a philosophical counsellor with individuals and groups and is also Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies

Publications
de Miranda, Luis; Ingvoldstad Malmgren, Charlotta; Carroll, Jonathan Eric; Gould, Caroline S et al.
Part of Methodological Innovations, 2025
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Can and Should AI Help Us Quantify Philosophical Health?
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Open Philosophy, 2025
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AI Companions for Philosophical Health: a Human-in-the-Loop Framework
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Topoi, 2025
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de Miranda, Luis
Part of Possibility Studies & Society, 2025
- DOI for Tetractys of philosophical health: A structured approach to aligning personal cosmology, higher purpose, and practices of the compossible
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Crealectics as a Creative Method: A New Approach to Holistic Innovation for Compossible Worlds
de Miranda, Luis
Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
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Kelemen, Katalin; de Miranda, Luis
Part of International Journal for Court Administration, 2024
- DOI for Courts as Anthrobots: Learning from Human Forms of Interaction to Develop a Philosophically Healthy Model for Judicial Automation
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The Crealectic Method: From Creativity to Compossibility
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Qualitative Inquiry, p. 37-44, 2024
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Philosophical Health: A Practical Introduction
de Miranda, Luis
Bloomsbury Academic, 2024
Introducing the SMILE_PH method: Sense-making interviews looking at elements of philosophical health
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Methodological Innovations Online, 2023
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de Miranda, Luis
Part of Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, p. 1158-1160, 2023
- DOI for Book review: The philosophy of person‐centred healthcareBy Derek Mitchell, Michael Loughlin, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2023.201 pp. £64.99. ISBN (10): 1‐5275‐9058‐5, ISBN (13): 978‐1‐5275‐9058‐8
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Tapping into the unimpossible: Philosophical health in lives with spinal cord injury
de Miranda, Luis; Levi, Richard; Divanoglou, Anestis
Part of Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, p. 1203-1210, 2023
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de Miranda, Luis; Loughlin, Michael
Part of Journal of Evaluation In Clinical Practice, p. 1161-1170, 2023
- DOI for Philosophical health: Unveiling the patient's personal philosophy with a person‐centred method of dialogue
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Philosophical Health: Thinking as a Way of Healing
de Miranda, Luis
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023
Worlding with the Creal: Autonomous Intelligence and Philosophical Practice
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Religions, 2023
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Co-Creating the Real: A Transdisciplinary Dialogue
Glăveanu, Vlad; de Miranda, Luis
Part of Qualitative Inquiry, p. 476-485, 2022
L'art du triomphe: Découvrez vos vertus cardinales
de Miranda, Luis; Hongre, Jean-Sébastien
Les Éditions de l'Opportun, 2022
de Miranda, Luis
Part of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Beyond Physical and Psychological Health: Philosophical Health
de Miranda, Luis
2021
de Miranda, Luis
Part of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Five Principles of Philosophical Health for Critical Times: From Hadot to Crealectics
de Miranda, Luis
Part of EIDOS. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, p. 70-89, 2021
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The healing-growth future of humanity: regenerative politics and crealectic care
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Acta Academica, p. 143-163, 2021
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Think Into the Place of the Other: The Crealectic Approach to Philosophical Health and Care
de Miranda, Luis
Part of International Journal of Philosophical Practice, p. 89-103, 2021
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Big Data, Small Concepts: Histosophy as an Approach to Longue-Durée History
de Miranda, Luis; Chabal, Emile
Part of Global Intellectual History, p. 69-82, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence and Philosophical Creativity: From Analytics to Crealectics
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Human Affairs, p. 597-607, 2020
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Ensemblance: The Transnational Genealogy of Esprit de Corps
de Miranda, Luis
Edinburgh University Press, 2020
de Miranda, Luis
MIT Press, 2019
de Miranda, Luis
Tukan Förlag, 2019
On the Concept of Creal: The Politico-Ethical Horizon of a Creative Absolute
de Miranda, Luis
Part of The Dark Precursor: Deleuze and Artistic Research Volume II, p. 510-516, Leuven University Press, 2017
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Games and Culture, p. 825-842, 2016
de Miranda, Luis; Ramamoorthy, Subramanian; Rovatsos, Michael
Part of What Social Robots Can and Should do, p. 48-59, IOS Press, 2016
Is a New Life Possible?: Deleuze and the Lines
de Miranda, Luis
Part of Deleuze Studies, p. 106-152, 2013
L'art d'être libres au temps des automates
de Miranda, Luis
Max Milo, 2010
Peut-on jouir du capitalisme?: Lacan avec Heidegger et Marx
de Miranda, Luis
Max Milo, 2008
Teaching
- Philosophical Health
- Dialogue strategies