Edmundo Balsemão Pires is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), since 2010. He works on Social Philosophy and Theory of Society since his Ph. D. on Hegel’s Political Philosophy (1999). He has published and edited 12 books and 60 articles and book chapters in the fields of his expertise. His scientific interests are focused on Theory of Systems, Constructivism, Hegel, Luhmann, and History of Philosophy.