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1320As noções aristotélicas de substância e essênciaEditora da Unicamp. 2008.This book discusses Aristotle’s notions of essence and substance as they are developed in Metaphysics ZH. I examine Aristotle's argument at length and defends an unorthodox interpretation according to which his motivation is to provide an answer against a conflation between criteria for existential priority (delivering substances as primary beings) and criteria for explanatory priority (delivering essences as primary principles).
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2472Comentários ao Livro XII da “Metafísica” de AristótelesCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 15 (1). 2005.Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda. It accompanies the translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda into Portuguese in the same volume of the journal.
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645Aristóteles e a noção de sujeito de predicação (Segundos analíticos I 22, 83a 1-14)Philósophos - Revista de Filosofia 12 (2): 107-129. 2007.This paper explores some aspects of Aristotle’s notion of subject for predications. I examine the argument Aristotle develops in Posterior Analytics I.22, 83a1-14. I argue that the notion advanced by Aristotle in that argument is different from the one found in his Categories, although they are far from being incompatible with each other. I also add some philological considerations to justify the Portuguese translation of “hypokeimenon” as “algo subjacente” (“underlying thing”) instead of “sujei…Read more
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1699O conhecimento científico no livro I dos Segundos Analíticos de AristótelesJournal of Ancient Philosophy 1 (2): 1-24. 2007.I examine Aristotle’s definition of scientific knowledge in Posterior Analytics 71b 9-12 and try to understand how it relates to the sophistical way of knowing and to "kata sumbebekos knowledge". I claim that scientific knowledge of p requires knowing p by its appropriate cause, and that this appropriate cause is a universal (katholou) in the restricted sense Aristotle proposes in 73b 26-27 ff., i.e., an attribute coextensive with the subject (an extensional feature) and predicated of the subj…Read more
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566EM QUE SENTIDO A VIRTUDE É MAIS EXATA QUE A TÉCNICA? NOTAS SOBRE ETHICA NICOMACHEA 1106B 14-16Dissertatio 29 43-58. 2009.This paper examines what Aristotle could have meant in Nicomachean Ethics 1106b 14-16, when he says that moral virtue is more exact than craft. Aristotle’s meaning cannot be that moral knowledge is more exact than technical knowledge. Neither the practical knowledge that an agent has about the precepts guiding his actions nor the philosophical knowledge framed in a moral theory could be described as “more exact than craft- knowledge”. My point is that Aristotle’s meaning is better understoo…Read more
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974Explanation and Definition in Physics I 1Apeiron 34 (4). 2001.I discuss Aristotle's anomalous terminology in Physics A.1 (involving "universals" and "particulars") and its coherence with Aristotle's notion of scientific demonstration.
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2718A Filosofia da Natureza de AristótelesCiência and Ambiente 28. 2004.A filosofia da natureza de Aristóteles muitas vezes é apresentada como um capítulo inteiramente ultrapassado na história do pensamento: um “finalismo antiquado”, antropocêntrico, avesso à mensuração exata das condições materiais subjacentes aos fenômenos. Essa perspectiva, no entanto, é inadequada: não atenta para o papel relevante que Aristóteles atribui à matéria na explicação dos fenômenos naturais, assim como não atina com o real significado da teleologia aristotélica. Na contra-mão dessa pe…Read more
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1906Aristotle on Necessary Principles and on Explaining X through X’s essenceStudia Philosophica Estonica 7 (2): 88-112. 2014.I discuss what Aristotle means when he say that scientific demonstration must proceed from necessary principles. I argue that, for Aristotle, scientific demonstration should not be reduced to sound deduction with necessary premises. Scientific demonstration ultimately depends on the fully appropriate explanatory factor for a given explanandum. This explanatory factor is what makes the explanandum what it is. Consequently, this factor is also unique. When Aristotle says that demonstration must pr…Read more
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389Relações causais entre eventos na ciência aristotélicaAnalytica. Revista de Filosofia 8 (1): 13-25. 2004.This paper discusses whether there is room for knowledge of causal relations between events in Aristotle's theory of science as developed in the Posterior Analytics. My focus is on Aristotle's analysis of the fourth sense of kath' hauto or per se predication.
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1059Lógica e Ciência em AristótelesPhi. 2014.Collective volume with papers by alumni and students from the Campinas Aristotle Group.
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1414Prioridade e substância na metafísica de AristótelesDois Pontos 7 (3): 75-106. 2010.This paper examines Aristotle’s notion of priority with the specific aim of capturing the sort of priority that characterizes the primacy of substances in his metaphysics. I reject the traditional interpretation, which understands the ontological priority of substances in terms of independent existence. But there are rather two sorts of priority: the ontological priority of substances should be understood in terms of completeness, whereas the ontological priority of “substances-of-something” (th…Read more
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673AS RELAÇÕES ENTRE “FINS” E “MEIOS” E A RELEVÂNCIA MORAL DA PHRONESIS NA ÉTICA DE ARISTÓTELESRevista Filosófica de Coimbra 18 (35): 185-204. 2009.I discuss three kinds of relationship between ends and means (or "things that promote ends") in the Aristotelian ethical theory, in order to clarify how moral virtues and phronesis are related both in adopting ends and in determining means for virtuous actions. Phronesis seems to be mainly charged with determining means for an end given by the moral virtues, but it must involve some conception of ends too. Phronesis cannot be parasitic on moral virtue concerning the conception of ends, for …Read more
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439Conhecimento e Opinião em Aristóteles (Segundos Analíticos I-33)In Marcelo Carvalho (ed.), Encontro Nacional Anpof: Filosofia Antiga e Medieval, Anpof. pp. 329-341. 2013.This chapter discusses the first part of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics A-33, 88b30-89a10. I claim that Aristotle is not concerned with an epistemological distinction between knowledge and belief in general. He is rather making a contrast between scientific knowledge (which is equivalent to explanation by the primarily appropriate cause) and some explanatory beliefs that falls short of capturing the primarily appropriate cause.
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502Aristóteles, As Partes dos Animais, Livro ICadernos de História e Filosofia da Ciência. 1999.Translation of Aristotle's Parts of Animals Book I into Portuguese, with full commentaries.
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138Aristóteles e o progresso da investigação científica: o caso do De caeloScientiae Studia 8 (3): 319-338. 2010.This article examines three passages of De caelo in order to discuss Aristotle’s epistemological attitude towards the theories advanced by him and towards the possibility of progress in the scientific research of the celestial world. I argue that, although the possibility of progress in scientific investigation is not central in Aristotle’s reflections, progress is not ruled out either as impossible or as undesirable.
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663O ser humano cultivado (pepaideumenos) em AristótelesFilosofia E Educação 9 (1): 165-196. 2017.I discuss the notion of education or educatedness (paideia) involved in the ‘educated human being’ (pepaideumenos), which Aristotle presents at the beginning of his Parts of Animals and a few other passages. The competence of educated human beings makes them able to evaluate some aspects of the explanations in a given domain without having a determinate knowledge about the specific subject-matter in that domain. I examine how such a competence is possible and how it is related to other critical …Read more
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1587Introdução à teoria da predicação em AristótelesEditora da Unicamp. 2006.This is an introductory handbook for some of the main themes around the notion of predication in Aristotle. It does not aim at being exhaustive, but only sketches some important lines about the subject; it contains an introductory essay, besides the translation (into Portuguese) and commentary of basic texts (such as Posterior Analytics I-22, Categories 1-5, Interpretation 1-6 etc.).
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575Hilemorfismo como modelo de explicação científica na filosofia da natureza em Aristóteles'Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 41 (102): 132-164. 2000.My aim is to examine Aristotle's hylomorphism as a model for scientific explanation of living beings. I argue that the issue of matter-form relation should be connected with the opposition between the necessity of material and efficient causes and the teleology of forms. Form (as "telos") is a principle able to organize the appropriate conjunction of material and efficient causes. Formal and final causes are not a trick for filling the "gap in causation", nor are they bare heuristic tools for in…Read more
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2451Aristóteles, Física I-IIEditora da Unicamp. 2009.Translation of Aristotle's Physics I-II into Portuguese, with commentaries. Tradução para o português dos livros I e II da Física de Aristóteles, com comentários.
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6636As quatro causas na filosofia da natureza de AristótelesAnais de Filosofia Clássica 10 1-19. 2011.I have two aims in this paper. First, I argue that, in Aristotle’s theory of the four causes, there is a basic and common feature by which all causes are causes: they all work in a triadic framework in which they explain why a given attribute holds of a given underlying thing. Secondly, I argue against a version of “compatibilism” according to which each kind of cause is complete in its own domain and does not compete with any other kind. I claim that there are priority relations according to wh…Read more
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841Subjacente e Forma na Teoria Aristotélica da OusiaCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 13 (2): 245-275. 2003.This paper examines some difficulties in Aristotle’s argument in Metaphysics VII 3 and proposes a point of view in which there is no serious conflict between ousia taken as hypokeimenon and ousia taken as eidos.
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |