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379'Não ser dito de um subjacente', 'um isto' e 'separado': o conceito de essência como subjacente e forma (Z-3)Cadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 8 (especial): 69-126. 1998.This paper is my first effort to revaluate the disagreement between two central texts for Aristotle's the conception of ousia: Categories and Metaphysics VII. Scholars have taken chapter Zeta-3 as a payment of the debt with the Categories, so that the hylomorphic analysis of the composite substance would require a revision of the subject-criterion, now improved by the addition of the “a this” and “separate” criterion. This paper, however, downgrades the importance of the Categories for understa…Read more
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791Metafísica de Aristóteles, Livro V, 1-8Phaos 3 5-21. 2003.Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics V.1-8 with a few notes.
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388Física I & II (Preliminar, 2002)Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2002.Tradução preliminar em pré-print. A Tradução definitiva é a de 2009.
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709Aristóteles, Metafísica Livros IX e XInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2004.Translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics IX and X (Theta & Iota) into Portuguese, with a few notes, experimental glossary and introduction. The translation, which was made at 2004, is preliminary and its publication was intended to provide a didactic tool for courses as well as a provisional resource in research seminars. It needs some revision. I am currently working (slowly...) on the revision of the translation and a new revised one will surely appear at some point.
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1711Aristóteles, Metafísica Livros I, II e IIIInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2008.Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics I-III into Portuguese, with a few notes and introduction. The translation, which was made at 2007, is preliminary and its publication was intended to provide a didactic tool for courses as well as a provisional resource in research seminars. It needs some revision. I am currently working (slowly...) on the revision of the translation and a new revised one will surely appear at some point.
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816Aristóteles, Segundos Analíticos, Livro IInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2004.Translation of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics I into Portuguese, with a few notes, experimental glossary and introduction. The translation, which was made at 2003/4, was preliminary and its publication was intended to provide a didactic tool for courses as well as a provisional resource in research seminars. It needs some revision. I am currently working (slowly...) on the revision of the translation and a new revised one will surely appear at some point.
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619Aristóteles, Segundos Analíticos, Livro IIInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2004.Translation of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics II into Portuguese, with a few notes, experimental glossary and introduction. The translation, which was made at 2002 (with a new printing in 2004), was preliminary and its publication was intended to provide a didactic tool for courses as well as a provisional resource in research seminars. It needs some revision. I am currently working (slowly...) on the revision of the translation and a new revised one will surely appear at some point.
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1123Aristóteles, Metafísica Livros IV e VIInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2007.Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics IV and VI, with notes. The translation is preliminary and intended as a provisional teaching tool to be also used in seminars and discussions with peers in order to reach a more elaborated version.
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O conceito de essência no livro VII da “Metafísica” de AristótelesBoletim Do CPA 3 113-122. 1997.Summary of my Master's Dissertation (published in the section meant for this).
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1669O 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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563EM 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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2709A 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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960Explanation 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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1872Aristotle 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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399Relações 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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1052Lógica e Ciência em AristótelesPhi. 2014.Collective volume with papers by alumni and students from the Campinas Aristotle Group.
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667AS 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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1382Prioridade 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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497Aristóteles, 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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437Conhecimento 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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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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651O 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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1570Introdução 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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2356Aristóteles, 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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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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6612As 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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978Notas sobre a definição de virtude moral em Aristóteles (EN 1106b 36- 1107a 2)Journal of Ancient Philosophy 3 (1): 1-17. 2009.This paper discusses some issues concerning the definition of moral virtue in Nicomachean Ethics 1106b 36- 1107a 2. It is reasonable to expect from a definition the complete enumeration of the relevant features of its definiendum, but the definition of moral virtue seems to fail in doing this task. One might be tempted to infer that this definition is intended by Aristotle as a mere preliminary account that should be replaced by a more precise one. The context of the argument Aristotle deve…Read more
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524Demonstração, silogismo e causalidadeIn Lógica e Ciência em Aristóteles, Phi. pp. 61-120. 2014.This chapter argues in favour of three interrelated points. First, I argue that demonstration (as expression of scientific knowledge) is fundamentally defined as knowledge of the appropriate cause for a given explanandum: to have scientific knowledge of the explanandum is to explain it through its fully appropriate cause. Secondly, I stress that Aristotle’s notion of cause has a “triadic” structure, which fundamentally depends on the predicative formulation (or “regimentation”) of the explanandu…Read more
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447Sobre a definição de naturezaKriterion: Journal of Philosophy 51 (122): 521-542. 2010.I discuss in this paper Aristotle’s definition of nature in Physics 192b 20-23. I intend to prove that this definition has to be taken as a set of three (not only two) conditions: the first condition just establishes that nature is a sort of cause; the second condition concerns the relationship between nature and the natural thing that has it as a cause; the third condition concerns the relationship between nature and the properties that natural things have from nature’s causality.
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Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |