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361'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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718Metafísica 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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377Física 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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677Aristóteles, 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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1561Aristóteles, 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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778Aristóteles, 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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585Aristóteles, 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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939Aristóteles, 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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1519Introdução 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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2313Aristóteles, 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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545Hilemorfismo 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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6446As 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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822Subjacente 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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939Notas 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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507Demonstração, 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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434Sobre 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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2216Aristotle’s Definition of Scientific KnowledgeHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 19 (1): 79-104. 2016.In Posterior Analytics 71b9 12, we find Aristotle’s definition of scientific knowledge. The definiens is taken to have only two informative parts: scientific knowledge must be knowledge of the cause and its object must be necessary. However, there is also a contrast between the definiendum and a sophistic way of knowing, which is marked by the expression “kata sumbebekos”. Not much attention has been paid to this contrast. In this paper, I discuss Aristotle’s definition paying due attention to t…Read more
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2270Definition and essence in Metaphysics vii 4Ancient Philosophy 34 (1): 75-100. 2014.I discuss Aristotle's treatment of essence and definition in Metaphysics VII.4. I argue that it is coherent and perfectly in accord with its broader context. His discussion in VII.4 offers, on the one hand, minimal criteria for what counts as definition and essence for whatever kind of object, but also, on the other hand, stronger criteria for a primary sort of definition and essence—and thereby it serves the interest of book VII in pointing to the explanatory power of the essence of composite…Read more
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432Aristóteles e o Uso da Matemática nas Ciências da NaturezaIn M. Wrigley P. Smith (ed.), Coleção CLE (Universidade de Campinas, Brazil), Cle. pp. 207-237. 2003.I discuss the issue whether Aristotle's philosophy of science allows the use of mathematical premises or mathematical tools in general for explanaing phenomena in the natural sciences. I thereby discuss the concept of "metabasis eis allo genos" as it appears in Posterior Analytics I.7.
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675Princípio da Não-Contradição e Semântica da Predicação em AristótelesAnalytica. Revista de Filosofia 4 (2): 121-158. 1999.My object is Aristotle's discussion of principle of non-contradiction in the first stretch of Metaphysics IV.4. My main focus rests on the connections between Aristotle's discussion of the principle and some key notions of his (explicit or implied) semantics.
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330In what sense there is no science of corruptible things: an analysis of Posterior Analytics I 8Cadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 19 (1): 61-87. 2009.Aristotle claims that the object of scientific knowledge cannot be otherwise, and at Posterior Analytics I-8 he adds that there is no scientific knowledge of corruptible objects. These claims have been traditionally understood in terms of a strict requirement of eternal existence: objects of genuine scientific knowledge must be eternal in the sense that they must exist eternally. Sometimes the "eternal existence" is taken by scholars as equivalent to the timeless truth of universal propositions…Read more
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532A Noção Aristotélica de MatériaCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 17 (1): 47-90. 2007.I discuss some of Aristotle’s scattered remarks from which one can construct his conception of matter. Aristotle seems to oscillate between two conceptions: one in which matter is the principle of becoming, another in which matter is a constituent element with no contribution for processes of becoming. Sometimes Aristotle takes matter as a thing independent in itself, and the correlated form is a feature that does not contribute to the matter’s essence, nor is a necessary condition for its exist…Read more
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39037“metafísica” De Aristóteles - Livro XiiCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 15 (1). 2005.Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda into Portuguese.
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3902TRÊS TIPOS DE ARGUMENTO SOFÍSTICODissertatio 36 187-220. 2012.This paper attempts to clarify the nature and the importance of a third kind of sophistic argument that is not always found in the classification of those arguments in the secondary literature. An argument of the third kind not only is a valid one, but is also constituted of true propositions. What makes it a sophistic argument is the fact that it produces a false semblance of scientific explanation: its explanation seems to be appropriate to the explanandum without being so. Evidence from thi…Read more
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758Necessidade, Teleologia e Hilemorfismo em AristótelesCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 16 (1): 33-57. 2006.I argue that Aristotle’s teleology in natural science (more specifically, in biology) is not incompatible with his admissions of the “brute necessity” of the movements of matter. Aristotle thinks that the brute necessity emerging from the movements of matter is not sufficient to explain why living beings are what they are and behave the way they behave. Nevertheless, Aristotle takes this brute necessity to be a sine qua non condition in biological explanations. The full explanation of the featur…Read more
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756Explanation and Method in Eudemian Ethics I.6Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 20 191-229. 2017.I discuss the methodological passage in the begin- ning of Ethica Eudemia I.6 (1216b26-35), which has received attention in connection with Aristotle’s notion of dialectic and his methodology in Ethics. My central focus is not to discuss whether Aristotle is prescribing and using what has been called the method of endoxa. I will focus on how this passage coheres with the remaining parts of the same chapter, which also are advancing methodological remarks. My claim is that the meth- od of Ethica …Read more
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681Things are the same as their “essences”? Notes on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z-6Analytica (Rio) 16 (1): 37-66. 2012.I discuss Aristotle’s views in Metaphysics VII-6 (Z-6) on the issue whether each thing is the same as its essence. I propose a deflationary interpretation according to which Z-6 develops a “logical approach” (logikos) in which “sameness” amounts only to coextensiveness between definiendum and definiens with no attention to more specific issues about ontological and explanatory features of definitions.
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1188Aristóteles: Etica a Nicômaco Livro VIDissertatio 34 285-300. 2011.Tradução para o Português de Ethica Nicomachea VI
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