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366'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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740Metafísica 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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379Física 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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686Aristóteles, 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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1607Aristóteles, 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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792Aristóteles, 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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593Aristóteles, 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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992Aristóteles, 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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681Princípio 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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337In 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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39097“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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536A 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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3920TRÊS 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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777Necessidade, 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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690Things 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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762Explanation 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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535Defining topics in aristotle’s topics VIPhilósophos - Revista de Filosofia 19 (2): 151-193. 2014.I argue that Topics VI does not contain any serious theory about definitions, but only a collection of advices for formulating definitions in a dialectical context, namely, definitions aiming to catch what the opponent means. Topics VI is full of inconsistencies that can be explained away by this approach: the inconsistencies reflect "acceptable opinions about definitions" that distinct groups of interlocutors accept. I also argue that the "topoi" need not be pieces of serious theory Aristotle i…Read more
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1196Aristóteles: Etica a Nicômaco Livro VIDissertatio 34 285-300. 2011.Tradução para o Português de Ethica Nicomachea VI
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2268Phronesis e Virtude do Caráter em Aristóteles: comentários a Ética a Nicômaco VIDissertatio 34 303-345. 2011.These are commentaries to the translation into Portuguese of Nicomachean Ethics VI, found in the same volume of Dissertatio.
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1185Knowledge and Opinion about the same thing in APo A-33Dois Pontos 10 (2): 255-290. 2013.This paper discusses the contrast between scientific knowledge and opinion as it is presented by Aristotle in Posterior Analytics A.33. Aristotle's contrast is formulated in terms of understanding or not understanding some "necessary items". I claim that the contrast can only be understood in terms of explanatory relevance. The "necessary items" are middle terms (or explanatory factors) that are necessary for the fully appropriate explanation. This approach gives a coherent interpretation of eac…Read more
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461Os seis requisitos das premissas da demonstração científica em AristótelesManuscrito 35 (1): 7-60. 2012.I discuss in this paper the six requirements Aristotle advances at Posterior Analytics A-2, 71b20-33, for the premisses of a scientific demonstration. I argue that the six requirements give no support for an intepretation in terms of “axiomatization”. Quite on the contrary, the six requirements can be consistently understood in a very different picture, according to which the most basic feature of a scientific demonstration is to explain a given proposition by its appropriate cause.
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1290As 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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2438Comentários 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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614Aristóteles 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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1646O 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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557EM 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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938Explanation 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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