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1354Prioridade 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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489Aristóteles, 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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421Conhecimento 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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137Aristóteles 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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645O 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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1546Introdução 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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2320Aristóteles, 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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559Hilemorfismo 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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6502As 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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832Subjacente 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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958Notas 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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517Demonstração, 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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442Sobre 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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2231Aristotle’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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2309Definition 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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444Aristóteles 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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683Princípio 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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537A 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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39101“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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