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381'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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796Metafísica 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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390Física 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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712Aristóteles, 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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1738Aristóteles, 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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824Aristóteles, 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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625Aristóteles, 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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1144Aristóteles, 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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2102Phronesis 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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1208Knowledge 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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486Os 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Metaphysics |
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