Adriano Naves De Brito

The theme of foundation in philosophy was central to my academic journey, taking me from the study of modern classics, Kant and Hume, to contemporary philosophy with a naturalistic orientation. I dedicated myself to the philosophy of language. In this area, I studied the theories of the reference of proper names, confronting the Fregean and Kripkean positions, and offering to the subjects in dispute a descriptive alternative based on the tradition of the philosophy of ordinary language. The question for the reasoning of ethics led me to practical philosophy, to the resumption of modern philosophy studies, to the analysis of the work of E. Tugendhat and, from then on, to naturalized ethics. In my current research, I am developing a type of moral naturalism that integrates description and prescription on a strictly immanent bases and explains values and norms within human nature's limits as described by science.