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Aristotle on multiple demonstration : a reading of posterior analytics II 17-18In Ricardo Santos & Antonio Pedro Mesquita (eds.), New Essays on Aristotle's Organon, Routledge. 2023.
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28Aristotle on Multiple Demonstration: a Reading of Posterior Analytics II 17-8In Ricardo Santos & Antonio Pedro Mesquita (eds.), New Essays on Aristotle's Organon, Routledge. pp. 170-190. 2023.
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146Some remarks against non-epistemic accounts of immediate premises in Aristotle’s Posterior AnalyticsJournal of Ancient Philosophy 17 (2): 29-43. 2023.Most interpretations of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics believe that the term ‘ameson’ is used to describe the principles or foundations of a given system of justification or explanation as epistemically prior to or more fundamental than the other propositions in the system. Epistemic readings (as I shall call them) arguably constitute a majority in the secondary literature. This predominant view has been challenged by Robin Smith (1986) and Michael Ferejohn (1994; 2013), who propose interpretat…Read more
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104Immediacy in Aristotle’s EpistemologyPhronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 66 (2). 2021.This article discusses immediate premises in Aristotle’s epistemology. The traditional interpretation identifies immediacy with indemonstrability: immediate truths are the indemonstrable principles of science from which the theorems are derived by demonstration. Against this common reading, I argue that Aristotle’s recognition of two kinds of epistemic priority (priority by nature and priority to us) commits him to the existence of two types of immediacy, only one of which is equivalent to indem…Read more
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334Aristotle’s theory of demonstration and its logical and metaphysical entanglementsManuscrito 42 (4). 2019.This is an Editorial Note for the special volume of the journal Manuscrito (42: 4) devoted to Aristotle's theory of demonstration and its logical and metaphysical entanglements, which has been organized by me and Breno Zuppolini (as Guest Editors), with papers authored by Benjamin Morison, Owen Goldin, David Bronstein, Michail Peramatzis, Andrea Falcon, Laura Castelli, Paolo Fait, Joseph Karbowski, Adam Crager, Klaus Corcilius, Robert J. Hankinson, Raphael Zillig and Pieter Sjoerd Hasper.
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282Avoiding infinite regress: Posterior analytics I 22Manuscrito 42 (4): 122-156. 2019.This article offers a reconstruction of an argument against infinite regress formulated by Aristotle in Posterior Analytics I 22. I argue against the traditional interpretation of the chapter, according to which singular terms and summa genera, in virtue of having restrict logical roles, provide limits for predicative chains, preventing them from proceeding ad infinitum. As I intend to show, this traditional reading is at odds with some important aspects of Aristotle’s theory of demonstration. M…Read more
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147Beber ou não beber? Qual é a questão? Duas leituras de República IV, 439c2-d8Dissertatio 49 45-63. 2019.In this paper, I explore two possible readings of Republic IV, 439c2-d8, and of Plato’s claim that the just soul is governed by its rational element. My aim is to argue against a “desiderative” interpretation of the passage, according to which the motivational strength of rational desires depends on a set of desires given in advance and produced independently of reason. As an alternative, I advance a “cognitivist” reading according to which the rational desires of the just soul have as its ultim…Read more
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1079Explanation and Essence in Posterior Analytics II 16-17Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 24 229-264. 2018.In Posterior Analytics II 16-17, Aristotle seems to claim that there cannot be more than one explanans of the same scientific explanandum. However, this seems to be true only for “primary-universal” demonstrations, in which the major term belongs to the minor “in itself” and the middle term is coextensive with the extremes. If so, several explananda we would like to admit as truly scientific would be out of the scope of an Aristotelian science. The secondary literature has identified a second pr…Read more
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1311Comprehension, Demonstration, and Accuracy in AristotleJournal of the History of Philosophy 58 (1): 29-48. 2020.according to aristotle's posterior analytics, scientific expertise is composed of two different cognitive dispositions. Some propositions in the domain can be scientifically explained, which means that they are known by "demonstration", a deductive argument in which the premises are explanatory of the conclusion. Thus, the kind of cognition that apprehends those propositions is called "demonstrative knowledge".1 However, not all propositions in a scientific domain are demonstrable. Demonstration…Read more
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413Book review: David Bronstein, Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: The Posterior Analytics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. (pp.xiii-272) (review)Manuscrito 40 (4): 179-186. 2017.ABSTRACT This is a review of David Bronstein's book "Aristotle on Knowledge and Learning: The Posterior Analytics"
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1028Essencialismo e Necessidade Modal em Aristóteles: uma análise de Segundos Analíticos I 6Filogenese 4 (1): 21-35. 2011.At the beginning of the first book of Posterior Analytics, Aristotle‟s feature of demonstrative knowledge involves a certain concept of “necessity”. The traditional interpretation tends to associate this concept with modal necessity, which is found in the Prior Analytics and De interpretatione. The present article aims to show in which way the sixth chapter of book A of Posterior Analytics presupposes a set of essentialist theses that claims to base the necessity of scientific knowledge on predi…Read more
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625Ontological Underpinnings of Aristotle's Philosophy of ScienceDissertation, University of Campinas, Brazil. 2017.
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724Aristotle's FoundationalismDissertatio 44 187-211. 2016.For Aristotle, demonstrative knowledge is the result of what he calls ‘intellectual learning’, a process in which the knowledge of a conclusion depends on previous knowledge of the premises. Since demonstrations are ultimately based on indemonstrable principles (the knowledge of which is called ‘νοῦς’), Aristotle is often described as advancing a foundationalist doctrine. Without disputing the nomenclature, I shall attempt to show that Aristotle’s ‘foundationalism’ should not be taken as a ratio…Read more
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561ASPECTOS FORMAIS E ONTOLÓGICOS DA FILOSOFIA DA CIÊNCIA DE ARISTÓTELESDissertation, University of Campinas. 2014.Aristotle's theory of demonstration, developed in the Posterior Analytics, is not restricted to determining the formal requirements for formulating probative arguments that establish properly the results of scientific investigation. To the probative aspect of demonstration it shall be added its primarily explanatory character, orientated by theses of strong ontological and metaphysical content and involving notions like substance, essence and causation. We shall analyze the relation between thos…Read more
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43Acerca dos concomitantes per se em AristótelesFilosofia Grega E Helenística (Coleção XVI Encontro Anpof). 2015.
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367Fundacionalismo e silogísticaIn Lucas Angioni (ed.), Lógica e Ciência em Aristóteles, Phi. pp. 161-202. 2014.
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52Forma lógica Das proposições científicas E ontologia da predicação: Um falso dilema nos segundos analíticos de aristótelesPhilósophos - Revista de Filosofia 19 (2): 11-45. 2014.In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle imposes some requirements on the formulation of scientific propositions: their terms must be able to perform the role of subject as well as of predicate; their terms should be universal; every demonstration must involve “primary” subjects denoted by terms that “cannot be said of another underlying subject”. Several interpreters, inspired by theses from the Categories, believed that this third requirement refers to names and descriptions of particular substan…Read more
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729Forma Lógica das Proposições Científicas e Ontologia da Predicação: um dilema na filosofia da ciência de AristótelesXI Semana Acadêmica Do PPG Em Filosofia da PUCRS 1-15. 2013.In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle imposes some requirements on scientific propositions: (i) they must be susceptible of syllogistic articulation, (ii) they must have universal terms as subjects of predication and (iii) their subjects must be primary, i.e. they cannot “be said of a distinct underlying subject”. However, it is problematic to meet those three requirements together. If associated with the theory of predication in Categories, the requirement (iii) shall prescribe names or descrip…Read more
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355A necessidade do conhecimento científico : Um estudo sobre os segundos analíticos de AristótelesDissertation, University of Campinas (UNICAMP). 2011.No tratado intitulado Segundos Analíticos, Aristóteles desenvolve uma teoria da demonstração científica e da ciência demonstrativa. Ali, o conhecimento científico é descrito pelo filósofo como envolvendo uma certa "necessidade". Alguns intérpretes associam esta noção de necessidade à necessidade modal, pertinente à silogística modal de Aristóteles. Esta interpretação, todavia, tornaria o modelo de ciência proposto nos Analíticos incompatível com os explananda das ciências da natureza, cuja cient…Read more
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