Hello! My name is Claudio, and I am a full Professor at the UFRN in Brasil. Most of my time I work as a researcher in philosophy of language, epistemology, and analytic metaphysics. I gained my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Konstanz (Germany) with a dissertation on Wittgenstein's concept of meaning (1990). Since 1992 I work as a researcher and professor in the UFRN (Natal), secluded in the beautiful Northeastern Brazil, though always in contact with the international philosophical discussion through many grants taken at the universities of Konstanz, Munich, Berkeley, Oxford, Göteborg, and ENS. My most relevant books are:
Hello! My name is Claudio, and I am a full Professor at the UFRN in Brasil. Most of my time I work as a researcher in philosophy of language, epistemology, and analytic metaphysics. I gained my Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Konstanz (Germany) with a dissertation on Wittgenstein's concept of meaning (1990). Since 1992 I work as a researcher and professor in the UFRN (Natal), secluded in the beautiful Northeastern Brazil, though always in contact with the international philosophical discussion through many grants taken at the universities of Konstanz, Munich, Berkeley, Oxford, Göteborg, and ENS. My most relevant books are:
Philosophical Semantics: Reintegrating Theoretical Philosophy (CSP, 2018)
Lines of Thought: Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions (CSP 2014)
The Philosophical Inquiry" (Lanham: UPA, 2002)
Philosophical Semantics is a systematic book with 495 pages reconsidering and integrating the best of traditional views (defended by philosophers like Wittgenstein, Frege, Russell, Husserl, Williams, Searle, Kripke...) in the philosophy of language, under metaphilosophical assumptions like those of Susan Haack, against excess of scientism.
Much of my work can be accessed, at least in draft form, in my "blog": Claudio Costa: Philosophical Texts - Textos de Filosofia.
About me, I have a light degree of autism, which I find a considerable plus to my curriculum since it gives me intellectual freedom from deviating motivational pressures of academic trends. Quoting Wittgenstein: "A philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas - and this is what makes him a philosopher".
