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    A Teoria da Demonstração Científica de Aristóteles em Segundos Analíticos 1.2-9 e 1.13
    Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 30. 2020.
    I defend an interpretation of Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics Book I which distinguishes between two projects in different passages of that work: (i) to explain what a given science is and (ii) to explain what properly scientific knowledge is. I present Aristotle’s theory in answer to ii, with special attention to his definition of scientific knowledge in 71b9-12 and showing how this is developed on chapters I.2-9 and I.13 into a solid Theory of Scienti…Read more
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    Conhecimento e Definição no Mênon de Platão
    Kinesis 12 (31): 172-185. 2020.
    Through detailed analysis of Plato’s Meno, I identify and set general argumentative rules (useful both to scientists and philosophers) concerning how to use definitions. I show how the character Socrates establishes strong requirements for knowledge in general, i.e., that the knowledge of the definition of a thing must be prior to the knowledge of properties or instances of that thing. Socrate’s requirements and the way he characterizes a definition (as coextensive to the definiendum, not circul…Read more
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    Situando Aristóteles na Discussão Acerca da Natureza da Causação
    Dissertation, University of Campinas, Brazil. 2018.
    I present Aristotle’s theory of causation in a way that privileges a comparison with contemporary discussion on causation. I do so by selecting in Aristotle’s theory points that are interesting to contemporary discussion and by translating Aristotle in the contemporary philosophical terminology. I compare Aristotle’s views with Mackie’s (1993/1965) and Sosa’s (1993/1980). Mackie is a humean regularist regarding the metaphysics of causal necessity, but his theory postulates some formal aspects of…Read more
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    A Aristotle’s Theory of Scientific Demonstration in Posterior Analytics 1.2-9 and 1.13
    Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 30 03021-03021. 2020.
    I defend an interpretation of Aristotle’s _Posterior Analytics _Book I which distinguishes between two projects in different passages of that work: to explain what a given science is and to explain what properly scientific knowledge is. I present Aristotle’s theory in answer to ii, with special attention to his definition of scientific knowledge in 71b9-12 and showing how this is developed on chapters 1.2-9 and 1.13 into a solid Theory of Scientific Demonstration. The main point of this theory i…Read more