University of São Paulo
Department of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences
PhD, 2016
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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    Forest Before Trees: Letter Stimulus and Sex Modulate Global Precedence in Visual Perception
    with Andrea Álvarez-San Millán, Anahí Gutkin, and Ela I. Olivares
    Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
    The global precedence effect, originally referring to processing hierarchical visual stimuli composed of letters, is characterised by both global advantage and global interference. We present herein a study of how this effect is modulated by the variables letter and sex. The Navon task, using the letters “H” and “S,” was administered to 78 males and 168 females. No interaction occurred between the letter and sex variables, but significant main effects arose from each of these. Reaction times rev…Read more
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    Peirce's Account of Assertion
    Dissertation, University of São Paulo. 2016.
    One usually makes assertions by means of uttering indicative sentences like “It is raining”. However, not every utterance of an indicative sentence is an assertion. For example, in uttering “I will be back tomorrow”, one might be making a promise. What is to make an assertion? C.S. Peirce held the view that “to assert a proposition is to make oneself responsible for its truth” (CP 5.543). In this thesis, I interpret Peirce’s view of assertion and I evaluate Peirce’s reasons for holding it. I beg…Read more
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    La visión pragmatista de C.S. Peirce sobre la aserción
    Daimon: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 71 123-136. 2017.
    C.S. Peirce defended a pragmatist view of assertion in terms of its normative effect. This paper has two goals. First, to reconstruct and assess Peirce’s argument for the thesis that to assert a proposition is to make oneself responsible for its truth. Second, to argue that Peirce interpreted “responsibility for truth” as the acquisition of a dialogical commitment, namely, the duty to defend the proposition asserted by giving reasons upon challenge.