• The World Viewed and the World Lived: Stanley Cavell and Film as the Moving Image of Skepticism
    In Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva & Steven S. Gouveia (eds.), Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides, Routledge Press, Research On Aesthetics. 2019.
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    Most readers of the Investigations take skepticism as a target of Wittgenstein’s remarks, something to be refuted by means of a clear grasp of our criteria. Stanley Cavell was the first to challenge that consensual view by reminding us that our criteria are constantly open to skeptical repudiation, hence that privacy is a standing human possibility. In an apparently similar vein, Saul Kripke has argued that a skeptical paradox concerning rules and meaning is the central problem of the Investigat…Read more
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    Solipsismo e Reconhecimento: Metafísica Descritiva com Rosto Humano
    Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology 12 (2): 217-235. 2008.
    The paper provides a reconstruction of Strawson’s argument in chapter 3 of Individuals, emphasizing an aspect of his analysis which has received relatively small attention in the literature: the role played by a “non-detached” or “involved” stance towards other subjects in the constitution of a non-solipsistic consciousness of the world. Additionally, the paper presents some of the main lines of development which are available to further clarify and articulate the underscored aspect of Strawson’…Read more
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    How do we know we are not alone in the world? Wittgenstein and Cavell argued that once our relation to the world and others is construed as one of knowledge it is exposed to skeptical charges, which raise the threat of solipsism. This presentation o.
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    Indignation, practical rationality and our moral life: a grammatical investigation
    Ethic@: An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 15 (2). 2016.
    This paper offers a grammatical investigation of some important aspects of our moral life taking a scene from the movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as a test case. The main question I try to answer is whether there are situations in our moral discussions in which the proper and rational attitude is to show disagreement(e.g. by expressing indignation), as opposed to continuing the dialogue. Many philosophers seem committed to a conception of moral reasoning that takes as its end rational agreement amo…Read more
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    Indignation, practical rationality and our moral life: A grammatical investigation
    Ethic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 15 (2): 260-278. 2016.
    This paper offers a grammatical investigation of some important aspects of our moral life taking a scene from the movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town as a test case. The main question I try to answer is whether there are situations in our moral discussions in which the proper and rational attitude is to show disagreement, as opposed to continuing the dialogue. Many philosophers seem committed to a conception of moral reasoning that takes as its end rational agreement among agents; from that perspective…Read more
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    Seguindo os passos de Stanley Cavell e de Stephen Mulhall, argumentarei neste artigo que o cinema pode oferecer contribuições genuínas para a filosofia. Para tanto procurarei mostrar que os principais obstáculos para considerar o cinema como capaz de fazer filosofia derivam de pontos de vista bastante restritivos sobre a natureza da racionalidade, da cognição, do significado - e, finalmente, da filosofia e do cinema eles mesmos. Apresentarei alguns desses obstáculos e indicarei formas de removê-…Read more
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2008v12n2p217 O presente ensaio fornece uma reconstrução do argumento de Strawson no capítulo 3 de Individuals , destacando um aspecto de sua análise que tem recebido relativamente pouca atenção na literatura: o papel atribuído à atitude “não-distanciada” ou “envolvida” em relação a outros sujeitos na constituição de uma consciência não-solipsista do mundo. Além disso, o ensaio apresenta algumas das principais linhas de desenvolvimento disponíveis para uma mel…Read more
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    Solipsism and the Limits of Sense in the Tractatus
    Philosophical Topics 42 (2): 339-369. 2014.
    In the Preface of the Tractatus Wittgenstein presents his proposal of “drawing limits” separating sense from nonsense as a way to get rid of philosophical problems caused by “misunderstandings of the logic of our language.” Such limits, we will later discover, will be drawn by means of a method which allows one to determine whether a given projection of a strings of signs was made in accordance with the rules of logical syntax, or else violated them, thus generating metaphysical propositions. No…Read more
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    Wittgenstein: Notas Sobre Lógica, Pensamento e Certeza
    with Juliano Santos do Carmo, Eduardo Ferreira das Neves Filho, Alexandre Noronha Machado, Darlei Dall'Agnol, Janyne Satler, João Vergílio Gallerani Cuter, Rogério Saucedo, and Victor Krebs
    NEPFIL online | Dissertatio's Series of Philosophy. 2014.
    O objetivo desta publicação é incentivar a produção filosófica de excelência por parte de pesquisadores notadamente influenciados pela filosofia de Wittgenstein e cujos temas possam suscitar um debate aprofundado. Além de desafiar o empreendimento filosófico contemporâneo, os temas aqui apresentados abordam questões que muitas vezes estão além daquelas consideradas por Wittgenstein em seu tempo. O leitor encontrará neste volume questões relacionadas ao ceticismo semântico e epistêmico, ao relati…Read more
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    Solipsismo E reconhecimento
    Principia 1. 2007.
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    The paper supports a dialectical interpretation of Wittgenstein's method focusing on the analysis of the conditions of experience presented in his Philosophical Remarks. By means of a close reading of some key passages dealing with solipsism I will try to lay bare their self-subverting character: the fact that they amount to miniature dialectical exercises offering specific directions to pass from particular pieces of disguised nonsense to corresponding pieces of patent nonsense. Yet, in order t…Read more
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    This paper argues for a dialectical reading of Wittgenstein ’ s grammatical reminders concerning the uses of the first person pronoun in The Blue Book. Against a widespread, ‘ non-referential ’ view which takes those reminders as direct attempts at blocking some substantial metaphysical results, the reading here proposed emphasizes their topic and therapeutic role as parts of an attempt to unveil the sources of some philosophical temptations, among them particularly that of solipsism, ultimately…Read more