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39097“metafísica” De Aristóteles - Livro XiiCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 15 (1). 2005.Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda into Portuguese.
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6495As quatro causas na filosofia da natureza de AristótelesAnais de Filosofia Clássica 10 1-19. 2011.I have two aims in this paper. First, I argue that, in Aristotle’s theory of the four causes, there is a basic and common feature by which all causes are causes: they all work in a triadic framework in which they explain why a given attribute holds of a given underlying thing. Secondly, I argue against a version of “compatibilism” according to which each kind of cause is complete in its own domain and does not compete with any other kind. I claim that there are priority relations according to wh…Read more
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3920TRÊS TIPOS DE ARGUMENTO SOFÍSTICODissertatio 36 187-220. 2012.This paper attempts to clarify the nature and the importance of a third kind of sophistic argument that is not always found in the classification of those arguments in the secondary literature. An argument of the third kind not only is a valid one, but is also constituted of true propositions. What makes it a sophistic argument is the fact that it produces a false semblance of scientific explanation: its explanation seems to be appropriate to the explanandum without being so. Evidence from thi…Read more
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2665A Filosofia da Natureza de AristótelesCiência and Ambiente 28. 2004.A filosofia da natureza de Aristóteles muitas vezes é apresentada como um capítulo inteiramente ultrapassado na história do pensamento: um “finalismo antiquado”, antropocêntrico, avesso à mensuração exata das condições materiais subjacentes aos fenômenos. Essa perspectiva, no entanto, é inadequada: não atenta para o papel relevante que Aristóteles atribui à matéria na explicação dos fenômenos naturais, assim como não atina com o real significado da teleologia aristotélica. Na contra-mão dessa pe…Read more
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2438Comentários ao Livro XII da “Metafísica” de AristótelesCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 15 (1). 2005.Commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda. It accompanies the translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda into Portuguese in the same volume of the journal.
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2318Aristóteles, Física I-IIEditora da Unicamp. 2009.Translation of Aristotle's Physics I-II into Portuguese, with commentaries. Tradução para o português dos livros I e II da Física de Aristóteles, com comentários.
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2306Definition and essence in Metaphysics vii 4Ancient Philosophy 34 (1): 75-100. 2014.I discuss Aristotle's treatment of essence and definition in Metaphysics VII.4. I argue that it is coherent and perfectly in accord with its broader context. His discussion in VII.4 offers, on the one hand, minimal criteria for what counts as definition and essence for whatever kind of object, but also, on the other hand, stronger criteria for a primary sort of definition and essence—and thereby it serves the interest of book VII in pointing to the explanatory power of the essence of composite…Read more
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2268Phronesis e Virtude do Caráter em Aristóteles: comentários a Ética a Nicômaco VIDissertatio 34 303-345. 2011.These are commentaries to the translation into Portuguese of Nicomachean Ethics VI, found in the same volume of Dissertatio.
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2235Aristotle’s Definition of Scientific KnowledgeHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 19 (1): 79-104. 2016.In Posterior Analytics 71b9 12, we find Aristotle’s definition of scientific knowledge. The definiens is taken to have only two informative parts: scientific knowledge must be knowledge of the cause and its object must be necessary. However, there is also a contrast between the definiendum and a sophistic way of knowing, which is marked by the expression “kata sumbebekos”. Not much attention has been paid to this contrast. In this paper, I discuss Aristotle’s definition paying due attention to t…Read more
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1850Aristotle on Necessary Principles and on Explaining X through X’s essenceStudia Philosophica Estonica 7 (2): 88-112. 2014.I discuss what Aristotle means when he say that scientific demonstration must proceed from necessary principles. I argue that, for Aristotle, scientific demonstration should not be reduced to sound deduction with necessary premises. Scientific demonstration ultimately depends on the fully appropriate explanatory factor for a given explanandum. This explanatory factor is what makes the explanandum what it is. Consequently, this factor is also unique. When Aristotle says that demonstration must pr…Read more
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1646O conhecimento científico no livro I dos Segundos Analíticos de AristótelesJournal of Ancient Philosophy 1 (2): 1-24. 2007.I examine Aristotle’s definition of scientific knowledge in Posterior Analytics 71b 9-12 and try to understand how it relates to the sophistical way of knowing and to "kata sumbebekos knowledge". I claim that scientific knowledge of p requires knowing p by its appropriate cause, and that this appropriate cause is a universal (katholou) in the restricted sense Aristotle proposes in 73b 26-27 ff., i.e., an attribute coextensive with the subject (an extensional feature) and predicated of the subj…Read more
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1607Aristóteles, Metafísica Livros I, II e IIIInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2008.Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics I-III into Portuguese, with a few notes and introduction. The translation, which was made at 2007, is preliminary and its publication was intended to provide a didactic tool for courses as well as a provisional resource in research seminars. It needs some revision. I am currently working (slowly...) on the revision of the translation and a new revised one will surely appear at some point.
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1541Aristóteles: Metafísica, Livros VII-VIIIInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Unicamp. 2002, 2005.Tradução dos livros Z e H da Metafísica de Aristóteles, com introdução e notas. Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics Books VII and VIII into Portuguese, with Introduction and Notes.
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1541Introdução à teoria da predicação em AristótelesEditora da Unicamp. 2006.This is an introductory handbook for some of the main themes around the notion of predication in Aristotle. It does not aim at being exhaustive, but only sketches some important lines about the subject; it contains an introductory essay, besides the translation (into Portuguese) and commentary of basic texts (such as Posterior Analytics I-22, Categories 1-5, Interpretation 1-6 etc.).
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1352Prioridade e substância na metafísica de AristótelesDois Pontos 7 (3): 75-106. 2010.This paper examines Aristotle’s notion of priority with the specific aim of capturing the sort of priority that characterizes the primacy of substances in his metaphysics. I reject the traditional interpretation, which understands the ontological priority of substances in terms of independent existence. But there are rather two sorts of priority: the ontological priority of substances should be understood in terms of completeness, whereas the ontological priority of “substances-of-something” (th…Read more
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1290As noções aristotélicas de substância e essênciaEditora da Unicamp. 2008.This book discusses Aristotle’s notions of essence and substance as they are developed in Metaphysics ZH. I examine Aristotle's argument at length and defends an unorthodox interpretation according to which his motivation is to provide an answer against a conflation between criteria for existential priority (delivering substances as primary beings) and criteria for explanatory priority (delivering essences as primary principles).
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1196Aristóteles: Etica a Nicômaco Livro VIDissertatio 34 285-300. 2011.Tradução para o Português de Ethica Nicomachea VI
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1185Knowledge and Opinion about the same thing in APo A-33Dois Pontos 10 (2): 255-290. 2013.This paper discusses the contrast between scientific knowledge and opinion as it is presented by Aristotle in Posterior Analytics A.33. Aristotle's contrast is formulated in terms of understanding or not understanding some "necessary items". I claim that the contrast can only be understood in terms of explanatory relevance. The "necessary items" are middle terms (or explanatory factors) that are necessary for the fully appropriate explanation. This approach gives a coherent interpretation of eac…Read more
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1006Lógica e Ciência em AristótelesPhi. 2014.Collective volume with papers by alumni and students from the Campinas Aristotle Group.
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992Aristóteles, Metafísica Livros IV e VIInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2007.Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics IV and VI, with notes. The translation is preliminary and intended as a provisional teaching tool to be also used in seminars and discussions with peers in order to reach a more elaborated version.
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950Notas sobre a definição de virtude moral em Aristóteles (EN 1106b 36- 1107a 2)Journal of Ancient Philosophy 3 (1): 1-17. 2009.This paper discusses some issues concerning the definition of moral virtue in Nicomachean Ethics 1106b 36- 1107a 2. It is reasonable to expect from a definition the complete enumeration of the relevant features of its definiendum, but the definition of moral virtue seems to fail in doing this task. One might be tempted to infer that this definition is intended by Aristotle as a mere preliminary account that should be replaced by a more precise one. The context of the argument Aristotle deve…Read more
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938Explanation and Definition in Physics I 1Apeiron 34 (4). 2001.I discuss Aristotle's anomalous terminology in Physics A.1 (involving "universals" and "particulars") and its coherence with Aristotle's notion of scientific demonstration.
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866Causality and Coextensiveness in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics 1.13Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 54 159-185. 2018.I discuss an important feature of the notion of cause in Post. An. 1. 13, 78b13–28, which has been either neglected or misunderstood. Some have treated it as if Aristotle were introducing a false principle about explanation; others have understood the point in terms of coextensiveness of cause and effect. However, none offers a full exegesis of Aristotle's tangled argument or accounts for all of the text's peculiarities. My aim is to disentangle Aristotle's steps to show that he is arguing in fa…Read more
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831Subjacente e Forma na Teoria Aristotélica da OusiaCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 13 (2): 245-275. 2003.This paper examines some difficulties in Aristotle’s argument in Metaphysics VII 3 and proposes a point of view in which there is no serious conflict between ousia taken as hypokeimenon and ousia taken as eidos.
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792Aristóteles, Segundos Analíticos, Livro IInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2004.Translation of Aristotle's Posterior Analytics I into Portuguese, with a few notes, experimental glossary and introduction. The translation, which was made at 2003/4, was preliminary and its publication was intended to provide a didactic tool for courses as well as a provisional resource in research seminars. It needs some revision. I am currently working (slowly...) on the revision of the translation and a new revised one will surely appear at some point.
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777Necessidade, Teleologia e Hilemorfismo em AristótelesCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 16 (1): 33-57. 2006.I argue that Aristotle’s teleology in natural science (more specifically, in biology) is not incompatible with his admissions of the “brute necessity” of the movements of matter. Aristotle thinks that the brute necessity emerging from the movements of matter is not sufficient to explain why living beings are what they are and behave the way they behave. Nevertheless, Aristotle takes this brute necessity to be a sine qua non condition in biological explanations. The full explanation of the featur…Read more
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762Explanation and Method in Eudemian Ethics I.6Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 20 191-229. 2017.I discuss the methodological passage in the begin- ning of Ethica Eudemia I.6 (1216b26-35), which has received attention in connection with Aristotle’s notion of dialectic and his methodology in Ethics. My central focus is not to discuss whether Aristotle is prescribing and using what has been called the method of endoxa. I will focus on how this passage coheres with the remaining parts of the same chapter, which also are advancing methodological remarks. My claim is that the meth- od of Ethica …Read more
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740Metafísica de Aristóteles, Livro V, 1-8Phaos 3 5-21. 2003.Translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics V.1-8 with a few notes.
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690Things are the same as their “essences”? Notes on Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z-6Analytica (Rio) 16 (1): 37-66. 2012.I discuss Aristotle’s views in Metaphysics VII-6 (Z-6) on the issue whether each thing is the same as its essence. I propose a deflationary interpretation according to which Z-6 develops a “logical approach” (logikos) in which “sameness” amounts only to coextensiveness between definiendum and definiens with no attention to more specific issues about ontological and explanatory features of definitions.
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686Aristóteles, Metafísica Livros IX e XInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de Campinas. 2004.Translation of Aristotle’s Metaphysics IX and X (Theta & Iota) into Portuguese, with a few notes, experimental glossary and introduction. The translation, which was made at 2004, is preliminary and its publication was intended to provide a didactic tool for courses as well as a provisional resource in research seminars. It needs some revision. I am currently working (slowly...) on the revision of the translation and a new revised one will surely appear at some point.
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Metaphysics |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |
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Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy |