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70Aristotle’s Language for Success in (Practical) ExplanationsIn Nuno Coelho & Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer (eds.), Aristotle on Truth, Dialogue, Justice and Decision, Springer. pp. 15-35. 2023.
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33Sophistical Demonstrations: A Class of Arguments Entangled with False Peirastic and PseudographemataIn Melina G. Mouzala (ed.), Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception, De Gruyter. pp. 211-246. 2023.
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665Aristóteles e a necessidade do conhecimento científicoDiscurso 50 (2): 193-238. 2020.I discuss the exact meaning of the thesis according to which the object of scientific knowledge is necessary. The thesis is expressed by Aristotle in the Posterior Analytics, in his definition of scientific knowledge. The traditional interpretation understands this definition as depending on two parallel and independent requirements, the causality requirement and the necessity requirement. Against this interpretation, I try to show, through the examination of several passages that refer to the d…Read more
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218Demonstration and Necessity: A short note on Metaphysics 1015b6-9Archai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 33 (33): 1-24. 2023.I discuss a short string of five sentences in Metaphysics V.5, 1015b6-9 relating demonstration to necessity. My proposal is that Aristotle focuses his attention on the demonstration as a demonstration. Other interpretations reduce the necessity in question to the modality of the component sentences of the demonstrations (the conclusion and the premises). My view does not deny that the modality of the component sentences is important, but takes seriously the idea that a demonstration itself shoul…Read more
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183Aristotle on “dunatos” as a label for imperfect syllogismsIn Graziana Ciola & Milo Crimi (eds.), Validity Throughout History, Philosophia Verlag. forthcoming.This paper discusses the following question: why was the term “dunatos” (“possible”) employed by Aristotle as an alternative label for imperfect syllogisms in his discussion of assertoric syllogistic? My answer ascribes to Aristotle a bottom up perspective, in which he stresses what is necessary in the premise-pairs to attain target conclusions of a given form within a given figure. I argue that “dunatos” is employed by Aristotle to stress that an imperfect syllogism is always one of the possibl…Read more
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366"Natureza", "substância" e Metáfora em AristótelesRónai 8 (2): 246-261. 2020.This paper addresses a difficult passage from Aristotle’s Metaphysics (V. 4, 1015a11-13) in which he identifies a metaphorical use of the term “nature” (phusis) to refer to the entities which he calls “substances” (ousiai). I claim that the passage at stake deploys the very notion of metaphor on the basis of an analogy (as defined in the Poetics and in the Rhetorics), which is grounded on a weak (and, sometimes, very weak) similarity between two relations (each involving two relata). The s…Read more
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606Aristotle’s solution for Parmenides’ inconclusive argument in Physics I.3Peitho 12 (1): 41-67. 2021.I discuss the argument Aristotle ascribes to Parmenides at Physics 186a23-32. I discuss (i) the reasons why Aristotle considers it as eristic and inconclusive and (i) the solution (lusis) Aristotle proposes against it.
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693METAFÍSICA de Aristóteles Livro V (Delta), 18-30Dissertatio 48 286-294. 2019.This is a translation of Aristotle's Metaphysics V (Delta) 18-30 into Portuguese. (A different publication, with a different DOI, presents the commentaries that accompany this translation).
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266O léxico filosófico de Aristóteles (III): Comentários a Metafísica V.18-30Dissertatio 48 295-376. 2019.These are the commentaries (or notes) for Aristotle's Metaphysics V (Delta) 18-30. This file must be read together with the translation into Portuguese, which has been published as a different item, with a different DOI. In the Introduction, I discuss many issues about Aristotle's jargon, Aristotle's style and Aristotle's awareness of many philosophical problems that nowadays we locate within the branch Philosophy of Language.
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414This is a translation, made by myself, of the paper to be published in Portuguese in the journal Discurso, 2020, in honour of the late professor Oswaldo Porchat. I discuss what Aristotle was trying to encode when he said that the object of scientific knowledge is necessary, or that what we know (scientifically) cannot be otherwise etc. The paper is meant as a continuation of previous papers—orientated towards a book on the Posterior Analytics—and thus does not discuss in much detail key passage…Read more
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291What really characterizes explananda: Prior Analytics I.30Eirene: Studia Graeca Et Latina 55 147-177. 2019.In Prior Analytics I.30, Aristotle seems too much optmistic about finding out the principles of sciences. For he seems to say that, if our empirical collection of facts in a given domain is exhaustive or sufficient, it will be easy for us to find out the explanatory principles in the domain. However, there is a distance between collecting facts and finding out the explanatory principles in a given domain. In this paper, I discuss how the key expression in the sentence at 46a25 should be interpre…Read more
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335Aristotle’s theory of demonstration and its logical and metaphysical entanglementsManuscrito 42 (4). 2019.This is an Editorial Note for the special volume of the journal Manuscrito (42: 4) devoted to Aristotle's theory of demonstration and its logical and metaphysical entanglements, which has been organized by me and Breno Zuppolini (as Guest Editors), with papers authored by Benjamin Morison, Owen Goldin, David Bronstein, Michail Peramatzis, Andrea Falcon, Laura Castelli, Paolo Fait, Joseph Karbowski, Adam Crager, Klaus Corcilius, Robert J. Hankinson, Raphael Zillig and Pieter Sjoerd Hasper.
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707Aristotle’s contrast between episteme and doxa in its context (Posterior Analytics I.33)Manuscrito 42 (4): 157-210. 2019.Aristotle contrasts episteme and doxa through the key notions of universal and necessary. These notions have played a central role in Aristotle’s characterization of scientific knowledge in the previous chapters of APo. They are not spelled out in APo I.33, but work as a sort of reminder that packs an adequate characterization of scientific knowledge and thereby gives a highly specified context for Aristotle’s contrast between episteme and doxa. I will try to show that this context introduces a …Read more
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251Geometrical premisses in Aristotle’s Incessu animalium and kind-crossingAnais de Filosofia Clássica 24 (12): 53-71. 2018.At some point in the Incessu Animalium, Aristotle appeals to some geometrical claims in order to explain why animal progression necessarily involves the bending (of the limbs), and this appeal to geometrical claims might be taking as violating the recommendation to avoid “kind-crossing” (as found in the Posterior Analytic). But a very unclear notion of kind-crossing has been assumed in most debates. I will argue that kind-crossing in the Posterior Analytics does not mean any employment of premis…Read more
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295Plato: Hippias MajorArchai: Revista de Estudos Sobre as Origens Do Pensamento Ocidental 26 1-51. 2019.Trata-se de tradução do Hípias Maior de Platão para o Português, com algumas notas de elucidação e justificação das opções.
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27Review of the book.
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279O léxico filosófico de Aristóteles : Comentários a metafísica V.9-17Dissertatio 46 184-215. 2017.Eu examino cada meandro do esforço de Aristóteles identificar vários usos de termos filosóficos essenciais em sua Metafísica, V.9-17.
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50Metafísica de Aristóteles livro V, 9-18Dissertatio 46 173-183. 2017.Tradução: METAFÍSICA DE ARISTÓTELES LIVRO V, 9-18.
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895Causality 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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Resenha de Razão e Sensação em Aristóteles (review)Cadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 8 189-201. 1998.
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227Resenha de Cohen, Sheldon M., Aristotle on Nature and Incomplete Substance, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (review)Kriterion: Journal of Philosophy 102 225-232. 2000.
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288Review of Charles Kahn, Sobre o Verbo Grego Ser e o Conceito de Ser (PUC- Rio de Janeiro). Tradução de Maura Iglésias (review)Analytica 4 (1): 148-156. 1999.
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240Sobre a Relação entre Matéria e Forma na Constituição da Essência Sensível em AristótelesCadernos de História E Filosofia da Ciéncia 7 (2): 209-251. 1997.This paper discusses some intricacies of hylomorphism in Aristotle's discussion in his Metaphysics VII.
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1617Aristóteles: 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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345A Noção Aristotélica de OusiaDissertation, University of Campinas, Brazil (Unicamp). 2000.This PhD thesis is a careful discussion of Aristotle's Metaphysics VII (Zeta) almost line by line (or at least argument by argument). It might be interesting to know that a revised and shortened version of it was published as a book in Portuguese, "As Noções Aristotélicas de Substância e Essência", Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 2008. Actually, I believe the original version of the PhD thesis has been superseded by the book.
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482Ontologia e Predicação em AristótelesInstituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de Campinas. 2000.Este livro é um 'ancestral' em pré-print do meu livro de 2006, Introdução à Teoria da Predicação em Aristóteles (ISBN 978-85-268-0716-1), publicado pela Editora da Unicamp (ver https://www.academia.edu/6912408/Introdu%C3%A7%C3%A3o_%C3%A0_teoria_da_predica%C3%A7%C3%A3o_em_Arist%C3%B3teles). O ancestral foi felizmente muito citado, mesmo depois da aparição do livro definitivo em 2006. This is an ancestor (in pré-print) of my 2006 Book, 'Introdução à Teoria da Predicação em Aristóteles' (ISBN 978-8…Read more
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209O Problema da Compatibilidade entre a Teoria da Ciência e as Ciências Naturais em AristótelesPrimeira Versão 112 1-30. 2002.Este artigo é um 'ancestral' de vários argumentos que desenvolvi depois em múltiplos outros artigos. Defendo que a teoria da ciência dos Segundos Analíticos não é incompatível com as ciências naturais tais como desenvolvidos nos tratados científicos de Aristóteles.
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306Aristóteles: De Anima Livros I-III (trechos)Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de Campinas. 1999.Translation of passages of Aristotle's De Anima into Portuguese. The passages are these: I.1, I.4 (the 'Rylean passage'); II.1-6; III.1-8. The translation is preliminary.
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