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27Counterfactual Analysis by Algorithmic Complexity: A Metric Between Possible WorldsManuscrito 45 (4): 1-35. 2022.Counterfactuals have become an important area of interdisciplinary interest, especially in logic, philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, psychology, decision theory, and even artificial intelligence. In this study, we propose a new form of analysis for counterfactuals: analysis by algorithmic complexity. Inspired by Lewis-Stalnaker's Possible Worlds Semantics, the proposed method allows for a new interpretation of the debate between David Lewis and Robert Stalnaker regarding the Limi…Read more
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Revisiting political pragmatism and educationCognitio 25 (1). 2024.By placing John Dewey between John Rawls and Richard Bernstein, I argue for a socialist reading of Dewey’s takes on liberal democracy that moves away both from conservative readings of Dewey of those who claim that his democratic liberalism actually belongs to right-wing or center views, and from left-wing, communitarians who dismiss such views as irrelevant for socialist and radical variants of liberal democracy. Overall, it can be shown that Rawls and Dewey’s different takes on political liber…Read more
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27A decolonial critical theory of artificial intelligenceFilosofia Unisinos 25 (1): 1-18. 2024.In this paper, I argue for a normative reconstruction, from a decolonial perspective of critical theory in Brazil and Latin America, of a democratic ethos that despite its weaknesses and normative deficits is capable of fostering an increasingly deliberative, participatory, and egalitarian democracy by making extensive use of new digital technologies (comprising both AI systems and digital governance). Its argumentative core boils down to the promotion of intersectional egalitarianism (socio-eco…Read more
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855Deconstructing the substantialist conception of God: recasting Heidegger's critique of AugustineVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 62 (2): 330-353. 2017.In this paper, I argue that Augustine's conception of God as substance (substantia) has misleadingly been evoked by Martin Heidegger's deconstruction of onto-theological and substantialist variants of metaphysics as they mistook entities (Seienden, entia, beings) f r their very Being (Sein, ens, esse) which cannot be conceptualized or objectified by human thinking, but makes both their thought and reality possible. Even though Augustine sought somehow to reconcile a Neoplatonic, essentialist cos…Read more
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6Spinoza’s Geometry of Affective Relations, the Body Politic, and the Social Grammar of Intolerance: A Minimalist Theory of TolerationRoczniki Filozoficzne 70 (4): 237-269. 2022.In this paper, we set out to show that the relationships between individuals, including the intersubjectivity inherent to the body politic, are also affective relationships, so as to reconstruct Spinoza’s minimalist theory of tolerance. According to Spinoza’s concept of affectivity and bodily life, affection refers to a state of the affected body and implies the presence of the affecting body, while affect refers to the transition from one state to another, taking into account the correlative va…Read more
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6Spinoza’s Geometry of Affective Relations, the Body Politic, and the Social Grammar of Intolerance: A Minimalist Theory of TolerationRoczniki Filozoficzne 70 (4): 237-269. 2022.In this paper, we set out to show that the relationships between individuals, including the intersubjectivity inherent to the body politic, are also affective relationships, so as to reconstruct Spinoza’s minimalist theory of tolerance. According to Spinoza’s concept of affectivity and bodily life, affection refers to a state of the affected body and implies the presence of the affecting body, while affect refers to the transition from one state to another, taking into account the correlative va…Read more
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7From social to cyber justice: critical views on justice, law, and ethics (edited book)PUCRS. 2018.The book contains critical analyses of injustice in connection to law and ethics, and develops normative alternatives linked to justice. It covers the relevant issues from social justice to cyber justice. The chapters address issues and concepts which guideline on social innovations, transformations inherent in democratizing processes, global conflicts and other interactions, including the ultimate danger of escalation to war conflicts, be they conventional wars or new cyberwars.--From publisher…Read more
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5Significado E skepsis nas investigações de WittgensteinVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 41 (161): 65-74. 1996.Este artigo apresenta algumas reflexõesacerca da teoria do significado no primeiro eno segundo Wittgenstein, mostrando como o conceitode jogos de linguagem no segundo implicauma forma de ceticismo quanto ao ato de seguiruma regra.
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28Teoria ideal E teoria não-ideal em platão, Kant E RawlsVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 49 (4): 709-725. 2004.O artigo reexamina a teoria ideal e anão-ideal em Platão na perspectiva da filosofiapolitica, com referências ao pensamento de Kante de Rawis. Aborda questões como teoria eprática, conceito de justiça, o problema da igual-dade e outros aspectos.
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25Zu einer hermeneutischen Begründung der MenschenrechteDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 54 (6): 829-839. 2006.Der Beitrag zeigt, wie die normative Kraft der Globalisierung den Demokratisierungsprozess in sich entwickelnden Gesellschafen insoweit begünstigt, als Zivilgesellschaft, Bürgerbewegungen und Nichtregierungsorganisationen durch Aktionen vor Ort zur Umsetzung universalisierbarer Rechtsstaatlichkeit beitragen. Unter Bezug auf liberalistische, an Kant orientierte Konzepte sozialer Demokratie, wie die von Rawls und Habermas, plädiere ich, allerdings ohne ein spezifisches linkes Votum, für die Neuges…Read more
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662Moral Cognitivism and Legal Positivism in Habermas's and Kan't Philosophy of LawEthic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 16 (3): 533-546. 2017.The hypothesis of this paper is that legal positivism depends on the non plausibility of strong moral cognitivism because of the non necessary connection thesis between law and morality that legal positivism is supposed to acknowledge. The paper concludes that only when based on strong moral cognitivism is it consistent to sustain the typical non-positivistic thesis of the necessary connection between law and morality. Habermas’s Philosophy of law is confronted with both positions.
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149“Tout autre est tout autre”: Direitos humanos e perspectivismo sem'ntico-transcendentalVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 51 (2): 97-108. 2006.A impossibilidade de se fundamentar os direitos humanos hoje de maneira satisfatória, sem recorrer a modelos essencialistas ou metafísicos, parece correlata à universalidade de sua defesa e promoção. Uma abordagem fenomenológica favorece uma leitura perspectivista da alteridade, tornando altamente defensável e razoável que se aplique uma semântica transcendental ao problema da fundamentação dos direitos humanos. The impossibility of satisfactorily grounding human rights today, without resorting …Read more
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1583Philosophia Semper Reformanda: Husserlian Theses on ConstitutionManuscrito 23 (2): 251-274. 2000.Starting from the sensuous perception of what is seen, an attempt is made at re-casting a Husserlian theory of constitution of the object of intuition, as one leaves the natural attitude through a transcendental method, by positing several theses so as to avoid the aporias of philosophical binary oppositions such as rationalism and empiri-cism, realism and idealism, logicism and psychologism, subjectivism and objectivism, transcendentalism and ontologism, metaphysics and positivism. Throughout f…Read more
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1590Revisiting the mind-brain reductionisms: Contra dualism and eliminativismVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 61 (2): 363-385. 2016.In this paper, I should like to argue against both eliminative materialism and substance/property dualism, aiming more specifically at the reductionist arguments offered by the Churchlands’ and Swinburne’s versions thereof, insofar as they undermine moral beliefs qua first-personish accounts dismissed as folk psychology by the former, as the latter regards them as supervening on natural events extendedly, that is, necessarily both ways of the biconditional linking mental and physical substances …Read more
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947Kant, Rawls, and the Moral Foundations of the PoliticalIn Volker Gerhardt, Rolf-Peter Horstmann & Ralph Schumacher (eds.), Kant Und Die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des IX Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, Walter De Gruyter. 2001.
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1765Rawls's normative conception of the personVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 52 (1): 171-183. 2007.Trata-se de mostrar em que sentido a concepção normativa de pessoa em John Rawls pressupõe uma transformação semântica da concepção kantiana de subjetividade transcendental, em particular do seu ideal de personalidade. Uma reinterpretação kantiana da concepção normativa de pessoa logra explicar o dispositivo procedimental do equilíbrio reflexivopara responder a críticas comunitaristas em defesa do individualismo inerente ao liberalismo político, concebido não mais como uma doutrina abrangente da…Read more
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30Reflective Equilibrium and Normative Reconstruction: Recasting the Phenomenological Deficit of Critical TheoryEthic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 13 (1). 2014.In this paper, which reflects an ongoing interdisciplinary research in Cognitive and Social Sciences, I recast the normative claims of a political constructivism in reflective equilibrium (Rawls) and of a formal, pragmatic reconstruction (Habermas) as instances of a weak social constructionism. I proceed thus to investigate how social, evolutionary processes, in both semantic and normative terms (Brandom), may be said to pursue universalizable, valid normative claims that could be justified from…Read more
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44Towards a Phenomenology of Liberation: A Critical Theory of Race and the Fate of Democracy in Latin AmericaVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 55 (1): 206-226. 2010.O artigo argumenta que o destino da democracia e o futuro do pensamento liberacionista na América Latina dependem de uma autocompreensão dos conceitos correlativos de raça, etnicidade e identidade cultural. A fim de reformular o que seria uma filosofia latino-americana da libertação, é mister revisitar versões autóctones da análise marxista e da teoria crítica na sua própria gênese e produção fenomenológica de significados.
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2907PhenomenologyIn Susana Nuccetelli, Ofelia Schutte & Otávio Bueno (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. 2009.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: From Continental Europe to Latin America The First Generation The Second Half of the Twentieth Century Conclusion References Further Reading.
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1488Humanity and Universalizability: A Kantian Interpretation of the Foundations of Human RightsIn Valerio Rohden, Ricardo Terra, Guido Antonio Almeida & Margit Ruffing (eds.), Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants: Akten des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, De Gruyter. 2008.
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275On Ritalin, Adderall, and Cognitive Enhancement: Metaethics, Bioethics, NeuroethicsEthic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 15 (3): 343-368. 2016.In this article, I argue that the neuroethics of cognitive enhancement can help us bridge the explanatory gap between metaethics and bioethics and throw light on the classic gap between moral beliefs and neural correlates of brain processes. Insofar as it unveils the irreducibility of first-person propositional attitudes, neuroethics allows for justifying cosmetic, pharmacological interventions so as to bring about human enhancement, regardless of descriptive accounts of its neural correlates an…Read more
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23O que foi que Marx e os marxistas não entenderam e por quêVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 49 (1): 155-159. 2004.O que foi que Marx e os marxistas não entenderam e por quê
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1017Heidegger, Reification and Formal IndicationComparative and Continental Philosophy 4 (1): 35-52. 2012.The paper seeks to show how Heidegger recasts the problem of reification in Being and Time, so as to address the methodological procedure of formal indication, outlined in his early writings, in order to carry out a deconstruction of ancient ontology. By revisiting Marx's and Lukács's critique of objectification in social relations, especially the former's critique of alienation, in light of Honneth's critical theory of recognition, it is shown how a Heideggerian-inspired phenomenology of social…Read more
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