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2764PhenomenologyIn 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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2269Critique of Public Reason Revisited: Kant as Arbiter between Rawls and HabermasVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 45 (4): 583-606. 2000.Trata-se de revisitar o debate Rawls-Habermas,em particular, o problema da autonomia política à luz da apropriação que estes autores nos oferecem do procedimentalismo kantiano.Tanto John Rawls quanto Jürgen Habermas, em suas respectivas concepções de "cultura política" e "esfera pública," partem de uma equivocada atribuição de um fundacionalismo moral em Kant de forma a preservar o princípio normativo de universalizabilidade capaz de assegurar a estabilidade de uma "sociedade bem ordenada" e bal…Read more
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1734Husserl, Heidegger, and the Task of a Phenomenology of JusticeVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 53 (1): 123-144. 2008.O artigo investiga a relação Husserl-Heidegger, para além de suas contribuições à fenomenologia e hermenêutica como novos métodos em filosofia, articulando ontologia e subjetividade, através de um paradigma semânticolingüístico, de forma a delinear qual seria a tarefa hodierna de uma fenomenologia da justiça. The article investigates the Husserl-Heidegger relationship, beyond their historical contributions to both phenomenology and hermeneutics as new methods in philosophy, by articulating ontol…Read more
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1419Humanity 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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1302Heidegger, 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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1205Philosophia 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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1152Revisiting 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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1146Detrascendentalizing subjetivity: Paul Ricoeur's revelatory hermeneutics of suspicionVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 50 (2): 371-399. 2004.O artigo esboça o desenvolvimento da hermenêutica filosófica de Paul Ricoeur a partir de sua fenomenologia da vontade em direção a uma hermenêutica da revelação, mostrando como o projeto radical de destranscendentalizar a subjetividade, subjacente à recepção francesa copntemporânea de uma hermenêutica da suspeita, terma por favorecer um retorno pós-hegeliano a Kant e reformula a filosofia transcendental numa correlação histórica e socialmente mediada entre linguagem e subjetividade, juntamente c…Read more
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1103Naturalism: Contemporary PerspectivesNEPFIL online | Dissertatio's Series of Philosophy. 2013.The basic assumption present in these articles is that naturalism is highly compatible with a wide range of relevant philosophical questions and that, regardless of the classical problems faced by the naturalist, the price paid in endorsing naturalism is lower than that paid by essentialist or supernaturalist theories. Yet, the reader will find a variety of approaches, from naturalism in Moral Philosophy and Epistemology to naturalism in the Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind and of the …Read more
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1011Rawls'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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920Kant, Rawls, and the Moral Foundations of the PoliticalIn Rolf-Peter Horstmann und Ralph Schumacher Volker Gerhardt (ed.), Kant und die Berliner Aufklärung: Akten des IX Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, . 2001.
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808Deconstructing 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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632Moral 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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379Habemus habermas: o universalismo ético entre o naturalismo e a religiãoEthic@ - An International Journal for Moral Philosophy 8 (1). 2009.The article revisits Habermas’s recasting of moral universalism, so as to avoid the aporias of naturalism and cultural relativism, according to a pragmatic-formal perspective that does justice to the complex phenomenon of religion in a postsecular, pluralist world, where believers, atheists, and agnostics can coexist together and actively participate in the construction of a more tolerant, just society.
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247On 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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239One of the strands of the Transhumanist movement, Singulitarianism, studies the possibility that high-level artificial intelligence may be created in the future, debating ways to ensure that the interaction between human society and advanced artificial intelligence can occur safely and beneficially. But how can we guarantee this safe interaction? Are there any indications that a Singularity may be on the horizon? In trying to answer these questions, We'll make a small introduction to the area of…Read more
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237Aesthetics, ethics, and the role of Teleology in the third CritiqueRevista de Filosofia Aurora 24 (34): 189. 2012.Kant’s dualism in anthropology and morality is said to be bridged only by means of a teleology that seems to betray the historical constitution of its subjectivity. And yet the Kantianarticulation of problems of theoretical and practical reason can be explored only insofar as they help us understand the correlated issues of the unity of reason, the relation of aesthetics and ethics in the light of the three Critiques, and the teleological conception of history. In this paper, I argue for a teleo…Read more
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226Between being and nothingness: Sartre's existencial phenomenology of liberationVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 48 (4): 581-602. 2019.O artigo tenta mostrar como a dialética sartreana do ser e do nada se afasta da concepção fundamental heideggeriana do Dasein enquanto ser-no-mundo, na medida em que seu modo de ser e autocompreensão existenciais conduzem-no em última análise à sua práxis histórica de libertação.
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75“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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51Towards 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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44Habemus habermas: o universalismo ético entre o naturalismo e a religiãoVeritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 8 (1). 2009.The article revisits Habermas’s recasting of moral universalism, so as to avoid the aporias of naturalism and cultural relativism, according to a pragmatic-formal perspective that does justice to the complex phenomenon of religion in a postsecular, pluralist world, where believers, atheists, and agnostics can coexist together and actively participate in the construction of a more tolerant, just society.
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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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24Zu 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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23Teoria 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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22O 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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19A 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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