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    Critique of public reason revisited: Kant as arbiter between Rawls and Habermas
    Veritas – 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
  •  7
    Replantearse la seguridad de la inteligencia artificial basada en la confianza
    with Marcelo Pasetti
    Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 69 (1). 2024.
    El rápido auge de la inteligencia artificial (IA) plantea retos éticos, especialmente relacionados con la confianza depositada en esta tecnología y sus implicaciones para diversos grupos demográficos. Este texto adopta un enfoque filosófico fenomenológico y hermenéutico, basado en Husserl y Heidegger, para explorar la seguridad existencial de la IA y su conexión con la confianza. La confianza en la IA se examina no sólo como una cuestión técnica, sino como un fenómeno vinculado a dinámicas socia…Read more
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    A concepção habermasiana do papel, do potencial normativo e dos limites da religião na esfera pública se desenvolve, se transforma e evolui ao longo das diferentes etapas do seu profícuo pensamento teórico-crítico. Neste artigo, proponho-me a revisitar tal concepção, partindo de sua autoavaliação enquanto constelação do pensamento pós-metafísico, atendo-me apenas ao seu inacabado programa de reconstrução normativa do mundo da vida (Lebenswelt) pós-secular em democracias pluralistas, à luz de alg…Read more
  • On the Genealogy of Modernity: Kant, Nietzsche, Foucault
    Dissertation, State University of New York at Stony Brook. 1994.
    This study examines Michel Foucault's reading of Kant and Nietzsche, so as to show that critique and genealogy meet at the very locus where a methodological displacement of metaphysics has been operated, particularly in the critical region that was assigned by modernity to the conception of human nature. The "genealogy of modernity" is shown to constitute the major thesis of a Foucauldian "philosophical discourse of modernity" which, contrary to Habermas's criticisms, does not evade questions of…Read more
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    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
  •  4
    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
  •  30
    A decolonial critical theory of artificial intelligence
    Filosofia 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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    Deconstructing the substantialist conception of God: recasting Heidegger's critique of Augustine
    Veritas – 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
  •  10
    Fenomenologia hoje: significado e linguagem (edited book)
    with Ricardo Timm de Souza
    EDIPUCRS. 2002.
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    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
  •  9
    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
  •  9
    From social to cyber justice: critical views on justice, law, and ethics (edited book)
    with Marek Hrubec and Emil Albert Sobottka
    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
  •  9
    Significado E skepsis nas investigações de Wittgenstein
    Veritas – 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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    Apresentação
    Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 62 (1): 1-3. 2017.
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    Apresentação
    Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 64 (1). 2019.
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  •  8
    Apresentação
    with Maximiliano Zapata
    Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 60 (1): 7-11. 2015.
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    Apresentacão
    Veritas – Revista de Filosofia da Pucrs 61 (1): 1-6. 2016.
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    Singularity and Coordination Problems: Pandemic Lessons from 2020
    with Nicholas Kluge Corrêa
    Journal of Future Studies 26 (1). 2021.
    One 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
  •  1249
    Heidegger, Reification and Formal Indication
    Comparative 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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    Tractatus ethico-politicus
    Edipucrs. 1999.