•  2333
    The goal of this thesis to defend the philosophical view of the new ante rem substantivism against its supposed alternatives. To achieve such goal, we will present four views about the nature of laws, two kinds of realism and two kinds of anti-realism, and evaluate them critically. The disadvantages from those theories are going to be presented for us to show that they are insufficient to provide a metaphysics that is able to explain the world's counterfactuality, universality, and regularity, a…Read more
  •  40
    Este livro teve como projeto inicial reunir artigos e ensaios, em português, sobre estética e filosofia da arte na tradição analítica. Podemos entender a filosofia na tradição analítica, de forma bem geral, como um modo de fazer filosofia, em que se trabalha de forma argumentativa e temática, em torno a problemas e que pode ser feita mesmo em relação à análise de questões presentes em textos de filósofos de outros períodos históricos. Esse projeto foi levemente ampliado, o que nos trouxe um ganh…Read more
  •  480
    The laws of nature and Tooley's cases / As leis da natureza e os casos de Tooley
    Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofía 36 67-101. 2013.
    The purposes of this paper are: (1) to present four theories of the nature of natural laws, (2) to show that only one of them is capable of adequately answering to Tooley’s Cases, and (3) indicate why these cases are relevant for our ontology. These purposes are important since the concept of “natural law” is used in many (if not all) realms of natural science and in many branches of philosophy; if Tooley’s cases are possible, they represent situations that must be adequately described. If there…Read more
  •  1212
    It is common, even among the laity, the doubt about the reality of time. We think it is possible that time is an illusion and that the perception of his passage is just awareness of something other than time. There are a number of arguments made by philosophers, both to defend and to attack the intuition that time is real. One of them, and perhaps the best known, is the argument of McTaggart, which tries to establish some condition for the existence of time and that time, thought through that co…Read more
  •  4537
    Resenha de "Sobre o sentido e a referência" / Review of "On sense and reference"
  •  1079
    Why is there something rather than nothing? / Por que há algo, e não nada?
    Investigação Filosófica 3 (art 2): 1-17. 2012.
    My aim here is to answer the question about why is there something rather than nothing by arguing for the existence of some necessary beings (that, as such, couldn’t not exist) – the space, the time, and the natural basic laws – and by showing that the existence of nothingness is logically impossible. I also try to account for the fact that contingent beings arise from necessary beings by distinguishing between necessary existence and necessary arising, as to answer the question about why is the…Read more
  •  1435
    The main intent of this thesis is to defend that the laws of nature are better thought as transcendent universals, such as platonic governism suggests, and that they are metaphysically necessary in a strong way, such as the heterodox version of such platonism defends. With this intention, we sustain that physical symmetries are essential consequences of the laws of nature – what solves the challenge of symmetries – thus being metaphysically necessary, without being governist's necessitation laws…Read more
  •  670
    In this paper, I intend to argue against Alexander Bird‟s thesis (2001) that the law salt dissolves in water is metaphysically necessary. I briefly indicate Bird‟s argument for the necessity of such law, and then I provide a counter-argument to his thesis. In a general way, Bird wants to show that the existence of certain substances depends on the truth of certain laws, and that because of this the existence of such substances implies the existence of such laws. That would make the laws existing…Read more
  •  1854
    Antes de começarmos a falar sobre as leis da natureza, creio que vale a pena explicar algumas coisas sobre o título dessa conferência. Nele, digo que farei uma introdução à metafísica das leis da natureza. Uma introdução, em filosofia, consiste da apresentação de um problema filosófico, indicando as razões pelas quais tal problema é um problema, e das principais posições que tentam resolvê-lo, com suas respectivas dificuldades mais aparentes. Uma introdução não deve dar respostas definitivas sob…Read more
  •  778
    The purposes of this paper are: (1) to present four theories of the nature of natural laws, (2) to show that only one of them is capable of adequately answering to Tooley's Cases, and (3) indicate why these cases are relevant for our ontology. These purposes are important since the concept of "natural law" is used in many (if not all) realms of natural science and in many branches of philosophy; if Tooley's cases are possible, they represent situations that must be adequately described. If there…Read more
  •  1549
    In “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” Edmund Gettier (1963) attacked the thesis ‘S knows that P iff P is true, S believes that P, and S is justified in believing that P’. His intention was to sustain that someone can have a justified true belief without knowing that belief. He made that by creating two counter-examples to that thesis. In this article, I try to show that Gettier’s arguments are based in a weak account of justification, and that such a weak view cannot talk about someone knowin…Read more
  •  725
    Uma Ideologia de Centro / A Center Ideology (edited book)
    Editora Fi. 2020.
    O objetivo deste livro é propor uma reflexão sobre o ideário de centro, se perguntando se ele seria possível e como. Preferi chamar de “Uma Ideologia de Centro” em vez de “Ideário”, pois o termo “Ideologia” é instigante para um título. Entretanto tenho a noção de que essa palavra é bastante carregada de significados teóricos. No modelo marxista, grosso modo, a ideologia é um conjunto de crenças, construído pela parcela dominante da sociedade, para naturalizar a dominação. Não é nesse sentido que…Read more
  •  9
    Problemas Filosóficos: Uma Introdução à Filosofia / Philosophical Problems: An Introduction to Philosophy (edited book)
    with Luiz Helvécio Marques Segundo
    Editora da UFPel / UFPel Publisher. 2020.
    De um modo geral, queríamos mostrar que a filosofia tem suas próprias áreas, mas tem também subáreas em interdisciplinaridade com as ciências. As ciências e as disciplinas acadêmicas em geral têm problemas, cuja a solução pode ser encontrada empiricamente, por meio de experimentos, entrevistas, documentos, ou formalmente, por meio de cálculos etc, porém os problemas das filosofias dessas disciplinas são justamente os problemas mais fundamentais dessas disciplinas, que fundam o quadro conceitual …Read more
  •  51
    A Série Investigação Filosófica é uma série de livros de traduções de verbetes da Enciclopédia de Filosofia da Stanford (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) e de outras plataformas internacionalmente reconhecidas, que intenciona servir tanto como material didático para os professores das diferentes sub-áreas e níveis da Filosofia quanto como material de estudo para a pesquisa e para concursos da área. Nós, professores, sabemos o quão difícil é encontrar bom material em português para indicarmos…Read more
  •  156
    Um dos grandes desafios da era da informação consiste em filtrar informações claras, rigorosas e atualizadas sobre tópicos importantes. O mesmo vale para a filosofia. Como encontrar conteúdo filosófico confiável em meio a milhares de artigos publicados diariamente na internet? Para ir ainda mais longe, como encontrar uma introdução a algum tópico com uma lista de referências bibliográficas atualizadas e que seja organizada por um especialista da área? Já que você começou a ler este livro, é prov…Read more
  •  15
    This paper comments on Gaboardi’s (2023) proposal, which maps views of philosophy along two axes – resilience (fit with evidence) and fertility (capacity to generate new ways of thinking). This yields four quadrants: cognitivist, minimalist, avant-garde, and quietist. The author argues that the main problem is not diversity per se, but the mutual unintelligibility between quadrants, as each operates with distinct evaluative criteria. To overcome this impasse, he proposes using large language mod…Read more
  •  6
    Este texto é baseado numa pesquisa, conduzida por Dr. Rodrigo Reis Lastra Cid e Dr. Afrânio Patrocínio de Andrade, professores adjuntos da Universidade Federal do Amapá, e pelo discente, orientando de iniciação científica do primeiro, Marlon Viana De Almeida Junior, na qual foram entrevistados alguns curandeiros de Santana (AP) e catalogadas as suas práticas. Há muito tempo que doulas, garrafeiros e outros curandeiros fazem parte da cultura e da tradição da Região Norte e do Brasil em geral, com…Read more
  •  693
    This book talks about the city's reception of philosophy. The purpose of this chapter is to show that philosophy is essential for the maintenance of human security in our cities. The importance of this apology for philosophy is precisely to undo a common but erroneous conception of the nature and disadvantages of this discipline and to politically base its existence. To do this, we will present a characterization of philosophy and some of the most important criticisms of its development within t…Read more
  •  40
    Razões metafísicas
    Investigação Filosófica 11 (3): 129. 2020.
    Richard Taylor apresenta abordagens interessantes de quatro tópicos importantes da metafísica, entre outros; a saber: o problema da mente-corpo, a relação entre determinismo e liberdade, a natureza do tempo e a existência de Deus. Taylor defende teses com relação a esses tópicos e, ao argumentar a favor delas, mostra-nos também as teorias tradicionais concorrentes. Isso faz desse livro uma ótima introdução argumentativa a alguns dos grandes problemas da metafísica. Exporei a seguir, resumidament…Read more
  •  1360
    This book deals with an internal theme of metaphysics, which is the metaphysics of the laws of nature. The author presents traditional contemporary theories, as well as his own original theory, and evaluates each one at a time. He also addresses the problem of the modality of the laws of nature and makes some criticism of the standard view of necessity as truth in all possible worlds, and shows an application of his discussion to the metaphysics of physics. / Este livro trata de um tema interno …Read more
  •  44
    A philosophical worldview / Uma visão de mundo filosófica
    Trans/Form/Ação 46 (spe1): 571-596. 2023.
    The purpose of this paper is to present a philosophical worldview, specifically metaphysical. This is important precisely to obtain a generalist view of reality, at a time when philosophical discussions are becoming increasingly specialized. The metaphysical worldview presented here is a general perspective on time, space, matter, laws of nature, the mind and the normativity. In order to achieve such goal, (1) we will talk about the nature of philosophy and its relation to the construction of a …Read more
  •  58
    Problemas de Metafísica Analítica / Problems in Analytical Metaphysics (edited book)
    Editora da UFPel / UFPel Publisher. 2020.
    O desenvolvimento da filosofia acadêmica no Brasil é direcionada, entre vários fatores, pelas investigações dos diversos Grupos de Trabalho (GTs) da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia (ANPOF). Esses GTs se dividem de acordo com a temática investigada. O GT de Metafísica Analítica é relativamente novo e ainda tem poucos membros, mas os temas nele trabalhados são variados e todos centrais no debate metafísico contemporâneo internacional. A sua investigação se caracteriza pelo rigor …Read more
  •  751
    Universals: the contemporary debate by Fraser MacBride (review)
    Filosofia Unisinos 13 (3). 2012.
    O problema no qual se inserem nominalismo e realismo, diz-nos MacBride, é o de como explicar as características repetidas das coisas. Enquanto o realista nos diz que as características repetidas se explicam por serem universais, ou seja, por serem as naturezas comuns que várias coisas compartilham, o nominalista nos diz que é possível explicar essas características repetidas com apenas particulares concretos (sem universais)
  •  685
    These days philosophy teaching in universities follows two main views: the continental philosophy and the analytic philosophy. Each one of those traditions has very different philosophical and pedagogical practices. My objectives in this article are: 1. to show the distinctions between the practices that continental and analytical philosophies cultivated at the universities; 2. to indicate that there is a confusion at the characterization of what is analytic philosophy, and that the critics driv…Read more
  •  865
    When we ask ourselves about the meaning of life, two analyses are possible in principle: 1. that we are asking something about the purpose or the reason of being of life or of a life, or 2. that we are asking something the value of life or of a life. At the present article, I do not approach 1 neither the life as a whole, but I take the individual lives in the context of 2. I briefly explain what would be to someone to have an objectivist conception of the meaning of life and what would be to so…Read more
  •  749
    My main purpose in this article is to present an argument for the idea that necessity qua truth in all possible worlds, without other qualifications, leads us to contradiction. If we do not want to accept the contradiction, we will face a dilemma: or accepting that everything we take as contingent is in fact necessary, or accepting that we cannot translate some sentences – at least the indexed to worlds sentences – to the possible worlds vocabulary. We have an intuition – and we develop an argum…Read more
  •  4
    Abstract: This text is based on a survey in which somehealers from Santana (AP) were interviewed and theirpractices and recipes were cataloged, in addition to theirbeliefs regarding the effectiveness and the mystique of theirbottles [garrafadas]. The importance of this cataloging is toreserve an anthropological heritage from the BrazilianAmazon region for scientific research, whose practices arebeing lost in culture. We present some of the healers whowork with bottles, from the Santana (AP) regi…Read more
  • This text was produced based on research into the narratives present in the poetic composition of the Marabaixo thieves, under the conception of the Marabaixo singers who produce these songs, and addresses the intentions and motivations of this musical genre. The objective of this work is to identify the elements belonging to the cultural identity of Marabaixo, based on the oral traditions that are embedded in the manifestation through thieves – the name given to the verses that make up the song…Read more