Biography:Vicente Ferreira da Silva
Vicente Ferreira da Silva | |
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| Born | 10 January 1916 São Paulo, State of Sao Paulo |
| Died | 19 July 1963 São Paulo, State of Sao Paulo |
| Profession | Logician, mathematician, and philosopher |
Vicente Ferreira da Silva (January 10, 1916 – July 19, 1963) was a Brazil ian logician,[1] mathematician, and philosopher. He was one of first men in Brazil history to write and have published an academic book in logic.[2]
Biography
First philosopher to study logic in Brazil, Vicente was an assistant to Willard Van Orman Quine.[3]
In his mature work, he sought to develop a systematic foundational philosophy based on Heidegger's work[4] and Schelling's philosophy of mythology.[5] Based on the myths, Vicente founded a kind of neopaganism.[6]
During his life, Vicente kept in touch and influenced thinkers like João Guimarães Rosa, Agostinho da Silva, Oswald de Andrade, Julian Marias, Miguel Reale, Saint-John Perse[7] and Vilém Flusser.[8]
He died in 1963 in a car accident.[9]
Partial bibliography
- Modern Logic (1939)
- Elements of Mathematical Logic (1940)
- Philosophical Essays (1948)
- Exegesis of the Action (1949 and 1954)
- Ideas for a New Concept of Man (1951)
- Theology and Anti-Humanism (1953)
- Instruments, Things and Culture (1958)
- Dialectics of the Consciences (1950)
- Dialectics of the Consciences - Complete Works (2009)
- Symbolic Logic - Complete Works (2009)
- Transcendence of the World - Complete Works (2010)
References
- ↑ COSTA, Newton C. A. da. Vicente Ferreira da Silva on logic. Brazilian Journal of Philosophy, São Paulo, v. 14, n. 56, p. 499-508, 1964.
- ↑ Philosophical Analysis in Latin America, Volume 172 de Synthese Library, J.J. Gracia, E. Rabossi, Enriq Villanueva, Marcelo Dascal, Springer Science & Business Media, 1984, ISBN:9027717494, 9789027717498, p.277
- ↑ W.V. Quine's Philosophical Development, F. Janssen-Lauret, in The Significance of the New Logic, CUP 2018 Willard Van Orman Quine's Philosophical Development in the 1930s and 1940s Frederique Janssen-Lauret Published in The Significance of the New Logic: A Translation of Quine's O Sentido da Nova Lógica (ed. and tr. W. Carnielli, F. Janssen-Lauret, and W. Pickering), Cambridge University Press (2018), pp. xiv-xlvii.
- ↑ The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "In the 1950s and early 1960s, Existentialism gained a foothold among philosophers in Latin American. Among the most important Latin American existentialists/Marxists are Carlos Astrada (Argentina) and Vicente Ferreira da Silva (Brazil), who were particularly influenced by Heidegger."
- ↑ Proceedings of the First National Congress of Philosophy, Mendoza, Argentina, March-April 1949, volume 3, filosofia.org
- ↑ CÉSAR, C. M. O Grupo de São Paulo. Lisbon, Portugal: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2000, p. 20.
- ↑ BELO HORIZONTE v. 22 n. 2 maggio-agosto 2016 SOUZA. “Sei Dora? I am Guimarães Rosa ”: incontri mitici […] p. 157-174 (in portuguese)
- ↑ Das dritte Ufer: Vilém Flusser und Brasilien : Kontexte Migration Ü̈bersetzungen, Susanne Klengel, Holger Siever, Königshausen & Neumann, 2009, ISBN:3826036875, 9783826036873, p.41 (in German)
- ↑ Alain Guy et ses collaborateurs, Le Temps et la Mort dans la philosophie contemporaine d'Amérique latine, André Caravelle. Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brésilien Année 1994 63 pp. 296-297, Fait partie d'un numéro thématique : 501 ans plus tard : Amérique Indienne 93 (in french)
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