Evan has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Virginia (2011) and was a Post-doc at the University of São Paulo (2011-2015). He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo. His research is mainly in Ancient Philosophy, and his principal interests include epistemology, psychology, and metaphysics.He is currently working on a project on Aristotle's understanding of color. A past project was an attempt to understand Plato's Theaetetus, especially the anti-Protagorean arguments. Another involved the role of phantasia in Aristotle's theory of perception.He was a participant in the FAPESP project on Theories of Causation and Human Action in Ancient Greek Philosophy and in the Princeton-USP Consortium on Ancient Philosophy. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The notion of cause plays a central role in all major philosophical enquiries in Antiquity. From the pre-Socratics to late Antiquity, philosophers have not only inquired about what causes what, but also, and more importantly, have tried to understand what it means to be a cause. There is a deep connection in Greek philosophy between doctrines of causation, which mainly address natural phe…
This work intends to offer a reconstruction of Aristotle's position on the role of reason in the determination of the ends of action that conciliates both the thesis according to which agents who are neither virtuous nor vicious can aim at morally good ends and the thesis according to which virtue makes the end right, explaining in this way how would it be possible to have a morally good …
The aim of this project is to understand Aristotle's theory of color. I aim to answer the following main questions: What is the nature of colors for Aristotle? What is it for an object to be colored? What colors did he recognize, and what is required for these colors to be realized? Which colors did he take as primary or basic, and in what sense? How do non-basic colors come to be? Colors…
The ancient thinker, Protagoras, is one of the most interesting and enigmatic figures who appear in ancient philosophical texts. He was an extremely influential teacher, the first to charge a fee to teach virtue to young men from wealthy families. Yet none of his works survive. Today he is most famous for his maxim that 'Man is the measure of all things', one of the earliest expressions o…
There has very recently been a renewed interest in Aristotelian philosophy of mind. One of the most important parts of Aristotle's general theory of the soul or mind is his theory of perception. He claims that during perception the soul takes on the form of the object being perceived. Thus can the soul somehow perceive a stone without becoming a stone itself. In my PhD thesis I discussed …
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