João Vergílio made his undergraduate studies at USP (finished in 1987) and got his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the same university (1993). He deals with Wittgenstein's philosophy in general, with a special emphasis on the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the so-called "intermediate period" (running fron 1929 until 1933 approximately). He teaches philosophy of language and history of contemporary philosophy at the University of Sao Paulo. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Wittgenstein's thought had a deep influence on the so-called analytical philosophy of the 20th century. Even so, it is necessary to recognize that what we find in Wittgenstein's Nachlaß goes far beyond the limits of this tradition. We find a work which, in different levels, partakes an ideal of immanent elucidation with other trends of thought, and this is something that we cannot put asi…
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We aim to offer a relevant contribution to the philosophical approach to what Charles Travis labels "The fundamental problem of perception": according to him, the matter of "how perception can make the world bear for us on the thing to think". We propose a detailed examination of the ongoing "Travis-McDowell Debate" on the philosophical nature of perceptual experience. Since the publicati…
The main purpose of our research is to clarify Frege's thesis of the indefinability of truth from the perspective of the Fregean notion of elucidation. We believe that the adoption of the perspective which we propose - an unusual one in the secondary literature - can contribute to different aspects of the debates about that thesis. We will try to show that, although for Frege truth cannot…
Following her criticism of modern moral philosophy and its core concept of Ought, Elizabeth Anscombe makes a double sided suggestion: that a new ethical theory could be based on a language of virtues and the philosophy of psychology, and that we should, meanwhile, "banish ethics totally from our minds" and use 'thick' concepts without a theory. Our aim is to investigate the relationship b…
Evans attributed to Frege the intuition that it is not possible to grasp a thought expressed in the sentence "this is now Phi" without a propensity to grasp the same thought in the series of sentences "this was Phi a few moments ago", "this will be Y in a few moments ", ..., etc. Here lies the core of a situated and dynamic conception of the understanding of singular statements: capturing…
The project concerns contextualism's main claim, namely the thesis that the truth-conditions of a sentence are not determined by the meaning of its words. Its main purpose is to assess three difficulties that result from this negative thesis. That is, I seek to examine three central problems that the critics of a contextualist perspective have raised. The problems are the following. 1) Th…
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Two traditions, inheritors of ordinary language philosophy, offer distinct solutions for radical contextualism problem regarding the contextual determination of an assertion's truth-conditions. While they both accept the contextualist schism between linguistic meaning and propositional content, they nevertheless relate to a second distinction between saying and meaning in different ways. …
The main goal of my PhD research is to present and discuss some aspects of the language of thought hypothesis, as formulated by Jerry Fodor. In Fodor's view, the language of thought is a system of mental representations, which, just like sentences in a natural language, have syntactic constituent structure and compositional semantics. This hypothesis allows us to explain the productivity …
The aim of this project is to investigate the way in which Paul Ricoeur and Karl-Otto Apel build their solutions to the problem of discourse - and consequently language - objectivity. The two of them were strongly influenced by Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutics, but went down different roads from this common starting point. Ricoeur, on the one hand, has dwelled in the French phenomenologi…
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