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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The aim of this research is to study the issue of temporal representation in Wittgenstein's Philosophische Bemerkungen, focusing on chapters V and VII, and directly examining the manuscripts from 1929-30. We start from the hypothesis that the inherent nature of temporal representation, which introduces the hypothetical element of the future into phenomenological time, is what underlies Wi…
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 goal of our research is to investigate the various aspects of the connection between language and thought, or (equivalently) between language and sense, according to Frege's philosophy. More specifically, we intend to establish what is essentially involved in the meaningful use of language and in the understanding of language (i.e., what essentially constitutes saying and understandin…
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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The general aim of this post-doctoral research is to offer possible ways of answering what Charles Travis, in the context of the ongoing "Travis-McDowell Debate", 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". In a broad sense, the exchange between McDowell and Travis offers opposing an…
As a visiting research student, I intend to investigate a central topic of my broader doctoral research: the limits of Fregean sense. More specifically, my goal is to answer the following questions:(A) Does Frege's account of linguistic sense afford the possibility of drawing limits to what can be meaningfully said or thought?(B) Supposing (A) to be answered in the affirmative, how might …
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 …
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