Vicente Ferreira da Silva (10 January 1916 – 19 July 1963) was a Brazilian logician,[1] mathematician, and philosopher. He was one of first men in Brazil history to write and have published academic books on Logic[2] and Phenomenology.[3]

Biography

Ferreira was an assistant to Willard Van Orman Quine.[4] Ferreira sought to develop a systematic foundational philosophy based on Heidegger's work[5] and Schelling's philosophy of mythology.[6] Vicente founded a form of neopaganism.[7]

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[8] and Vilém Flusser,[9] who said that Vicente was the only and greatest philosopher in the history of Brazil.[10]

He died in 1963 in a car accident.[11]

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

  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ HOLANDA, Adriano Furtado. Phenomenology and Psychology in Brazil: Historical aspects. Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), v. 33, pp. 383-394 (2016)
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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." Archived 2018-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Proceedings of the First National Congress of Philosophy, Mendoza, Argentina, March–April 1949, volume 3, filosofia.org Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ CÉSAR, C. M. O Grupo de São Paulo. Lisbon, Portugal: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2000, p. 20.
  8. ^ BELO HORIZONTE v. 22 n. 2 maggio-agosto 2016 SOUZA. “Sei Dora? I am Guimarães Rosa ”: incontri mitici […] pp. 157-174 (in portuguese)
  9. ^ Das dritte Ufer: Vilém Flusser und Brasilien : Kontexte Migration Ü̈bersetzungen, Susanne Klengel, Holger Siever, Königshausen & Neumann, 2009, ISBN 3826036875, 9783826036873, p.41 (in German)
  10. ^ Flusser, Vilem (1999), Bodenlos, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt. pp.141-159.
  11. ^ 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)