CLAUDIO COSTA: PHILOSOPHICAL TEXTS - TEXTOS DE FILOSOFIA

          THIS "BLOG" WAS IDEALIZED TO MAKE MY WORK IN PHILOSOPHY MORE ACCESSIBLE. IT CONTAINS MORE THAN 100 WRITINGS, THOUGH USUALLY IN DRAFT FORMS, IN ENGLISH AND/OR PORTUGUESE. THE PAPERS WITH INTEREST FOR THE RESEARCHER WERE MARKED WITH #.

ESSE "BLOG" FOI IDEALIZADO COMO UMA MANEIRA DE TORNAR MEU "FABULOSO" TRABALHO FILOSÓFICO FACILMENTE ACESSÍVEL A PESSOAS LEGITIMAMENTE INTERESSADAS EM FILOSOFIA. ELE CONTÉM MAIS DE 100 ESCRITOS, EM GERAL ESBOÇOS, MUITOS DELES EM PORTUGUÊS. ALGUNS SÃO DIDÁTICOS, OUTROS NÃO. OS TRABALHOS DE INTERESSE PARA PESQUISADORES FORAM MARCADOS COM #

FROM MY CURRICULUM

I was born in old Vila Seropedica, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1954. After an intellectually boring undergraduate study in medicine, I gained my MS in philosophy at the IFCS (Rio de Janeiro) and a Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Konstanz (Germany). Since 1992, I have worked as a researcher and professor at the UFRN (Natal), secluded in the beautiful Northeast of Brazil, though always in contact with the international philosophical discussion through many grants taken at the universities of Konstanz, Munich, Berkeley, Oxford, Göteborg, and École Normale Supérieure (INS). The UFRN gave me a lot of intellectual freedom, an indispensable condition for independent work. 

Despite my usual focus on contemporary analytic philosophy, I disagree with mainstream philosophy's lack of comprehensiveness. 

The books I am not ashamed to have written are "The Philosophical Inquiry" (Lanham: UPA, 2002), which develops a thesis on the nature of philosophy, Lines of Thought: Rethinking Philosophical Assumptions" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), and "Philosophical Semantics: Reintegrating Theoretical Philosophy" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). The book from 2014 is a selection of essays (some of them, in my humble view, really relevant), while the long book from 2018 can be read as a comprehensive analysis of a cluster of concepts regarding philosophical methodology, the concept of meaning, verificationism, and truth, based on the investigations of philosophers of language from Frege to Wittgenstein. The last published book, "How Do Proper Names Really Work?" (De Gruyter 2023), aims to overthrow the old stalemate between the new and the old orthodoxy in the philosophy of language.

I have social dyslexia (a light form of autism). This means little contact with the outside world. This is good for intellectual independence, though it makes the divulgation of ideas a hard task.

SOME BOOKS (ALGUNS LIVROS):

This book completely renews our theories of reference

 

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