Claudio Ferreira 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 Vila Seropedica, near to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1954. After an intellectually boring medicine undergraduate study, 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). 

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 idea 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 believe this book does not revolutionize the field only because its author does not have the proper status function in the community of ideas.

It is essential to say that I have social dyslexia (a light form of autism). Because of this, I have ergonomic limitations at the university where I work. This means almost no contact with the public world. This is good for intellectual independence; I can work diligently... but it makes divulging my ideas very difficult.

SOME BOOKS (ALGUNS LIVROS):