Vicente Ferreira da Silva
Personal details
Born10 January 1916
São Paulo, State of Sao Paulo
Died19 July 1963 (aged 47)
São Paulo, State of Sao Paulo
ProfessionLogician, mathematician, and philosopher

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

Biography

First philosopher to study logic in Brazil, Vicente was an assistant to Willard Van Orman Quine.[4]

In his mature work, he sought to develop a systematic foundational philosophy based on Heidegger's work[5] and Schelling's philosophy of mythology.[6] Based on the myths, Vicente founded a kind 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

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, p. 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 […] p. 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 a. M 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)


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