Vicente Ferreira da Silva (10 January 1916 – 19 July 1963) was a Brazilian logician,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) mathematician, and philosopher. He was among the first in Brazil to write and publish academic books on LogicPhilosophical Analysis in Latin America, Volume 172 de Synthese Library, J.J. Gracia, E. Rabossi, Enriq Villanueva, Marcelo Dascal, Springer Science & Business Media, 1984, , 9789027717498, p.277 and Phenomenology, with a special interest in Heidegger.HOLANDA, Adriano Furtado. Phenomenology and Psychology in Brazil: Historical aspects. Estudos de Psicologia (Campinas), v. 33, pp. 383-394 (2016)
Biography Ferreira was an assistant to Willard Van Orman Quine.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. Ferreira sought to develop a systematic foundational philosophy based on Heidegger's workThe 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." and Schelling's philosophy of mythology.Proceedings of the First National Congress of Philosophy, Mendoza, Argentina, March–April 1949, volume 3, filosofia.org Vicente founded a form of neopaganism.CÉSAR, C. M. O Grupo de São Paulo. Lisbon, Portugal: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2000, p. 20.
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 PerseBELO HORIZONTE v. 22 n. 2 maggio-agosto 2016 SOUZA. “Sei Dora? I am Guimarães Rosa ”: incontri mitici […] pp. 157-174 (in portuguese) and Vilém Flusser,Das dritte Ufer: Vilém Flusser und Brasilien : Kontexte Migration Ü̈bersetzungen, Susanne Klengel, Holger Siever, Königshausen & Neumann, 2009, , 9783826036873, p.41 (in German) who said that Vicente was the only and greatest philosopher in the history of Brazil.Flusser, Vilem (1999), Bodenlos, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt. pp.141-159.
He died in 1963 in a car accident.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)
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)
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