About me
Sobre
Sou aposentado como Professor Titular do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina e também aposentado como Professor Titular do Departamento de Matemática da Universidade Federal do Paraná. Sou Professor Permanente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Lógica e Metafísica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e pesquisador 1A do CNPq. Doutorado pela USP em 1990, realizei estudos de pós-doutoramento nas universidades de Florença (Itália), Leeds (Inglaterra), e Oxford (Inglaterra). Minhas principais áreas de interesse são os fundamentos lógicos e metafísicos da física quântica, as aplicações de lógicas não clássicas aos fundamentos das ciências empíricas, a filosofia da lógica e o estudo da estrutura lógica das teorias científicas, em especial das teorias da física.
Sou membro correspondente da Academia Internacional de FIlosofia da Ciência (AIPS) e membro do CLE-Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência da UNICAMP, dentre outras associações científicas da área.
Link para currículo Lattes (the Brazilian "official" CV for researchers);
http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4721997A6
I am retired as a Full Professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, in Florianópolis. I am also retired as a Full Professor of Foundations of Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of the Federal University of Paraná, in Curitiba. Presently I am a member of the staff of the Graduate Program in Logic and Metaphysics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in the city of Rio.
My scientific interests lie in logic in all its aspects, mainly in the philosophy of logic, in the foundations of mathematics and of the empirical sciences (mainly physics), and in the metaphysical aspects of quantum theories, in special in a metaphysics which takes quantum objects as "non-individuals". I am a member of CLE-Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência/UNICAMP and of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (AIPS), located in Brussels, among other scientific associations in my field of interest.
A glimpse of me
I got retired as Full Professor of the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, where I have taught logic, philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of science. I am also retired as Full Professor from the Department of Mathematics of the Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR – Brazil. I received my PhD from the Department of Philosophy of the University of São Paulo under Newton da Costa. My first contact with philosophy was when, by chance, I met Dr. Alvino Moser of the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of Paraná when I was an undergraduate student of chemical engineering. Later, Moser invited me to work with him in the post-graduate program in Education at the same university, where I met Dr. José Alberto Pedra, who was the supervisor of my master thesis, and has also contributed much to my education in human sciences, yet mathematics was my first interest.
From 1978 to 1991, I taught mathematics (differential and integral calculus, numerical calculus, analytic geometry, linear algebra) to undergraduate students of engineering at the Department of Mathematics of the Federal Center of Technological Education of Paraná (CEFET/PR), in Curitiba, PR, Brazil (today, the Technological Federal University of Paraná).
In 1978, I also taught mathematics at the Faculty of Economy and Administration (FAE) in Curitiba, and in 1986, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná (PUC/PR).
Before my “university” period, when I was an undergraduate student, I taught physics, mathematics, and geometric drawing in elementary schools.
I received a grant from CAPES for getting my PhD at the University of São Paulo, and three grants from the Brazilian council CNPq for post-graduate studies, which I spent at three good universities from which I have got quite nice experiences. They are the universities of Florence, Leeds, and Oxford. I have given talks also in other universities, such as the universities of Paris, London, Buenos Aires, and also in several other places, congresses and scientific meetings.
Presently I am a member of the staff of the Graduate Program in Logic and Metaphysics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and continue my research in CNPq at level 1A.
I am a member of several scientific societies and a member of the editorial board of many journals in Brazil and abroad. I was also a member of the CA-Comitê Assessor of the section Philosophy and Theology of CNPq.
I am a member of CLE-Centro de Lógica, Epistemologia e História da Ciência da UNICAMP and of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, located in Brussels, so as other scientific associations in my field of interest.
More details about my academic life can be seen in my 2015-Memorial, written in Portuguese.