Jônadas Techio

Bio:

Jônadas Techio is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil, and a CNPq Research Fellow. He received his Ph.D. from UFRGS in 2009, after a research period in Oxford (2008), with the thesis Solipsism, Loneliness, and Finitude: Lessons from Strawson, Wittgenstein, and Cavell on Metaphysics and Philosophical Method. He was a CAPES Postdoctoral Fellow at UFRGS (2009-2011), a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at The University of Chicago (2014), and a CAPES Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leipzig (2018) and Chicago (2019). His main research interests lie in Contemporary Philosophy, particularly in the intersection of the fields of Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Language and Philosophy of Film. His more recent publications include papers on film and philosophy, skepticism, solipsism, the grammar of the first person, Wittgenstein, Cavell and Strawson. He co-edited an anthology on film and philosophy in Brazil (NEPFIL 2020) and authored a collection of essays titled The Threat of Solipsism: Wittgenstein and Cavell on Meaning, Skepticism and Finitude (De Gruyter 2021).

Scientific dissemination

(All in Portuguese)

Forthcoming publications

  • TECHIO, J. More real than reality? Heidegger and Cavell on film’s powers of absorption. (Dossiê temático Filosofia e Arte Contemporânea, Revista Perspectiva Filosófica, ISSN: 2357-9986. Previsão 2021.)

  • TECHIO, J. Solipsismo e os limites do sentido no Tractatus. (A ser publicado em volume comemorativo dos 100 anos do Tractatus, editado por Darlei Dall'Agnol, Janyne Sattler e Léo Peruzzo. Previsão 2021.)

Books

Papers / chapters

Conferences / events organized

  • 1st International Conference Perspectives from Stanley Cavell: Skepticism and the Ordinary - A three-day conference bringing together international and Brazilian researchers to discuss Stanley Cavell's work, from March 03 to March 05 2021

  • Cinema e Filosofia 2020 - Evento de extensão com análises fílmicas e debates investigando a possibilidade de que o cinema possa ir além da função meramente instrumental de ilustrar problemas e/ou teorias filosóficas preexistentes, colocando questões e suscitando reflexões filosóficas em seus próprios termos.

  • II International Colloquium: Perspectives From Wittgenstein - A four-day Colloquium bringing together international and Brazilian researchers to discuss their views on the future of the philosophical task as inspired by Wittgenstein's work. Porto Alegre, June 21st-24th 2016, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

  • I International Colloquium: Perspectives From Wittgenstein - A four-day Colloquium bringing together researchers and scholars from Brazil and from abroad in order to share the most recent results and perspectives in the lines of research opened by Wittgenstein's contributions in various philosophical fields. May 21-24 2013 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul and at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

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Professional Address:

Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas - Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500 – Prédio 43311, Bloco AI, Sala 110, Cx. Postal 15.055 – CEP 91501-970 – Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil Telefone/fax: +55 (51) 3308-6642 | E-mail: dep.filosofia@ufrgs.brSite: http://www6.ufrgs.br/filosofia/