Marcos Silva Philosophy
Hi, my name is Marcos Silva. I am currently Associate Professor at the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Since 2018, I am also Productivity Researcher Level 2 of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq/Brazil). I also serve as the current President of the Brazilian Society of Analytic Philosophy (SBFA).
My work deals mainly with Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology and Wittgenstein’s Philosophy. I already presented some topics of my research throughout Europe and in US. In 2017, I received the FULBRIGHT JUNIOR FACULTY MEMBER AWARD and spent the Fall Term visiting the University of Pittsburgh (Philosophy Department), under Bob Brandom's supervision.
My PhD thesis in Philosophy was supervised by Luiz Carlos Pereira at the PUC-Rio, Brazil, and by Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer at the Universität Leipzig, Germany.
My areas of competence (AoC) are: analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, non-classical logics, epistemology, normativity and philosophy of mind; my areas of specialization (AoS) are: philosophy and history of logic and Wittgenstein's philosophy and Brandom's philosophy.
I have also great interest in several anti-realist philosophers as Kant, Schopenhauer, Brouwer, Weyl, Lorenzen, Dummet and Prawitz.
"It must go further still: that soul must become its own betrayer, its own deliverer, the one activity, the mirror turn lamp." Yeats
I am a member of:
SBFA (Brazilian Society for Analytic Philosophy) and serve as its vice-president,
ALFA-n (Latin American Society for Analytic Philosophy),
SBL (Brazilian Society for Logic) and
ALWS (Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society).
Linguagem e Cognição (Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil)
Consciência e Cognição (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)
"Denn Bleiben ist nirgends"
Rainer Maria Rilke, Duineser Elegien
"Ist unbekannt Gott? Ist er offenbar wie der Himmel? Dieses glaub'ich eher. Der Menschen Maß ist's. Voll Verdienst, doch dichterisch wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde. Doch reicher ist nicht der Schatten der Nacht mit den Sternen, wenn ich so sagen könnte, als der Mensch, der heißet ein Bild der Gottheit. Gibt es auf Erden ein Maß? Es gibt keines. (...) Leben ist Tod, und Tod ist auch ein Leben."
Friedrich Hölderlin, In lieblicher Bläue