Porchat’s seminal paper, “On What Appears”, lays the foundations and the main lines of his neo-Py... more Porchat’s seminal paper, “On What Appears”, lays the foundations and the main lines of his neo-Pyrrhonism. It was published in 1991, before Fogelin’s well-known book (Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification, 1994). It was a turning point in Oswaldo Porchat’s philosophical thought. His neo-Pyrrhonism was further developed in a number of papers written since then. I hope to show not only that Porchat was a good historian of ancient Pyrrhonism, but also that he up-dated Pyrrhonism in a highly interesting way, proposing insightful solutions to some philosophical problems that are still with us today. One of the merits of Porchat’s proposal is that his neo-Pyrrhonism allows us to see the Pyrrhonian stance as a global, coherent philosophical position, not subject to many oftenrepeated criticisms. Porchat’s neo-Pyrrhonism is not confined to epistemological questions, but constitutes a broad, articulated philosophical perspective. I will try to be as brief and clear as I can. ...
Olexandr Lukovyna’s interview with Professor Plínio Junqueira Smith is devoted to skeptic researc... more Olexandr Lukovyna’s interview with Professor Plínio Junqueira Smith is devoted to skeptic research in Brazilian philosophy, the beginning of skeptic studies in Brazil, Oswaldo Porchat’s and Ezequiel de Olaso’s roles in establishing the tradition of skeptic studies, contemporary studies in skepticism, and the global state of affairs in skeptic research.
The author distinguishes and compares two varieties of semantic skepticism. The first one, called... more The author distinguishes and compares two varieties of semantic skepticism. The first one, called scientific, is found in W. O. Quine’s intention of accounting for language —conveniently organized in purely extensional terms— as a complex of dispositions in verbal behavior. The second variety is present, according to this paper, in the Wittgensteinian problematic of following a rule. The author sustains that the basic weakness of the latter variety lies in its being based on a problematic theory —such as behaviorism; additionally, scientific semantic skepticism is open to the criticism that it cannot account of the normative aspect of linguistic practices.
O artigo responde a duas perguntas: o que Montaigne entende por experiência? Como ele constrói su... more O artigo responde a duas perguntas: o que Montaigne entende por experiência? Como ele constrói sua ciência de si mesmo com base na experiência? Há diversos tipos de experiência e é preciso compreender como cada tipo permite a construção de sua ciência. Aprende-se da experiência coletiva da prática jurídica pelo contraexemplo; da experiência interna da alma pelo exemplo tomado a contrapelo; e, por fim, pelo exemplo da experiência pura, aprendem-se as regras para a saúde corporal.
Porchat’s seminal paper, “On What Appears”, lays the foundations and the main lines of his neo-Py... more Porchat’s seminal paper, “On What Appears”, lays the foundations and the main lines of his neo-Pyrrhonism. It was published in 1991, before Fogelin’s well-known book (Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification, 1994). It was a turning point in Oswaldo Porchat’s philosophical thought. His neo-Pyrrhonism was further developed in a number of papers written since then. I hope to show not only that Porchat was a good historian of ancient Pyrrhonism, but also that he up-dated Pyrrhonism in a highly interesting way, proposing insightful solutions to some philosophical problems that are still with us today. One of the merits of Porchat’s proposal is that his neo-Pyrrhonism allows us to see the Pyrrhonian stance as a global, coherent philosophical position, not subject to many oftenrepeated criticisms. Porchat’s neo-Pyrrhonism is not confined to epistemological questions, but constitutes a broad, articulated philosophical perspective. I will try to be as brief and clear as I can. ...
Olexandr Lukovyna’s interview with Professor Plínio Junqueira Smith is devoted to skeptic researc... more Olexandr Lukovyna’s interview with Professor Plínio Junqueira Smith is devoted to skeptic research in Brazilian philosophy, the beginning of skeptic studies in Brazil, Oswaldo Porchat’s and Ezequiel de Olaso’s roles in establishing the tradition of skeptic studies, contemporary studies in skepticism, and the global state of affairs in skeptic research.
The author distinguishes and compares two varieties of semantic skepticism. The first one, called... more The author distinguishes and compares two varieties of semantic skepticism. The first one, called scientific, is found in W. O. Quine’s intention of accounting for language —conveniently organized in purely extensional terms— as a complex of dispositions in verbal behavior. The second variety is present, according to this paper, in the Wittgensteinian problematic of following a rule. The author sustains that the basic weakness of the latter variety lies in its being based on a problematic theory —such as behaviorism; additionally, scientific semantic skepticism is open to the criticism that it cannot account of the normative aspect of linguistic practices.
O artigo responde a duas perguntas: o que Montaigne entende por experiência? Como ele constrói su... more O artigo responde a duas perguntas: o que Montaigne entende por experiência? Como ele constrói sua ciência de si mesmo com base na experiência? Há diversos tipos de experiência e é preciso compreender como cada tipo permite a construção de sua ciência. Aprende-se da experiência coletiva da prática jurídica pelo contraexemplo; da experiência interna da alma pelo exemplo tomado a contrapelo; e, por fim, pelo exemplo da experiência pura, aprendem-se as regras para a saúde corporal.
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