Vicente Ferreira da Silva

Vicente Ferreira da Silva (10 January 1916 – 19 July 1963) was a Brazilian logician, mathematician, and philosopher. He was among the first in Brazil to write and publish academic books on Logic and Phenomenology, with a special interest in Heidegger.

Biography

Ferreira was an assistant to Willard Van Orman Quine. Ferreira sought to develop a systematic foundational philosophy based on Heidegger's work and Schelling's philosophy of mythology. Vicente founded a form of neopaganism.

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 Perse and Vilém Flusser, who said that Vicente was the only and greatest philosopher in the history of Brazil.

He died in 1963 in a car accident.

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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