• O problema da verdade na filosofia de L. Wittgenstein: percurso da semântica à pragmática 

      Silva, Eduardo Simões (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 10/03/2008)
      This study aims to examine the problem of truth as it presents itself in L. Wittgenstein's philosophy. Problem this, which will be presented not isolated from discussions on the truth raised in the history of philosophy, ...
    • Concepção semântica da verdade segundo Alfred Tarski 

      Pereira, Renato Machado (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 24/08/2009)
      The objective of this dissertation is analyze the problem of truth as presented by Alfred Tarski in his essay The Semantic Conception of Truth . Other theories of truth are considered, explained and classified in the first ...
    • Os conceitos de liberdade de Isaiah Berlin e a democracia 

      Simões, Luziana Sant'ana (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 24/09/2010)
      This work presents the fundamental differences between Isaiah Berlin‟s positive and negative freedom. It also adds the analysis of other philosophers on the subject. The analysis evaluates the state-of-art on freedom ...
    • John Stuart Mill e a Filosofia das Ciências Sociais 

      Junta, Cristiano Moraes (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 14/04/2011)
      We analyzed John Stuart Mill s book System of Logic Inductive and Deductive. Our aim are present the philosophy of social science formulate by Mill in this book. The discussion empathize the millian interpretation of ...
    • A noção de perspectivismo na filosofia de Blaise Pascal 

      Pinto, Rodrigo Hayasi (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 01/12/2006)
      The aim of this thesis is to understand Blaise Pascal's philosophical conception of science and morality on the basis of a more fundamental notion the notion of perspectivism. By not basing knowledge on ultimate and ...
    • Darstellungen nos Princípios da Mecânica e no Tractatus : a representação dos objetos e a figuração do mundo em Hertz e em Wittgenstein 

      Silva, Eduardo Simões (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 15/03/2012)
      The aim of this thesis is based on the defense of the hypothesis that there are remarkable influences of the physicist Heinrich Hertz s thinking, especially his The Principles of Mechanics (1894), on the Wittgenstein s ...
    • Leibniz contra o vazio: a relação entre a teoria das substâncias e o conceito de espaço 

      Sita, Patrícia Coradim (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 19/08/2010)
      In order to understand the concepts of space and matter in the physics of Leibniz we should consider the metaphysical concept of substance. Such is the fundamental hypothesis of our inquiry. The problem is to conciliate ...
    • Honra, prudência e justiça na obra política de Thomas Hobbes 

      Silveira, Ricardo dos Reis (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 21/09/2010)
      The work of Thomas Hobbes, based on the Renaissance concepts, builds a new political philosophy which results in original concepts of the state, rights and justice. This thesis focus on Thomas Hobbes most relevant political ...
    • Determinismo, Indeterminismo e Behaviorismo Radical 

      Laurenti, Carolina (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Filosofia - PPGFil, , 06/03/2009)
      One of the objectives of this essay is to argue that determinism and indeterminism remain central themes of the science of psychology especially the Analysis of Behavior and its philosophy, Radical Behaviorism. At first ...