Banca de DEFESA: HENRI MARCEL DE OLIVEIRA SÃO PAULO

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : HENRI MARCEL DE OLIVEIRA SÃO PAULO
DATE: 07/12/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Ambiente virtual RPN
TITLE:

WHAT IS A PERSON? WILFRID SELLARS' SYNOPTIC PROJECT

KEY WORDS:

Wilfrid Sellars; Immanuel Kant; inferentialism; personal identity; synoptic vision.

PAGES: 123
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: Epistemologia
SUMMARY:

The present dissertation aims to approach the concept of personhood according to Wilfrid S. Sellars’s synoptic project of unification of the manifest and scientific images of the person-in-the-world. Our approach is particularly informed by the kantian themes present in Sellars’s work. We first approach the concept of knowledge and Sellars’s classical critique of the “myth of the Given”, to defend a theory of knowledge under a practical conception, thus leading us to confront the problem of the relation between mind and world in relation to this practice. Such problem leads us to the conflict between the manifest and scientific images of the person-in-the-world, as images which highlight respectively the normative and descriptive aspects of personhood. We thus propose a unified image by means of a reinterpretation of Kant’s principle of unity of apperception, to the principle of practical unity of personhood, concluding with a formulation of the concept of a person as that of a complex physical system which realizes irreducible logical subjects.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1082451 - WALDOMIRO JOSE DA SILVA FILHO
Interno - 1418569 - GIOVANNI ROLLA
Externa à Instituição - SOFIA INÊS ALBORNOZ STEIN - Unisinos