Vicente Ferreira da Silva

Vicente Ferreira da Silva (10 January 1916 – 19 July 1963) was a Brazilian logician,^[1] mathematician, and philosopher. He was one of first men in Brazil history to write and have published academic books on Logic^[2] and Phenomenology.^[3]

Vicente Ferreira da Silva
Personal details
Born	10 January 1916 São Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Died	19 July 1963 (aged 47) São Paulo, State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Profession	Logician, mathematician, and philosopher

Biography

Ferreira was an assistant to Willard Van Orman Quine.^[4] Ferreira sought to develop a systematic foundational philosophy based on Heidegger's work^[5] and Schelling's philosophy of mythology.^[6] Vicente founded a form of neopaganism.^[7]

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^[8] and Vilém Flusser,^[9] who said that Vicente was the only and greatest philosopher in the history of Brazil.^[10]

He died in 1963 in a car accident.^[11]

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)