COGNITIO-ESTUDOS

Revista Eletrônica de Filosofia
Philosophy Eletronic Journal
ISSN 1809-8428

São Paulo: Center for Pragmatism Studies
Philosophy Graduate Program
Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo
Available in <http://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/cognitio>

Vol. 12, nº.1, January-Juner 2015

EDITORIAL

It is with great satisfaction that we bring to our readers another issue of COGNITIO-ESTUDOS with the happy news of the election of Professor Ivo Assad Ibri, editor of our Journal and leader of the Center for Pragmatism Studies of PUC-SP, as President of the Charles Sanders Peirce Society. The Society, which commemorates its 50th anniversary in 2015, is an international reference for Peircean studies, gathering the most renowned researchers in the field with the object of stimulating and spreading Peirce's thought.

This issue of COGNITIO-ESTUDOS contains some articles addressing the thoughts of this great American philosopher, such as the paper by Neder Rocha Abdo who, besides presenting the possible seeds sewn by the author in the 1903 Harvard Lectures, intends to emphasize Peirce's vivacious thought that, precisely because of its open nature, is capable of arousing in his researchers newer and instigating reflections.

Also grounded on Peirce's conceptual universe is the article entitled "Court Ruling Based on C.S. Peirce's Ethics." In it, based on specific issues related to the juridical world, the author proposes Ethics, within the sphere of Peirces' classification of Sciences, as a possible meeting place between Law and Politics. Equally, on the moral field - now based on the thoughts of Thomas Aquinas - the text by Antonio Wardison C. Silva addresses concepts such as beatitude, free will and the structure of human actions, with the object of showing the starting point of Thomas' moral thinking.

Returning to the field of Peircean studies, the text by Luiz Adelino de Almeida Prado on Peirce's critique of Cartesianism addresses the need, in a philosophical investigation, for building on that which leaves us in no doubt, i.e., our beliefs - albeit we realize them as transitory, given our fallibility. The article "McDowell, Davidson and the role of sensorial experience in thought" also addresses the analysis of beliefs as regards its justification based on sensorial experiences. In it the author endeavors to ascertain whether this justification is possible based upon a pragmatist interpretation of the thoughts of McDowell and Davidson.

Another article that makes a comparison between the thoughts of different authors is "Perception under three registers: Russell, Peirce and Caeiro," which will seek to point out the differences in the concept of perception in each of these three authors, while, in the text by Karen Giovana V.C. Naidon, the comparison is between Quine and Carnap. In it the author addresses, primarily, the distinction that Carnap makes between external and internal matters of existence, to then show Quine's critique of such distinction.

Also in the realm of Logic is the article by Mário Ariel González Porta. Under a structured reasoning, the author seeks to give his interpretation of a possible misconception of the problem of psychologism in the thought of Susan Haack, suggesting that it is, among other factors, the result of an inadequate interpretation of Frege's thought. In "Truth as a regulative idea in Karl-Otto Apel," the author presents characteristics of the Appelian theory related to the criteria in the use of regulatory ideas.

The article "A Heideggerian reading of Nietzsche's Zarathustra" aims to show, based on two lectures given by Heidegger on the Nietzschean opus, that Nietzsche, rather than being an "apostle of the destruction of metaphysics," in fact brings to light an essentially metaphysical and aesthetic thinking, if we take for reference his ideas based on Zarathustra.

In addition to the ten articles briefly presented above, the COGNITIO-ESTUDOS of this semester also publishes a review and a translation. The review of the book "The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics" by Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade, besides laying the foundations for a fruitful reading of the work, also explains the thematic division of the book, commenting briefly on the book's theme, i.e., Animal Ethics or the ethics of "non-humans."

The translation, in turn, brings a text originally published in Scientific American by two Professors of the University of California in San Diego: Paul M. Churchland and Patricia Smith Churchland. The article, translated by Nara Ebres Bachinski, is entitled: "Could a Machine Think? Classical AI is unlikely to yield conscious machines; systems that mimic the brain might." In it, they problematize the issue of Artificial Intelligence (AI), commenting on current discussions on Neurophilosophy.

Finally, with such varied themes and good quality articles, we hope this issue of COGNITIO-ESTUDOS will, once again, benefit readers with new and fruitful philosophical reflections. May the reading be pleasant and rewarding.

São Paulo, June 2015.

Vanessa Luciano Pozzoli
Center for Pragmatism Studies, PUC-SP, Brazil.