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]
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Born | 10 January 1916 São Paulo, State of Sao Paulo |
Died | 19 July 1963 (aged 47) São Paulo, State of Sao Paulo |
Profession | Logician, mathematician, and philosopher |
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]