151010 - Ivo Assad Ibri

Ivo Assad Ibri (Questo indirizzo email è protetto dagli spambots. E' necessario abilitare JavaScript per vederlo.) is full professor of philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUCSP), Brazil. He got his PhD in philosophy from the University of São Paulo in 1994 and worked on a post-doctoral research in 2004-2005 at the Indiana University (IUPUI) – USA, under a fellowship sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Study of IUPUI. He is the founder and director of the Center for Pragmatism Studies of PUCSP, editor of Cognitio – journal of philosophy, and general coordinator for the International Meetings on Pragmatism, which annually take place in São Paulo. His main research interest is American pragmatism, especially the work of Charles Peirce, as well as the theoretical connections between Peircean thought and German idealism. He published several essays on pragmatism and a book on Peirce’s metaphysics called Kósmos Noétos. He has visited several European and North American universities as invited lecturer. He is researcher of the Brazilian agency CNPq (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development) and member of the board of consultants of the Peirce Edition Project at Indiana University, where the chronological edition of Peirce’s work has been published. He was one of the ten plenary speakers of the 2014 Charles S. Peirce International Centennial Congress, which was held in July of 2014 at Lowell University – Massachusetts, USA. In February of 2014 he was unanimously elected as vice-president of The Charles Sanders Peirce Society (USA), and will assume the CSP Society presidency in February of 2015