About Vicente Ferreira da Silva
Vicente Ferreira da Silva (10 January 1916 – 19 July 1963) was a Brazilian logician, mathematician, and philosopher. He was among the first in Brazil to write and publish academic books on Logic and Phenomenology, with a special interest in Heidegger. == Biography == Ferreira was an assistant to Willard Van Orman Quine. Ferreira sought to develop a systematic foundational philosophy based on Heidegger's work and Schelling's philosophy of mythology. Vicente founded a form of neopaganism. 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 and Vilém Flusser, who said that Vicente was the only and greatest philosopher in the history of Brazil. He died in 1963 in a car accident.
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