Celso Vieira is an assistant researcher under the supervision of Prof. Barbara Sattler at the Ruhr Universität Bochum. He works mostly on the Presocratics and Plato. His previous research focused on the role of style in Heraclitus, as shown in this paper published in the Classical Quarterly . Currently, he is studying the tools and concepts of process metaphysics to develop an interpretation of Heraclitus as a process philosopher without unnecessary committments to a substance framework. AEON published his introductory essay about process metaphysics. It was later translated into Russian.
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Before coming to Bochum, Celso received a grant by the Andrew Mellon Foundation to research the Vlastos Archive in the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. He worked with Prof. Alexander Mourelatos examining Vlastos notes, draft papers and correspondence to reconstruct his method for the history of philosophy.
A testimonial of the visit can be found at the Harry Ransom Magazine. The paper was published in De Gruyter's Elenchos.
Celso has also worked extensively with Plato. As a post-doctoral researcher at the UFPA (Brazil), he investigated the pedagogical role of lying in Plato. The outcome can be found in Brill's Méthexis.
He translated Plato’s Cratylus for the Brazilian Publisher Paulus. The translation was briefly reviewed in the HuffPost (Greek). His translation of the Alcibiades I is planned to be out in 2022 by Penguin/ Cia das Letras.
During the undergraduate studies at UFMG (Brazil), the lectures of Prof. Jacyntho Brandão inspired Celso to pursue his studies in ancient Greek. The contact with Prof. Miriam Peixoto in the philosophy department sparked his interest in Presocratic Studies. She supervised his graduate studies. Celso also spent a semester as a visiting student at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. Rachel Barney, funded by CAPES.
Recent Talks
The Eternity is Eternal: Self-Predication in the Timaeus? - Proteus Seminar
The Barley-drink and the River as paradigmatic Heraclitean Entities - Archai Seminar/ UnB (Portuguese)
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Email: Celso.DeOliveiraVieira@rub.de
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