IBRI, I. A.

Biography

Ivo Assad Ibri (ibri@uol.com.br) 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 at IUPUI. He is the founder and director of the Center for Pragmatism Studies of PUCSP, as well as editor of the journal Cognitio (ISSN: 2316-5278) and coordinator for the International Meetings on Pragmatism, which biannually 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 semiotics and a book on Peirce’s metaphysics called Kósmos Noétos. He has visited several European and North American universities as invited lecturer. He is 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, MA, USA. He is fellow past president (February 2015 to February 2016) of The Charles Sanders Peirce Society (USA).