I'm a Philosophy PhD student at the University of São Paulo [USP], and my research focuses on scientific structuralism and the problem of trivialization. I earned my MA in Philosophy and BA in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Minas Gerais [UFMG], where I also completed a Minor in Philosophy during my undergraduate studies. I was a visiting doctoral student at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy [MCMP-LMU] in 2024.

My primary interest lies in exploring the relationship between formal languages, mathematics, and the natural sciences, in particular physics. My master's research focused on Hertz's deflationary approach to mechanical theory and its influence on early analytic philosophy. In my PhD, I've been tackling the problem of trivialization that threatens scientific structuralism as a tenable philosophical view. First raised by M. H. A. Newman, this objection maintains that certain formal representations of scientific knowledge are either false or reducible to mere cardinality claims. My goal then is to find a way to circumvent trivialization, if possible, by outlining a more adequate notion of scientific structure. In pursuing this path, I've been focusing on the schism between syntactic and semantic approaches to scientific theories, and reassessing model-theoretic concerns about reference. For this reason, I'm particularly interested in the works of Carnap, Suppes, Putnam, and van Fraassen.

I also have a broader interest in model-theory, non-classical logics, computability, and the philosophical issues surrounding these topics.

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