Celi Hirata

Celi Hirata holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo (2012). This research was awarded the Capes of Philosophy prize in 2013. She completed her post-doctorate at the University of Cologne on a CNPq/DAAD fellowship. Since 2016, she has been Professor of History of Modern Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), which she headed from 2019 to 2021. Her research focuses on the notions of causality, teleology and the good in early modern authors.

She is the recipient of a grant from the Fundação de Amparo de Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP).

The project

Giordano Bruno and modern necessitarianism.

Hosting institution:

Sorbonne University | Centre for Cartesian Studies. E.A Metaphysics: histories, transformations, current events.

Selective bibliography

• Hirata, C. Leibniz e Hobbes: causalidade e princípio de razão suficiente. São Paulo: Edusp, 2017, 272 pp.
• Hirata, C & Cruz, F (org.) Dossier : “O conceito de causalidade na filosofia moderna”. Dois Pontos, v. 16, n. 3, 2019, 220 pp.
• Hobbes, T. Questões sobre a liberdade, a necessidade e o acaso, traduction, introduction et commentaires de Celi Hirata, São Paulo, Editora da Unesp, 2022, 515 pp.
• Hirata, C. "Subject and Subjectivity in Hobbes and Leibniz". Hobbes Studies, v. 32, 2019, pp. 5-21.
• Hirata, C. "Aspectos da ação voluntária em Hobbes." Cadernos Espinosanos (USP), v. 44, 2021, pp. 39-59.
• Hirata, C. "Natureza e artifício: Leibniz e os modernos sobre a concepção dos corpos orgânicos como máquinas”. Dois Pontos, v. 15, n. 1, 2018, pp. 95-109.
• Lamarck, J-B. Filosofia Zoológica, traduction et introdution de Celi Hirata, Janaína Namba et Ana Carolina Soria, São Paulo, Editora da Unesp, 2021, 587pp.
• Leibniz, G. W. Ensaios de Teodiceia, traduction, introduction et commentaires de Celi Hirata et Tessa Lacerda, São Paulo, Martins Fontes, 498 pp. (à venir).