Álvaro Borges Vieira Pinto
● Brazilian philosopher
● Graduated in medicine
● Philosophy teacher and researcher of education,
science, demography and technology
● Portuguese translator of many books, like:
Lucács, Chomsky, Karl Jaspers, Berger & Lucmann
and Levi-Strauss
This was a material for a brief apresentation about Álvaro vieira Pinto, for an English class in Brazil.
Text by: Rodrigo Gonzatto. Revision by: Karine Fernandes. October, 2012.

Photos of Álvaro Vieira Pinto

Vieira Pinto's Biography: a few dates
● He was born in Campos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1909
● Taught Logic at National School of Philosophy
● Head of Phylosophy at ISEB
(Superior Institute of Brazilian Studies)
● Exile with the brazilian militar coup in 1964
● Returned to Brasil in 1968
● Died in 1987

Some of his most important books
● Counscioness and National Reality
● Science and Existence
● The Critical Thinking in Demography
● Seven Lessons About Adult Education
● The Concept of Tecnology
Theorical foundations:
phenomenology, marxism, existencialism and cibernetics.

Personality
● Discrete intelectual
● Rigorous researcher
● Believe in human freedom
● Against pedantry and determinisms

Why is a inspiration of study
● Acessible philosophy language in his writings
● One of the first Brazilian STS researchers
● Technology as a mass phenomenon
(not exclusive to a few)
● Avoid the naive technology, science and educational
thinking: they are social and political - the reality is
socially constructed
● Inspired the Paulo Freire's method
● "The way that the teacher chose to learn was to teach"