Carlos Vaz Ferreira

Carlos Vaz Ferreira ( * October 15, 1872 in Montevideo; † 3 January 1958) was an Uruguayan philosopher, lawyer and writer.

Vaz Ferreira was from 1928 to 1930 Rector of the Universidad de la República, the largest university in Uruguay. For health reasons, he had to withdraw from this office. In 1935, he was however again unanimously elected rector and had that position until 1941. During this time, he fought openly for the independence of the university during the dictatorship of Gabriel Terra. Since the founding of the Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación y Humanidades 1945 to 1949 he was dean of the faculty. 1952 to 1958 was followed by two further terms in this position.

He was the older brother of the writer María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira.

Works

• Curso de expositivo Psicología elemental (1987 )
• Ideas y Observaciones (1905 )
• Los problemas de la libertad (1907 )
• Conocimiento y acción (1908 )
• Moral para los intelectuales (1908 )
• El pragmatismo (1909 )
• Lógica viva (1910 )
• Lecciones de pedagogía y cuestiones de enseñanza (1918 )
• Sobre la propiedad de la tierra (1918 )
• Sobre los problemas sociales (1922 )
• Sobre feminismo (1933 )
• Fermentario (1938)
• La crisis del mundo actual (1940 )

Essays

• Ideas sobre la estética evolucionista (1896 )
• Psicología (1897 )
• Sobre la percepción métrica (1920 )
• Estudios pedagógicos ( 1921)
• Trascendentalizaciones matemáticas ilegítimas y falacias correlacionadas (1963 )
• Sobre enseñanza de la filosofía (1963 )
• Enseñanza de las ciencias experimentales (1963 )
• Tres de la vida filósofos (1965 )