Newton da Costa

Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa (born in 1929 in Curitiba, Brazil), is one of the few Brazilian mathematicians and logicians of international recognition. This recognition came especially through his work on paraconsistent logic.

Selected publications

1. N. C. A. da Costa, On the theory of inconsistent formal systems. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. 15, pp. 497-510. 1974.
2. N. C. A. da Costa, Paraconsistent logic. In Stanisław Jaškowski Memorial Symposium, pp. 29-35. Department of Logic, Nicholas Copernicus University of Torún. 1998.
3. N. C. A. da Costa & E. H. Alves, A semantical analysis of the calculi cn. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, vol. XVI, no. 4, pp. 621-630. 1977.
4. N. C. A. da Costa, O. Bueno & S. French, Is there a Zande Logic? History and Philosophy of Logic, vol. XIX, no. 1, pp. 41-54. 1998.
5. N. C. A. da Costa & L. Dubikajtis, On Jaskowski's Discussive Logic. Non-Classical Logics, Modal Theory and Computability, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp.37-56, 1977.

Books published

1. N. C. A. da Costa, Lógica Indutiva e Probabilidade, Hucitec-EdUSP, 2a. ed., S. Paulo, 1993.
2. N. C. A. da Costa, Logiques Classiques et Non Classiques, Masson, Paris, 1997.
3. N. C. A. da Costa, O conhecimento científico. S. Paulo, Discurso Editorial, 2a. Ed., 1999.
4. N. C. A. da Costa & S. French, Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science), Oxford University Press, 2003.

External links

• Newton da Costa: Pensador da Contradição [1] (in Portuguese)
• Biography at Unicamp [2] (in Portuguese)