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Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa

Matemático, Lógico e Filósofo

UFP, USP, UNICAMP, UFSC

Livros e artigos selecionados
  • Sistemas Formais Inconsistentes. Curitiba, Brasil: Universidade Federal do Paraná, 1963.

  • On the theory of inconsistent formal systems. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 1974 ; 15: 497-510.

  •  On Jaskowski's Discussive Logic. Non-Classical Logics, Model Theory and Computability, North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, pp.37-56, 1977.

  • Pragmatic probability. Erkenntnis 1986; 25: 141-162.

  •  Paraconsistent logic as a formalism for reasoning about inconsistent knowledge bases. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 1989; 1: 167-174.

  • Undecidability and incompleteness in classical mechanics, International J. Theoretical Physics, vol. 30 (1991), 1041-1073.

  • Paraconsistent logic. In Stanisław Jaškowski Memorial Symposium, pp. 29-35. Department of Logic, Nicholas Copernicus University of Toruń. 1998.

  • Is there a Zande Logic? History and Philosophy of Logic 1998; 19: 41-54.

  • On Paraconsistent Deontic Logic. Philosophia 16: 293-305, 1986.

  • Outline of a paraconsistent category theory. In P Weingartner (ed.), Alternative Logics: Do Sciences Need them? Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2004, pp. 95-114.

  • Consequences of an exotic definition for P=NP. Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 145 (2003), 655-665, and Addendum to Consequences...' . Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol. 172 (2006), 1364-1367.

  • Computing the future, in Computability, Complexity and Constructivity in Economic Analysis, ed. K. V. Velupillai, Blackwell, 2005.

  • Some thoughts on hypercomputation, Applied Mathematics and Computation, in press (2006).

  • "On the Stability of Our Universe" Journal of Modern Physics 3,1211-1215 (2012)doi :10.4236/jmp.2012.329156

  • Lógica Indutiva e Probabilidade. Hucitec-EdUSP, 2a. ed., São Paulo, 1993.

  • Logique Classique et Non-Classique. Paris, Masson, 1997.

  • O conhecimento científico. São Paulo, Discurso Editorial, 2a. Ed., 1999

  • N.C.A. da Costa and S. French, Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning. (Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science), Oxford University Press, 2003.

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