Newton C A Da Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 616133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Newton C A Da Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Newton C A |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Costa |
| SIGNATURE | DA COSTA N C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7723-2676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Remarks on quantum mechanics and non-reflexive logic
In this paper we discuss and outline a version of non-relativistic quantum mechanics based on a new non-reflexive logic, where the basic entities (elementary particles) lack identity conditions. Some relationships with quantum field theories are also sketched
O problema do infinito e a "lei do número" de Renouvier (1912)
Desde sua primeira obra, Renouvier se preocupa com o problema da contradio como uma das questes mais importantes da Filosofia, e a associa s antinomias da razo e a Kant: "Ora, ainda a Kant (1) que necessrio remeter a primeira ou, ao menos, a mais luminosa das anlises que colocaram o contraditrio a nu no pensamento e, em consequncia, na natureza, que seu reflexo exato.Se a anlise no foi completa, foi claramente definida, ao passo que ela era apena…
A formal framework for the study of the notion of undefined particle number in quantum mechanics
Physics, inconsistency, and quasi-truth
A modal ontology of properties for quantum mechanics
Sobre uma fundamentação não reflexiva da mecânica quântica
desvantagens dessa abordagem
Quasi-truth, paraconsistency, and the foundations of science
Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning
In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science. One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towards scientific theories — whether we should regard them as true or merely empirically adequate, for example. The other concerns the nature of scientific theories and models and how these might best be represented. This book looks at these two issues together by arguing that theories and models should…
Models, Theories, and Structures: Thirty Years On
Thirty years after the conference that gave rise to The Structure of Scientific Theories , there is renewed interest in the nature of theories and models. However, certain crucial issues from thirty years ago are reprised in current discussions; specifically: whether the diversity of models in the science can be captured by some unitary account; and whether the temporal dimension of scientific practice can be represented by such an account. After…
Paraconsistência em informática e inteligência artificial
IZ-SE QUE UMA teoria dedutiva e consistente se nao possuir teoremas contraditorios, um dos quais, a negacao do outro. Caso contrario, a teoria diz-se inconsistente (ou contraditoria). Uma teoria chamase trivial se todas as formulas (ou sentencas) de sua linguagem forem nela demonstraveis; em hipotese contraria, diz-se nao-trivial. Analogamente, a definicao aplica-se a sistemas de proposicoes, sistemas de informacoes etc. (levando-se em conta, nat…
Suppes Predicates for Space-Time
Lógicas normativas, moral y derecho
The relationships between moral and legal codes, that is, between specific normative sets, is a traditional problem of ethics, politics and law philosophy. Deontic logics have provided some instruments for a deeper analysis of those relations. The authors try to analyze the logical consequences of the adoption of different axiomaticallogical systems, where deontic modalities are introduced as expressing different senses of moral or legal obligati…
On Russell's principle of induction
Uma obra didática original
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
The Model-Theoretic Approach in the Philosophy of Science
An introduction to the model-theoretic approach in the philosophy of science is given and it is argued that this program is further enhanced by the introduction of partial structures. It is then shown that this leads to a natural and intuitive account of both “iconic” and mathematical models and of the role of the former in science itself
In Contradiction
In Contradiction Get access G. Priest, In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent. (Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987. Pp. xv + 279. Price £49.50.) N. C. A. Da Costa, N. C. A. Da Costa University of Sao Paulo, University of Compinas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. French S. French University of Sao Paulo, University of Compinas Search for other works by this author on…
On the Logic of Belief
The whole intellectual life consists of beliefs, and of the passage from one belief to another by what is called 'reasoning'. Beliefs give knowledge and error; they are the vehicles of truth and falsehood. Psychology, theory of knowledge, and metaphysics revolve about belief, and on the view we take of belief our philosophical outlook largely depends. (Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind [London, 1921], p. 231.)
Pragmatic Truth and the Logic of Induction
We apply the recently elaborated notions of ‘pragmatic truth’ and ‘pragmatic probability’ to the problem of the construction of a logic of inductive inference. It is argued that the system outlined here is able to overcome many of the objections usually levelled against such attempts. We claim, furthermore, that our view captures the essentially cumulative nature of science and allows us to explain why it is indeed reasonable to accept and believ…
Belief and Contradiction
Este artículo forma parte de una serie de trabajos cuya cuestión central es la relativa a la existencia de creencias contradictorias. En un artículo anterior (da Costa y French inédito a) presentamos tres sistemas de lógica doxástica, incluyendo uno paraconsistente, y argumentamos que quizá este último sea el más apropiado para caracterizar los casos en que existen creencias contradictorias. Un ejemplo de tales casos es el ‘auto-engaño’ [self-dec…
Sobre a lógica deôntica não-clássica
Our starting point, in this basically expository paper, is the study of a classical system of deontic propositional logic, classical in the sense that it constitutes an extension of the classical propositional calculus. It is noted, then, that the system excludes ab initio the possibility of the existence of real moral dilemmas (contradictory obligations and prohibitions), and also can not cope smoothly with the so-called prima facie moral dilemm…
Pragmatic truth and approximation to truth
There are several conceptions of truth, such as the classical correspondence conception, the coherence conception and the pragmatic conception. The classical correspondence conception, or Aristotelian conception, received a mathematical treatment in the hands of Tarski (cf. Tarski [1935] and [1944]), which was the starting point of a great progress in logic and in mathematics. In effect, Tarski's semantic ideas, especially his semantic characteri…
The Model-Theoretic Approach in the Philosophy of Science
An introduction to the model-theoretic approach in the philosophy of science is given and it is argued that this program is further enhanced by the introduction of partial structures. It is then shown that this leads to a natural and intuitive account of both “iconic” and mathematical models and of the role of the former in science itself
Models, Theories, and Structures: Thirty Years On
Thirty years after the conference that gave rise to The Structure of Scientific Theories , there is renewed interest in the nature of theories and models. However, certain crucial issues from thirty years ago are reprised in current discussions; specifically: whether the diversity of models in the science can be captured by some unitary account; and whether the temporal dimension of scientific practice can be represented by such an account. After…
Pragmatic Truth and the Logic of Induction
We apply the recently elaborated notions of ‘pragmatic truth’ and ‘pragmatic probability’ to the problem of the construction of a logic of inductive inference. It is argued that the system outlined here is able to overcome many of the objections usually levelled against such attempts. We claim, furthermore, that our view captures the essentially cumulative nature of science and allows us to explain why it is indeed reasonable to accept and believ…
A modal ontology of properties for quantum mechanics
Quasi-truth, paraconsistency, and the foundations of science
Suppes Predicates for Space-Time
On the Logic of Belief
The whole intellectual life consists of beliefs, and of the passage from one belief to another by what is called 'reasoning'. Beliefs give knowledge and error; they are the vehicles of truth and falsehood. Psychology, theory of knowledge, and metaphysics revolve about belief, and on the view we take of belief our philosophical outlook largely depends. (Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind [London, 1921], p. 231.)
Pragmatic truth and approximation to truth
There are several conceptions of truth, such as the classical correspondence conception, the coherence conception and the pragmatic conception. The classical correspondence conception, or Aristotelian conception, received a mathematical treatment in the hands of Tarski (cf. Tarski [1935] and [1944]), which was the starting point of a great progress in logic and in mathematics. In effect, Tarski's semantic ideas, especially his semantic characteri…
Sobre a lógica deôntica não-clássica
Our starting point, in this basically expository paper, is the study of a classical system of deontic propositional logic, classical in the sense that it constitutes an extension of the classical propositional calculus. It is noted, then, that the system excludes ab initio the possibility of the existence of real moral dilemmas (contradictory obligations and prohibitions), and also can not cope smoothly with the so-called prima facie moral dilemm…
Belief and Contradiction
Este artículo forma parte de una serie de trabajos cuya cuestión central es la relativa a la existencia de creencias contradictorias. En un artículo anterior (da Costa y French inédito a) presentamos tres sistemas de lógica doxástica, incluyendo uno paraconsistente, y argumentamos que quizá este último sea el más apropiado para caracterizar los casos en que existen creencias contradictorias. Un ejemplo de tales casos es el ‘auto-engaño’ [self-dec…
In Contradiction
In Contradiction Get access G. Priest, In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent. (Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987. Pp. xv + 279. Price £49.50.) N. C. A. Da Costa, N. C. A. Da Costa University of Sao Paulo, University of Compinas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar S. French S. French University of Sao Paulo, University of Compinas Search for other works by this author on…
On the Logic of Belief
The whole intellectual life consists of beliefs, and of the passage from one belief to another by what is called 'reasoning'. Beliefs give knowledge and error; they are the vehicles of truth and falsehood. Psychology, theory of knowledge, and metaphysics revolve about belief, and on the view we take of belief our philosophical outlook largely depends. (Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind [London, 1921], p. 231.)
Pragmatic Truth and the Logic of Induction
We apply the recently elaborated notions of ‘pragmatic truth’ and ‘pragmatic probability’ to the problem of the construction of a logic of inductive inference. It is argued that the system outlined here is able to overcome many of the objections usually levelled against such attempts. We claim, furthermore, that our view captures the essentially cumulative nature of science and allows us to explain why it is indeed reasonable to accept and believ…
The Model-Theoretic Approach in the Philosophy of Science
An introduction to the model-theoretic approach in the philosophy of science is given and it is argued that this program is further enhanced by the introduction of partial structures. It is then shown that this leads to a natural and intuitive account of both “iconic” and mathematical models and of the role of the former in science itself
Lógicas normativas, moral y derecho
The relationships between moral and legal codes, that is, between specific normative sets, is a traditional problem of ethics, politics and law philosophy. Deontic logics have provided some instruments for a deeper analysis of those relations. The authors try to analyze the logical consequences of the adoption of different axiomaticallogical systems, where deontic modalities are introduced as expressing different senses of moral or legal obligati…
On Russell's principle of induction
Uma obra didática original
Americanae nace como un proyecto conjunto que surge dentro de la Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL), y que ha afrontado la Biblioteca de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID). Esta nueva biblioteca virtual hace más accesibles los libros digitales de tema americanista a los investigadores y usuarios interesados de cualquier parte del mundo
Suppes Predicates for Space-Time
Models, Theories, and Structures: Thirty Years On
Thirty years after the conference that gave rise to The Structure of Scientific Theories , there is renewed interest in the nature of theories and models. However, certain crucial issues from thirty years ago are reprised in current discussions; specifically: whether the diversity of models in the science can be captured by some unitary account; and whether the temporal dimension of scientific practice can be represented by such an account. After…
Paraconsistência em informática e inteligência artificial
IZ-SE QUE UMA teoria dedutiva e consistente se nao possuir teoremas contraditorios, um dos quais, a negacao do outro. Caso contrario, a teoria diz-se inconsistente (ou contraditoria). Uma teoria chamase trivial se todas as formulas (ou sentencas) de sua linguagem forem nela demonstraveis; em hipotese contraria, diz-se nao-trivial. Analogamente, a definicao aplica-se a sistemas de proposicoes, sistemas de informacoes etc. (levando-se em conta, nat…
Science and Partial Truth: A Unitary Approach to Models and Scientific Reasoning
In the past thirty years, two fundamental issues have emerged in the philosophy of science. One concerns the appropriate attitude we should take towards scientific theories — whether we should regard them as true or merely empirically adequate, for example. The other concerns the nature of scientific theories and models and how these might best be represented. This book looks at these two issues together by arguing that theories and models should…
Quasi-truth, paraconsistency, and the foundations of science
Sobre uma fundamentação não reflexiva da mecânica quântica
desvantagens dessa abordagem
A modal ontology of properties for quantum mechanics
Physics, inconsistency, and quasi-truth
A formal framework for the study of the notion of undefined particle number in quantum mechanics
O problema do infinito e a "lei do número" de Renouvier (1912)
Desde sua primeira obra, Renouvier se preocupa com o problema da contradio como uma das questes mais importantes da Filosofia, e a associa s antinomias da razo e a Kant: "Ora, ainda a Kant (1) que necessrio remeter a primeira ou, ao menos, a mais luminosa das anlises que colocaram o contraditrio a nu no pensamento e, em consequncia, na natureza, que seu reflexo exato.Se a anlise no foi completa, foi claramente definida, ao passo que ela era apena…
Remarks on quantum mechanics and non-reflexive logic
In this paper we discuss and outline a version of non-relativistic quantum mechanics based on a new non-reflexive logic, where the basic entities (elementary particles) lack identity conditions. Some relationships with quantum field theories are also sketched
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