Newton da Costa, well-known for his work in logic, died final month.
The next obituary of Newton da Costa is by Walter Carnielli (Division of Philosophy and the Centre for Logic, Epistemology, and the Historical past of Science on the College of Campinas).
Professor Emeritus Newton da Costa
Students and members of the Brazilian tutorial circles, colleagues and pals world wide are deeply saddened by Professor Newton Carneiro Affonso da Costa passing this Wednesday, April seventeenth, aged 95 years, on account of a lamentable home accident.
Newton da Costa, as he was identified, some of the internationally famend logicians, systematized for the primary time the research of paraconsistent logics (that’s, logics that admit contradictory but non-trivial theories) in his Chair Thesis “Teorias Formais Inconsistentes” (Inconsistent Formal Techniques), defended in 1963 on the College of Paraná. From his progressive proposals, research in paraconsistency skilled sturdy progress, not solely in Brazil but additionally overseas, giving rise to what’s now often called the Brazilian College of Paraconsistency. Given the significance of those logics within the worldwide tutorial state of affairs, in 1991 the entry “03B53:Paraconsistent Logic” was created within the “Logic and Foundations” part of the Arithmetic Topic Classifications collectively elaborated by Mathematical Critiques and Zentralblatt für Mathematik.
Along with his vital contributions within the space of non-classical logics, Newton da Costa made distinctive contributions within the areas of Foundations of Arithmetic, Foundations of Physics, and Philosophy of Logic.
Newton da Costa was Full Professor and Affiliate Director of the Institute of Arithmetic, Statistics, and Pc Sciences on the College of Campinas (Unicamp) shortly after its creation, from 1968; Full Professor on the Institute of Arithmetic and Statistics on the College of São Paulo (USP), and later on the Division of Philosophy of the School of Philosophy, Letters, and Human Sciences at USP.
He participated within the creation of the Centre for Logic, Epistemology, and the Historical past of Science (CLE) at Unicamp in 1977, being appointed a Member in 1979. Amongst his actions at CLE, he participated within the founding of the Brazilian Society of Logic (SBL), being its first president in 1979, in addition to within the creation, in 1982, of “The Journal of Non-Classical Logics,” the primary journal of worldwide circulation within the space of non-classical logics.
In 1989, Newton da Costa was appointed a member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, being the primary Brazilian tutorial to obtain this distinction. He was additionally awarded the Moinho Santista Prize in Precise Sciences in 1994 and the Jabuti Prize in Precise Sciences in 1995, each prestigious Brazilian awards, in addition to the Nicolau Copernicus Medal in Poland in 1995. In 2023, the São Paulo College of Superior Science on Modern Logic, Rationality, and Data (SPLogic) was held at CLE-Unicamp in honor of his ninetieth+ birthday, gathering 130 worldwide college students and scientists from world wide.
He was named Professor Emeritus of Unicamp in 2009 and Honorary Professor of the Federal College of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in 2010. He continued to function a visitor and volunteer professor within the Division of Philosophy at UFSC till just lately.
With a whole bunch of revealed works, which obtain 1000’s of citations, Newton da Costa was some of the internationally acknowledged Brazilian lecturers. His scientific and philosophical legacy had a profound influence each inside and out of doors Brazil, and will definitely proceed to be alive for generations to return.
Professor da Costa is survived by college students, colleagues, pals, and members of the family who will deeply mourn his loss.
(by way of Richard Zach)
