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Newton da Costa
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Science and Partial Truth
Explores the consequences of adopting a 'pragmatic' notion of truth in the philosophy of science. This framework describes issues to do with belief, theory acceptance, and the realism-antirealism debate, as well as the nature of scientific models and their heuristic development.
Lógica indutiva e probabilidade
Este livro é, no gênero, único em língua portuguesa. E - coisa rara - embora trate de tema de natureza científica, pode ser lido praticamente por qualquer pessoa, dada a mestria didática do autor, internacionalmente reconhecido pela importância e originalidade de seus trabalhos. Newton da Costa, atualmente é professor aposentado do Departamento de Filosofia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade de São Paulo, sendo hoje professor visitante do Departamento de Filosofia da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, é engenheiro civil e bacharel em Matemática pela Universidade Federal do Paraná. Obteve os títulos de doutor em Matemática e docente livre ...
Isaac Newton
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WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)
“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein replied, "Well, what would it have looked like if it had looked as though the Earth was rotating?” What would it have looked like if we looked at all sciences from the viewpoint of Wittgenstein’s philosophy? Wittgenstein is undoubtedly one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His complex body of work has been analysed by numerous scholars, from mathematicians and phys...
