Information

I teach Philosophy and Logic at the University of Brasília (UnB) (Professor Associado, FIL-UnB). My main researches are in i) Non-Classical Logics and Metaphysics; ii)  Conceptual (Theoretical) Astrobiology, SETI, Big History, Futures Studies and the Philosophy of Technology. 

Publications

Costa-Leite, A. (2024). Universal Logic and Orbital Relativism. In: Madigan, T.J.; Béziau, J-Y. (eds) Universal Logic, Ethics, and Truth. Studies in Universal Logic. Basel: Birkhäuser, Cham, 83-94;

Costa-Leite, A. (2024). Considerações ontológicas em filosofia da astropolítica.  Das Questões, 6(2), 5-14;

de Souza, E. G; Costa-Leite, A; Dias, D. H. B. (2024). Paraconsistentization and many-valued logics. Logic Journal of the IGPL, 32(1), 76-93;

Costa-Leite, A. (2023). Formalizing the Fermi paradox and combining consistent explanatory hypotheses. International Journal of Astrobiology, 22(2), 111-117;

Costa-Leite, A. (2023). Measuring and classifying levels of futures. Philosophy & Cosmology, 31(2), 13-20;

de Souza, E. G; Costa-Leite, A; Dias, D.H.B. (2021).  Paraconsistent orbits of logics. Logica Universalis, 15(3),  271–289;

Costa-Leite, A; de Souza, E. G. (2020). Conjunctive and Disjunctive Limits: Abstract Logics and Modal Operators. Studia Humana, 9(3/4), 66-71;

Costa-Leite, A. (2020). Oppositions in a point.  Perspectiva Filosófica, 47(2), 113-119;

Costa-Leite, A. (2020). Introduction . In: A. Costa-Leite (ed.), Abstract Consequence and Logics: Essays in Honor of Edelcio G. de Souza, London: College Publications, 9-12;

de Souza, E. G.; Costa-Leite, A. Dias, D.H.B. (2019).  Paradeduction in Axiomatic Formal Systems. Logique et Analyse, 62(6), 161-176;

Costa-Leite, A. (2018). Oppositions in a line segment.  South American Journal of Logic, 4(1), 185-193;

Costa-Leite, A. (2018). O Problema das Justificações Parciais. Revista de Filosofia Moderna e Contemporânea, 6(2), 95-104;

Costa-Leite, A. (2018). Educação. Brasil em números/Brazil in figures, v. 26, 151-167;

Costa-Leite, A; Gomes, E. L. (2017). Entrevista de Alexandre Costa-Leite. In: 'Para além das colunas de Hércules, uma história da paraconsistência: de Heráclito a Newton da Costa',  E. L. Gomes e I.M.L D'Ottaviano. Campinas: Editora da UNICAMP, 688-695;

Neri, H. R; Costa-Leite, A. (2017). Ciência e Tecnologia. Brasil em números/Brazil in figures, v. 25, 419-435;

Costa-Leite, A; de Souza, E. G. (2017). Implications and Limits of Sequences. Studia Humana, 6(1), 18-24;

Schang, F; Costa-Leite, A. (2016). Une sémantique générale des croyances justifiées. CLE e-prints, 16(3), 1-24;

Costa-Leite, A. (2016). Interplays of knowledge and non-contingency. Logic and Logical Philosophy, 25(4), 521-534;

de Souza, E. G. ; Costa-Leite, A. Dias, D.H.B. (2016). On a paraconsistentization functor in the category of consequence structures. Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 26(3), 240-250;

Bensusan, H; Costa-Leite, A; de Souza, E. G. (2015). Logics and their galaxies. In: The Road to Universal Logic, volume II, Springer, 243-252;

Costa-Leite, A. (2014). Lógicas da justificação e quase-verdade. Principia: an international journal of epistemology, 18 (2), 175-186;

Costa-Leite, A. (2013). Review of Modalities and Multimodalities [by  W. Carnielli & C. Pizzi]. Manuscrito, 36 (1), 190-194;

Costa-Leite, A. (2012). Fronteiras contingentes e conhecimento limitado. Revista Brasileira de Filosofia, n.238, 179-187;

Costa-Leite, A. (2011). Review of  "New Essays on the Knowability Paradox" [edited by J. Salerno]. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 25 (2), 193-195;

Costa-Leite, A. (2010). Logical properties of imagination. Abstracta: Linguagem, Mente e Ação, 6(1), 103-116;

Costa-Leite, A. (2009). Dualidade e a estrutura do mundo.  Revista Brasileira de Filosofia, ano 58, n.233, 233-247;

Costa-Leite, A. (2009). Construções sistêmicas e leis de interação.  Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia, 10(2), 209-220;

Costa-Leite, A. (2007).  Combining modal concepts: philosophical applications. The Logica Yearbook 2006, edited by Ondrej Tomala & R. Honzík.  Filosofia, Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic: Prague, 23-31;

Costa-Leite, A. (2006). Interview with Alexandre Costa-Leite.  In Masses of Formal Philosophy, edited by Vincent Hendricks and John Symons. Vip/Automatic Press, 2006;

Costa-Leite, A. (2006).  Fusions of modal logics and Fitch's paradox.  Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 6(7), 281-290;

Costa-Leite, A. (2004). Combining possibility and knowledge.  CLE e-prints,  4(5),  107-111;

Costa-Leite, A. (2004).  Towards a general theory of the combination of logics. Aspects of  Universal Logic. Travaux de Logique, n.17, 219-230;

Costa-Leite, A. (2000).  Designação rígida, teoria causal e verdades necessárias a posteriori.  Fragmentos de Cultura, 10(6), 1155 -1166;