Foreword

Abstract

This issue of Manuscrito is the second volume of the proceedings
of the CLE/AIPS Event – Science, Truth and Consistency1, held at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), in Campinas, State of São Paulo, Brazil, during August 23–28, 2009, under the joint sponsorship of the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE) of Unicamp and of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science(AIPS), based in Brussels. The meeting was meant as a tribute to the eightieth anniversary of Prof. Dr. Newton Carneiro Affonso
da Costa, the pioneer Brazilian researcher in the areas of logic and philosophy of science.