Jean-Yves Béziau
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| Full name | Jean-Yves Béziau |
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| Era | Logic |
| Region | Contemporary Science |
| School | Logic |
| Main interests | Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy |
| Notable ideas | Universal logic |
Jean-Yves Béziau (born January 15, 1965 in Orléans, France) is a professor and researcher of the Brazilian Research Council - CNPq - at the Federal University of Ceara, Brazil. Béziau is a dual citizen of France and Switzerland. He is a fluent speaker of English and Portuguese as well as his native French, and has published works in all three of these languages.
A former student of (and frequent collaborator with) Newton da Costa, he works in the field of logic—in particular, paraconsistent logic and universal logic. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo and a PhD in Logic and Foundations of Computer Science from the University of Paris 7.
He is the Editor-in-Chief and founder of the journal Logica Universalis and the Springer book series Studies in Universal Logic.
[edit] Selected publications
- Logica Universalis: Towards a General Theory of Logic (ed.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2005, Second Edition 2007. ISBN 3764372591
- Handbook of Paraconsistency (ed. with Walter Carnielli and Dov Gabbay). London: King's College, 2007. ISBN 9781904987734
- Semantic computation of truth based on associations already learned (with Patrick Suppes), Journal of Applied Logic, 2 (2004), pp. 457–467.
- "What is paraconsistent logic?" In D. Batens et al. (eds.), Frontiers of Paraconsistent Logic, Research Studies Press, Baldock, 2000, pp. 95–111. ISBN 0863802532
