Logical autobiography 50. (English) Zbl 1369.01015

Béziau, Jean-Yves

Koslow, Arnold (ed.) et al., The road to universal logic. Festschrift for the 50th birthday of Jean-Yves Béziau. Volume II. New York, NY: Birkhäuser/Springer (ISBN 978-3-319-15367-4/pbk; 978-3-319-15368-1/ebook). Studies in Universal Logic, 19-104 (2015).

Summary: After describing my family background and interest in mathematics and philosophy at school, I explain how I became interested in logic when studying at the university in Paris. I describe how I discovered the work of Newton da Costa on paraconsistent logic, how I met him in Paris, and then go to do research in Brazil, Poland and USA before defending my PhD on universal logic at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Paris 7 and a PhD on logical truth at the Department of Philosophy at the University of São Paulo. I recount my postdoctoral years in Rio de Janeiro and Stanford and how I settled down for a couple of years in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, organizing the First World Congress on Universal Logic in Montreux and launching a journal and book series on this topic. I tell how I came back to the land of the future, starting more editorial projects, organizing logic events around the world (Paris, Beirut, Vatican, Lisbon, etc.) and continuing to develop research related to all aspects of logic (mathematical, philosophical, semiotical, historical). I finish with a short overview of my future projects, supported by a list of potential papers and books following a complete list of my writings to date.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1319.03009].

MSC:

01A70	Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies
03B22	Abstract deductive systems
03B53	Paraconsistent logics
03A05	Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations
03B45	Modal logic (including the logic of norms)
03-03	History of mathematical logic and foundations

Keywords:

autobiography; universal logic; paraconsistent logic; square of opposition

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