Jean-Yves Béziau
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Jean-Yves Béziau (born January 15, 1965 in Orléans, France) is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Logic of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. A former student of (and frequent collaborator with) Newton da Costa, he has made important contributions to the field of logic—in particular, paraconsistent logic and universal logic.
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. 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.
[edit] Selected publications
- Logica Universalis: Towards a General Theory of Logic (ed.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3764372591
- "On the usefulness of paraconsistent logic" (with N. C. A. da Costa and O. A. S. Bueno). In D. Vanderveken (ed.), Logic, Thought and Action, Springer, Dordrecht, 2005, pp. 465-78. ISBN 1402026161
- "Are paraconsistent negations negations?" In W. Carnielli et al. (eds), Paraconsistency: The Logical Way to the Inconsistent, Marcel Dekker, New York, 2002, pp. 465-86. ISBN 0824708059
- "What is paraconsistent logic?" In D. Batens et al (eds.), Frontiers of Paraconsistent Logic, Research Studies Press, Baldock, 2000, pp. 95-111. ISBN 0863802532
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