Jean-Yves Béziau (; born January 15, 1965, in

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) is a professor and researcher of the Brazilian Research Council (

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) at the University of Brazil in

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Career

Béziau works in the field of

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premise ...

—in particular, paraconsistent logic, the square of opposition and

universal logic Originally the expression ''Universal logic'' was coined by analogy with the expression ''Universal algebra''. The first idea was to develop Universal logic as a field of logic that studies the features common to all logical systems, aiming to be ...

. He holds a Maîtrise in Philosophy from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, a

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in Philosophy from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, a PhD in Philosophy from the

University of São Paulo The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the bes ...

, a MSc and a PhD in Logic and Foundations of

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includi ...

from

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. Béziau is the editor-in-chief of the journal '' Logica Universalis'' and of the ''South American Journal of Logic''—an online, open-access journal—as well as of the

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book series ''Studies in Universal Logic.'' He is also the editor of ''College Publication's'' book series ''Logic PhDs'' He has launched four major international series of events: UNILOG (World Congress and School on Universal Logic), SQUARE (World Congress on the Square of Opposition), WOCOLOR (World Congress on Logic and Religion), LIQ (Logic in Question). Béziau created the World Logic Day on January 14, 2019 and successfully submitted the proposal to have this day in the UNESCO Calendar of International days.

Comments on homosexuality and political correctness

In 2014, the academic journal

Synthese ''Synthese'' () is a scholarly periodical specializing in papers in epistemology, methodology, and philosophy of science, and related issues. Its subject area is divided into four specialties, with a focus on the first three: (1) "epistemology, me ...

published an article in which Béziau links "logical pluralism" to homosexuality and complains about the "absurdity and hypocrisy" of "political correctness".

Selected publications

* "What is paraconsistent logic?" In D. Batens et al. (eds.), ''Frontiers of Paraconsistent Logic'', Research Studies Press, Baldock, 2000, pp. 95–111. * ''Handbook of Paraconsistency'' (ed. with Walter Carnielli and

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). London: College Publication, 2007. * "Semantic computation of truth based on associations already learned" (with

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), ''Journal of Applied Logic'', 2 (2004), pp. 457–467. * "From paraconsistent logic to universal logic", ''Sorites'', 12 (2001), pp. 5–32. * ''Logica Universalis: Towards a General Theory of Logic'' (ed.) Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2005, Second Edition 2007. * "Logic is not logic", 'Abstracta' 6 (2010), pp. 73–102. * "The power of the hexagon", ''Logica Universalis'', 6 (2012), pp. 1–43. * "History of truth-values", in D.M.Gabbay and J.Woods (eds) ''Handbook of the History of Logic'', Vol. 11 - Logic: a history of its central concepts, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2012, pp. 233–305 * ''The Square of Opposition: a General Framework for Cognition'' (ed. with Gillman Payette). Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. * "The new rising of the square of opposition", in J.-Y.Béziau and D.Jacquette (eds), ''Around and Beyond the Square of Opposition'', Birkhäuser, Basel, 2012, pp. 6–24. * ''La pointure du symbole'' (ed.) Paris: Petra, 2014. * "The relativity and universality of logic", ''Synthese'', 192 (2015), pp 1939–1954.
"Logical Autobiography 50"
in A.Koslow and A.Buchsbaum (eds), ''The Road to Universal Logic'', Vol.2, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2015, pp. 19–104.
"MANY 1 - A Transversal Imaginative Journey across the Realm of Mathematics"
in M.Chakraborty and M.Friend (eds), Special Issue on Mathematical Pluralism of the ''Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research'', May 2017, Volume 34, Issue 2, pp 259–287.
"Being aware of rational animals"
in G.Dodig-Crnkovic and R.Giovagnoli (eds), ''Representation and Reality: Humans, Animals and Machines'', Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017, pp. 319–331.
"A Chromatic Hexagon of Psychic Dispositions"
in M.Silva (ed), ''How Colours Matter to Philosophy'', Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2017, pp. 273–388.
"An Analogical Hexagon"
''International Journal of Approximate Reasoning'', 94 (2018), pp. 1–17.
"The Pyramid of Meaning"
in J.Ceuppens, H.Smessaert, J. van Craenenbroeck and G.Vanden Wyngaerd (eds), ''A Coat of Many Colours - D60'', Brussels, 2018.
"An unexpected feature of classical propositional logic in the Tractatus"
in G.Mras, P.Weingartner and B.Ritter (eds), ''Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics: Proceedings of the 41st International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium'', De Gruyter, Berlin, Munich, Boston, 2019.
"Is God Paraconsistent?"
(with Newton da Costa) in ''Beyond Faith and Rationality Essays on Logic, Religion and Philosophy'', Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2020, pp. 321–333
"Metalogic, Schopenhauer and Universal Logic"
in J.Lemanski (ed), ''Language, Logic, and Mathematics in Schopenhauer'', Birkhäuser, Basel, 2020, pp. 207–257.
"The Mystery of the Fifth Logical Notion (Alice in the Wonderful Land of Logical Notions)"
''Studia Humana'', Volume 9:3/4 (2020), pp. 19–36.

References

External links

Jean-Yves Beziau's personal homepage
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