Jean-Yves Béziau


Jean-Yves Béziau is a professor and researcher of the Brazilian Research Council at the University of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

Career

Béziau works in the field of logic—in particular, paraconsistent logic, the square of opposition and universal logic. He holds a Maîtrise in Philosophy from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, a DEA in Philosophy from Pantheon-Sorbonne University, a PhD in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo, a MSc and a PhD in Logic and Foundations of Computer Science from Denis Diderot University.
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 Springer 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, SQUARE, WOCOLOR, LIQ. Such events have included major figures of mathematics, philosophy, computer science and religion such as Saul Kripke, Michal Heller, Laurent Lafforgue, Yuri Gurevich, Pierre Cartier,
Béziau is the current president of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy.

Selected publications