Jean-Yves Béziau

Jean-Yves Beziau (; born January 15, 1965, in Orléans, France) is a Swiss Professor in logic at the University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, and Researcher of the Brazilian Research Council. He is permanent member and former president of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy. Before going to Brazil, he was Professor of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland and researcher at Stanford University working with Patrick Suppes. Beziau created the World Logic Day, January 14, 2019. He then visited UNESCO in Paris and the day was recognized at unanimity the same year by the general assembly of this organization (194 countries).

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 Paris 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 (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).

Later on Beziau launched SALOME (South American Logic Meeting), PANAFRICAL (Pan African Logic Meeting) and LoChaMo (Logic, Chance and Money).

Criticism

Importance of his work Béziau’s works concern, among other things, paraconsistent logic, which is a central field of logic, mainly created by his advisor Newton da Costa. Paraconsistent logic rejects the principle of explosion, which states that from a proposition and its negation, one can conclude anything. Beziau has organized the world congress on paraconsistency and is the editor of the paraconsistent newsletter.

Controversy around an article in Synthese

In 2015, the academic journal Synthese published an article in which Béziau associates "logical pluralism" with homosexuality and complains about the "absurdity" and "hypocrisy" of the "politically correct" .

One year later, the Synthese published an apology.

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