Logical Autobiography 50

Abstract

After describing my family background and interest in mathematics and philosophy at school, I explain how I became interested in logic when studying at 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.