Diderik Batens

Diderik Batens
Born	(1944-11-15) 15 November 1944 (age 80)
Nationality	Belgian
Known for	Fallibilism
Scientific career
Fields	Logician and epistemologist
Institutions	University of Ghent
Website	logica.ugent.be/~dirk/

Diderik Batens (born 15 November 1944), ^[1] is a Belgian logician and epistemologist at the University of Ghent, faculty of Arts and Philosophy, department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences. Known chiefly for his work on adaptive and paraconsistent logics, his epistemological views may be broadly characterized as fallibilist.

Topics

• adaptive logics, paraconsistency, classical logic, content guidance, dynamic proofs, inconsistency, inconsistency-adaptive logic, logic, paraconsistent logic, relevant implication, abnormalities, ambiguity, background knowledge, bi-valued semantics, conditional derivation, conjectures, defeasible reasoning, defeasible rules, embedding, ethics. ^[2]

Bibliography

• Batens, Diderik; van Bendegem, Jean Paul (1988). Theory and experiment recent insights and new perspectives on their relation. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. ISBN   9789401077941.
• Batens, Diderik; van Bendegem, Jean Paul; Priest, Graham; Mortensen, Chris (2000). Frontiers of paraconsistent logic. Baldock, Hertfordshire, England Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Research Studies Press. ISBN   9780863802539.

References

1. "Batens, Diderik, 1944-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 10 August 2014. data sheet (b. 11-15-44)
2. "em. prof. dr. Diderik Batens". biblio.ugent.be. Retrieved 23 September 2023.

External links

• Official page