Prof. Dr. Joao Marcos

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsTheoretical Philosophy,Fundamentals of Mathematics, Logics, Set Theory
Keywordssemantics, formal philosophy, Non-classical logics, abstract consequence relations, logical frameworks
Honours and awards

: Bessel Prize

Current contact address

CountryBrazil
CityNatal
InstitutionUniversidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
InstituteDepartamento de Informatica e Matematica Aplicada

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Heinrich WansingInstitut für Philosophie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2017

Programme(s)

2016Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor João Marcos is among the world's leading experts on non-classical logics. The philosopher is well known for his investigation of an important class of inconsistency-tolerant logical systems called “logics of formal inconsistency”. The syntax of such systems allows one to encode the meta-theoretical notions of consistency (and inconsistency) in the object language. Professor Marcos has also made important contributions to the study of generalized conceptions of the compositionality of meaning.