Diderik Batens

Diderik Batens (born 15 November 1944), 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.