Professor of Informatics Emeritus
Oscar R. Ewing Professor of Philosophy Emeritus
Professor of Computer Science Emeritus

(812) 855-9403; 855-7088
dunn@indiana.edu

Education
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1966
Professional Experience
  • Research Fulbright to The Australian National University Institute for Advanced Studies, 1975
  • Senior Visitor, Oxford Mathematical Institute, 1978
  • Distinguished Visitor, University of Melbourne, 1983
  • Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1984
  • Editor, Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1982­88
  • Editor, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 1987-present
  • President, Society for Exact Philosophy, 1988-90
Research Interests
  • Non-classical logics, especially relevance logic
  • Formal, especially algebraic, semantics
  • Automated reasoning
  • Philosophy of language
  • Philosophy of mind
Representative Publications

Dunn, J. M. (1987). Relevant predication I: The formal theory
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 16,347-381.

Dunn, J. M. (1990). Relevant predication and the frame problem
In H. E. Kyburg, Jr., R. P. Loui & G. N. Carlson (Eds.), Knowledge Representation and Defeasible Reasoning (pp. 89-95). Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.

Dunn, J. M. (1990). Gaggle theory, an abstraction of galois connections and residuation with applications to negation, implication, and various logical operators.
In J. Van Eijck (Ed.), European Workshop JELIA 1990, Amsterdam, pp. 31-51.
Lecture Notes in AI, Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

Anderson, A. R., Belnap, N. D., & Dunn, J. M. (1992).
Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Necessity (Vol. 2). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.


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