Jon Michael Dunn
J. Michael Dunn is Oscar Ewing Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Professor Emeritus of Informatics and Computer Science, was twice chair of the Philosophy Department, was Executive Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and was founding dean of the School of Informatics (now the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering) at Indiana University.
Jon Michael Dunn | |
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| Born | 1941 (age 78–79) |
| Alma mater | -Oberlin College -University of Pittsburgh |
| Known for | -Algebraic semantics for relevance logic -4-valued semantics for first-degree entailment -Gaggles (generalized galois logics) -Semantics of negation -Proof theory including solving (with K. Bimbó) the decidability of Ticket Entailment -Relation of quantum computation to quantum logic |
| Spouse(s) | Sarah Jane Dunn (m. 1964) |
| Children | Jon William Dunn, Jennifer Anne Dunn |
| Awards | -National Merit Scholar (1959-63) -Andrew Mellon Fellow (1964-65) -Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow (1965-66) -Fulbright Senior Research Scholar (1975-76) -American Council of Learned Societies Fellow (1984-85) -Who's Who in America (1985) -Techpoint Mira Award (2002) -Who's Who in the World (2005) -iSchools Bookends Award (2006) -Sagamore of the Wabash (2007) -Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | -Logic -Computer Science |
| Institutions | -Wayne State University -Indiana University Bloomington |
| Doctoral advisor | Nuel Belnap |
| Website | -Jon Michael Dunn's Indiana University Philosophy Home Page -Michael Dunn's Indiana University School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering Home Page |
Early life and education
Dunn was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1941. He went to high school in Lafayette, Indiana, where he worked in Purdue Biology laboratories after school and summers. He was the first in his family to go to college.
He has an A.B. in Philosophy from Oberlin College and a Ph.D. in Philosophy (Logic) from the University of Pittsburgh, where he wrote his dissertation, The Algebra of Intensional Logics.[1]
Career
He taught at Wayne State University and at Yale University as a visitor before coming to Indiana University Bloomington in 1969, from which he retired in 2007.
He received grants from NSF, NEH, ACLS, and has visited, among other places, at the Australian National University, University of Oxford, and the University of Melbourne. In 2014 he was a visiting professor at his Ph.D. alma mater the University of Pittsburgh. In 2002 he accepted on behalf of the School of Informatics the Techpoint (Indiana Information Technology association) Mira for Outstanding Education Contribution to Information Technology. In 2007 he was awarded the Indiana University Bloomington Provost’s Medal, and was made a Sagamore of the Wabash by the Governor of Indiana.
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been President of the Society for Exact Philosophy, and on the Executive Committee of the Association for Symbolic Logic. He has been an editor of the Journal of Symbolic Logic and chief editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic. He has published 6 books and over 100 papers, and has directed or co-directed 17 Ph. D. dissertations (Philosophy, Computer Science, Mathematics).
After he retired, he served for ten years on the board of HealthLINC, the regional health information exchange, and was President there for three years. Since 2010 he has been affiliated with the Info-Metrics Institute, American University, and is a member of its Advisory Board (co-chair 2017- ).
Work
Dunn's research focuses on information based logics, particularly relevance logics and other so-called "substructural" logics. He has an algebraic approach to these under the heading of "gaggle theory" (for generalized galois logics), which he has developed in articles, his book with G. Hardgree Algebraic Methods in Philosophical Logic (Oxford, 2001) [2], and a book with K. Bimbó, Generalized Galois Logics: Relational Semantics of Nonclassical Logical Calculi. (CSLI Publications, 2008).[3]
In his work on relevance logic, he was fortunate to study as a graduate student with the two major figures in relevance logic, Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel D. Belnap, Jr. He was a contributing author to their book Entailment: The Logic of Relevance and Entailment Vol. 1,[4] and a full co-author with them to Vol. 2. [5]
He has also worked on quantum logic and quantum computation, subjective probability in the context of incomplete and conflicting information, and with Katalin Bimbό recently proved the decidability of Ticket Entailment (a problem open since 1960).[6] Dunn has recently been honored by the book J. Michael Dunn on Information Based Logic, edited by Katalin Bimbó [7] and appearing in Springer's series Outstanding Contributions to Logic.[8]
References
- Dunn, Jon Michael (1966). The Algebra of Intensional Logics (PhD Thesis thesis). Dissertation. It was published in 2019 with an introductory essay by Katalin Bimbó as Volume 2 of the book series Logic PhDs, College Publications, London.
- Dunn, J. Michael (2001). Algebraic methods in philosophical logic. Hardegree, Gary M. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198531923. OCLC 46240293.
- Bimbó, Katalin (2008). Generalized Galois logics : relational semantics of nonclassical logical calculi. Dunn, J. Michael. Stanford, Calif.: CSLI Publications. ISBN 9781575865737. OCLC 225876030.
- Ross., Anderson, Alan (1975–1992). Entailment : The Logic of Relevance and Necessity Vol. 1. Belnap, Nuel D., Dunn, J. Michael. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691071926. OCLC 1530367.CS1 maint: date format (link)
- Ross., Anderson, Alan (1975–1992). Entailment : The Logic of Relevance and Necessity Vol. 2. Belnap, Nuel D., Dunn, J. Michael. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691071926. OCLC 1530367.CS1 maint: date format (link)
- Dunn, J. Michael; Bimbó, Katalin (2012). "New Consecution Calculi for $R^{t}_{\to}$". Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. 53 (4): 491–509. doi:10.1215/00294527-1722719. ISSN 0029-4527.
- Bimbó, Katalin. J. Michael Dunn on information based logics. Switzerland. ISBN 9783319293004. OCLC 945975273.
- Hansson, Sven Ove. Outstanding Contributions to Logic. Springer.