Paul Gochet (21 March 1932 – 21 June 2011[1]) was a Belgian logician and philosopher, emeritus professor of the University of Liège.[2] His research is mainly in the fields of logic and analytic philosophy. He is now best known for his works on Quine's philosophy.
Paul Gochet was born in Bressoux near Liège. He graduated in Romance philology (1954) and philosophy (1959) at the University of Brussels (ULB). In between he spent a year in England attending the courses of A. Ayer at University College London (1957) and J.L. Austin at Oxford (1958). He received his PhD from the University of Liege (1968) where he had been an assistant since 1962. After studying in Liège with Philippe Devaux, translator and friend of Russell, and at the Harvard University (1971), he was in 1972 appointed ordinary professor at the University of Liège, where he taught logic and English-speaking philosophy. He was Research Fellow at the Stanford and Berkeley Universities from 1974 to 1975, invited professor at the Collège de France (1981), Research Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences in Canberra (1984), and holder of the Francqui Chair at the University of Ghent (1988). Another noteworthy aspect is his long-standing connection with the Belgian National Center for Research in Logic that was founded in 1955 by R. Feys, Ch. Perelman, A. Borgers, A. Bayart, Ph. Devaux, and others, which maintained close connections with E.W. Beth and other logicians in The Netherlands. He has been emeritus professor at the University of Liège since 1997. He was Commandeur de l'Ordre de la Couronne and Grand Officier de l'Ordre de Léopold II. He was a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium and of the International Institute of Philosophy.
Paul Gochet's interests concerned essentially, but not exclusively, language, logic and knowledge. He first graduated with a thesis on poetry, then worked on the logical theory of the proposition in the analytical tradition. With a few others, he has been responsible for introducing analytic philosophy to the French speaking community. From philosophy, he widened his investigations to the formal semantics of natural language that required expertise in linguistics as well as in modal and intensional logics. Later on, Paul Gochet shifted naturally with the trend toward applications in computer science and artificial intelligence. In particular, this led to his long-standing interest in epistemic logic. In line with this development, an important feature of his activities, and one that made him a widely-known international presence, was his decades-long involvement with the European community in logic, language, and computation, where he was a constant visitor at the Amsterdam Colloquia in formal semantics, and the European ESSLLI Summer Schools in Logic, Language and Information.
For his intellectual biography, see Denis Huisman, Dictionnaire des Philosophes, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, First Edition, 1984. Jean-François Mattéi, Encyclopédie philosophique universelle, tome III, Les Oeuvres philosophiques, Dictionnaire, Paris,Presses Universitaires de France, 1992. Dov Gabbay and John Woods, International Directory of Logicians, Amsterdam, Elsevier.
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1.Visitor, Philosophy Department, Harvard University, six weeks, F.N.R.S. scholarship Mai-June 1971. 2. Research Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley 1974-1975. 3. Invited Professor to the Collège de France, December 1981. 4. Research Fellow, National University of Australia, Canberra (Research School of Social Sciences), three months 1984. 5. Francqui Chair at the University of Gand, 1988. 6. Research Fellow, National University of Australia, Canberra (Automated Reasoning Project) three months in 1995. 7. Visiting professor, University of Puerto-Rico, mars 2001. 8. Guest Researcher: three weeks at the Universities of Tsukuba and Shizuoka (Japan), November–December 2003. 9. Speaker at the ‘Conférences Pierre Duhem’, Paris, Inaugural Session, April 2006.
1 - Member of the Académie Royale de Belgique, 2 - Institut International de Philosophie, 3 - Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences 4 - Aristotelian Society (London), 5 - Centre National de Recherche de Logique, 6 - Société belge de Logique et de Philosophie des Sciences, 7 - Société belge de Philosophie, 8 - Société de Philosophie de Louvain, 9 - Société de Philosophie des Sciences (Paris) 10- Honorary president of the Société de Philosophie Analytique de 1997-2003. 11- Honorary president of The European Association for Logic, Language and Information (Amsterdam) 12- Co-director of Section at the Institut des Hautes de Belgique.
Dialectica, Grazer Philosophische Studien, Logique et Analyse, Philosophiques, Revue internationale de Philosophie
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For a complete bibliography up to 1999, see Logique en perspective. Mélanges offerts à Paul Gochet, François BEETS et Eric GILLET (éds.) éditions Ousia, Bruxelles 2000
Recent publications in logic: 1. Contributions à Philippe Smets et al.(eds.), Non-Standard Logics for Automated Reasoning, London, Academic Press, 1988. 2. avec André Thayse, “Intensional Logic and natural language”, “Montague Semantics”, in A. Thayse, et al.(eds.), From Modal Logic to Deductive Databases. Introducing a Logic Based Approach to Artificial Intelligence, Chichester, Wiley, 1989, 55-163. Version française, Paris, Bordas,1989, traduction en russe, Moscou, Mir, 1998. 3. avec Pascal Gribomont, Logique, vol. 1, Méthodes pour l’informatique fondamentale, Paris, Hermès, 1990, 1991, 1998. 4. avec Pascal Gribomont, Logique, vol.2. Méthodes pour la vérification des programmes, vol. 2, Paris, Hermès,1994. 5. avec Pascal Gribomont et André Thayse, Logique, vol.3. Méthodes pour l’intelligence artificielle, Paris, Hermès-Lavoisier, 2000. . 6. "Model Theory and the Pragmatics of Indexicals" in Dialectica, vol.31, 1977, .389-408. 8. "La logique du sens" in Les langages, le sens et l'histoire, tome 1, Publication de l'Université de Lille III, 1977, 225-240. 9.« La sémantique récursive de Davidson et de Montague », in Apery et al. Penser les mathématiques, Paris, Le Seuil 1982,72-87, trad . en espagnol et en japonais. 10. avec E.Gillet, "Professor Weingartner's Contributions to Epistemic Logic" in G.Schurz and G.D.Dorn (Eds.),Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 24, 1992,.97-115 11. avec E.Gillet, "Le problème de l'omniscience logique", in Dialectica 1993, 143-171. 12. avec E.Gillet, "Quantified Modal Logic, Dynamic Semantics and S5" in Dialectica 1999, 243-251. 13. “Quantifiers, Being, and Canonical Notation”, in A Companion to Philosophical Logic, D. Jacquette (ed.), Oxford, Blackwell, 2002, 265-80. 14. “The Dynamic Turn in Epistemic Logic”, in Knowledge and Belief. Wissen und Glauben W. Loffler and P. Weingartner, (eds.), Vienna, öbvethpt, 2004, 129-34. 15. “Hybrid Logic, its theoretical and practical significance”, in Proceedings of the 2003 MLG meeting at Shizuoka, Japan, 2004, 6-9. 16.”Senso comune e logica” in A.Agazzi (ed.), Valore e Limiti del Senso Comune, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2004, 243-259. 17. avec Pascal Gribomont and Didier Rossetto, “Algorithms for Relevant Logic”, Logique et Analyse, 150-51-152, 1995, reprinted in Logic, Thought and Action, D. Vanderveken (ed.), Dordrecht, Springer, 2005, 479-96. 18. avec Pascal Gribomont, “Epistemic Logic”, in Dov Gabbay and John Woods, Handbook of the History of Logic, vol.7. Twentieth Century Modalities, Amsterdam, Elsevier 2006, 99-195. 19. “Formal Philosophy’, in Masses of Formal Philosophy, V. Hendricks & John Symons, (eds.), Automatic Press, 2006,15-25. 20. "Intensional Logic","Modal Logic","Model-Theoretical Semantics","Possible World Semantics", in J.Verschueren et al. (Eds), Handbook or Pragmatics, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, updated edition, 2007. 21. « Un problème ouvert en épistémologie : la formalisation du savoir-faire » in Th.Martin (ed.) Les conférences Pierre Duhem 2006, Paris, Vuibert Sciences. 22. « La logique épistémique et le calcul des situations au service de l’Intelligence artificielle », Bulletin de l’Académie Royale de Belgique. Classe des Lettres et des Sciences morales et politiques, Bruxelles, 2007.
Main publications devoted to analytic philosophy: 1. Esquisse d'une théorie nominaliste de la proposition, Paris, Armand Colin, 1972. 2. Quine en perspective, Paris, Flammarion, 1978. 3. Outline of a Nominalist Theory of Propositions, Dordrecht, Reidel, 1980 (trad. of (1)). 4. Quine zur Diskussion, Berlin, Ullstein, 1984 (trad. of (2)). 5. Ascent to Truth, Munich, 1986 6. with Jacques Riche, DenisVernant et leurs collaborateurs, recension des ouvrages de philosophie anglo-saxonne du XIXe siècle et du XXe siècle in A.Jacob Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelel : III J.F.Mattéi, Oeuvres Philosophiques, tome 2, Paris, P.U.F. 1992. 7. “On Sir Alfred Ayer’s Theory of Truth”, in The Philosophy of Sir Alfred Ayer, E. Hahn (ed.) (The Library of Living Philosophers), La Salle Open Court, 1992, 201-20. 8.“L’empirisme relatif de Quine” In Michel Meyer (éd.), La philosophie anglo-saxonne, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1993, 9. with M.Kefer,"On Lauener's Open Transcendentalism" in Grazer Philosophische Studien, 1993, pp. 139–153. 10."Quine's Epistemology" in H.Stakowiacz (Ed.), Pragmatik, Handbuch Pragmatischen Denkens, Hamburg Felix Meiner Verlag, Band V, 1995, pp. 123–143. 11. with Joseph Dopp, Le Mot et La Chose, traduction du livre de W.V.O.Quine, Word and Object, avec un avant-propos de P.Gochet, Paris, Flammarion,1999 (2ème éd.) 12. “Relativité de l’ontologie et ontologie réaliste chez Quine. Comment les concilier?”In François Beets et Marc-Antoine Gavray, Logique et Ontologie. Perspectives diachroniques et synchroniques. Liber amicorum in honorem Huberti Hubiani, Liège Presses Universitaires, 2005, 115-131. 13. “L’être selon Quine” In Jean-Maurice Monnoyer, Lire Quine. Logique et Ontologie, Paris, Editions de l’éclat, 2006, 185-209. 14 “Qu’est-ce que la réalité? Les réponses de Quine et de H.Zwirn, Philosophia Scientiae, 2006, 10 (2), 23-39. 15. Contribution à Philosophie de la physique, Dialogue à plusieurs voix autour de controverses contemporaines et classiques. ouvrage dirigé par Léna Soler, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2006. 16. With Bruno Ambroise, Le langage de la perception, traduction du livre de J.L.Austin, Sense and Sensibilia, avec une introduction, de B.Ambroise et S.Laugier et un avantpropos de Paul Gochet, (2nd ed. Paris, Vrin, 2007). 17.« Présentation de The Philosophy of Jaakko Hintikka, The Library of Living Philosophers », Diogène. 2008.
Publications devoted to Belgian philosophy: 1."Recent Developments of the Philosophy of Science in Belgium" in Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschafts-theorie, 1975, vol VI, 145-163, 182-186. 2.avec Suzanne Stern Gillet, "Notice sur Philippe Devaux", ex Annuaire de l'Académie Royale de Belgique, 1985, Gembloux,Duculot,1985, 153-174. 3."Les contributions de Guy Hirsch à la philosophie des sciences", in Bulletin de la Société mathématique de Belgique, tome XXXVIII, 1986, 9-32. 4.« Belgique », in R.Klibanski et D.Pears (Eds.), La philosophie en Europe, Paris, Gallimard 1993, 101-123. 5.« Philippe Devaux, découvreur de la pensée anglo-saxonne » in M.Weber et B. de Pierfranceso, Chromatikon II, Annuaire de la philosophie en procès, Louvain, Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2006, 151-160.
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