Interview with Walter Carnielli

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5 | P á g i n a Conexão Ci. | Formiga/MG | Vol. 14 | No 3 |p. 5-8 | 2019 Graduate, Master and Doctor of Mathematics from Unicamp, Walter Carnielli is Professor of Logic at the Department of Philosophy of the same institution. With important works on both technical results and philosophical aspects of logic, Carnielli is one of the pioneers of the Brazilian School of Paraconsistent Logic. Member of several international scientific societies and editorial board of several scientific journals, our interviewee was also president of the Brazilian Society of Logic for two terms and founded the ANPOF Logic WG. He published several books in the field of Logic and Philosophy of Logic, as well as books for the general public. Grantee of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Carnielli received several national and international awards, such as the Telesio Galilei Academy of Science Gold Medal for 2013 and third place in the 2007 Premio Jabutí, in the Exact Sciences, Technology and Information Technology category. In 2019 he received the CAPES Prize for the best PhD Thesis in Philosophy, together with his student Bruno Mendonça. Carnielli has interests in the area of Artificial Intelligence, and is currently Vice-President of the Advanced Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) and member of the Scientific Council of the Modal Institute (Brasilia). Interview with Walter Carnielli