Catarina Dutilh Novaes is a Brazilian and Dutch philosopher whose research concerns the formalization of

argumentation An argument is a series of sentences, statements, or propositions some of which are called premises and one is the conclusion. The purpose of an argument is to give reasons for one's conclusion via justification, explanation, and/or persu ...

and

reasoning Reason is the capacity of consciously applying logic by drawing valid conclusions from new or existing information, with the aim of seeking the truth. It is associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, religion, scien ...

in the

history of logic The history of logic deals with the study of the development of the science of valid inference (logic). Formal logics developed in ancient times in Indian logic, India, Logic in China, China, and Greek philosophy, Greece. Greek methods, particula ...

and the

philosophy of logic Philosophy of logic is the area of philosophy that studies the scope and nature of logic. It investigates the philosophical problems raised by logic, such as the presuppositions often implicitly at work in theories of logic and in their applicatio ...

. She is a professor at

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public university, public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in ...

in the Netherlands, and a professorial fellow at the Arché philosophical research centre of the

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in Scotland.

Education and career

Dutilh Novaes was born in 1976 in

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, Brazil, the daughter of two academics. After an undergraduate degree at the

University of São Paulo The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil. The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...

, she went to the

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam, in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate. The ILLC's central research area is the s ...

at the

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...

for a master's degree in logic. Staying in the Netherlands, she earned a Ph.D. in 2006 at

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, with the dissertation ''Formalizations après la lettre : studies in Medieval logic and semantics'' promoted by Göran Sundholm. After postdoctoral research at the

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in New York, she returned to the Netherlands as a researcher at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. She took a position at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; , abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen, Netherlands. Founded in 1614, th ...

in 2011, initially as an assistant professor and Rosalind Franklin Fellow and later as a full professor. She moved to her current position in the Faculty of Humanities, Reasoning and Argumentation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2018. Since 2019, she also visits the Arché philosophical research centre of the

as a professorial fellow.

Recognition

Dutilh Novaes was elected to the

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in 2022. In the same year, her book ''The Dialogical Roots of Deduction'' won the

Lakatos Award The Lakatos Award is given annually for an outstanding contribution to the philosophy of science, widely interpreted. The contribution must be in the form of a monograph, co-authored or single-authored, and published in English during the previou ...

Books

Dutilh Novaes is the author of books including: *''Formalizing Medieval Logical Theories: Suppositio, Consequentiae and Obligationes'' (Springer, 2007) *''Formal Languages in Logic: A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012) *''The Dialogical Roots of Deduction: Historical, Cognitive, and Philosophical Perspectives on Reasoning'' (Cambridge University Press, 2020). *''What Rational Arguments Can and Cannot Do for Us'' (in progress). She is also an editor of: *''Insolubles and Consequences: Essays in Honour of Stephen Read'' (with Ole Thomassen Hjortland, College Publications, 2012) *''The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic'' (with Stephen Read, Cambridge University Press, 2016).

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