Can Başkent

¶ This webpage is intended to collect my research papers, presentations and teaching/lecture notes as well as my early work.

¶ I have a dedicated page for the books I have written, edited, translated or published. For more information regarding the volumes I co/edited, click on the bookcovers on this page.

¶ I am a logician with a background in mathematics and philosophy, a PhD in computer science, publishing in areas interesting for game theorists and philosophers.

¶ My research interests include ▸ modal logic (dynamic epistemology, epistemic logic, history-based models, subset models, topological semantics, insensitive modalities), ▸ non-classical logic (paraconsistent logics, game theoretical paradoxes, non-self-referentiality), ▸ game semantics (semantic games, non-classical games, inquiry games), ▸ diagrammatic reasoning (truth diagrams, diagrammatic games), ▸ methodology and philosophy of mathematics (Lakatos and Proofs and Refutations), ▸ mis-information and dis-information, and ▸ science education.

¶ My 2024 paper on game semantics and truth diagrams received the Best Paper Award at the DIAGRAMS 2024 Conference.

¶ I am currently a Senior Lecturer (similar to Assoc. Prof.) in computer science at Middlesex University, London. I am also an honorary member at the Institute of Cyber Security for Society at the University of Kent.

¶ I am the organiser of the monthly Middlesex Computer Science Colloquium. Get in touch if you are interested in giving a talk!

¶ For my teaching at Middlesex, I keep all my material on myMDX.

¶ For the record, my Erdös number is 3, via Rohit Parikh who coauthered a paper with Melvyn Nathanson who coauthored with Erdös.

¶ My co-authors and co-editors include Samet Bağçe (METU, Türkiye), Rohit Parikh (CUNY, USA), Loes Olde Loohuis (UCLA, USA), Guy McCusker (Bath, UK), Larry Moss (Indiana, USA), R. Ramanujam (Chennai, India), Thomas M. Ferguson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), Pedro Henrique Carrasqueira (Campinas, Brazil), Enes Altuncu (Cerrahpaşa, Turkey), Sanjay Bhattacherjee (Kent, UK), Shujun Li (Kent, UK), Dwaipayan Roy (IISER, India), David Gilbert (British Columbia, Canada) and Giorgio Venturi (Pisa, Italy).

¶ I am a member of ▸ Association for Symbolic Logic, ▸ British Logic Colloquium, ▸ Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, and ▸ European Society for the Philosophy of Mathematics.

¶ Finally, I maintain an up-to-date academic CV, and a Google Scholar profile.