Roger Vergauwen

Roger Vergauwen studied at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (PhD Philosophy, 1987) , where he is an emeritus professor of Philosophy with formal duties at the Institute of Philosophy (Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science). He has been a senior research associate with the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (NFWO-FNRS), a senior research fellow at the university of Pittsburgh (USA) and a guest professor at the universities of Urbino (Italy) and Lublin (Poland).

Currently, he also serves as the president of the Belgian National Center for Research in Logic (NCNL-CNRL).

He has taught classes in Philosophy of Mind and Artificial Intelligence, Logic (introductory and advanced) and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Logic and Language, Foundations of Formal Theories of Language and Russian philosophy.

His research concentrates on the Philosophy of Consciousness, the philosophical implications of Incompleteness Theorems in Artificial Intelligence, and formal semantics of natural languages.