Lin Yuanlei, male, Han ethnicity, native of Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province. He joined the university in December 2019 and currently holds the position of Associate Professor. He earned his Bachelor's degree from the Department of Philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University in 2002, his Master's degree from the Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University in 2006, and his Ph.D. in Logic from the same institute in 2012.

  Contact Email: linyuanlei@126.com

  Primary Research Fields and Interests:

  Main research areas include many-valued logic and modal logic, with a focus on many-valued modal logic, particularly strengthened systems (such as hyper-Belnap logics) and various weakened systems of Belnap-Dunn four-valued logic (corresponding to De Morgan algebras).

  Courses Taught:

  For Undergraduates: Logic, Mathematical Logic, Critical Thinking and Philosophical Writing, Advanced Mathematics for Humanities, Special Topics in Philosophy of Science and Technology

  For Postgraduates: Research in Logic

  Major Academic Achievements and Awards:

  1."A 3-Valued Predicate Logic Based on Open-Ended Classes," Yuanlei Lin, Shier Ju & Mihir K. Chakraborty, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, 1–25 (forthcoming).

  2."Paraconsistent Labeling Semantics for Abstract Argumentation," Yuanlei Lin, Mathematics, 2024, 12(5):688.

  3."Belnap–Dunn Modal Logic with Value Operators," Yuanlei Lin, Minghui Ma, Studia Logica, 2021, 109(4):759–789.

  4."Polarity Semantics for Negation as a Modal Operator," Yuanlei Lin, Minghui Ma, Studia Logica, 2020, 108(5):877–902.

  5."Countably Many Weakenings of Belnap-Dunn Logic," Minghui Ma, Yuanlei Lin, Studia Logica, 2020, 108(2):163–198.

  6."A Deterministic Weakening of Belnap-Dunn Logic," Minghui Ma, Yuanlei Lin, Studia Logica, 2019, 107(2):283–312.

  7."A Three-Valued Fregean Quantification Logic," Minghui Ma, Yuanlei Lin, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2019, 48(2):409–423.