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Alasdair Urquhart

Alasdair Ian Fenton Urquhart is a Scottish–Canadian philosopher and emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has made contributions to the field of logic, especially non-classical logic. Amongst his most notable accomplishments is the proof of undecidability of the relevance logic R. He published numerous scientific papers in theoretical computer science venues, mostly on mathematical logic topics of relevance to computer science.

Early life
Urquhart is a native of Scotland. He received his MA in philosophy from the University of Edinburgh in 1967. He then attended the University of Pittsburgh, receiving an MA and Ph.D. in 1973 under the supervision of Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel Belnap. == Career ==
Career
From 1973 to 1975, Urquhart was an assistant professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga (then known as Erindale College). He is currently on the Council of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (2020–2023). == Selected publications ==
Selected publications
• Urquhart, Alasdair and Rescher, Nicholas. Temporal Logic. New York: Springer Verlag, 1971. • Urquhart, Alasdair. "The Undecidability of Entailment and Relevant Implication." Journal of Symbolic Logic 49:4 (1984): 1059–1073. • Urquhart, Alasdair and Cook, Stephen A. "Functional Interpretations of Feasibly Constructive Arithmetic", Annals of Pure and Applied Logic, 1993; preliminary version at STOC'89 • "The Complexity of Decision Procedures in Relevance Logic II", Journal of Symbolic Logic 64:4 (1999): 1774–1802. == References ==
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