Floris Bex (President)

Floris Bex is an academic at the Department of Information and Computing Science of Utrecht University and the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society (TILT) of the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. He is interested in how people reason, how this reasoning can be captured in formal models and how it can be supported and improved using smart technologies. His main areas of investigation are the computational, philosophical and linguistic aspects of argumentation, linking mathematical models with more natural representations of argument and discourse.
In addition to working on argumentation theory, he is also keen to improve argumentation practice by developing tools that can be used to disseminate and analyse complex reasoning involving lots of data. Examples of application areas are legal & forensic reasoning and opinions on the Web.