Johan van Benthem (logician)

He was awarded the Spinozapremie in 1996[1] and elected a Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2015.

In 1992 he was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Van Benthem is a member of the group collectively publishing under the pseudonym L. T. F. Gamut.

He made an effort to encourage and organize international collaboration between Chinese and Western logicians.

Professor van Benthem retired from the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation in September 2014.

Van Benthem: Informatie is de enige grondstof die groeit in het gebruik ( Dutch for Information is the only commodity that grows while being used ). Quote on a glass door, Leiden University Libraries , 2025.