-Philosophy J. Michael Dunn (June 19, 1941 – April 5, 2021)[1][2] was Oscar Ewing Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, professor emeritus of Informatics and Computer Science, was twice chair of the Philosophy Department, was Executive Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, and was founding dean of the School of Informatics (now the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering) at Indiana University.
He served as President of the Society for Exact Philosophy, and on the executive committee of the Association for Symbolic Logic.
He published six books and over 100 papers, and directed or co-directed 17 Ph.D. dissertations (Philosophy, Computer Science, Mathematics).
From 2010, he was affiliated with the Info-Metrics Institute, American University, and was a member of its advisory board (co-chair 2017–2021).
[5] He studied as a graduate student with the two major figures in relevance logic, Alan Ross Anderson and Nuel Belnap.