The roots of universal logic as general theory of logical systems may go as far back as some work of Alfred Tarski in the early twentieth century and Paul Herz in 1922, but the modern notion was first presented in the 1990s by Swiss logician Jean-Yves Béziau.
[9] These approaches to universal logic thus aim to address and formalize the nature of what may be called 'logic' as a form of "sound reasoning".
[9] Since 2005, Béziau has been organizing world congresses and schools on universal logic.
A journal dedicated to the field, Logica Universalis, with Béziau as editor-in-chief started to be published by Birkhäuser Basel (an imprint of Springer) in 2007.
[11] An anthology titled Universal Logic was published in 2012, giving a new light on the subject.