The Faculty of Philosophy and Educational Science of the Ruhr University of Bochum mourns the passing of Dr Edoardo Canonica, who died on June 3, 2025, after a serious illness.
From 2005 to 2010, Edoardo Canonica pursued a BA in Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He went on to complete an MA in Linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem from 2010 to 2014, followed by an MPhil at University College London in 2017. In 2022, he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics from University College London for his dissertation on "Borderline Contradictions." Since October 2022, Dr Canonica had been a researcher in the ERC project "Contradictory Logics: A Radical Challenge to Logical Orthodoxy" at the Institute of Philosophy I at Ruhr University Bochum, where he conducted linguistic experiments on inference patterns involved in deriving contradictory statements.
Dr Canonica was a member of the Logic in Bochum group at RUB and a psotdoctroal researcher in the ERC Advanced Grant project ConLog, Contradictory Logics: A Radical Challenge to Logical Orthodoxy, enriching it with his expertise in experimental linguistics, natural language semantics, vagueness in language, non-classical logic, cognition, and the philosophy of language. He combined outstanding scholarly competence with modesty. Edoardo Canonica will be greatly missed—both as a person and as a highly esteemed colleague. We will honour his memory with lasting gratitude. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his husband and his family.