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Every time I think "oh Jean-Yves Girard".

Besides being perhaps the logician of note of the 20th century (against considerable "competition"), he's become an important philosopher in the 21st. I think he realizes he's become a philosopher, although it would seem (from private correspondence) that he doesn't find philosophy all that important, let alone that he's such an important one.

The recommended book-length treatment of Girardian ideas is "The Phantom of Transparence". The TED talk version is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc3pgZxU-Cg

I often tell people to watch the video even if they don't know one "euh" of French. There's something about the energy in it that already conveys so much.

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I can't honestly evaluate the other, minor Girard because of the homonymy. It's unfortunate.