17-19 September 2009
Budapest, Hungary
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
As part of the annual conference series LANGUAGE, UNDERSTANDING,
INTERPRETATION, the Institute of Philosophy of Etvs University and th
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Philosophy of Language Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
at Etvs University announce
LOGIC, LANGUAGE, MATHEMATICS
A Philosophy Conference in Memory of Imre Ruzsa
Date: September 17-19, 2009.
Location: Muzeum krt. 4/i Budapest, Hungary
Deadline for submissions: June 1, 2009
Website: http://phil.elte.hu/ruzsaconf
Keynote speaker:
Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University, Wellington
Plenary speakers:
Hajnal Andreka (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)
Ferenc Csaba (Eotvos University, Budapest)
Gabor Forrai (University of Miskolc)
Laszlo Kalman (Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest)
Gyula Klima (Fordham University)
Andras Kornai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
Andras Mate (Eotvos University, Budapest)
Tamas Mihalydeak (University of Debrecen)
Istvan Nemeti (Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics, Budapest)
Laszlo Polos (University of Durham, UK)
Zoltan Gendler Szabo (Yale University)
Anna Szabolcsi (New York University)
The conference is held in memory of Imre Ruzsa (1921-2008), the father of
modern philosophical logic in Hungary. His professional interests centered
around modal logic, intensional logic, modeling natural language in
systems of intensional logic, and the foundations of logic and
mathematics. He always thought of his generalization of A. N. Priors
concept of semantic value gaps to quantified, intensional and
type-theoretic systems as his most important contribution to logic. He was
the author of three boo ks in English (Modal Logic with Descriptions, The
Hague, 1982, Intensional Logic Revisited, Budapest, 1991, Introduction to
Metalogic, Budapest, 1993), several monographs and textbooks in Hungarian,
and many articles in leading logic journals.
Several of Imre Ruzsas former students from across the globe will gather
to discuss his legacy, and also to present on some of his favorite themes,
topics, and areaswe invite you to do the same.
Contributions for 20-minute panel-presentations are sought in the
following areas: modal and intensional logics; logics with truth value
gaps; metalogic; Freges philosophy of language and mathematics; Tarski
s
theory of truth; and more broadly in philoso phical logic, mathematical
logic, formal semantics, philosophy of mathematics, and philosophy of
language. Plenary talks will be in English; some of the afternoon panels
are held in English, some in Hungarian. Graduate students are encouraged
to submit.
Contributors are asked to submit the following in an email attachment: (1)
the title of their presentation (in the language in which they plan to
present), (2) a 15-line abstract, (3) school/institute affiliation, and
(4) e-mail address. Submissions shoul d be sent to ruzsaconf@phil.elte.hu
Practical information:
* Accommodation at the Peregrinus ELTE Hotel can be requested at the email
address above for HUF 9000/person/night.
* The conference begins on September 17 at 10 a.m.
* The keynote lecture will be on September 17 at 6 p.m.
* There will be an evening reception on September 18 at which the winner of
this years Cogito Prize will be announced, and the Cogito Books by last
years winners will be presented.
The organizing committee:
Janos Kelemen, president
Andras Mate, co-president
Tibor Barany
Peter Mekis
Janos Tozserr
Zsofia Zvolenszky