26-29 June 2012
Beirut, Lebanon
World Congress on the Square of Opposition III
American University of Beirut, Lebanon, June 26-29, 2012
A multidisciplinary event with stars from the East and the West
Deadline for submission of a contributed talk: January 21st 2012
http://www.square-of-opposition.org/
The Square: a Central Object for Thought
The square of opposition is a very famous theme related to Aristotelian
logic dealing with the notions of opposition, negation, quantification and
proposition. It has been continuously studied by people interested in
logic, philosophy and Aristotle during two thousand years. Even Frege, one
of the main founders of modern mathematical logic, uses it.
Some people have proposed to replace the square by a triangle, on the
other hand the square has been generalized into more complex geometrical
objects: hexagons, octagons and even polyhedra and multi-dimensional
objects.
Aim of the Congress
This will be the 3rd world congress organized about the square of
opposition after very succesful previous events in Montreux, Switzerland
2007 and in Corté, Corsica 2010. This is an interdisciplinary event
gathering logicians, philosophers, mathematicians, semioticians, artists,
cognitivists, and computer scientists.
The meeting will end by a final round square table where subalterned
people will express their various contrarieties, subcontrarieties and
contradictions.
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
Send a one page abstract to Beirut2012@square-of-opposition.org before
January 21th 2012. You will receive notification before February 10th
2012.
Any contribution related to the square of opposition is welcome, in
particular those dealing with:
(*) the history of the square
(*) the various interpretations of the square: deontic, doxastic,
alethic, modal, semiotical, quantificational
(*) the extension of the square to hexagons and other spatial objects
(*) applications of the square to psychology, anthropology, computer
science, linguisitics, cognition, arts