11-13 Sep 2014
Lisbon, Portugal
Final Call for Papers Workshop on Modal Syllogistic 11-13 September 2014, University of Lisbon <http://www.lancog.com/modalsyllogistics.html> http://www.lancog.com/modalsyllogistics.html Aristotle is the founder of modal logic. His system of modal syllogisms, presented in chapters 3 and 8-22 of the first book of the Prior Analytics, has been studied for many centuries, with less than successful results. In 1955, Jan ?ukasiewicz declared that ?in contrast to the assertoric syllogistic which is perfectly clear and nearly free of errors, Aristotle?s modal syllogistic is almost incomprehensible because of its many faults and inconsistencies?. Some scholars have been trying to resist this pessimistic judgement and to articulate interpretations of the modal syllogistic that are, at the same time, logically consistent and plausible on exegetical grounds. This workshop wants to provide a forum for discussion and to reflect, via the contributed talks and informal discussions, the state of art of the subject. Confirmed speakers: Adriane Rini (Massey) Marko Malink (Chicago) Paolo Crivelli (Geneva) Sara Uckelman (Heidelberg) Ulrich Nortmann (Saarland) Submission Details: We invite submissions of long abstracts or short papers (1500-2000 words) on any aspect of the modal syllogistic. The time slot is 80 minutes (50? talk + 30? discussion). Abstracts (or papers) should be prepared for blind-refereeing and sent in Word or PDF format (doc, docx or pdf). We aim at accepting five contributed papers. Abstract should be sent to <mailto:modalsyllogistic@gmail.com> modalsyllogistic@gmail.com . The subject of the e-mail should be ?submission: workshop on modal syllogistic?. The body of the email should include your name, affiliation, and abstract title. (We are unable to provide speakers with accommodation for the duration of the workshop, but we can help them finding good solutions. Unfortunately, we cannot cover travel expenses.) Submission deadline: May 31, 2014 Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2014 Organizer: Ricardo Santos (Évora and Lancog, Lisbon) Sponsors: Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa Project ?Compêndio em Linha de Problemas de Filosofia Analítica? PTDC/FIL-FIL/121209/2010 Project ?Tradução Anotada das Obras de Aristóteles (Quarta Fase)? PTDC/MHC-FIL/3672/2012 Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html and http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.region.europe. Current posts are also available via Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PhilosL To sign off the list send a blank message to philos-l-unsubscribe-request@liverpool.ac.uk. Discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.