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CfN: Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations 2025 (Philosophical Logic), deadline: 31 March 2025

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations 2025


THE PRIZE:


The ”Dov Gabbay Prize for Logic and Foundations” is an international research prize aimed at outstanding and inspirational contributions in Logic and Foundations. It targets active researchers combining foundational insight and conceptual innovation with sophisticated theoretical analysis.


Our focus in 2025:  “PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC”


Here broadly understood - including reasoning and representation in AI and Linguistics.


Past laureates:

2023: Dale Miller and Mirek Truszczynski (Computational Logic)

2024: David Asperó and Ralf Schindler (Mathematical Logic)


The prize honours the extraordinary, multi-faceted, and lifelong scientific and editorial work of Dov Gabbay, known among others for editing an extensive collection of Logic Handbooks (Short
bio: https://dgp.iloaf.org/dov.html).


NOMINATION:


Each nomination of a researcher should provide an accessible justification and list the main publications considered relevant. It has to include the name, affiliation, and email address of the nominator. Self-nominations are excluded and the nominee should not be in a hierarchical relationship with the nominator.


Proposals in pdf-format should be sent to “dgp[at]iloaf[dot]org”.


The deadline for this call is March 31, 2025.


DECISION:


The selection is made by an independent jury consisting of renowned logicians representing Mathematical, Philosophical, and Computational Logic.


John T. Baldwin (University of Illinois Chicago)

Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam/Stanford University)

Christoph Benzmueller (University of Bamberg)

Laura Giordano (Università del Piemonte Orientale)

Hannes Leitgeb (LMU Munich)

Philip Welch (University of Bristol)


The decision will be announced in July 2025.


There is an overall cash reward of 2001 EUR and each awardee is invited to give a talk. The details of the ceremony will be communicated after the announcement.


ORGANIZATION:


The prize is currently organized by the “Initiative for Logic and Foundations asbl”
(https://iloaf.org), a registered non-profit organization anchored in Luxembourg (reflecting the close links of Dov Gabbay with the Logic group of Leon van der Torre).


Contact:


For any questions, please contact the organizing committee via “dgp[at]iloaf[dot]org”.


Web: https://dgp.iloaf.org


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