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CfP: TPLC 2025 – Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium, 23–25 October 2025, Taipei (Taiwan)

Below is the call for abstracts for the TPLC. Please consider submitting!

Call for Abstracts
23-25 (Thurs-Sat), October, 2025
Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract of a contributed talk to TPLC 2025.
Deadline of the submission:  31 July, 2025
Notification of accepted contributed talk: 31 August, 2025

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS
All researchers working on various aspects of modal logic and general topics in philosophical logic are cordially invited to submit their abstracts by 31 July, 2025. Authors should submit an extended abstract, which is no less than one page but no more than four pages (A4 size, single space). Please put on a separate page with the details of (all) authors, including full names, titles, affiliations, email addresses. By convention, the first author will be the corresponding author, unless special notification is added.
Abstracts and cover letters must be submitted as PDF files and sent to the organizing committee at [taiwanphillogic2025@gmail.com] or the main organizer Ren-June Wang at [wrenjune@outlook.com].

DESCRIPTION OF TPLC 2025
The Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (TPLC-series, TPLCs for short) is one of two series of biennial conferences established since 2012 and is hosted by Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. (The other is the series of Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium (TMC-series, TMCs for short), established since 2013). Funding is mainly sourced from annual donation by Ms. Wendy Huang and Shun Yih Ltd. The primary concern of this funding is to enhance the research of logic and analytic philosophy in Taiwan.

The aim of TPLCs is to provide a forum for dialogues amongst philosophers and logicians with regard to a variety of significant issues and topics from philosophical and logical perspectives. We intend to bring together a group of logic-minded philosophers and philosophically oriented logicians. We hope that TPLCs and TMCs will become a series of inspiring events so as to promote the development of logic and analytic philosophy, especially philosophical logic and metaphysics in Asian area, especially in Taiwan.

In order to bring in more philosophical discussions in TPLCs, the organizing committee has decided that for each TPLC, henceforth, a particular topic/issue/problem, which has involved some philosophical debates, will be set as the main theme. We are hoping that, apart from the general topics in philosophical logic, there could be a certain portion (say, half) of talks focusing on the main theme. The main theme of TPLC 2025 will be modal logic, broadly construed.

The study of modal logic has driven a great deal of recent progress in philosophical logic. While much work on modal logic has focused on necessity and possibility, including their various applications in epistemic, temporal, and deontic logics, interest in other modalities and modal operators has been increasing.  Along with new model-theoretic methods for studying modal logics, many new proof-theoretic methods have been developed, as well, to help us better understand how we can reason with modal concepts. In addition, there has been an increasing amount of research on modal extensions of non-classical logics, departing from the common approach of studying modal extensions of classical logic. We hope to continue to build on these developments by bringing together researchers from many areas of logic to discuss the cutting edge results and trends in philosophical, broadly construed.

This year, the Sixth Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (TPLC 2025) will have modal logic as its main theme. We encourage submissions on different areas of modal logic, including model theory, proof theory, non-classical modal logics, applications of modal logic, and developments of the methods of modal logic. Submissions on non-classical logic, the philosophy of logic and mathematics, and general topics in philosophical logic are welcome as well.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Greg Restall (University of St Andrews)
Sonja Smets (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam)

INVITED SPEAKERS
Patrick Blackburn (Roskilde University)
Wesley Holliday (University of California, Berkeley)
Katsuhiko Sano (Hokkaido University)
Takako Nemoto (Tohoku University)
And more to come

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE (in alphabetical order):
Duen-Min Deng (National Taiwan University)
Shawn Standefer (North Carolina State University)
Ren-June Wang (National Chung Cheng University)

FURTHER CONTACT:
Duen-Min Deng [dmdeng@ntu.edu.tw]
Shawn Standefer [shawn@standefer.net]
Ren-June Wang [wrenjune@outlook.com]




Best,

Shawn

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