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Special Issue of Studia Logica on "Applied Logic in the Philosophy of Science", Deadline: Jun 30, 2007

Special Issue of Studia Logica
on Applied Logic in the Philosophy of Science

Guest editors: Igor Douven and Leon Horsten

Studia Logica is extending its scope. In future the journal will
not only cover pure logic but also applications of formal-logical
methods in philosophy and cognitive science. To mark this change,
the journal will have several special issues, of which this is one.

Theme of the Special Issue
When logical empiricism declined, logic seemed to lose its role as
the primary tool for investigating the methodology of science.
Recently, logical methods in the philosophy of science have been
making a comeback.

Recent developments of logical methods in areas outside of logic as
it was traditionally conceived have excited new interest in the
application of logic to methodological questions. New logical tools
and methods are gradually being absorbed by the philosophical
community and are being applied to specific problems in the
philosophy of science. The proposed Special Issue intends to
illustrate this new trend in the philosophy of science on the basis
of exemplary instances.

The proposed theme is fairly open-ended, but contributions of the
following sort fall squarely within its scope:
- Investigations of the interaction between logical and
probabilistic methods in the methodology of the sciences;
- Applications of specialized logical tools and modelling
techniques to the methodology of particular sciences;
- New ideas for using logical techniques in the development of
rational reconstructions of scientific theories;

The application of novel logical modelling techniques to the
process of the evolution of scientific theories in response to new
empirical evidence.

Invited authors: Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol) and Gerhard Schurz
(D?sseldorf); Sonja Smets (Free University of Brussels) and
Alexandru Baltag (Oxford); Simon Huttegger (Konrad Lorenz Institute
for Evolution and Cognition Research); Otavio Bueno (University of
Miami).

The invited authors are kindly requested to limit their
contribution to between 15 and 20 pages (including bibliography).

Submission of Papers
Submitted papers are should be between 15 and 20 pages long
(including bibliography), and should be formatted according to the
Studia Logica LaTex style (see www.StudiaLogica.org). Some
contributions in Microsoft Word may also be accepted: authors
should consult the guest editors about this possibility. Only
electronic submissions will be accepted. The authors should send an
email with subject "Studia Logica Submission" to the guest editors
(Igor Douven, igor.douven@hiw.kuleuven.be and / or Leon Horsten,
leon.horsten@hiw.kuleuven.be ), with the file of the paper as an
attachment, and the following information in the body of the email
in plain text: paper title, author names, surface mail, email
address of the contact author and a short abstract.

Deadline for submission of manuscripts: June 30th 2007

All papers will be refereed according to the standards of the
journal. The refereeing process is expected to be finished by
December 2007 and the issue published in Spring 2008.