25-30 Jun 2015
Istanbul, Turkey
Call for Papers Workshop on Medieval Logic at UNILOG'2015 ? 5th World Congress and School on Universal Logic June 25-30, 2015 ? University of Istanbul (http://www.uni-log.org/enter-istanbul) Submission Deadline for Abstracts (200-300 words) *November 15, 2014* As scholars are becoming more and more aware, one of logic?s most fruitful periods filed the five centuries between, roughly speaking, 1100 and 1600. This medieval tradition on logic exhibits an extraordinary richness extending its reach from creative reinterpretations of the syllogism, researches on the proprieties of the terms, logical consequence, inference, quantification, formalization, paradoxes, fallacies, to treatments of the relation between logic and natural languages. Since a couple of decades the material medieval logicians produced are being object of critical editions, on the basis of which new researches are on their way. Has little chance of losing who bet that there are quite a number of interesting logical reasonings waiting for us to be discussed in those texts. This UNILOG'2015 workshop will focus on the various and diversified contributions logical questions received in the medieval period. We invite scholars to submit abstracts of papers they would like to present (30-minutes including discussion) along the following themes: · Consequences · Deduction and Induction · Definition · Epistemic Logic · Fallacies · Formalization · History of Medieval Logic · Inference · Logic and Dialectic · Logic and Grammar · Logic and Natural Languages · Modal Logic · Obligations · Paradoxes · *Praedicabilia* · *Proprietates terminorum* · Quantification · Semantic Puzzles · *Sophismata* Literature · Square of Oppositions · Syllogisms · *Syncategoremata* · Temporal Logic · The Scope of Logic · Truth and Logic Abstracts should be sent before November 15, 2014 via e-mail to the workshop organizer, Rodrigo Guerizoli, rguerizoli@ufrj.br, Department of Philosophy, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, along with a brief biographical paragraph that includes your institutional affiliation. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by December 1, 2014. -- Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Guerizoli Programa de Pós-Graduação Lógica e Metafísica da UFRJ ? PPGLM/UFRJ Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais da UFRJ Largo de São Francisco de Paula 1/320B 20051-070 ? Rio de Janeiro, RJ tel.: +55 21 2252 8035 fax: + 55 21 2221 1470 http://ppglm.wordpress.com/