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Workshop on Connexive Logics

25-30 Jun 2015
Istanbul, Turkey

Workshop on Connexive Logics
at the Fifth World Conference on Universal Logic
(http://www.uni-log.org/start5.html)
25-30 June 2015, University of Istanbul

Description:

??odern connexive logic started in the 1960s with seminal papers by 
Richard B. Angell and Storrs McCall. Connexive logics are orthogonal to 
classical logic insofar as they validate certain non-theorems of classical 
logic, namely

??ristotle's Theses: ~(~A?A), ~(A?~A)

Boethius' Theses: (A?B)?~(A?~B), (A?~B)?~(A?B)

??ystems of connexive logic have been motivated by considerations on a 
content connection between the antecedent and succedent of valid 
implications and by applications that range from Aristotle's syllogistic 
to Categorial Grammar and the study of causal implications. Surveys of 
connexive logic can be found in:

??. McCall, "A History of Connexivity", in D.M. Gabbay et al. (eds.), 
Handbook of the History of Logic. Volume 11. Logic: A History of its 
Central Concepts, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2012, pp. 415-449.

??. Wansing, "Connexive Logic", in Edward N. Zalta (ed.), The Stanford 
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2014 Edition). 
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2014/entries/logic-connexive/.

??ecently, connexive logics have received new attention. This workshop is 
meant to present current work on connexive logic and to stimulate future 
research.

Keynote speaker:

Storrs McCall, McGill University, Canada

Organisers:

The workshop is hosted by Universal Logic 2015 and organised by Hitoshi 
Omori, (City University of New York, USA) and Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr 
University of Bochum, Germany).

Call for abstracts:

??ny papers related to connexive logics are welcome. Topics of interest 
include (but are not limited to) the following:

??* Historical considerations of the notion of connexivity
 	* Arguments for or against connexive logics
 	* Examinations of existing systems of connexive logics
 	* non-explosiveness of logical consequence

??ubmissions of extended abstracts (up to five pages) should be sent to 
both organizers as a pdf file at hitoshiomori@gmail.com and 
Heinrich.Wansing@rub.de.

??eadline for submission: December 1st 2014.

Notification of acceptance: December 31st 2014.