---------- Forwarded message ---------- ============================================================================================ The Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of Ghent University was founded in 1993. On occasion of its 20th anniversary the Centre organises an international Conference on Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLPS13) on the themes that are central to its research:
- Logical analysis of scientific reasoning processes - Methodological and epistemological analysis of scientific reasoning processes Conference dates: 16-18 September 2013 Keynote talks will be given by Diderik Batens (the founder of the Centre), three logicians (Natacha Alechina, Graham Priest and Stephen Read) and three philosophers of science (Hanne Andersen, Hasok Chang, and Jim Woodward). We will also schedule parallel sessions with contributed papers and special symposia with a limited number of papers. I organise a symposium entitled 'Solving/handling/avoiding paradoxes by means of non-classical logics' (symposium #11). Description of the symposium: This symposium aims at novel and original approaches to solve, handle or avoid a particular kind of paradoxes by means of non-classical logics. The kind of paradoxes considered here cause intuitively sound and valuable principles to trivialize when combined with classical logic. The naive truth schema, the full comprehension schema and the principle of tolerance for vague predicates are typical examples of such intuitively valuable principles. It is generally known that, in a classical logic setting, these principles lead to several disastrous paradoxes such as the Russell, Curry, Liar and sorites paradoxes. There are two ways to solve these paradoxical problems. Either one revises the intuitive principles involved or one revises the logical machinery. Here we investigate the second option. Nowadays, non-classical logic has become a fully developed discipline with many well-established and philosophically well-motivated formal techniques in different directions (paraconsistent, paracomplete, fuzzy, relevant, substructural, non-monotonic and many other logics). With this toolbox at hand, one can start an open minded search for sensible logical solutions to either avoid, handle or solve the paradoxes and thus provide new philosophical perspectives on those topics that are susceptible to paradoxes. If you want to present a paper at this symposium, please upload an abstract in PDF format (between 500 and 1000 words) to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=clps13 before 1 April 2013. You will be asked to choose between one of the following submission categories: - Logical analysis of scientific reasoning processes - Methodological and epistemological analysis of scientific reasoning processes - Symposium submission Select the last option and mention the symposium number in the title of your abstract. If you do not have an EasyChair account you can create one here: https://www.easychair.org/account/signup.cgi. Unfortunately, we cannot offer any financial support for symposium speakers. Neither can we waive the registration fee. All abstracts for symposia will be refereed by the organisers and other members of the programme committee. Notification of acceptance will be given by 15 May 2013. All further information (e.g. accommodation, registration, maps) can be found at the conference website: http://www.clps13.ugent.be/. The programme will be available on the website by 1 July 2013. ============================================================================================ _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list Logica-l@dimap.ufrn.br http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
