Syllogism and argumentation

The idea of this Workshop is to have an online event with exploratory talks about the relation between argumentation and the syllogism. Some of the research questions that guide our proposal are: a) Is there any difference between syllogism and argumentation? b) Is there any aspect of the syllogism that distinguishes it from argumentation? c) Would it be correct to maintain that argumentation is a syllogism that has more than three parts, where the fourth, fifth, and more parts are proofs of the truth value of the premises?

Talks

Lorenz Demey (KU Leuven). From Existential Import in Syllogistics to Translations between Modal Logics.

Sara Uckelman (Durham University). Christine Ladd-Franklin and the Syllogistic Problem She Solved.

Luca Gili (Université du Québec à Montréal). Aristotle’s Unified Method of Inquiry.

Marko Malink (New York University). To be confirmed.

Karel Sebela (Palacky University). Theory of Predicables and Sortal Logic.

Manuel Correia (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile). Minimal and maximal arguments.