SYSTEMS OF MATHEMATICS, LOGIC AND SCIENCE IN AFRICA

SYSTEMS OF MATHEMATICS, LOGIC AND SCIENCE IN AFRICA

31st January, 2024

UNESCO World Logic Day Nigeria 2024

Call for papers

14th January is World Logic Day set by UNESCO. As part of the year's World Logic Day celebration, we invite logicians, mathematicians, computer scientists, scientists and philosophers to our virtual conference on “Systems of Mathematics, Logic, and Science in Africa”

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Uduma Oji Uduma, National Open University of Nigeria

Sub-themes

Topics should be related to the following sub-themes:

- The status of number in African ontology

- Counting and number systems in Africa

- Traditional methods of measurements in Africa

- Traditional mathematical games in Africa

- The role of Africa in the development of mathematics

- Different valued logics and logic in Africa

- Is there an African logic?

- Debates and perspectives on African logic

- Indigenous scientific activities in Africa

- Methods of scientific enquiries in Africa

- Indigenous vital signs check, diagnosis and therapy in African traditional medicine

- Indigenous ways of knowing and knowledge justification in African epistemologies

- Indigenous technologies in Africa

- Artificial Intelligence and digital technology in Africa: Challenges and Prospects

Abstracts deadline:

Interested presenters can email their abstracts on or before 7th January, 2024 to: [email protected]

Organizers:

This conference is organized by the African Association for Logic, Philosophy of Science and Artificial Intelligence Ethics in partnership with the Department of Philosophy Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa; and the Department of Philosophy, Bingham University, Nasarawa State

Hosts: 

Ephraim Stephen Essien and Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam

Enquiries: [email protected]