The Nature of Logical Assessment

The Nature of Logical Assessment

Workshop | Santiago de Compostela, 10–11 June 2026

Submission deadline: 23 April 2026

This workshop explores logical discourse as evaluative discourse, focusing on how different conceptions of evaluation shape debates about logical disagreement and the status of competing logics. The starting point is the observation that logical claims about validity, consequence, and proof appear evaluative, yet logic also plays a constitutive role in reasoning itself. This tension gives rise to the problem of adoption: any attempt to justify, revise, or compare logical norms seems to presuppose some logical norms already in place.

The workshop will examine how this problem constrains approaches to logic and attempts to capture logical normativity, and will also shed new light on the longstanding debate about which logic is the correct one — engaging monism, pluralism, and nihilism through the lens of evaluative discourse. Special attention will be given to logical disagreement, and to how the term "logic" itself is understood across different contexts.

The workshop aims to:

— Clarify what it means to evaluate logically, distinguishing logical evaluation from other forms of normative assessment

— Illuminate the structure of logical disagreement (propositional, metatheoretical, etc.)

— Assess whether logical evaluation can be perspective-dependent without undermining objectivity

— Advance the debate over monism, pluralism, and nihilism by showing how attention to evaluation transforms these traditional questions

Invited Speakers:

• Frederik J. Andersen (University of Copenhagen)

• Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm University)

• Ole Hjortland (University of Bergen)

• Gillian Russell (Australian National University & University of St Andrews)

Submissions:

We welcome submissions for contributed talks. Abstracts of up to 1,000 words should be submitted to: [email protected]

Important Dates:

• Submission deadline: 23 April 2026

• Notification of acceptance: 8 May 2026

Organised by Eduardo Pérez Navarro, Dolores García-Arnaldos and Concha Martínez-Vidal (Episteme Research Group, Dpto. de Filosofía y Antropología, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)

Funded by the I+D+I project PID2024-156329NA-100 "The Varieties of Evaluation: Ineliminability of Perspective in Morality, Logic, and Science", funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF, EU.