CFP: Continental Philosophy of Non-Classical Logics

Continental Philosophy of Non-Classical Logics

Call for Abstracts

Editors: Michael J. Ardoline and Corry Shores

Deadline for Abstracts: October 30th, 2026

We invite abstracts for chapters in an edited volume on the Continental Philosophy of Non-Classical Logics. Non-classical logics are formal systems which differ in some important way(s) from classical logic. Because classical logic is partially based on traditional views of rationality, a non-classical logic is then at least implicitly a critique of that view of rationality and its assumptions. Such critiques of rationality are central to the projects of many canonical philosophers in the Continental tradition. However, those philosophers rarely if ever formalized their views. Recently, scholars interested in both continental thought and formal logic have researched which non-classical logics might align with different continental thinkers' accounts as well as what new logics might result from a thinker's critique of rationality.

This volume will bring this work together for the first time and establish the subfield of Continental Approaches to Non-Classical Logics. We are interested in exegetical as well as original formal and non-formal work on this topic, from scholars coming from either a continental or analytic background. Related work so far has been produced on figures such as Hegel, Heidegger, Deleuze, Deleuze, and Laruelle. We hope this volume will contribute to deepening these studies, include works on canonical figures whose potential intersections with non-classical logic have not yet received sustained treatment (such as Levinas, Kristeva, or Foucault), and on new movements following form the continental tradition such as new materialism, speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and neo-rationalism.

Possible Topics (not limited to):

Relevance logics and sense

Continental critiques of logic extended to non-classical logics

Paracompleteness and totality

Feminist critiques of traditional rationality and non-classical reasoning

Paraconsistency and Heidegger

Kristeva, the abject, and the inclosure schema

Phenomenology, intuitionism, and contradictory experience

Badiou on negation and void

Difference, différance, and the law of identity

Ineffability and reasoning at the limits of thought

Hegel’s dialectic and dialethism

Modal logics and Deleuze’s critique of the possible

Possible worlds, impossible worlds, and life worlds

Non-classical logics and non-philosophy

Alterity and non-classical negation

Non-classical reasoning and the structures of experience

Undecidability, nonmonotonicity, and the event

Pluralism, truth gluts, truth gaps, and many-valued logics

Preliminary interest for this volume has been shown by Edinburgh University Press for their Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy series.

Please email your abstracts to: [email protected] . Abstracts should be between 300-500 words, include 5-6 keywords, and be in docx or pdf format. Abstracts should also include in a short bio with the author’s name, institutional affiliation, and relevant publications.

Deadline for Abstracts: October 30th, 2026

Notification of acceptance by: December 1st, 2026

Expected date for full chapters (6000-8000 words): June 30th, 2027

We welcome contributions by scholars at any stage of their career and independent scholars.

For further questions, please email: [email protected]