CFP: SYLLOS2: Second Symposium on the Languages and Logics of Syllogistics

Keynote speakers:

• Tomasz Jarmużek (NCU, Poland)
• More TBA

Call for abstracts:

SYLLOS2 invites submissions of abstracts for presentations on syllogistics in a broad sense. We welcome formal, philosophical, and historical contributions addressing, for example, Aristotle’s original syllogistic, Hellenic and medieval developments, and contemporary approaches to syllogistic reasoning, including both work in favour of and against syllogistics. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Aristotle’s syllogistic and its interpretation

• The languages and formal systems of syllogistic

• Hellenistic and late-antique developments

• Medieval syllogistic and its transformations

• Syllogistic and the history of logical theory

• Formal reconstructions and extensions of syllogistic

• Syllogistic reasoning and natural language

• Philosophical foundations and interpretations of syllogistic

• The relation between syllogistic and other logical systems

• Contemporary approaches to, and criticisms of, syllogistic

• Syllogistic, semantics, and consequence

• Applications of formal and computational methods to historical syllogistic

• Comparative studies of different syllogistic traditions

• New perspectives on the scope, limits, and relevance of syllogistic reasoning

We particularly welcome contributions that combine formal, philosophical, and historical perspectives and that bring new approaches to longstanding questions concerning the languages, structures, and logical foundations of syllogistic reasoning.

Submission deadline: 20 September 2026

Notifications: by 30 October 2026.

Please submit an abstract of 500 words to [email protected] and [email protected].