CFP: Trends in Logic 18: Fine-Grained Semantics for Modal Logic

The 18th Trends in Logic international conference,
Fine-Grained Semantics for Modal Logic:
Formal and Foundational Issues,
http://www.unicatt.it/meetings/trends2018

will be held at the Catholic University of Milan, Milan, Italy, September 24–27, 2018.

* Conference description:

In the last few decades an impressive amount of foundational research in philosophical logic has been devoted to the development of semantical tools which provide sufficiently fine-grained semantics to deal with important topics of pure and applied modal logic, such as the representation of situations, states of affairs, structured contents, hyperintensional contexts, and agent-related attitudes, like epistemic and prohairetic attitudes. A number of different modal frameworks have emerged to tackle these themes such as:
•       explicit semantics (developing syntactic approaches)
•       situation semantics (developing possible worlds semantics)
•       topological semantics (developing neighborhood semantics)
•       truthmaker semantics (developing algebraic and states semantics)

The aim of this conference is to study the potential of these approaches and to explore new connections between them, by providing a forum to present new ideas and analytical methods. We welcome both logical contributions, providing novel solutions to crucial problems in the field, and foundational contributions, focusing on the conceptual frameworks underlying these approaches and the possibility of combining them. 

* Invited Speakers

Sergei Artemov (New York)
Marta Bílková (Prague)
Hannes Leitgeb (Munich
Sonja Smets (Amsterdam)

* Submission:

We invite submissions for 30 minute presentations, with 10 additional minutes for discussion. Please send a 1000-word abstract in PDF prepared for blind review. All abstracts should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair submission page https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trends20180

* Important dates:

•       Deadline for submission: May 30, 2018
•       Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2018

*Publication: 

We plan to publish a Studia Logica special issue on the subject of fine grained semantics based on best conference submissions.  

For more information please visit
http://www.studialogica.org