CFP: Services to Logic: 50 Years of the Logicians' Liberation League

Submission deadline: July 1, 2019

Conference date(s):
October 24, 2019 - October 29, 2019

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Conference Venue:

Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, National Autonomous University of Mexico
Mexico City, Mexico

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2019 marks the 50th anniversary of Bob Meyer’s reading of the Manifesto that would give rise to the Logicians' Liberation League. A four-day meeting (happening within October 24-29) in Mexico City will be organized to honor the venerable history of this anarchic aggrupation.

INVITED SPEAKERS

Jon Michael Dunn --- Boss of Bloomington

Graham Priest --- Prince of Darkness

Jc Beall --- Beallzebub, Prince of Glutany (Archbishop of Connecticut)

Edwin Mares --- Identity of Relevance

Zach Weber --- Cardinal of Comprehension

Hitoshi Omori --- Keeper of Classical Residue

Heinrich Wansing --- Cardinal of Connexivity

Gillian Russell --- Master of Deviant Meaning

Thomas Ferguson --- Bastard of Boethius

Eduardo Barrio --- Baron of Buenos Aires

Nicole Wyatt --- Priestess of Pluralisms

Andrew Tedder --- Creator of Cartesian Consequence

More generally, this event is also meant to be a meeting that brings together logicians from all trades and backgrounds. There will be available slots for up to eight contributed papers for one-hour presentations (discussion included). Any papers related to

  • non-standard logics, especially relevant/relevance logics, paraconsistent logics and contra-classical logics
  • paradoxes of truth, sets or properties
  • dialetheism, noneism, trivialism
  • the meanings of 'implies', 'fuse', 'not', 'in Australia' and other logical connectives
  • the works of Bob Meyer, Richard Routley, Valerie Plumwood or any other member of the LLL
  • the history and philosophy of logic
  • and even classical logic

are welcome.

Women and members of minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. Submissions of abstracts (up to 1000 words) should be sent as a pdf file ready for blind review at [email protected]. Authors should submit their contact details, including paper title, affiliation and email address as a separate pdf.

Deadline for submissions: July 1st, 2019.

Notification of decisions: August 30th, 2019.

The workshop has no associated registration fee, but accepted contributors will be required to fund their own travel and accommodation.

ORGANIZERS

The conference is organized by Luis Estrada-González (The Trivial One) and Elisángela Ramírez-Cámara. For any inquiries, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Atocha Aliseda Llera, IIF-UNAM, Mexico

Axel Barceló, IIF-UNAM, Mexico

Bogdan Dicher, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Paul Egré, Institute Jean Nicod, France

Luis Estrada-González (The Trivial One), IIF-UNAM, Mexico

Francesco Paoli (Pope Francesco, Theology of Substructural Liberation), University of Cagliari, Italy

Daniel Skurt, Ruhr-Universtität Bochum, Germany

Long live Logic!

The event is supported by the PAPIIT Project IN 403719 "Intensionality all the way down: a new plan for logical relevance", UNAM's Institute for Philosophical Research, as well as by the Graduate Programs in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy through the PAEP funds.


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