CFP: Assertion and Proof

DESCRIPTION

The notion of assertion plays a key inferential role and has a long tradition in logic. It is a key ingredient in most logical systems, either implicitly or explicitly.

The idea of assertion thus appears strongly invariant across a range of logical theories, logical methods, and logical notations such as Frege’s Begriffsschrift, Heyting’s formalization of intuitionistic logic or Charles S. Peirce’s Existential Graphs just to mention some examples.

Aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars interested in the analysis of the logical notion of assertion and other related notions such as inference, proof, argument, meaning of logical constants that may receive an assertion-based interpretation.

SUGGESTIONS FOR TOPICS (non-exhaustive list):

- Logical systems for assertion

- Constructivism and assertion

- Assertion and denial

- Justification of inference

- Problem of un-asserted contexts and expressivism

- Logical aspects of assertion and negation

- Illocutionary and pragmatic logics for assertions and other speech acts

- Diagrammatic systems and assertion (e.g., existential graphs, assertive graphs, etc.)

- Assertion and content (propositional contents, assertion candidates, etc.)

- Assertion, knowledge, and ignorance

- Assertion and contexts

- Assertion-based meaning of logical constants

- Assertion and (formal) argumentation

- Assertion and grounding

- History and philosophy of the logical notion of assertion

A Satellite event to WAP 2019 is the workshop "Peirce on Assertion"

SPECIAL ISSUES

Following the workshop we will produce:

-          A special issue of Journal of Applied Logics - IfCoLoG Journal of Logics and their Applications on the themes of the meeting. Speakers at the workshop will be invited to submit full papers based on their talks for peer review.

-          A special section of the journal Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society. Speakers of the talks accepted in the satellite workshop  "Peirce on Assertion" will be invited to submit full papers.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please send an abstract of no more than 500 words to  [email protected]  by 5 July, 2019.

In the body of the email in which you submit the abstract, please include author name(s), the title of the talk and your affiliation. Include the abstract in a separate document (PDF) attached in the email with no identifying information in the document. Notification of acceptance/rejection will be given by 15 July, 2019.

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadline for submissions: 5 July, 2019

Notifications of acceptance: 15 July, 2019

Workshop dates:  12- 14 September, 2019

Junior scholars whose paper (on Peircean themes on assertion) is accepted to the satellite workshop "Peirce on Assertion" may apply funding from the Charles S. Peirce Society to partially cover their participation costs.

INVITED SPEAKERS:

Theodora Achourioti (ILLC, Amsterdam University College, University of Amsterdam)

Marcello D'Agostino (University of Milan)

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Tallinn University of Technology)

Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan)

Maria van der Schaar (Leiden University)

Göran Sundholm (Leiden University)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Theodora Achourioti (ILLC, Amsterdam University College, University of Amsterdam)

Cristina Barés Gómez (Universidad de Sevilla)

Francesco Bellucci (University of Bologna)

Roberto Ciuni (University of Padova)

Ciro De Florio (Catholic University, Milan)

Marcello D'Agostino (University of Milan)

Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam)

Matthieu Fontaine (University of Lisbon)

Bjørn Jespersen (Utrecht University)

Vittorio Morato (University of Padova)

Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Tallinn University of Technology)

Francesca Poggiolesi (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

Giuseppe Primiero (University of Milan)

Maria van der Schaar (Leiden University)

Fabien Schang (Universidade Federal de Goiás)

Göran Sundholm (Leiden University)

Luca Tranchini (Tübingen University)

Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr University Bochum)

LOCAL COMMITTEE:

Mario Castellana, Alfredo Di Giorgio, Antonio Negro, Giorgio Rizzo, Davide Sergio, Giacomo Signore.

INSTITUTIONS

University of Salento  - Student Council;

Charles S. Peirce Society;

Link Lecce; Filosofia in 3/4; Zei Lecce;

META - Social Sciences and Humanities for Science and Technology (Politecnico di Milano)

Laboratoire Disciplinaire Pensée des Sciences (Lecce)

ORGANIZERS:

Massimiliano Carrara (University of Padova)

Daniele Chiffi (Politecnico di Milano)

Caterina Annese (Zei, Lecce)