CfP: Practices of Reading and Writing in Logic (23-24 June 2018)
Call for Papers:
Practices of
Reading and Writing in Logic (Vichy, France, 23-24 June 2018)
A workshop within UNILOG ’18, The Sixth World
Congress and School on Universal Logic
A great deal of the working logician’s job is: to write – and read. This holds in at least two senses:
First, to work a problem in logic, it is necessary
to apply certain rules for transformation or deduction. In order
to apply these rules correctly, you may produce inscriptions and
watch a sequence of transformations of an initially given
formula, i.e., you may write down the consecutive steps
and eventually read off the result.
Secondly, communicating logical problems (and
solutions) inevitably requires activities of writing for
an audience, and most commonly producing at least some bits of
prose. But participating in the ‘logical community’ will also
require to work through writings of others. Hence activities
of reading are necessary, too.
Moreover, the range of available input may depend
on activities of selecting and systematizing contributions to
logical research. Hence what there is for you to read
may to a great extent depend not only on what has been
written, but also on what – and how it – has been read
by others.
The presently announced workshop aims at an account
of logic as construed from logicians’ practices of writing and
reading in both respects. Further interests are activities of
commenting or reviewing, and of publishing and collecting. In
order to take an interdisciplinary stance, the workshop will
allow for a variety of approaches.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Volker Peckhaus (University of
Paderborn), Editor-in-Chief of History and Philosophy of Logic
Prof. Dr. Dirk Schlimm (McGill University Montreal;
LMU Munich)
PD Dr. Matthias Wille (University of Paderborn)
Topics for contributions may include, but are not
restricted to:
- Questions of notation in logicians’ formalizations
- Questions of literary style in logicians’ prose
- Tools for collaborative research in logic
- Bibliometrical research on logic publications
- Bibliographies and catalogues of logical literature
- The role(s) of logic journals
- The role(s) of reviewing sections in logic journals
- Translations of logical literature
- Logicians’ publishing activities
- Logicians’ reviewing activities
- Logicians’ perusal of public or research libraries
- Logicians’ private libraries and collections
- Correspondence among logicians
- Correspondence among logicians and publishers
Contributed talks should not exceed 30 minutes
including discussion.
To submit a contribution, please send a one-page
abstract by September 15, 2017: annasoph@mail.uni-paderborn.de
For further information,
also see the Unilog ’18 website: https://www.uni-log.org/
