CALL FOR PAPERS

The Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, announces

LOGICA 2016

the * 30th * in the series of annual international symposia devoted to logic,
to be held at Hejnice (in northern Bohemia, about 2.5 hours from Prague), 20 – 24 June 2016.

Invited speakers are Kit Fine, Sara Negri, Nick Smith, and Neil Tennant.

The first session begins on the morning of Tuesday June 21. The symposium closes at noon Friday June 24.

The official language of the symposium is English. Contributions devoted to any of the wide range of logical problems are welcome except those focused on specialized technical applications. Particularly welcome are contributions that cover issues interesting both for ‘philosophically’ and for ‘mathematically’ oriented logicians.

The guidelines for submissions can be found at

http://logika.flu.cas.cz/en/logica

The deadline is 15 February 2016. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of March.

The fee for the symposium is 430 EUR for participants and 300 EUR for accompanying persons. The fee covers full board and lodging at Hejnice Monastery during the symposium, the conference coach from Prague to Hejnice and back, and (for participants) a copy of the volume containing contributions to the symposium.

Members of the Logica 2016 Programme Committee are: Marta Bílková, Patricia Blanchette, Francesco Berto, Georg Brun, Petr Cintula, Roberto Ciuni, Michael Dunn, Christian Fermüller, Kit Fine, Gary Kemp, Vojtěch Kolman, David Makinson, Sara Negri, Carles Noguera, Jaroslav Peregrin, Hans Rott, Gabriel Sandu, Sebastian Sequoiah Grayson, Nick Smith, Neil Tennant and Zach Weber.

Contributions to Logica symposia are published in The Logica Yearbook series (College Publications). Previous volumes include papers from Nuel Belnap, Johan van Benthem, Kosta Došen, Melvin Fitting, Bob Hale, Wilfrid Hodges, Jaakko Hintikka, David Lewis, Jeff Paris, Barbara Partee, Stephen Read, Greg Restall, Gabriel Sandu, Howard Sobel, Stewart Shapiro and many others.

Scholars from countries with underfunded academic institutions are invited to apply for a reduction of the conference fee. In exceptional cases the organizing committee may cover the entire fee. Those who wish to apply for the reduction should explicitly state so when submitting their abstract, which should be extended to four pages.

All correspondence concerning the symposium should be directed to

logica@flu.cas.cz

or to:

Vít Punčochář & Vladimír Svoboda
Co-chairs of the Organizing Committee of Logica 2016
Institute of Philosophy
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Jilská 1, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic