The Joint Conference of
The 3rd Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL 2016)
&
The 3rd Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (TPLC 2016)
First Announcement–
Call for Papers
5 (Wed.) − 8 (Sat.) October, 2016
The Program for Logic, Mind and Methodology (LMM),
Department of Philosophy,
National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan
We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract of a contributed talk to the Joint Conference of AWPL-TPLC 2016.
Deadline of the submission: 31 May, 2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE JOINT CONFERENCE
This is a joint conference of the Third Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL-2016,
http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/lmmgroup/) and the Third Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (TPLC-2016,
http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/lmmgroup/), organized by The Program for Logic, Mind and Methodology (LMM), Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, and held during 5-8 October 2016.
The aim of this conference is to strengthen the connection between logic and philosophy. In particular, we are hoping that more attention in future research will be paid to the philosophical study of logic, specifically, the study of the construction, and application, of logical framework appropriate for not only the analysis of philosophical concepts, but also the theorization of philosophical doctrines.
SPECIAL SESSIONS
Workshop on Williamson’s Philosophy (organized by S. C.-M. Yang)
Workshop on Mereology (organized by H.-C. Tsai)
SPEAKERS
Plenary/Keynote lectures
Robert Goldblatt (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).
Hiroakira Ono (Japan Advance Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
Achille C. Varzi (Columbia University, USA, for Workshop on Mereology)
Timothy Williamson (Oxford University, UK, for Workshop on Williamson’s philosophy)
Invited speakers
Katalin Farkas (Central European University, Hungary, on themes from Identity and Discrimination.)
Paul Hovda (Reed College, USA, for workshop on mereology)
Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua University, China)
Hanti Lin (University of California at Davis, USA)
Greg Restall (University of Melbourne, Australia, on themes from Modal Logic as Metaphysics.)
Nick Smith (University of Sydney, Australia, on themes from Vagueness)
Hsing-chien Tsai (Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan, for workshop on mereology)
JiJi Zhang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS
All researchers working on various aspects of philosophical logic are cordially invited to submit their abstracts by 31 May, 2016. Please note that deadline for the submission of abstracts for talks contributed to Workshop on Williamson’s philosophy is due 30 April, 2016. Authors should submit an (extended) abstract no less than one page but no more than four pages (A4 size, single space). Abstracts must be submitted as PDF files and sent to
Each submission will be reviewed. The Colloquium is open to everyone, and practical info will be available soon on the website.
POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION:
We are planning to publish a post-conference proceedings for the joint conference. It seems likely that a post-conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the LIAA-series by Springer. All authors of papers presented at the joint conference will be encouraged to submit a full length paper, and the deadline of the submission of full-length manuscripts will be around the end of December of 2016. All papers submitted will be refereed to high journal standards, and acceptance as a presentation is no guarantee that the post-conference paper will be published. Detailed information about the submission of full length papers will be announced later.
TRAVEL AWARDS
Free accommodation and travel awards for students and young researchers have been made available by the local organizing committee. In some cases full compensation of expenses is possible. The details, including general information about the awards and the instructions of application, will be announced later on the website. The deadline for travel award applications is June 30, 2016. However, it is strongly recommended that as long as you have the intention of submitting an abstract, please send us a note at your convenience as hotel-room preservation can be made the earlier the easier.
ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Fenrong Liu
Robert Goldblatt
Hanti Lin
Hiroakira Ono
H.-C. Tsai
S. C.-M. Yang (Chair)
LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
D.-M. Deng (National Taiwan University),
H.-C. Fu (Chinese Cultural University),
C.-J. Liau (The Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica),
S. C.-M. Yang (Chair),
J. J. Yuann (National Taiwan University)
FURTHER CONTACT:
For any enquiry/information please contact:
Appendix A:
INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN WORKSHOP ON PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC (AWPL-SERIES)
Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic, a series of biennial events established since 2012, intends to promote mutual understandings among researchers on philosophical logic in Asian countries and/or Australasian region, and to establish closer collaborations in future. Each workshop is open to all philosophers and logicians around these regions, who share a certain common interest in a variety of logical/philosophical issues. The scope of the Workshop includes, but not exclusively, the family of non-classical logics, algebraic logic, computer science, cognitive science, linguistics, game theory, etc., and their applications in a variety of philosophical issues.
The First Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL-2012) was held at the Research Center for Integrated Science (RCIS), Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) on February 15-17, 2012. More than twenty scholars were invited and a special session for discussing the possibility of collaborations in the near future. It was then widely agreed that the workshop should be extended to a biennial event henceforth. The Second Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic (AWPL-2014) was held at the Institute of Logic and Cognition, Sun Yat-sen University, April 12-13, 2014. A collection based on some selected papers from AWPL-2014, entitled ‘Modality, Semantic and Interpretation’, was published as the first volume of the book series ‘Logic in Asia’ (LIAA) by Springer.
Appendix B
INTRODUCTION TO TAIWAN PHILOSOPHICAL LOGIC COLLOQUIUM (TPLC-SERIES)
TPLC is a series of biennial conferences established since 2012 and is hosted by Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. The aim of the TPLC-series is to provide a forum for dialogues amongst philosophers and logicians with regard to a variety of issues and topics of current interest. We intend to bring together a group of logic-minded philosophers and philosophically oriented logicians so as to promote the development of logic and analytic philosophy in Asian area, especially in Taiwan.
The TPLC-series are open not only to interested local scholars. We also invite several distinguished international scholars as plenary/keynote/invited speakers and welcome contributed talks from abroad as well. To strengthen a closer connection with other philosophy communities in the neighbourhood, at the early stage of this series, the invited philosophers and logicians are mainly from Asian and Australasian regions.
The scope of this series of colloquium will cover: philosophical logic (in a broad sense), non-classical logics, algebraic logic, all kinds of semantics/logics relating to metaphysical/epistemological concepts and some issues in philosophy of language, philosophy of logic/mathematics, and their applications in computer science and cognitive science.
The first Taiwan Philosophical Colloquium (TPLC-2012) was held on December 7, 2012; and TPLC-2014 was held on October 24-25, 2014. Apart from two keynote speeches delivered by Robert Goldblatt and Hiroakira Ono, there were sixteen invited/ contributed talks by scholars from Australia, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Netherlands, and local scholars. A post-conference proceedings of TPLC-2014, entitled Structural Analysis of Non-Classical Logics, will be published as the second volume of the newly established book series ‘Logic in Asia’ (LIAA), by Springer in October 2015.