ABOUT EVENT

We are delighted to inform that  the “São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Contemporary Logic, Rationality and Information – SPLogiC”, promoted by the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE) of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, will be held at Unicamp from July 13th to 24th, 2020.

 

Important deadlines & procedures:

– Applications from January 15th to February 22th, 2020

– Notification of acceptance till March 23th, 2020

– Fast application track:  https://splogic.org/call-for-entries/

– For further  info:  [email protected]

 

The School, funded by Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), celebrates the 90th anniversary of  Newton da Costa and aims at:

– Providing  an overview of the state-of-art methodology and research on contemporary logic (featuring non-classical logics), rationality and information.

– Attracting  qualified candidates to work on research institutions in the State of São Paulo.

 

The program comprises 9 courses and 9 plenary talks delivered in English by experts in each topic, as well as oral presentations (LED Talks) and poster sessions  by the students.

 

Topics to be covered include:

• History and Philosophy of Paraconsistent Logics
• The Australian, Belgian Brazilian,and Israeli schools on paraconsistency
• Logic and Reasoning
• Logic and Information
• Logic and Argumentation
• Methodological aspects on interpreting, translating and combining logics
• Logic, Probabiity and Artificial Intelligence.

 

The  event will select 100 fully-funded participants (50 grantees from all states of Brazil and 50 international grantees). Funding includes airfare, medical insurance, accommodation and meals throughout the two weeks.

Undergraduate, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (up to 5 years after completion of the Ph.D) from all countries are encouraged to apply.

For additional information visit the WebSite:  https://splogic.org