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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (Official university document is available at http://wns.ug.edu.pl/sites/default/files/_nodes/komunikat/61840/files/note.pdf ) Assistant Professorship (“adiunkt” in Polish terminology) in the Chair of Logic, Philosophy of Science and Epistemology is available at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology and Journalism, University of Gdansk, Poland. The position is to start some time between  July 1 and September 1, 2017, for a fixed period of time with the possibility of extension. Decisions about the exact beginning date of the contract and the number of years will be made during the hiring process. The successful candidate will be expected to do research in mathematical philosophy, teach about 230 hrs per academic year, apply for external research funding, participate in the research activities of the Chair, in the life of the department, and in the administrative work as necessary. Candidates for Assistant Professorship are required to: h...

PhDs in Logic is an annual graduate conference organised by local graduate students. This interdisciplinary conference welcomes contributions to various topics in mathematical logic, philosophical logic, and logic in computer science. It involves tutorials by established researchers as well as short (20 minutes) presentations by PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs on their research. We are happy to announce that the ninth edition of PhDs in Logic will take place at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, during 2nd - 4th May 2017. Confirmed tutorial speakers are : Petr Cintula (Czech Academy of Sciences) María Manzano (University of Salamanca) João Marcos (University of Natal) Gabriella Pigozzi (Paris Dauphine University) Christian Straßer (Ruhr-University Bochum) Heinrich Wansing (Ruhr-University Bochum) Abstract submission: PhD students, master students and first-year postdocs in logic from disciplines, that include but are not limited to philosophy, mathe...

The “Entia et Nomina” series features English language workshops for researchers in formally oriented philosophy, in particular in logic, philosophy of science, formal epistemology and philosophy of language. The aim of the workshop is to foster cooperation among philosophers with a formal bent. Previous editions took place at Gdansk University, Ghent University (as part of the Trends in Logic series), Jagiellonian University, and Warsaw University. The sixth conference in the series will take place in Palolem, Goa, India, on 29 January - 5 February 2017. Invited speakers confirmed so far include: Krzysztof Posłajko (Jagiellonian University) Katarzyna Kijania-Placek (Jagiellonian University) Tomasz Placek (Jagiellonian University) Nina Gierasimczuk (Danish Technical University) Cezary Cieślinski (Warsaw University) Marcello Dibello (City University of New York) Authors of contributed papers are requested to submit short (up to 2 normalized pages) and extended (up to 6 page...

The “Entia et Nomina” series features English language workshops for young researchers in formally oriented philosophy, in particular in logic, philosophy of science, formal epistemology and philosophy of language. The aim of the workshop is to foster cooperation among young philosophers with a formal bent from various research groups. The fifth workshop in the series will take place from 5 to 9 September in Warsaw, Poland. Invited speakers: Neil Barton (Kurt Godel Research Centre, Vienna, Austria) Laura Fontanella (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Zalan Gyenis (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary) Jacek Wawer (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) Authors of contributed papers are requested to submit extended abstracts of about 1000 words, prepared for blind-review (in pdf format), by  July, the 30th , 2016, to  entia2016@gmail.com . Authors of accepted papers will have 40 minutes to present their work. Each paper will be followed ...

When: December 1-2, 2016 Where: Institute of Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum < http://homepages.ruhr-uni- bochum.de/defeasible- reasoning/Argument-Strength- 2016.html > Description: Arguments vary in strength. The strength of an argument is affected by e.g. the plausibility of its premises, the nature of the link between its premises and conclusion, and the prior acceptability of the conclusion. The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from the fields of artificial intelligence, philosophy, logic, and argumentation theory to discuss questions related to the strength of arguments. Such questions include: -Which factors influence the strength of an argument? -What are the pros and cons of different formal representations of argument strength? -How to formally model qualifiers on the conclusions of arguments? -How does argument strength propagate when inferences are chained? -How do arguments accrue? -Can weaker arguments defe...