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This workshop is organized by the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of Ghent University, together with its partners in the Bilateral Scientific and Technological Cooperation Project BIL01/80 funded by the Science, Innovation and Media Department of the Ministry of the Flemish Community (Belgium) and by the State Committee for Scientific Research of the Republic of Poland.
The partners in this project are: Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (Free University of Brussels), the Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Science (University of Zielona Gora) and the Group of Logic and Cognitive Science (N. Copernicus University Torun). |
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| OUTLINE |
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Traditionally, the role and function of logic with respect to science is mainly seen as related to the organization of knowledge in theories, and to the inference of predictions from theories together with observational data. During the last thirty years or so, awareness has grown that this view is extremely one-sided. In the philosophy of science, attention has gradually shifted from products to processes. This led, for example, to the study of discovery processes and other problem solving processes. It also led to many contributions on the process of explanation. The forms of reasoning that occur in such processes impose novel requirements on logic. In view of this, the traditional approach to logic needs to be supplemented with new viewpoints as well as with new instruments. Moreover, according to many, classical logic has to be replaced in the present context. The traditional study of abstract relations and properties, such as derivability and theoremhood, or semantic consequence and validity, is typically product-oriented and has nearly nothing to offer for the understanding of the aforementioned reasoning processes. Even available results on computational matters are not of much use in this respect. One needs to articulate logical procedures that are suitable for explicating actual human reasoning. Evidently, this articulation has to be precise, and the procedures have to be philosophically justified and have to be carefully studied in metatheoretic terms. However, the metatheoretic properties and techniques may heavily differ from the traditional ones. For example, many such procedures do not strictly fit into the traditional definition of a proof. This situation was one source of inspiration for the co-operation project of which the present congress is an activity. A further source of inspiration was the great promise of adaptive logics and erotetic logics (and of their combination) for capturing dynamic aspects of reasoning that are beyond the reach of the traditional approach to logic. Although the four co-operating research groups have a clear and heavy programme, they are convinced that their research will be richer and more mature by the confrontation that this congress may provide. For this reason, members of other research groups are invited to present alternative approaches and to point out problems. It is neither required nor expected that contributions are formal in nature. The floor will be available for philosophers of science and historians of science as well as for logicians that favour alternative roads. |
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| COMMITTEES |
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Congress Chairs:
Diderik Batens and Erik Weber. Congress Committee: Diderik Batens, Adam Grobler, Joke Meheus, Jerzy Perzanowski, Jean Paul Van Bendegem, Erik Weber and Andrzej Wisniewski. Local Organizing Committee: Diderik Batens, Isabel D'hanis, Lieven Haesaert, Joke Meheus, Dagmar Provijn, Guido Vanackere, Liza Verhoeven and Erik Weber. |
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| PROGRAM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Thursday 17 October
| 9.30-10.00: Meet and Coffee 10.00 - 10.15: Opening Speech by Erik Weber 10.15 -11.15:
Coffee Break 15' 11.30 -12.30:
Lunch 90' 14.00 -15.00:
Coffee Break 15' 15.15 -16.15:
Coffee Break 15' 16.30 - 17.30:
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| Friday 18 October
9.00 -10.00:
Coffee Break 15' 10.15 -11.15:
Coffee Break 15' 11.30 -12.30:
Lunch 90' 14.00 -15.00:
Coffee Break 15' 15.15 -16.15:
Coffee break 15' 16.30 - 17.30:
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Saturday 19 October
9.00 -10.00:
Coffee Break 15' 10.15 -11.15:
Coffee Break 15' 11.30 -12.30:
Lunch 90' 14.00 -15.00:
Coffee Break 15' 15.15 -16.15:
Coffee break 15' 16.30 - 17.00:
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| CALL FOR PAPERS |
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We welcome papers on logical, methodological as well as historical aspects of the dynamics of reasoning in the sciences. Preference will be given to contributions that concern scientific explanation, causality, discovery, functional analysis, and confirmation.
Authors must submit an electronic version (PostScript, pdf or ms-word) of their abstract (max. 1000 words) to Lieven.Haesaert@ugent.be before 20 August 2002. Abstracts received will be acknowledged within ten days by e-mail. All abstracts will be carefully refereed. Abstracts will be handled in order of arrival, and authors will be informed about the decision as soon as possible and not later than 5 September 2002. Late abstracts will be accepted. However, authors should take into account that the refereeing process and the decision on the acceptance of the paper requires about two weeks. A selection of the papers will be published as a special issue of an international journal. |
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| REGISTRATION |
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All participants that are not official members of the co-operation project have to register by sending an e-mail to Dagmar.Provijn@ugent.be before 15 September 2002.
This e-mail must contain:
A registration fee of 50 EURO must be paid (in cash, no credit cards) upon arrival (members of the organizing research groups do not have to pay this fee). |
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ACCOMMODATION
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Unless you are from Torun or Zielona Gora, you are responsible
for your own accommodation.
We selected a list of nearby hotels of different categories. For more information about accommodation see the following sites:
If you meet any problems, please let us know. Ghent is a busy town. We advice you to arrange your accommodation as soon as possible. Some nearby hotels (starting with the expensive ones).
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HOW TO GET THERE
Address Faculteit Letteren en Wijsbegeerte, Universiteit Gent, Blandijnberg 2. tel: 09/264.37.85 By plane You arrive in Zaventem (Brussels airport). You can then easily reach Ghent ('Gent' in Dutch) by train. The railwaystation is at the lowest floor of the airportbuilding. Take the direct train to Ghent (railway station Gent St-Pieters). There should be at least one train going to Ghent every hour. Alternatively, first take a shuttle train to Brussels (railway station Brussel Zuid/Bruxelles-Midi), there take the train to Ghent. By train/tram Most international trains (including Thalys and Eurostar) arrive in Brussel Zuid/Bruxelles-Midi. There you can take the train to Gent St-Pieters. This train goes in the direction Brugge-Oostende, but Gent (Ghent) will always be mentioned as an intermediate destination. There is a train from Brussels to Ghent every 30 minutes till +/- 23.00h. The trip Brussels - Ghent takes less then 40 minutes. There is also a direct train connection from Lille (France, station Lille Flandres) to Ghent. Be careful: get off in Gent ST-PIETERS and not in Gent DAMPOORT. Outside the railway station Gent St-Pieters there are numerous stops for buses and trams to the centre of Ghent. To go to the conference centre , take trams 1, 10, 11, 12 or 13 in the direction Korenmarkt. Get off at Sint Kwintensberg. There, you follow the road upwards between the coffee-bar Illy and the pizzeria (the street is called Sint Kwintensberg). The university-building is on the top of the hill, on your left. By bus Eurolines offer a direct bus connection to Gent St-Pieters from nearly every big town in every European country. But if they don't, they most probably drive to Brussels (Brussel Noord/Bruxelles-Nord train station). From there take the train to Gent St-Pieters. By ferry Some ferry lines go from the United Kingdom to Oostende (Ostend). In Oostende you can take the train to Gent St-Pieters at the ferry terminal. By car You will probably come in on highways E17 or E40, which intersect near the city (see the map). Highway E17: via Antwerpen (Antwerp): from The Netherlands, GermanyHighway E40: via Oostende (Ostend): from The Netherlands, FranceIn both cases the elevated highway (B401) will take you directly to the centre of Ghent. When the highway comes down to ground level, go left at the first traffic lights (under the bridge) and go right at the second traffic lights. If you then go straight on, you will see a large parking square called Sint Pietersplein. From there you can see the university building (the building with the high square tower). MAPS OF GHENT We have following maps available:
GHENT IN A FEW PICTURES Gent (Ghent) is one of the oldest cities in Flanders, the Dutch speaking northern part of Belgium. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Schelde and Leie. Its name is derived form a celtic word for mouth, and it is known that the area was already inhabited in prehistoric times. Through the Middle Ages, it was among the most important economic centres of Western Europe. 
The three towers: Saint Nicholas' Church, the Belfry and Saint Baaf's Cathedral. 
The Graslei: part of the old harbour, with guild houses and warehouses along the river Leie. 
The Belfry 
The Gravensteen: medieval fortress of the Counts of Flanders. LINKS TO SITES ABOUT GHENT, FLANDERS AND BELGIUM
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| LINKS TO PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS |
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