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DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
(IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY)

PRESENTS

"LUKASIEWICZ IN DUBLIN" -- AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON THE WORK OF JAN LUKASIEWICZ

JULY 7-10 1996

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

This conference is sponsored by the Mind Association. The organisers also gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of: The Royal Irish Academy, Analysis Committee, The Department of Philosophy, UCD The Faculty of Arts, UCD

SUNDAY 7 JULY
1:30PM- 4:00PM

Parallel Session A1: Contradiction, Determinism and Time (i)

Christopher Adair-Toteff, (The American University in Bulgaria), "Jan Lukasiewicz and the Principle of Contradiction".

Arianna Betti, (University of Florence), "Lukasiewicz and Lesniewski on the Principle of Contradiction around 1911-1912".

Max Cresswell, (Victoria Univ. of Wellington), "Non-Contradiction and Substantial Predication".

Anna Luchowska, (University of Opole), "Lukasiewicz and the Principle of Contradiction".

Daisuke Kachi, (Saitama University, Japan), "Was Lukasiewicz Wrong?".

Parallel Session A2: Many valued logics

Francisco Jose Diez Ausin (University of San Sebastian) Lorenzo Pena (University of Madrid), "Lukasiewicz Logics and Transitive Logic".

L. Gordeev, (Tubingen), "Computability in Lukasiewicz Fuzzy Logic".

Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska, (University of Opole), "On the notion and function of rejection of propositions".

Ewa Orlowska (Polish Academy of Sciences), and Luisa Iturrioz, (Universite Claude Bernard, Lyon), "A Kripke-style and relational semantics for logics based on Lukasiewicz algebras".

John Williamson, (University of Liverpool), "Three Valued Logic".

MONDAY 8 JULY
9:30AM-1:00PM

Parallel Session B1: History of Logic

David Marshall, (University of Villanova), "Lukasiewicz's Reading of Aristotle".

Andrej Krzysztof Rogalski, (Catholic University of Lublin), "The influence of Jan Lukasiewicz as a Historian of Logic to Jan Salamucha".

Valentyn Omelyanchyk, (Institute of Philosophy, Ukraine), "Two Faces of J. Lukasiewicz's Aristotle's Syllogistic (2nd ed., 1957)".

11:00- 11:30 Coffee Break

Ursula Zeglen, (Catholic University of Lublin) "Lukasiewicz's interpretation of one of Aristotle's modal concepts".

Paul Thom, (The Australian National University), "Some Recent Interpretations of Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic".

John N. Martin, (University of Cincinnati), "Aristotle's Natural Deduction Reconsidered".

Parallel Session B2: Issues and Connections in Lukasiewicz's Work

Bernard Roy, (The City University of New York), "Are Terms Methodologically and Logically Prior to Propositions? The Logic of Port-Royal and Lukasiewicz".

Anna Kanik, (Jagiellonian University), "Participation of Lukasiewicz's Philosophy in Conventionalism".

Owen Le Blanc, ( Manchester), "Mutual Influence of Lesniewski and Lukasiewicz".

11:00- 11:30 Coffee Break

Marek Lechniak, (Catholic University of Lublin), "Lukasiewicz and the Ontological Approach".

Henning Hintze, (Nurnberg), "Lukasiewicz on the Problem of Individuation".

Alex Orenstein, (The City University of New York), "The Logical Form of Categorical Sentences".

2:30PM- 4:00PM

Peter Geach, (Leeds), "Equivalential Definitions".

4:00PM- 4:30PM Coffee Break

4:30PM- 7:00PM

Peter Simons, (Leeds), "Indistinguishable Twin Possibilities".

Grzegorz Malinowski, (Lodz University), Title to be announced

TUESDAY 9 JULY
9:30 AM-12:30 PM

Parallel Session C1: Contradiction, Determinism and Time (ii)

Greg Restall, (Australian National University), "Lukasiewicz, Supervaluations, and the Future".

Chris Daly, (Brasenose College, Oxford), "Lukasiewicz on Future Times and Truth-Values".

James Fahey, (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), "Lukasiewicz and McCall on Logical Determinism: Eternalism vs Ampliativism".

11:00- 11:30 Coffee Break

Marko Ursic, (University of Ljubljana), "Lukasiewicz's Idea of Temporary Limited Causal Chains and the Problem of Symmetry Between Past and Future".

Tomasz Placek, (Jagiellonian University), "A Puzzle About Conditionalization".

Parallel Session C2: Modal Logic

Jack Copeland, (University of Canterbury), "On Prior and Meredith's Anticipation of the Possible Worlds Semantics".

Jerzy Perzanowski, (N. Copernicus University), "Jan Lukasiewicz's contributions to Modal Logic. With forty down".

Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, (Jagiellonian University) "Why did Lukasiewicz abandon the concept of "pure" possibility?".

11- 11:30 Coffee Break

Tomasz Kowalski, (Jagiellonian University), "A Problem in BCK- Algebras".

Rudolf V. Fara, (LSE), "Quine and Lukasiewicz" (with video).

2:OOPM- 4:30PM

Alan Weir, (Queen's University, Belfast), "Indeterminacy and the Law of Non Contradiction".

Witold Marciszewski, (Warsaw University), "Polish Notation, Well- Ordering, and Praxeology".

4:30PM-5:00PM Coffee Break

5:00PM- 7: 30 PM

Graham Priest, (University of Queensland), "Alternative Logics and Non-Euclidean Geometries: a Tribute to Lukasiewicz".

Jan Wolenski, (Jagiellonian University), "On Logical Determinism".


Maria Baghramian,
Dept. Of Philosophy, University College, Dublin, Ireland


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