[logic-ml] TPLCV-2020 - Call for Papers

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                         The Fifth Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (TPLCV-2020) 

                               With a main theme: “Epistemic Logic and Epistemology” 


Call for Papers 

5th (Thursday)-7th (Saturday) of November, 2020 
Venue: Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. 

http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/?p=4382 


Dear Friends: 

We are pleased to invite you to submit an abstract of a contributed talk to TPLCV-2020. 

Deadline of the submission: 30 June 2020 
Notification of accepted contributed talk: 20 July, 2020 


DESCRIPTION OF TPLCV-2020 

It used to be the case that the issues discussed in formal epistemology are different from 
the ones debated in the so-called mainstream epistemology. But ever since the 
publication of Timothy Williamson’s Knowledge and Its Limits, the gap between formal 
epistemology and mainstream epistemology has been narrower and narrower. The fifth 
Taiwan Philosophical Logic (TPLCV-2020), a three-day event, will be devoted to 
exploring and discussing topics related to mainstream epistemology, formal 
epistemology, and the intersection between them. 

ABOUT TPLCs 

The Taiwan Philosophical Logic Colloquium (TPLCs) is one of two series of biennial 
conferences established since 2012 and is hosted by Department of Philosophy, National 
Taiwan University, Taiwan. (The other is the series of Taiwan Metaphysics Colloquium 
(TMCs), established since 2013). Funding is mainly sourced from annual donation by Ms. 
Wendy Huang and Shun Yih Ltd. The primary concern of this funding is to enhance the 
research of logic and analytic philosophy in Taiwan. 

The aim of TPLCs is to provide a forum for dialogues amongst philosophers and logicians 
with regard to a variety of significant issues and topics from philosophical and logical 
perspectives. We intend to bring together a group of logic-minded philosophers and 
philosophically oriented logicians. We hope that TPLCs and TMCs will become two series 
of inspiring events so as to promote the development of logic and analytic philosophy, 
especially philosophical logic, metaphysics, and epistemology, etc., in Asian area, 
especially in Taiwan. 

In order to bring in more philosophical discussions in TPLCs, the organizing committee 
has set as the main theme for each TPLC, a particular topic/issue/problem, which has 
drawn considerable discussion recently. We are hoping that there will be a certain portion 
of talks focusing on the proposed main theme. The main theme of TPLCV-2020 will 
be ''Epistemic Logic and Epistemology''. 


Keynote speakers 

Melvin Fitting (City University of New York) 
Matt McGrath (Rutgers University, New Brunswick) 

Invited speakers 

Patrick Blackburn (University of Roskilde, Denmark) 
N. J. J. Smith (Sydney University, Australia) 

        And more to join us . . . 

A panel on margin for error principles in epistemology: 

Simon Goldstein (Australian Catholic University, Melbourne. Organizer) 
Julien Dutant (King’s College London) 
Jeremy Goodman (University of Southern California) . 


SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS 

All researchers working on various aspects of epistemic logic and general topics in 
epistemology are cordially invited to submit their abstracts. Authors should submit an 
(extended) abstract, which is about two but no more than four pages (A4 size, single 
space), together with some key words/phrases. Please note the details of all authors, 
including full names, titles, affiliations, email addresses). By convention, the first author 
will be the corresponding author, unless special notification is added. Each submission 
will be reviewed. Abstracts must be submitted in both document-format and in PDF-
format, and sent to Kok-Yong Lee [kokyonglee.mu at gmail.com]. 

POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION 

TPLCs has been flourishing since 2012 and we have had several successful conferences. 
We have published two volumes of post-conference proceedings, i.e. Structural Analysis 
of Nonclassical Logics (TPLC 2-2014), and Philosophical Logic: Current Trends in Asia 
(AWPL-TPLC 3-2016), in the ‘Logic in Asia’ (LIAA) Book Series, a subseries of Studia 
Logica Library, by Springer in 2015 and 2017 respectively. A book-proposal for the post-
conference proceedings for TPLC 4-2018 has been approved to be published as a Synthese 
special Issue entitled ‘Conditionals: Truth-Conditions, Probability and Causality’ 
(forthcoming), which will be included in the newly established book-series ‘Topic 
Collections’ of Synthese. 

Following the tradition of TPLCs, we are planning to publish the proceedings for TPLCV-
2020 as a new volume of the ‘Logic in Asia’ (LIAA) Book Series (Studia Logica Library, 
Springer), or some other venue. All authors of papers at the conference will be 
encouraged to submit a full length paper. 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. A formal schedule concerning the submission of 
manuscripts and some other details will be announced after the conference. Based on our 
previous experience, the deadline of the submission of manuscripts is more likely to be 
around the end of June, 2021. 

TRAVEL GRANTS FOR STUDENTS AND JUNIOR RESEARCHERS 

Free accommodation and travel awards for students and junior researchers have been 
made available by the organizing committee. In some cases, full compensation of 
expenses is possible. If you are eligible for application, please send the message to Kok 
Yong Lee (kokyonglee.mu at gmail.com) when you submit the abstract. The details, 
including general information about the awards and the instructions of application, will 
be announced later on the website (http://www.philo.ntu.edu.tw/?p=4382). 

ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE 

Lok-Chi Chan (National Taiwan University) 
Szu-Ting Chen (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.) 
Duen-Min Deng (National Taiwan University) 
Kok Yong Lee (National Chung Cheng University) 
Churn-Jung Liau (Academia Sinica) 
Hsuan-Chih Lin (Soochow University, Taiwan) 
Ren-June Wang (National Chung Cheng University) 
Syraya Chin-Mu Yang (Chair, National Taiwan University) 

FURTHER CONTACT: 

Kok Yong Lee [kokyonglee.mu at gmail.com] 
Lok-Chi Chan [lokchan at ntu.edu.tw] 
Syraya Chin-Mu Yang [cmyang at ntu.edu.tw]