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Schotch-Jennings Logic Prize

March 14, 2018
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Congratulations to Jeff Pelletier, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and , and Allen Hazen (Philosophy, U of Alberta) who have won the inaugural competition for the  to be awarded in June at UNILOG 2018, the Congress in Universal Logic in Vichy.

The winning entry is entitled “K3, Ł3, LP, RM3, A3, FDE, M: How to make many valued logics work for you”. The paper will appear in the journal Logica Universales.

The prize is named in honour of Canada’s founders of the highly-influential preservationist approach to the logic of paraconsistent theories, Peter Scotch (Philosophy, Dalhousie) and Ray Jennings (Philosophy, SFU).

The S-J jurors were Bryson Brown (Lethbridge), Sandra Lapointe (McMaster), Jean-Pierre Marquis (Montréal), Wendy MacCaull (Acadia), with Alasdair Urquhart (Toronto) non-voting in the chair. The Schotch-Jennings Logic Prize was established by John Woods (Philosophy, UBC) and François Lepage (Philosophy, Montréal).

 

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