21 July - 4 August 2024, Course "Logic as a Tool for Modelling", Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The course "Logic as a tool for modelling" is part of the VU Amsterdam's summer school. The aim of the course is to introduce participants to the study of various types of logic as a versatile tool for elegantly modelling diverse phenomena. The overarching theme in the handling of applications is the notion of categories and categorisation. The course starts by discussing classical logic, through both semantics and syntax, as well as applications in the social sciences, addressing agency, and information flow. Then it focuses on various theories of categorization from Aristotle's classical perspective to modern prototype and exemplar theory and introduces logical formalisms that encompass these various views. The last part delves into formal linguistics, where words are categorized based on their role in sentence formation.