For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar and http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/LogiCIC-Seminar/.

For more information and abstracts, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/ or here.

For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.

For abstracts and more information, see http://smartcognitivescience.wordpress.com/

For abstracts and more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/DIP-Colloquium/.

Drawing the line between science and pseudoscience is known to be a hard task that has haunted philosophers and scientists at least since the birth of the Galilean scientific tradition. Drawing inspiration from some works of Wittgenstein, and some of his intuitions on nonsense and the importance of practice, I try to outline a questioning procedure to help us place a couple of exemplary dubious practices on the one or the other side of the `worthiness' line. Most literature focuses on trying to obtain a demarcation between what's science ("and *thus* it's worthwhile") and what's not. My approach tries to go straight to what's worthwhile and what is not, by trying to clarify concepts such as `cure' and `effective therapy'. What needs have a healer for us to put our dear bones in their hands?

For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/coollogic/ or contact coollogic.uva at gmail.com.

Meeting of the board and consortium of the Language and Interaction project.

For more information, contact illc at uva.nl

Do Chinese and Westerners think and reason very differently, or do we think alike after all? How has communication between us been possible throughout history? In her talk Prof. Dr. Fenrong Liu of the University of Amsterdam and Tsinghua University will take the logical stance, introduce Chinese ancient logic, and explain how this indigenous tradition engaged with Western ideas from the 17th century onward. Prof. Dr. Fenrong Liu will illustrate how we can discuss the similarities and differences between our two traditions in a meaningful way.

Reference:F. Liu, J.Seligman and J.Zhai, eds, Handbook of Logical Thought in China, Springer, to appear.

For more information, see http://www.auc.nl/news-events/who-s-in-town/upcoming-whos-in-town-lectures/ or contact t.achourioti at uva.nl.

For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/alg-coalg or contact Sumit Sourabh (s.sourabh at uva.nl).

For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar

For more information and an abstract, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/LeGO-Seminar/.

On the occasion of Jeroen's retirement the ILLC and department of philosophy will organise a `borrel' at Kapitein Zeppos on Friday 19 September 2014. All are invited!

For more information, see http://www.zeppos.nl/ or contact illc at uva.nl.

For more information, see http://www.spui25.nl/programma/item/

For more information and abstracts, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/LaCo/CLS/.

For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar and http://www.illc.uva.nl/LoLa/LogiCIC-Seminar/.

Vaught's Conjecture states that the collection of countable models of a first-order complete theory in a countable language is either countable, or has the cardinality of the continuum. This talk provides an approach to Vaught's Conjecture, its importance in the mathematical logic field and some of the current developments around it. I will also discuss the controversy lead by Professor Knight from Oxford University when he claimed had a “counterexample” for Vaught's Conjecture in 2002.

For more information, contact coollogic.uva at gmail.com

On 26 and 27 September 2014 the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the University of Amsterdam organize a Celebration Event for Johan van Benthem, on the occasion of his official retirement from the University of Amsterdam. The first day will have lectures for the general public, Johan's valedictory lecture 'Fanning the Flames of Reason', and a reception. The second day is a scientific workshop devoted to current trends in logic, with emphasis on the areas where Johan was or is active.

For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/J65/

On 26 and 27 September 2014 the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) and the University of Amsterdam organize a Celebration Event for Johan van Benthem, on the occasion of his official retirement from the University of Amsterdam. The first day will have lectures for the general public, Johan's valedictory lecture 'Fanning the Flames of Reason', and a reception. The second day is a scientific workshop devoted to current trends in logic, with emphasis on the areas where Johan was or is active.

For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/J65/

For more information on this talk and future events please visit the website http://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/ or contact Thomas Brochhagen (t.s.brochhagen at uva.nl), Johannes Marti (johannes.marti at gmail.com), Masa Mocnik (masa.mocnik at gmail.com) or Julian Schloder (julian.schloeder at gmail.com).

Or see here.