Celebration event in honour of Johan van Benthem


Saturday September 27


Saturday September 27: Workshop on the Future of Logic

Venue: Tobacco Theater, Nes 75-87, Amsterdam (map)

Prominent colleagues and friends of Johan van Benthem will give talks targeted at an audience specialized in logic. All colleagues and former students of Johan are invited to attend.

Logic, Mathematics and Computation

(Chair: Peter van Emde Boas)
09.30-10.00
Albert Visser (Utrecht)
Johan van Benthem and Löb's Logic (pdf)
10.00-10.30
Hajnal Andreka and Istvan Nemeti (Budapest)
The end of time (defining time and space experimentally) (pptx)
10.30-11.00
Balder ten Cate (LogicBlox Inc. & Santa Cruz)
An interpolation theorem for first-order formulas with relational access restrictions (pdf)
Break

Logic and Philosophy

(Chair: Frank Veltman)
11.30-12.00
Hannes Leitgeb (Munich)
New Foundations for Hyperintensional Semantics? (pdf)
12.00-12.30
Wesley Holliday (Berkeley)
From Beth to van Benthem: Possibilities for Intuitionistic, Classical, and Modal Logic (pdf)
12.30-13.00
Sergei Artemov (New York, Moscow)
Syntactic Epistemic Logic
Lunch

Logic, Language and Cognition

(Chair: Martin Stokhof)
14.30-15.00
Thomas Icard (Stanford)
Natural logic and vehicles of inference (pdf)
15.00-15.30
Dag Westerståhl (Stockholm)
The Geometry of Quantification. Climbing the number tree and other stories 
of generalized quantifiers (pdf)
Break

Logic, Games and Argumentation

(Chair: Alexandru Baltag)
 16.00-16.30
Samson Abramsky (Oxford)
Contextual Semantics (pdf)
16.30-17.00
Dov Gabbay (London)
What is a logical system 2020 (pdf)
17.00-17.30
Rohit Parikh (New York)
Grice, Hoare and Nash (pdf)

 18.30-20.00  Dinner
20.00- Party