What is reasoning?
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jean-yves beziau
Feb 5, 2026, 8:52:28 PM (8 days ago) Feb 5
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"What is reasoning?” is a central question of logic.
A talk on this topic would be very welcome to the congress we are organizing in July in Rio de Janeiro:
What is it? That's the Question!"
https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/
as well as other talks on some fundamental questions related to logic such as
- What is a paradox?
- What is a proposition?
- What is a contradiction?
- What is a proof?
- What is possibility?
- What is a connective?
- What is a consequence relation?
- What is a principle?
- What is a set?
Among keynote talks we already have “What is truth?” by Otávio Bueno and “What is identity?” by Décio Krause:
https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/k-speakers
In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) there are articles on various types of reasoning
https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=reasoning
but not an entry dealing with reasoning in a general way.
Same thing in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)
https://iep.utm.edu/category/s-l-m/logic/
I have been the editor of the IEP’s logic area since 2013 and an article on “What is reasoning?” would be very welcome!
This can be combined with a lecture at our event.
There is a connection between the question “What is X?” and an encyclopedia.
An entry from an encyclopedia (and/or the definition of a dictionary) can be considered as a starting point,
cf. the first of eleven procedures of the suggested methodology:
https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/methodology
Among our twenty keynote speakers
There are two who are authors of entries:
- Thomas Adajian, who will present the lecture "What is art?"
author of the SEP entry "The Definition of Art"
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/
- Kevin Timpe, who will present the talk "What is freedom?"
author of the IEP "Free Will" entry
https://iep.utm.edu/freewill/
Jean-Yves Beziau
Organizer of the World Philosophical Congress
"What is it? That's the Question!"
Rio de Janeiro, July, 27-31, 2026
https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/
What is it? That's the Question!"
https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/
as well as other talks on some fundamental questions related to logic such as
- What is a paradox?
- What is a proposition?
- What is a contradiction?
- What is a proof?
- What is possibility?
- What is a connective?
- What is a consequence relation?
- What is a principle?
- What is a set?
Among keynote talks we already have “What is truth?” by Otávio Bueno and “What is identity?” by Décio Krause:
https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/k-speakers
In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) there are articles on various types of reasoning
https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=reasoning
but not an entry dealing with reasoning in a general way.
Same thing in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)
https://iep.utm.edu/category/s-l-m/logic/
I have been the editor of the IEP’s logic area since 2013 and an article on “What is reasoning?” would be very welcome!
This can be combined with a lecture at our event.
There is a connection between the question “What is X?” and an encyclopedia.
An entry from an encyclopedia (and/or the definition of a dictionary) can be considered as a starting point,
cf. the first of eleven procedures of the suggested methodology:
https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/methodology
Among our twenty keynote speakers
There are two who are authors of entries:
- Thomas Adajian, who will present the lecture "What is art?"
author of the SEP entry "The Definition of Art"
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/
- Kevin Timpe, who will present the talk "What is freedom?"
author of the IEP "Free Will" entry
https://iep.utm.edu/freewill/
Jean-Yves Beziau
Organizer of the World Philosophical Congress
"What is it? That's the Question!"
Rio de Janeiro, July, 27-31, 2026
https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/
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