DEADLINE EXTENDED: CFA: “Transgressing Boundaries: Unusual Applications of Formal Logic” (Deadline now April 22nd)

[Blandine De Becker]

Deadline extended (now April 22^nd) CFA : “Transgressing Boundaries: Unusual Applications of Formal Logic” 8-9 June 2026, Belgium

Transgressing Boundaries: Unusual Applications of Formal Logic 

Dates and place 

8-9 June 2026, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 

Invited speakers 

Franci Mangraviti (ETH Zurich) 

Ellie Ripley (Monash University) 

Gillian Russell (Australian National University) 

Elia Zardini (Complutense University of Madrid) 

Topics 

In this two-day international conference, we want to focus on non-traditional philosophical applications of formal logic. We welcome contributions in which logics are applied to unusual topics, but are equally interested in philosophical (meta-)reflections on the phenomenon of applying logic outside of its usual boundaries. Discussions about what the boundaries to the applicability of logic should be (if any) are also encouraged. 

We invite contributions related, but not limited, to: 

• Feminist logic 
• Logic and gender 
• Logic and (philosophy of) medicine 
• Logic and (philosophy of) religion 
• Logic and phenomenology 
• Logic and non-western philosophy 
• Philosophy of naïve or inconsistent mathematics 
• Vague language 
• Logic and climate science 
• Logic and free-will 
• Philosophy of logic 
• Etc. 

Mode 

The conference will be held in-person with the possibility of watching online. 

Length of talks 

The speakers give talks of 40 minutes, discussion included. 

Submissions 

Submitted abstracts are anonymous, in English between 500 and 1500 words. Young researchers (PhD students or recent PhDs) and researchers of underrepresented communities are particularly encouraged to submit an abstract. 

Submit abstracts in pdf format as the attachment of an e-mail to victoria...@uclouvain.be mentioning [Transgressing Boundaries] in the subject line. In the body of the email, please include your name, university affiliation, and paper title. 

Important dates 

Deadline for submissions: (now) 22^nd of April 

Notification of acceptance: 30th of April 

More information  

https://sites.google.com/view/transgressing-boundaries-2026  

Organizers 

Blandine De Becker 

Bruno Leclercq 

Peter Verdee 

Victoria Van Gheem 

Scientific Committee 

Heinrich Wansing, RUB Bochum 

Lorenz Demey, KU Leuven 

Thomas Ferguson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 

Jan Heylen, KU Leuven 

Francesca Poggiolesi, Université Paris 1, CNRS 

Sara Ayhan, Université de Tohoku 

Andrew Tedder, RUB Bochum 

Damian Szmuc, CONICET, Universidad de Buenos Aires 

Charles Pence, UCLouvain 

Hannes Leitgeb, LMU Munich 

Joke Meheus, UGent 

Financial Sponsors 

Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS 

CEFISES – Centre de Philosophie des Sciences et Sociétés – UCLouvain – Belgium 

National Centre for Research in Logic (Belgium) 

ISP – Institut Supérieur de Philosophie – UCLouvain – Belgium