----------PLEASE POST---------- FoLLI Workshop on LOGICS FOR LINGUISTICS, PHILOSOPHY, AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE Chiba University, Chiba, Japan December 5-7, 1996 First Announcement Chiba University will host an informal workshop focusing on logic and its applications to linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science, under the auspices of the European Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI). The workshop will be the first official event of FoLLI to be held in Japan. Its aim is to help establish a steady flow of researchers in logic and neighboring disciplines between Europe and Japan and contribute to advances in the study of logic, language and information. Financial support will be provided by the Japan Foundation (Kokusai Kouryuu Kikin), an organization under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan. Invited Speakers Natasha Alechina (University of Birmingham) Patrick Blackburn (University of the Saarland) Willem Groeneveld (University of Amsterdam) Wilfrid Hodges (University of London) Dick de Jongh (University of Amsterdam) Makoto Kanazawa (Chiba University) Hirofumi Katsuno (NTT) Marcus Kracht (Free University of Berlin) Kuniaki Mukai (Keio University) Misao Nagayama (Tokyo Woman's Christian University) Mitsuhiro Okada (Keio University) Hiroakira Ono (JAIST) Maarten de Rijke (University of Warwick) Frank Veltman (University of Amsterdam) Yde Venema (Free University of Amsterdam) Frank Wolter (JAIST) Heinrich Wansing (University of Leipzig) Dag Westerstahl (University of Stockholm) Michael Zacharyaschev (Free University of Berlin) Submission In addition to invited talks, we will be able to have a limited number of contributed talks. Suitable topics for talks include, but are not limited to: - modal and temporal logic - constructive and substructural logics - non-monotonic logic and belief revision - generalized quantifiers - logical approaches to natural language syntax and semantics - philosophy of logic Authors are invited to submit a one page abstract together with (a draft of) the full paper or a closely related paper. LaTeX source or PostScript submissions should be sent to: folli@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp If you prefer conventional mail, please send three hard copies of your submission to: Makoto Kanazawa Faculty of Letters, Chiba University 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, 263 Japan The cover page should include title, authors, and the email and postal addresses of the contact author. To be considered, submissions must be received no later than September 1, 1996. Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their paper by October 1, 1996. Tutorials We plan to have some short tutorial sessions on December 3 and 4, immediately preceding the workshop. Scheduled lecturers and *tentative* topics are: Wilfrid Hodges Model-Theoretic Games Maarten de Rijke Advanced Modal Logic Dag Westerstahl Generalized Quantifers Conference Site Chiba University is about 40 minutes' train ride from Narita Airport (serving Tokyo); it is conveniently located halfway between Narita and downtown Tokyo. Local Organizing Committee Makoto Kanazawa Syun Tutiya Takashi Iida Program Committee Maarten de Rijke Hiroakira Ono Makoto Kanazawa About FoLLI FoLLI was founded in 1991 to advance the practising of research and education on the interfaces between Logic, Linguistics, Computer Science, and Cognitive Science and related disciplines in Europe. Its activities include electronic newsletters, annual summer schools, a quarterly journal (Journal of Logic, Language and Information), and a book series (Studies in Logic, Language and Information, published by CSLI publications and distributed by Cambridge University Press), as well as many ad hoc events. For more information about FoLLI, please visit FoLLI's home page: http://www.fwi.uva.nl/research/folli/ Further Information For further information about the workshop, please visit one of our WWW sites: http://www.l.chiba-u.ac.jp/folli/ http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~mdr/chiba/ You may also contact the local organizer: Makoto Kanazawa Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences Faculty of Letters, Chiba University 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba-shi, 263 Japan kanazawa@cogsci.l.chiba-u.ac.jp Tel: +81-43-290-3632 (o) +81-43-243-6506 (h) Fax: +81-43-290-2278