Logic WG

Logic Working Group, Spring 2022

Location: 502 JCC
Time: Wed 4:30-5:30
Textbooks: Priest, Graham: An Introduction to Non-Classical Logic, 2nd edition. CUP, 2008.


A working group interested in mathematical, computational, and philosophical aspects of logic.


DateTopicSpeaker
Jan 26IntroductionDavid Smyth
Feb 02Switches Paradox
Completeness Theorem for PL
David Smyth
Feb 09GP 2-3
Modal Logic
Possible-worlds-semantics and taxomony of modal logics
David Smyth
Feb 16GP Ch 4-6
Non-normal Modal Logic
Intuitionistic Logic
David Smyth
Feb 23Tableaux, Natural Deduction, Soundness and CompletenessStudents Only
Mar 2GP Ch 7-8
Many-valued Logics, FDE
Relation between Logics and Algebraic Geometry
David Smyth
Mar 9An Internal Logic of a CategoryMax Jeffs
Mar 16GP Ch 9-10
Relevance Logics
David Smyth
Mar 30Types and Proof Assistants
[webpage] [slides]
George McNinch
Apr 6GP Ch 12-16
First-Order Logic
Quantified Modal Logic
David Smyth
Apr 13Bisimulations in Modal LogicDilip Ninan
Apr 20C.S. Peirce's Diagrammatic Calculus
[slides]
Gianluca Caterina
Apr 27Wrapping up
Tarski On the Concept of Followling Logically
Note: trans. of original paper starts at p.23
David Smyth