• The 25th Amsterdam Colloquium will  feature a workshop on Semantics and Non-classical Logics.

Semantics and Non-classical Logics

Although classical modal logic is the gold standard for the study of meaning in natural language, classical reasoning has been both extended (for example, to account for truth-value gaps in the presence of presuppositions) but also revised, in the effort to explain linguistic data. Revisions of classical logic have been proposed for the study of vagueness, conditionals, anaphora, the propositional attitudes, and many other topics. In this workshop we want to bring together experts in logic and formal semantics to study the use of non-classical reasoning in Linguistics, the choice of a classical vs. non-classical treatment of a certain phenomenon, and the way forward. We welcome submissions that address these methodological questions, from a theoretical or from an empirical perspective, or that exhibit the benefits or shortcomings of classical and non-classical reasoning in a specific area of study.