7th World Congress on the Square of Opposition

Event Dates

Sep 16, 2020 - Sep 20, 2020

Location

Leuven, Belgium

Submission Deadline

May 31, 2020

To submit a contribution send a one page abstract before April 20 2020 to: leuven2020@square-of-opposition.org. All talks related to the square of opposition are welcomed, in particular those falling under the categories below. Diagrammatic and Artistic works related to the square of opposition are also welcomed:

– HISTORY OF THE SQUARE

Aristotle, Apuleius, Boethius

Avicennes, oppositions in Arabic thought

Oppositions in Indian and Chinese thoughts

Buridan, Port Royal, Leibniz

Vasiliev, Hamilton, Schröder, Frege

Sesmat, Blanché

Piaget, Lacan, Greimas

– APPLICATIONS OF THE SQUARE

proof theory, model theory

debates and politics

psychoanalysis

music and arts

religion, theology

ethics and law

perception and cognition

– VARIATIONS OF THE SQUARE

squares of quantification

alethic, deontic, doxatic modal squares

semiotic squares

metalogical squares

paraconsistent and paracomplete squares

intuitionistic and linear squares

– EXTENSIONS OF THE SQUARE

cubes

hexagons and stars

octagons and decagons

polyhedra and polysimplexes

n-opposition theory

borromeans