Studia Logica: A History of the Journal
Description
This book reconstructs and examines the complex history of Studia Logica, one of the world's leading journals in symbolic logic. While its origins can be traced to 1934, the journal has appeared as a continuous periodical since 1954. Its story is neither simple nor linear, shaped by shifting political contexts, intellectual alliances, and evolving research agendas, and in many ways more intricate than that of comparable journals beyond the Iron Curtain. This book recounts this history through the perspectives of those who shaped the journal-its editors, authors, reviewers, and readers highlighting how political change and academic networks influenced its development. The first part offers a chronological narrative of the journal's history, while the second turns to specific periods, from its early beginnings to its consolidation in the mid-twentieth century and its subsequent international expansion. This book provides both historians of logic and contemporary researchers with a deeper understanding of the role Studia Logica has played in the advancement of modern logic.
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Persons
Jacek Malinowski is a professor of logic and philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He received his Master's degree in Mathematic from the University of Lódz, Poland, and PhD and the habilitation in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. He held research positions at Free Univeristy of Brussels, Humboldt University in Berlin, University of Leipzig, the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study in Wasenaar. He publishes papers in algebraic logics, quantum logics, logical pragmatics. He is active as editor-in-chief of Studia Logica what he considers his main professional concern.
Adam Trybus (co-editor and co-author of main part of the book) ORCID: 0000-0003-4170-8665. He is an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. PhD (2011): School of Computer Science, University of Manchester. PI in a project funded by the Polish National Science Centre (2018-2022). Numerous research visits: University of Alberta, Canada; Bertrand Russell Research Centre, Hamilton, Canada; Clermont-Ferrand University, France; Erlangen, Germany; University of Salerno, Italy; University of Urbino, Italy; Chaux-de-Fonds Louis Couturat Archives, Switzerland. His work covers all aspects of logic: formal systems analysis (refutation calculus, paraconsistent systems), spatial reasoning (logic in AI), history (Chwistek, Russell, Lukasiewicz, Ladd-Franklin) and philosophy (principle of non-contradiction), informal reasoning and reasoning in LLM systems.
Content
Preface.- Chapter 1. An Outside-Inside View on Studia Logica (Heinrich Wansing).- Chapter 2. Holland Meets Poland, A Personal Story (Johan van Benthem).- Chapter 3. Studia Logica: A Long and Winding Road (Jacek Malinowski and Adam Trybus).- Chapter 4. The Origins of Studia Logica in the 1930s (Anna Brozek and Zofia Haleza).- Chapter 5. The Post-War Beginnings of Studia Logica (Katarzyna Gan-Krzywoszynska and Piotr Lesniewski).- Chapter 6. The Section of Logic and Studia Logica 1952-1961.- Who Was Who and Who Is Who in Studia Logica 1934-2026 (Rafal Palczewski).- Special Issues of Studia Logica 1975 - 2026.