The Group of Logic, Language and Computation (GLLC), an informal research alliance spanning the departments of Computer Science and Philosophy at King's College London, is disintegrating due to budget cuts and questionable managerial decisions that have targeted several academics for redundancy, including Dr. Anatoli Degtyarev, Dr. Jonathan Ginzburg, and Dr. Odinaldo Rodrigues at Computer Science, and Prof. Shalom Lappin and Dr. Wilfried Meyer-Viol at Philosophy---all of them highly respected researchers and successful teachers.
The letter below has been written in response to these deplorable actions. It was signed by 243 scientists in the space of just three days and sent to senior KCL management on the 7th of February 2010 (a further 63 people signed shortly afterwards).
See the main page for more information on the KCL crisis.
To:
February 7, 2010
OPEN LETTER: The Future of Logic, Language and Computation at KCL
This is an open letter that has been signed by 243 scientists.
It is available on the Internet at http://sites.google.com/site/kclgllcmeltdown/international-letter.
Dear Prof. Trainor, Prof. Hoggart, Mr. Mottershead, Prof. Palmowski,
News has reached us that, as part of the restructuring exercise currently taking place at KCL, you are planning to dismiss a number of members of staff in the Departments of Computer Science and Philosophy that host a highly successful research tradition in Logic, Language and Computation at your institution. As members of the international community in this field, we are writing to you to add our voices to those of the many distinguished colleagues who have contacted you already and to express our grave concerns regarding the recent developments at KCL.
The Group of Logic, Language and Computation, spanning the departments of Computer Science and Philosophy at KCL, enjoys an outstanding international reputation for its work on the foundations and practice of information, and its repercussions in many disciplines, from Computer Science and Mathematics to Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy.
Through the pioneering work of the members of this group, KCL has been able to position itself as a centre of excellence in this field as well as an international hub of activities. There are few institutions in the world that can muster a similar concentration of expertise in this important interdisciplinary research domain, and in the UK your institution has long been the undisputed leader.
It is our understanding that the current plans foresee to eliminate four positions at the Department of Computer Science and three positions at the Department of Philosophy. This will, for all practical purposes, amount to shutting down interdisciplinary research at the interface of Computer Science and the Humanities. Such a move will leave a serious gap in the research profile of KCL and severely harm its scientific status.
The planned cuts are all the more deplorable since they affect a field that is very much alive, and at the vanguard of European research. For instance, the annual European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) attracts hundreds of graduate students each year, and the European Science Foundation has recently initiated a major funding programme targeting interdisciplinary research in Logic and Intelligent Interaction (LogiCCC). There are very good reasons for this trend. The fundamental scientific problems addressed are crucial to understanding our current information society, and they also form a coherent agenda across traditional disciplines, making for the coherence of academic institutions from the sciences to the humanities. At the same time, the distance from theory to practice is often startlingly small in this area, and in fact, your group at KCL has been instrumental in making links with areas as diverse as natural language processing, data base design, and argumentation studies.
We therefore seriously urge you to reconsider your plans to shut down research in Logic, Language and Computation at King's College London. Implementing the planned cuts will only save relatively little money, and these short-term savings will come at the cost of a great and irreparable loss in reputation for your esteemed institution.
Sincerely,
Johan van Benthem
University Professor of Pure and Applied Logic, University of Amsterdam
Henry Waldgrave Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences,
the Academia Europaea, and the Institut International de Philosophie
Dana S. Scott, FBA, FNAS, MAE, FAAS, FACM
University Professor Emeritus
Carnegie Mellon University
Visiting Scholar
University of California, Berkeley
Moshe Y. Vardi, FACM, MAE, FAAAI, FIEEE
George Professor in Computational Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
Samson Abramsky, FRS, MAE
Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing
Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK
Anthony G Cohn, FBCS, FIET, FAAAI, FAISB, FECCAI
Prof. of Automated Reasoning
University of Leeds
Wilfrid Hodges, FBA
Herons Brook, Sticklepath
Okehampton EX20 2PY
Mark Steedman, FBA, FRSE, MAE
Professor, School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK
Neil Immerman, FACM
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Amherst, MA, USA
Joseph Halpern, FACM
Professor
Computer Science Department
Cornell University
Dexter Kozen, FACM
Joseph Newton Pew, Jr Professor
Computer Science
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York, USA
Jeff Paris, FBA
Professor
School of Mathematics
University of Manchester
Robert Goldblatt, FRSNZ
Professor of Pure Mathematics
Center for Logic, Language and Computation
Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand
Grigori Mints
Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics
Stanford University
Member of Estonian Academy of Sciences
Erik Sandewall
Professor of Computer Science
Linköping University, Sweden
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences,
and Academia Europaea
James Higginbotham, FBA
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy & Linguistics
Chair, Department of Linguistics
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, USA
Joan Bresnan
Sadie Dernham Patek Professor Emerita in Humanities and
Senior Researchers, Center for the Study of Language and Information
Stanford University
Fellow and former President of the Linguistic Society of America
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
John Woods, FRSC
Director, The Abductive Systems Group
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Greg Restall FAHA
Associate Professor of Philosophy
School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Alasdair Urquhart
Professor Emeritus
Philosophy and Computer Science
University of Toronto
Vice-President, Association for Symbolic Logic
Melvin Fitting
Professor, Departments of Computer Science, Philosophy, Mathematics
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
New York
Nuel Belnap
Alan Ross Anderson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy
Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J. Michael Dunn
Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Informatics
Oscar Ewing Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Dean Emeritus, Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing
Bloomington, IN, USA
Dick de Jongh
Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Logic
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Stanley Peters
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics
Director, Center for the Study of Language and Information
Stanford University, United States
Jörg Siekmann
Professor of Computer Science and AI
Director of the DFKI (German Research Centre for AI)
Chairman of the International Federation for Computational Logic
Saarbrücken, Germany
Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
Director
Artificial Intelligence Research Institute
Spanish National Research Council
Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
Thomas Eiter
Professor of Computer Science
Institute of Information Systems
Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Yuri Gurevich
Principal Researcher, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA
Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Andreas Blass
Professor of Mathematics
University of Michigan, U.S.A.
Lawrence S. Moss
Director, Program in Pure and Applied Logic
Professor of Mathematics
Indiana University, Bloomington USA
Thomas Wasow
Clarence Irving Lewis Professor of Philosophy and
Chair, Department of Linguistics
Stanford University
Stanford, California USA
John Horty
Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department and
Professor, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies
University of Maryland, USA
Ian Hodkinson
Professor of Logic and Computation
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
Marek Sergot
Professor of Computational Logic
Imperial College London
Georg Gottlob
Professor of Computing Science
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
University of Oxford
Ian Horrocks
Professor of Computer Science
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
University of Oxford
Oxford, UK
Bonnie Webber
Professor of Intelligent Systems
University of Edinburgh
Peter Aczel
Professor (Emeritus) of
Mathematical Logic and Computing Science
Schools of Mathematics and Computer Science
The University of Manchester, U.K.
Howard Barringer
Professor of Computer Science
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Manchester, M13 9PL, UK
Uli Sattler
Professor, School of Computer Science
University of Manchester, UK
Alan L Rector
Professor of Medical Informatics
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Michael Fisher
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Frank Wolter
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Mark D. Ryan
Professor of Computer Security
University of Birmingham, UK
Ian Gent
Professor
School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews
David Makinson
Visiting Professor
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
LSE London
Michael Zakharyaschev
Professor of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck, University of London
TSE Maibaum
Canada Research Chair in the Foundations of Software Engineering
Department of Computing & Software
McMaster University
Hans Jürgen Ohlbach
Professor at the Computer Science Institute
University of Munich, Germany
Ulle Endriss
Assistant Professor of Computational Logic
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
Raquel Fernandez
Research Fellow
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
Reinhard Blutner
Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Privat docent at the Department of Linguistics
Humboldt University Berlin
Jan van Eijck
Senior Researcher, CWI (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science) Amsterdam
Professor of Computational Linguistics, University of Utrecht
Henk Zeevat
Senior Lecturer
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam
Robin Hirsch
Reader
Computer Science, UCL
Sonja Smets
Rosalind Franklin Research Fellow
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences,
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Groningen
Carlos Areces
Senior Researcher
INRIA Nancy Grand Est
Eric Pacuit
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Resident Fellow
Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Tilburg University
Jan Broersen
Intelligent Systems Group
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
Faculty of Science
Utrecht University
Gerard Vreeswijk
Assistant Professor
Intelligent Systems Group
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
Faculty of Science
Utrecht University
Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Formal Epistemology Project
Centre for Logic - Institute of Philosophy
University of Leuven, Belgium
Senior Research Associate - IEG, Computing Laboratory
University of Oxford
Alexandru Baltag
University Lecturer
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
University of Oxford
Zoran Macura
Research Fellow
Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems
University of Plymouth
Stefan Schlobach
Assistant Professor - Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Matthew Purver
Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
Queen Mary, University of London
Yo Sato
Research Fellow
Science and Technology Research Institute
University of Hertfordshire
Roman Kontchakov
Research Fellow
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck, University of London
Christian Ebert
Lecturer
Department of Linguistics
University of Tuebingen
David Gabelaia
Research Fellow
Razmadze Mathematical Institute
Tbilisi, Georgia.
Rineke Verbrugge
Professor of Logic and Cognition
Institute of Artificial Intelligence
Faculty of Mathematica and Natural Sciences
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
Bryan Renne
Postdoctoral Researcher
Faculty of Philosophy
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
David Schlangen
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Potsdam, Germany
Reinhard Muskens
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy & TiLPS
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Roman Kuznets
Postdoctoral Researcher
Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
University of Bern, Switzerland
Paul Dekker
Assistant Professor Language and Logic
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Kees van Deemter
Reader
Computing Science Department
University of Aberdeen
Glyn Morrill
Lecturer
LSI (Software Department)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Renate Schmidt
Reader
School of Computer Science
The University of Manchester
Richard McKinley
Research Fellow
Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
University of Bern, Switzerland
Thomas Strahm
Assoziierter Professor
Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
University of Bern, Switzerland
Boris Konev
Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
Liverpool University
Bob Coecke
EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow
University Lecturer of Quantum Computer Science
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
University of Oxford
Nikos Tzevelekos
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
University of Oxford
Francesca Poggiolesi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Vrije University of Brussels
Belgium
Harrie de Swart
Emeritus Professor Logic and Language Analysis
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh
EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Wolfson College
Ross Duncan
EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
University of Oxford
Carsten Lutz
Professor of Computer Science
Universität Bremen, Germany
Werner Nutt
Professor of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Diego Calvanese
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Riccardo Rosati
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Sapienza Universita' di Roma, Italy
Tadeusz Litak
Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
University of Leicester
Andrew Joseph McCarthy
Research Fellow and Tutor in Logic
Keble College
University of Oxford
Elias Thysse
Lecturer
Faculty of Humanities/Department of Philosophy
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
Manfred Kerber
Senior Lecturer
Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Mary-Anne Williams
Professor
Director, Innovation and Enterprise Research Laboratory
Center for Quantum Computing and Intelligent Systems
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Patrick Allo
Postdoctoral Fellow (FWO)
Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Patrick Blackburn
Directeur de Recherche
INRIA, Nancy, France
Antony Galton
Reader in Knowledge Representation
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics
University of Exeter, UK
Massimo Poesio
Professor in Humanities Computing
Center for Mind/Brain Sciences
Universita' di Trento
Rovereto (TN), Italy
Enrico Franconi
Professor in Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Gabriella Pigozzi
Research Associate
Individual and Collective Reasoning
Computer Science and Communication
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Artur d'Avila Garcez
Reader in Computing
City University London
Kevin Leyton-Brown
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Richard Booth
Research Associate
Individual and Collective Reasoning
Computer Science and Communication
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Rick Nouwen
Senior Research Fellow
Utrecht Institute for Linguistics OTS
University of Utrecht
Gerhard Lakemeyer
Professor
Computer Science
RWTH Aachen University
Jérôme Lang
Senior Researcher
LAMSADE
CNRS and Université Paris-Dauphine, France
Raffaella Bernardi
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Thomas Schneider
Research Associate
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Alex Lascarides,
Reader, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
Nicholas Asher
Director of Research, IRIT
CNRS
Patrice Caire
Research Assistant, PhD candidate
Individual and Collective Reasoning
Computer Science and Communication
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Alessandra Russo
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
Rosella Gennari
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Dmitry Shkatov
Lecturer
School of Computer Science
University of the Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Guillaume Aucher
Postdoctoral Researcher
Computer Science and Communication
University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ian Pratt-Hartmann
School of Computer Science
Manchester University
Manchester M13 9PL
Alessio Lomuscio
Reader in Logic for Multi-Agent Systems
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
Ellen Gurman Bard
Reader
School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh EH8 9AD, UK
Adam Wyner
Visiting Researcher
Leibniz Center for Law
University of Amsterdam
Valentin Goranko
Associate Professor
Section Algorithms and Logic
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling
Technical University of Denmark
Alessandro Artale
Lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Natasha Alechina
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham
Guillermo Ricardo Simari
Dep. of Computer Science and Engineering
Universidad Nacional del Sur,
Bahia Blanca, Argentina
Margaret Laing
Linguistics and English Language
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Mits Ota
Reader
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Luis Lamb
Associate Professor
Deputy Dean
Institute of Informatics
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
Daniel Wedgwood
Teaching Fellow, Linguistics and English Language
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Tim Fernando
Lecturer, Computer Science Department
Trinity College Dublin
Joost-Pieter Katoen
Professor in Software Modeling and Verification
RWTH Aachen University
Marcus Kracht
Professor for Theoretical Computational Linguistics
University of Bielefeld, Germany
Marcello D'Agostino
Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Department of Human Sciences
University of Ferrara, Italy
Sebastiaan Terwijn
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Radboud University Nijmegen
Anni-Yasmin Turhan
Postdoctoral research and teaching Assistant
Computer Science Department
Dresden University of Technology
Alessandro Mosca
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Marcelo Finger
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Department
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
João Marcos
Associate Professor
Group for Logic, Language, Information, Theory and Applications (LoLITA)
Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics (DIMAp)
UFRN, Brazil
Alexandre Costa-Leite
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Francisco Antonio Doria
Professor of Communications, Emeritus
Room F 108, COPPE/Fed. Univ. at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rodrigo Reis Lastra Cid
Member of the Study Group on Analytic Philosophy (GEFA)
Mastering at the Post-Graduation Program in Logic and Metaphysics
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Khalil Sima'an
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Exact Sciences
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gerson Zaverucha
Associate Professor
PESC-COPPE / Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Adolfo Gustavo Serra Seca Neto
Lecturer, Informatics Department
Federal University of Technology - Paraná (UTFPR), Brazil
Simon King
Reader, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Claire Gardent
Research director
CNRS, Nancy, France
Ricardo Pereira Tassinari
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Sciences
UNESP - Univ Estadual Paulista, Brazil
Regivan Hugo Nunes Santiago
Associate Professor
Group for Logic, Language, Information, Theory and Applications (LoLITA)
Department of Informatics and Applied Mathematics (DIMAp)
UFRN, Brazil
Hykel Hosni
Postdoc, Centro di Ricerca Matematica, E. De Giorgi
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy)
Carlos Caleiro
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics
IST, TU Lisbon, Portugal
Décio Krause
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
Federal University of Santa Catarina
Florianópolis, SC - Brazil
Ana Teresa Martins
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Federal University of Ceará, Brazil
Marco Aiello
Associate Professor
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
João Leite
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ruy de Queiroz
Associate Professor
Centro de Informática
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Recife, PE, Brazil
Mehdi Dastani
Intelligent Systems Group
Department of Information and Computing Sciences
Faculty of Science
Utrecht University
Maurice Pagnucco
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering
The University of New South Wales
Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
Renata Wassermann
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Andrzej Wiśniewski
Professor
Chair of Logic and Cognitive Science
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Gregory Wheeler
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Computer Science,
New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Luis Moniz Pereira
Professor
Computer Science Dept. and AI Centre
New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Laure Vieu
Chargee de Recherche
CNRS-IRIT, Toulouse, France
Heinrich Wansing
Professor of Philosophy of Science and Logic
Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Ivan Varzinczak
Post-doctoral Researcher
Meraka Institute, CSIR
Pretoria, South Africa
G. Aldo Antonelli
Professor of Philosophy
University of California, Davis, USA
Yde Venema
Associate Professor
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Horacio Arló-Costa
Associate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Colin Howson
Professor of Philosophy
University of Toronto, Canada
Margaret Morrison
Professor of Philosophy
University of Toronto, Canada
James Delgrande
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Oliver Kutz
Research Fellow
SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition
University of Bremen, Germany
Meghyn Bienvenu
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Bremen, Germany
Jerzy Pogonowski
Professor
Department of Applied Logic
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Sven Ove Hansson
Professor
KTH (Royal Institute of Technology)
Stockholm, Sweden
Harry Bunt
Professor
Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Ondrej Majer
Senior Resercher
Inst. of Philosophy
Academy of Sciiences of the Czech Republic
Czech Republic
Anna Gavarró
Lecturer
Departament de Filologia Catalana
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
José Alferes
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Giacomo Bonanno
Professor
Department of Economics
University of California, Davis, USA
Justine Cassell
Professor & Director
Center for Technology and Social Behavior
Northwestern University, USA
Francis Jeffry Pelletier
Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science [Emeritus]
Professor of Philosophy
Professor of Linguistics
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Francisco Miraglia
Professor of Mathematics
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Nick Bezhanishvili
Research Associate
Department of Computing
Imperial College London, UK
Clemens Kupke
Research Associate
Department of Computing
Imperial College London, UK
Christian List
Professor of Political Science and Philosophy
Departments of Government and Philosophy
London School of Economics, UK
Yaroslav Shramko
Professor of Logic and Philosophy
Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University, Ukraine
Konstantin Korovin
Royal Society University Research Fellow
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester, UK
Philippe Muller
Maitre de Conférences, Computer Science,
IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Andreas Herzig
Directeur de Recherche CNRS
IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
François Schwarzentruber
PhD Student
IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
James Hawthorne
Associate Professor
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Oklahoma, USA
Margarita Korovina
Research Fellow
University of Manchester
Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska
Professor
Autonomous Section of Applied Logic and Rhetoric
Poznań School of Banking, Faculty in Chorzów, Poland
Philip Kremer
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto, Canada
Wojciech Buszkowski
Professor
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University
Poznan, Poland
Franz Dietrich
Ludwig Lachmann Fellow
Philosophy Department
London School of Economics
& Assistant Professor
Economics Faculty
Maastricht University
Tarcísio Genaro Rodrigues
Masters Student
Institute of Philosophy
Centre for Logic Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE)
State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
Jacek Malinowski
Editor-in-Chief of Studia Logica
Professor of Logic at Institute of Philosophy and Sociology
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa
Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun
Valeria de Paiva
Search Analyst
Cuil, Inc.
Menlo Park, CA, USA
Rosalie Iemhoff
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
Utrecht University
Arnold Koslow
Professor of Philosophy
The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA
Pavlos Peppas
Associate Professor
Dept of Business Administration, Greece
Hans Rott
Professor of Philosophy
University of Regensburg, Germany
Hartmut Fitz
Assistant Professor
Center for Language and Cognition Groningen
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Jessica Wilson
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto, Canada
Abhaya Nayak
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computing
Macquarie University, Australia
Balder ten Cate
Postdoctoral scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Sergei Odintsov
Leading Researcher
Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
Novosibirsk, Russia
Jair Minoro Abe
Full Professor - Paulista University & University of Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Mehmet Orgun
Professor
Department of Computing
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Jan Rutten
Professor of Theoretical Computer Science
CWI Amsterdam
Radboud University Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Elena Marchiori
Associate Professor of Computer Science
iCIS - Radboud University Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Vivek Nigam
Postdoctorate Researcher
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA
Nicola Guarino
Senior Researcher
ISTC-CNR, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies
Editor in Chief, Applied Ontology
President, International Association for Ontology and its Applications
Trento, Italy
Patrick Saint-Dizier
IRIT-CNRS Toulouse
France
Andrea Bracciali
RA at ISTI-CNR Pisa
Italy
Luca Tummolini
Researcher
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (ISTC-CNR)
Roma, Italy
Andrea Bianchi
Researcher
Department of Philosophy
Universotà degli Studi di Parma, Italy
Mirna Dzamonja
Reader
School of Mathematics
University of East Anglia
Mai Gehrke
Chair of Algebra
Institute of Mathematics, Astrophysics, and Particle Physics
Radboud University Nijmegen
Roy Dyckhoff
Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews
Juliana Bueno-Soler
Post-Doc Researcher
Department of Computer Science
University of São Paulo
São Paulo-SP, Brazil
Walter Carnielli
Professor
Department of Philosophy and
Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science-CLE
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Campinas-SP, Brazil
Nazareno Aguirre
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science, FCEFQyN
Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto
Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Argentina
Marcelo Esteban Coniglio
Associate Professor
Department of Philosophy and
Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science-CLE
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Campinas-SP, Brazil
Karl Schlechta
Professor of Computer Science
Marseille University, France
Daniel Leivant
Professor of Computer Science
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Guido Boella
Associate Professor
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università di Torino, Italy
Charles McCarty
Professor of Philosophy
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN USA
Board of Directors
Obiter Research, Champaign, IL USA
Lefteris Kirousis
Professor
Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics
University of Patras
Patras, Greece
Dirk Van Gucht
Professor of Computer Science
School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
Katalin Bimbo
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Phan Minh Dung
Professor of Computer Science
Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand
Paolo Baldan
Associate Professor
Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics
University of Padova, Italy
Tristan Henderson
Lecturer
School of Computer Science
University of St Andrews, UK
Nicolas Maudet
Lecturer
LAMSADE, Univ. Paris-Dauphine, France
Jason Baldridge
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jan P. de Ruiter
Professor
Department of Psycholinguistics
Bielefeld University, Germany
Szabolcs Mikulas
Lecturer
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
Birkbeck College, University of London
Luigi Mittone
Professor
Head of the Computable and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL)
Department of Economics, University of Trento
Katrin Erk
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Andreas Doering
Departmental Lecturer
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
Oxford University, UK
Staffan Larsson
Researcher
Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Signatures added after February 7, 2010:
Dagfinn Føllesdal
C.I. Lewis Professor of Philosophy
Stanford University
Markus Dickinson
Assistant Professor of Linguistics
Indiana University, Bloomington
Ben Bradley
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Syracuse University
Robert Northcott
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
University of Missouri-St Louis
Itala M. Loffredo D'Ottaviano
Professor
Department of Philosophy and
Centre for Logic, Epistemology and the History of Science-CLE
State University of Campinas (UNICAMP)
Campinas-SP, Brazil
Sergio Balari
Lecturer of General Linguistics
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Wiebe van der Hoek
Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool, UK
M.Teresa Espinal
Professor of Linguistics
Dept. of Catalan Philology / Center for Theoretical Linguistics
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Tomoyuki Yamada
Professor of Philosophy
Graduate School of Letters
Hokkaido University, Japan
Nicolas Troquard
Research Associate
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool, UK
Willem Zuidema
Researcher
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation
University of Amsterdam
Franz Huber
Formal Epistemology Research Group
Zukunftskolleg and Department of Philosophy
University of Konstanz
Petrucio Viana
Associate Professor
Mathematics Institute
Federal Fluminense University, Brazil
Frank de Boer
Professor
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica/Leiden University, NL
Saul A. Kripke
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, CUNY Graduate Center
McCosh Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Princeton University
Jon Williamson
Professor of Reasoning, Inference and Scientific Method
Philosophy, University of Kent
Mario Benevides
Associate Professor
Mathematics Institute - Computer Science Department
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Sheila Murgel Veloso
Professor
Systems and Computer Engineering Department
Faculty of Engineering- Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil
Paul E. Dunne
Reader
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
William W. Tait
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
University of Chicago
Valerio Genovese
PhD Student
University of Luxembourg
Krysia Broda
Department of Computing
Imperial College
Roger Maddux
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Department of Computer Science
Iowa State University
John Baldwin
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Chicago
Craig Smorynski
Occasional Academic
Leif Nielsen
Consultant
Accenture
Clare Dixon
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
University of Liverpool
Gernot Salzer
Associate Professor
Theory and Logic Group
Department of Computer Science
Vienna University of Technology
Valentin Shehtman
Professor
Department of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics
Moscow State University
Nicola Olivetti
Professor
LSIS, University of Aix-Marseille III, France
Norbert Preining
Associate Professor
Research Center of Integrated Science
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Georg Moser
Assistant Professor
Institute of Computer Science
University of Innsbruck
Arnon Avron
Professor
School of Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Alexander Rabinovich
Professor
School of Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Andrea Loparic
Professora Doutora no Departamento de Filosofia
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Sujata Ghosh
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Groningen
Gary Marcus
Professor of Psychology
New York University
Radhakrishanan DelhiBabu
Research Scholar
Anna University
Chennai, India
Joost J. Joosten
Researcher
Grupo de Lógica, Lenguaje e Información
Departamento de Lógica, Filosofía y Filosofía de la Ciencia
Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Paola Bruscoli
Researcher
INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, France
Alessio Guglielmi
Research Director
INRIA Nancy-Grand-Est, France
Nachum Dershowitz
Professor of Computer Science
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jørgen Villadsen
Associate Professor
Algorithms and Logic Section
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling
Technical University of Denmark
Michel Parigot
Researcher
CNRS - Université Paris 7
Konstantinos Georgatos
Associate Professor
Mathematics and Computer Science
City University of New York
Claus-Peter Wirth
Academic Proletarian
Saarland University
Germany
Deepak Garg
Postdoctoral Researcher
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Rajeev Gore
Associate Professor
The Australian National University
Australia
Alwen Tiu
Research Fellow
The Australian National University
Australia
Andy Fugard
Researcher
Department of Psychology
University of Salzburg, Austria
Giuseppe Primiero
FWO Researcher
Ghent University, Belgium
Alex Simpson
Reader
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
Gerard Renardel de Lavalette
Professor, Theoretical Computing Science & Mathematical Logic
Department of Computing Science
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Hongseok Yang
Lecturer
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science,
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Jc Beall
Professor of Philosophy
Director, UConn Logic Group
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06247 USA
Noam Zeilberger
Postdoctoral Researcher
Université Paris 7
Murtuza Husain
MSc Advanced Computing
Department of Computing
Imperial College London
King's College London Alumni
Sanna Sharif
BSc Computer Science
King's College Alumni
Ji Ruan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Centre for Logic and Information
StFX University, Canada
Paula Gottlieb
Professor of Philosophy and
Affiliate Professor of Classics
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Stéphane Lengrand
Tenured Researcher
CNRS - Ecole Polytechnique
Rafael H. Bordini
Associate Professor
Institute of Informatics
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Moneesha Mehta
Business Development
Cisco Systems