Scope:

Ancient cultures in India discussed Logic as a branch of knowledge at length within the ambit of philosophy. With the development of the Navya-Nyaya school in the fourteenth century, logic in India became relatively formal. There has been a continuing tradition of discussion and debate in the realm of philosophical logic in India.

The advent of mathematical logic in the last century and the flowering of co mputer science in its second half has had a tremendous impact on how Logic is understood. In current times, we do not talk of Logic, but of 'logics'. Many of the new logics not only have applications in the information sciences but also give rise to important philosophical issues. This has led to a renewed focus on logics developed in the Indian subcontinent and their relation to formal theories.

Currently, Indian research in logic spans the spectrum of mathematical and philophical logics, computer science and artificial intelligence, as well as historically Indian systems, though carried out within a small community. The nascent ICLA series of Indian Conferences on Logic and its Applications has created an opportunity for this community to interact with colleagues from around the world. The recently established Association for Logic in India also underlines the wide spectrum of logics currently investigated in India.

It is in this context that a special issue of the Journal of Philosophical Logic on the theme of Logic in India is being planned.

Topics of interest:

The planned special issue is intended to highlight the trends of research in logic, with philosophical implications, carried out in India; these cover areas that include:

• Philosophical Logic (and formal linguistics)
• Systems of logic in the Indian tradition such as Navya-Nyaya
• Mathematical studies of imprecision, belief revision and heuristics
• Modal, temporal and epistemic logics with applications to computer sciences
• Automata oriented logics

Submission:

Potential authors who are interested to submit to this volume are requested to send a mail to one of the Guest Editors, by August 15, 2009, mentioning their intention, with a title and an abstract of one paragraph.

Papers should not exceed 20 JPL pages including figures, appendices etc. and should not have been previously published, nor currently submitted elsewhere for publication. Authors should prepare their manuscript using the template in the "Instructions for Authors" for JPL.

Online submissions can be made at the Editorial Manager for JPL where the author should choose 'Special issue on Logic in India' and follow the instructions given there.

Schedule:

• Submission Deadline: January 1, 2010
• Acceptance Decision: July 1, 2010
• Final Manuscript: September 1, 2010
• Publication Date (tentative): first issue of 2011

Guest-Editors