ISSN 0100-6045

Publication Project

Logic, Proof and Knowledge

Essays on Oswaldo Chateaubriand's Logical Forms - Part II

As already done with the first volume of Oswaldo Chateaubriand’s Logical Forms (Part I) - Truth and Description Coleção CLE, (Volume 34, 2001), Manuscrito, the international journal of philosophy published by the Centre for Logic, Epistemology and History of Science of the University of Campinas (CLE-Unicamp, Brazil), intends to publish a special issue dedicated to critical appraisals, with replies by the author, of the recently published second volume of that work (Logical Forms (Part II) - Logic, Language and Knowledge, Coleção CLE, Volume 42, 2005). With this purpose, several colleagues are being invited to dialogue with the author on the issues treated in the book. A list of the philosophers and logicians who will contribute to the volume appears below.

The editors

Walter Carnielli

Jairo José da Silva

I. Appearance in print

The publication is scheduled to appear in print as the second volume of 2007 (Manuscrito publishes two issues per year).

III. Important deadlines

a) Deadline for authors to deliver contributions: October 31th, 2007.

b) Deadline for possible replica and discussion: January 31th, 2008.

c) Final dade for editorial processing: march 15th, 2008.

d) Publication schedule: may 2008.

II. Format and style

For reasons of uniformity we strongly prefer MS Word or free software as OpenOffice. Authors should send a maximum of 4.000 words in English, Portuguese, French or Spanish including a short abstract in the style of Manuscrito (please see Guide for Contributors).

IV. Editorial correspondence

Please send article files to:

Ms. Nilza Galindo, Publications Section at CLE-Unicamp

and any inquiries to:

Prof. Dr. Walter Carnielli, CLE-Unicamp

Prof. Dr. Jairo José da Silva, Unesp-Rio Claro

Rua Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, 251

P.O. Box - 6133

13083-970   Campinas, SP

Brasil

Address:

Tel: +55 19 3521-6523

Fax: +55 19 3289-3269

© 2007 – Manuscrito – Revista Internacional de Filosofia

Contributors and papers

Several contributors, interlocutors of Oswaldo Chateaubriand and people who participated in the first volume are being invited. The following authors already accepted the invitation:

Abel Lasalle Casanave – Department of Philosophy - Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil

On provings and idealized proofs

André Porto – Department of Philosophy - Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil

Formalization and infinity

Danielle MacBeth – Philosophy Department - Haverford College, Haverford, USA

The truths of logic and logical truth

Dirk Greimann – Department of Philosophy - Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil

Multiplying entities without necessity: what does “necessity” mean in this context?

E.G.K. López-Escobar – Mathematics Department - University of Maryland, USA

Chateaubriand on propositional logic

Frank Thomas Sautter – Department of Philosophy - Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil

Chateaubriand on the nature of language

Guido Imaguirre – Department of Philosophy - Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil

Ockham’s razor and Chateaubriand’s goatee

Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock – Department of Philosophy

University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Chateaubriand on logical truth and second-order logic: reflections on some issues of “Logical Forms II”

Hans Sluga – Department of Philosophy - University of California, Berkeley, USA

The logical form of language and the logical form of the world

Jaime Rebello

(Title to be announced)

Jairo José da Silva – Department of Mathematics, State University of São Paulo, Rio Claro, Brazil

On proofs in mathematics

Javier Legris – School of Philosophy and Letters - University of Buenos Aires, Argentina

Chateaubriand on symbolism and logical form

John Corcoran – Department of Philosophy - State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Meanings of logical form

José Seoane – Instituto de Filosofia - Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

Elucidando el concepto de demostración. Observaciones sobre Chateaubriand

Luiz Carlos Pereira – Department of Philosophy - Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de

Janeiro, Brazil – The uncertain ontology of proofs

Marco Ruffino – Department of Philosophy - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Chateaubriand’s senses

Mark Wilson – Department of Philosophy - University of Pittsburgh, USA

Wich came first: the logic or the math?

Norma B. Goethe – School of Philosophy - University of Cordoba, Argentina

Revisiting the question about formal proof: philosophical theory, history, and mathematical practice

Oscar Miguel Esquizabel – Department of Philosophy - National University of La Plata, Argentina

Language and ontology

Otávio Bueno – Department of Philosophy – University of Miami, USA

An epistemology of logic

Paul Gochet – Emeritus Professor of Philosophy - University of Liège, Belgium

Chateaubriand on the productivity of language

Paul Horwich – Department of Philosophy – New York University, New York, USA

Explaining intentionality

Paulo Faria – Department of Philosophy - Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

The time of a proof

Richard Vallée – Département de Philosophie - Université de Moncton, Canada

Learning “Big”

Walter Carnielli – Department of Philosophy - State University of Campinas, Brazil

The tyranny of knowledge