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International Conference "Formal Philosophy 2026"

About the conference

Formal Philosophy is an annual international conference organized by International Laboratory for Logic, Linguistics and Formal Philosophy. In 2026, the conference will be held for the 9th time. The conference is devoted to discussing the problems of philosophical logic, formal epistemology, epistemic logic, formal ontology, analytical metaphysics, philosophy of logic, mathematical logic, philosophy of mathematics, as well as other aspects of formal philosophy. 

Conference dates: October 27-30, 2026

Location of the event: Moscow, st. Staraya Basmannaya, 21/4, A-205a + Zoom Format: hybrid (both face-to-face and remote participation is possible)

Working languages: Russian and English

Invited speakers

Ben Martin

University of Padua

Marco Ruffino

University of Campinas

Aleksandr Khlebalin

Novosibirsk State University

Valentin B. Shehtman

HSE University, MIPT

Programme

Moscow Time Zone (UTC+03:00)

A-205a

  • October 27

    Section 1. Chair: Elena Dragalina-Chernaya
    10:00–11:00

    Marco Ruffino (University of Campinas), Austin and Kripke: Making Sense of Contingent A Priori Truths

    11:00–11:30

    Simon Kreutz (Ruhr Universität Bochum), Intensional Semantics and the Ontology of Proper Names (online)

    11:30–12:00

    Andrey Zdanevich (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Epistemically transparent extraction of arguments from text with LLMs

    12:00–12:30

    COFFEE BREAK

    Section 2. Chair: Elena Dragalina-Chernaya
    12:30–13:00

    Ümit Ege Atakan (University of St Andrews), There is More to Logicality Than S5: A Novel Criterion for the Logicality of Modal Operators (online)

    13:00–13:30

    Nikolai Poliakov (HSE University), Which Aggregation Rules Can Be Classified as Logical Concepts?

    13:30–14:00

    Viktoriia Denisova (HSE University), Axioms for a Cognitive Distortion Operator: A Philosophical Justification in Paraconsistent Logic

    14:00–15:30

    LUNCH

    Section 3. Chair: Vitaliy Dolgorukov
    15:30–16:00

    Igor Gorbunov (Tver State University; HSE University), Mikhail Rybakov (Higher School of Modern Mathematics MIPT; HSE University; Tver State University), The minimal well-defined logic, its extensions and theories (in Russian)

    16:00–16:30

    Anastasiia Onoprienko (Lomonosov Moscow State University; HSE University), Mikhail Rybakov (HSE University; MIPT; Tver State University), The logic HC and its fragments (in Russian)

    16:30–17:00

    Andrey Eremin (Lomonosov Moscow State University), Modal logic of ω-iterated consistency (in Russian)

    17:00–17:30

    COFFEE BREAK

    Section 4. Chair: Elena Dragalina-Chernaya
    17:30–18:00

    Zinaida Sokuler (Lomonosov Moscow State University), In what sense is Hermann Cohen’s “Logic of Pure Knowledge” a logic? (in Russian)

    18:00–18:30

    Gleb Zemlyakov (St Petersburg State University), Laws of logic as rules of thought in Parmenides’ poem “On Nature” (in Russian, online)

  • October 28

    Section 5. Chair: Vitaliy Dolgorukov
    10:00–11:00

    Valentin Shehtman (HSE University; MIPT), Games in modal logic

    11:00–11:30

    COFFEE BREAK

    Section 6. Chair: Vitaliy Dolgorukov
    11:30–12:00

    Mikhail Rybakov (Higher School of Modern Mathematics MIPT; HSE University; Tver State University), Daria Serova (Higher School of Modern Mathematics MIPT; Tver State University), Non-normal worlds and the complexity of Lewis systems (in Russian)

    12:00–12:30

    Alexander Gavrikov (HSE University), I Know That There Is Something I Do Not Know: A Formalism for Strategic Reasoning

    12:30–14:00

    LUNCH

    Section 7. Chair: Vitaliy Dolgorukov
    14:00–14:30

    Igor Zaitsev (HSE University), On a conservative extension of the basic intuitionistic conditional logic ICK in a conditionally complete language with normal conditional operators (in Russian)

    14:30–15:00

    Leonid Devyatkin (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences), Many-valued logics as ontologies of the universe of truth values (in Russian)

    15:00–15:30

    Natalya Tomova (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences), Three-valued paralogics with the standard Rescher implication

    15:30–16:00

    Alexander Belikov (Lomonosov Moscow State University), On a modal contra-classical paralogic (in Russian)

    16:00–16:30

    COFFEE BREAK

    Section 8. Chair: Sayantan Roy
    16:30–17:00

    Elia Zardini (Complutense University of Madrid; HSE University), Metaentailments and Entailments among Entailments (online)

    17:00–17:30

    Milena Dassie Wilke (National University of Córdoba), Proofs and intersubjective accessibility to notations (online)

  • October 29

    Section 9. Chair: Aleksandr Khlebalin
    10:00–11:00

    Marco Ruffino (University of Campinas), Pragmatics as a By-Product of Logic in the Early Frege

    11:00–11:30

    Frank Zenker (Nankai University), From Posterior Credence to Credence Change: Bayesian Criteria for Argument Strength (online), co-authors: Wenjing Du (WenBo College, East China University of Political Science and Law), Hai Liu (Shanghai University of International Business and Economics)

    11:30–12:00

    COFFEE BREAK

    Section 10. Chair: Aleksandr Khlebalin
    12:00–12:30

    Elena Vivich (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences), Dynamizing situation semantics via the question function for an erotetic model of cognition (in Russian)

    12:30–13:00

    Yury Kazakov (HSE University), Dynamic epistemic logic of questions (in Russian)

    13:00–13:30

    Mihail Safronov (HSE University), Accidental necessity and historical invariance in Ockhamist branching-time logic (in Russian)

    13:30–15:00

    LUNCH

    Section 11. Chair: Angelina Bobrova
    15:00–15:30

    Valentin Dugushkin (Lomonosov Moscow State University), What is missing from N.V. Golovko’s well-known paper (in Russian)

    15:30–16:00

    Konstantin Morozov (Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences), Phenomenal conservatism without frills (in Russian)

    16:00–16:30

    Vasilisa Filatova (Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy, Moscow), Sound as a source of knowledge: a formal model of the epistemic role of auditory perception (in Russian)

    16:30–17:00

    COFFEE BREAK

    Section 12. Chair: Angelina Bobrova
    17:00–17:30

    Vitor Medeiros Costa (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), The unknown value in branching-time temporal logic (online)

    17:30–18:00

    Ludovica Conti (University of Vienna), Weak Impredicativity and Frege's Grundgesetze (online)

    18:00–18:30

    Felipe Carrasco (University of St Andrews / University of Stirling), Can Higher-Order Generic Quantification Ground the Impredicative Constructions in Frege's Theorem? (online)

  • October 30

    Section 13. Chair: Maxim Gorbachev
    10:00–10:30

    Indira Borisova (Novosibirsk State University), Arguments and counterarguments with local and global premises in propositional modal logic (in Russian, online)

    10:30–11:00

    Elena Lisanyuk (Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences), Will logic catch up with argumentation? (in Russian)

    11:00–11:30

    COFFEE BREAK

    Section 14. Chair: Maxim Gorbachev
    11:30–12:00

    Olga Shapiro (North-West Institute of Management, RANEPA), Topological intuitions of informal argumentation theory (in Russian, online)

    12:00–12:30

    Daria Karpova (Medical Scientific and Practical Center for Comprehensive Rehabilitation “Goluboe”, FMBA of Russia), From the linguistic structure of the unconscious to the topology of the subject: possibilities of mathematical modelling in Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis (in Russian)

    12:30–14:00

    LUNCH

    Section 15. Chair: Lolita Makeeva
    14:00–15:00

    Ben Martin (University of Padua), The Role of Paradoxes in Logic (online)

    15:00–16:00

    Aleksandr Khlebalin (Novosibirsk State University), The continuity of logic and science, viewed from the perspective of the acceptance problem by an anti-conceptualist

    16:00–16:30

    COFFEE BREAK

    Section 16. Chair: Lolita Makeeva
    16:30–17:00

    Daria Popova (HSE University), Speaker commitment in constructions with propositional verbs in Russian

    17:00–17:30

    Ivan Sobolev (HSE University), “I didn’t say that!” A formal definition of misleading 

    17:30–18:00

    José Veríssimo Teixeira da Mata (Independent researcher), On the question about the modality "W" in Łukasiewicz (online)

    18:00–18:30

    Md. Javed Hassan (Seth Anandram Jaipuria College, Kolkata), Does Nāgārjuna's Emptiness and the Deconstruction of Classical Boundaries Lead to Paraconsistency? (online)

  • 5th October

    Submission closes

  • 27–30 October

    Conference

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