"What is reasoning?” is a central question of logic. A talk on this topic would be very welcome to the congress we are organizing in July in Rio de Janeiro: What is it? That's the Question!" https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/ as well as other talks on some fundamental questions related to logic such as - What is a paradox? - What is a proposition? - What is a contradiction? - What is a proof? - What is possibility? - What is a connective? - What is a consequence relation? - What is a principle? - What is a set? Among keynote talks we already have “What is truth?” by Otávio Bueno and “What is identity?” by Décio Krause: https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/k-speakers
In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP) there are articles on various types of reasoning https://plato.stanford.edu/search/searcher.py?query=reasoning but not an entry dealing with reasoning in a general way. Same thing in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) https://iep.utm.edu/category/s-l-m/logic/ I have been the editor of the IEP’s logic area since 2013 and an article on “What is reasoning?” would be very welcome! This can be combined with a lecture at our event. There is a connection between the question “What is X?” and an encyclopedia. An entry from an encyclopedia (and/or the definition of a dictionary) can be considered as a starting point, cf. the first of eleven procedures of the suggested methodology: https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/methodology Among our twenty keynote speakers There are two who are authors of entries: - Thomas Adajian, who will present the lecture "What is art?" author of the SEP entry "The Definition of Art" https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/art-definition/ - Kevin Timpe, who will present the talk "What is freedom?" author of the IEP "Free Will" entry https://iep.utm.edu/freewill/ Jean-Yves Beziau Organizer of the World Philosophical Congress "What is it? That's the Question!" Rio de Janeiro, July, 27-31, 2026 https://sites.google.com/view/what-is-it/
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