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Call for Nominations: VvL Master's Thesis Award 2023, Deadline (Extended): April 15, 2023



The Dutch Association for Logic and Philosophy of the Exact Sciences (VvL) is happy to announce the VvL Master's Thesis Award 2023.

Any Master's thesis from the calendar year 2022 with a topic in logic or in philosophy of the exact sciences written as part of a Master's program at a Dutch university is eligible to be nominated for the Award. A thesis is eligible if the corresponding Master's graduation date lies between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022.

A thesis must be nominated by the supervisor(s). The thesis (in pdf format) and a one page letter by the supervisor giving the reasons for nomination should be sent to awards@verenigingvoorlogica.nl. Submissions will be selected for the prize by the VvL Master’s thesis award committee based on their academic qualities. More than one prize may be awarded per edition.

Important dates:

  1. Submission deadline (extended): 15 April 2023
  2. Notification (extended): 15 June 2023

Nominees will be informed by e-mail, and the winners will be announced on the VvL website and VvL mailing list.

We are looking forward to receiving many high quality submissions on a broad range of topics within logic and philosophy of the exact sciences.

 

VvL Master’s thesis award committee 2023:

Sara Uckelman (Chair, University of Durham)
Davide Grossi (University of Groningen/University of Amsterdam)
Leah Henderson (University of Groningen)
Eric Pacuit (University of Maryland)
Fan Yang (Utrecht University)

 

Winners 2022


 

  1. Anna Dmitrieva (UvA, supervised by Nick Bezhanishvili & Tommaso Moraschini). Thesis title: Positive Modal Logic Beyond Distributivity: Duality, Preservation and Completeness.
  2. Maximilian Siemers (UvA, supervised by Aybüke Özgün). Thesis title: Hyperintensional Logics for Evidence, Knowledge and Belief.
  3. Dominik Wehr (UvA, supervised by Bahareh Afshari). Thesis title: An Abstract Framework for the Analysis of Cyclic Derivations.

 

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VvL Master’s thesis award committee 2022:

Valeria de Paiva (Chair, Topos Institute, Berkeley)
Jan Broersen (Utrecht University)
Balder ten Cate (University of Amsterdam)
Davide Grossi (University of Groningen/University of Amsterdam)
Leah Henderson (University of Groningen)
Sara Uckelman (University of Durham)