Alliance Research Group: Logic, History & Philosophy of Science (CLPS)

A first line of research for CLPS is investigating non-classical logics. This includes both logics that constitute a fragment of classical logic (like some paraconsistent logic's) as logic that are an alternative to classical logic (as some relevant logics). Important to us is to design and research on adaptive logic programs. Adaptive Logics (first developed by Diderik Batens, founder CLPS) provide a uniform framework for studying cognitive processes that are refutable. (A reasoning process is called rebuttable when a previously made conclusion can be reviewed in the light of new information or a better understanding of already given information.) The study takes place both at the object-level (the design of new systems) as the meta-level (proving meta-theoretical properties, the study of interrelations between the different systems, ...).