Janusz Czelakowski on Logical Consequence

This book is dedicated to the life and work of logician Janusz Czelakowski on the topic of logical consequence. It consists of three parts – a biography, a survey and research sections. The volume begins with an autobiographic chapter by Janusz Czelakowski followed by a historical chapter written by Jacek Malinowski.The survey section forms the backbone of the volume with each chapter covering one of Janusz Czelakowski’s results. They focus on his results in the area of logical consequence, demonstrate how his results influenced following research, and presents potential future results, problems and applications. This volume is of interest to logicians and mathematicians.

Jacek Malinowski is professor of logic and philosophy at the Instituite of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He received a Master degree in Mathematic from the University of Łódź, Poland, and Ph.D. and habilitation in Philosophy at Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. He held research positions at Free University of Brussels, Humboldt University in Berlin, University of Leipzig, the Netherland Institute of Advanced Study in Wassenaar. He published papers in algebraic logics, quantum logics, logical pragmatics.  He is active as the editor-in-chief of Studia Logica what he consider his main professional concern.Rafał Palczewski is Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Logic, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. He received Ph.D. and habilitation in Philosophy at Institute of Philosophy, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His research interests concern the borderline of logic, pragmatics and epistemology, in particular epistemic logic, epistemic contextualism, norms of assertion.