Knowledge and Reality: Models, Methodologies and Heuristics
Problem Group in LOGIC
“Knowledge and Reality: models, methodologies and heuristics” department is profiled in the field of the analytic tradition (epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of art and experimental philosophy); logic (philosophical and mathematical logic, history of logic, etc.); and philosophy of education (with an emphasis on gamification and psychodramatic methods). Department members also have interdisciplinary collaborations with cognitive scientists and seek to align their research with scientific empirical findings in these fields. The department participates in the organization of various international and national scientific forums and has established cooperation with foreign scientific institutions in Great Britain, France, USA, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Serbia, etc.
Projects
“Global Citizenship and Key Competencies: Laboratory for Innovative Learning” (2024-2027) project at the NP “Education with Science” headed by Prof. em. DSc. Veselin Petrov and members: Ch. Аssist. Dr. Veselina Kachakova (coordinator); Assoc.Prof. Dr. Silvia Borisova; Ch. Assist. Dr. Radostina Minina; Ch. Assist. Dr. Lina Georgieva; Assist. Dr. Venelin Stoychev; Ch. Assist. Dr. Evelina Ivanova-Vardzhiyska (SU “St. Kl. Ohridski”). The project aims to achieve higher efficiency of the educational process and provide more time for socialization of students at school. It envisages the creation of a laboratory for innovative learning, in which a more holistic educational approach will be applied, more interdisciplinary connections will be created and various knowledge, skills and competences will be developed. The project includes the following activities: teacher training, filming of interactive lessons, creation of teaching handbooks, experimental schools for educational innovations (summer schools), joint initiatives with other institutes and universities, mentoring program.
“Improving the teaching of philosophy and civics for (IX-XII grades) by developing key student competencies” project financed by the “Scientific Research” Fund (2023) headed by Prof. em. DSc. Veselin Petrov and members: Ch. Assist. Dr. Veselina Kachakova; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Silvia Borisova; Ch. Assist. Dr. Radostina Minina; Ch. Assist. Dr. Lina Georgieva; Ch. Assist. Dr. Petya Klimentova; Ch. Assist. Dr. Martin Ivanov; Ch. Assist. Dr. Evelina Ivanova-Vardzhiyska (SU “St. Kl. Ohridski”).
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Problem Group in LOGIC
The Problem Group in Logic (under the Knowledge and Reality: Models, Methodologies and Heuristics Section) is the successor of the Logic Section and the Logical Systems and Models Section.
The interests of its members in logic are oriented towards research determined by the rapid development of non-classical logics such as paraconsistent, relevance and connectionist logics, modal, polynomial and fuzzy logics, non-monotonic systems, semantics of possible and impossible worlds, indeterminacy theories, and their applications in epistemology, ontology, linguistics and computer science. Research interest is also focused on: the scantifications of logical following in various logical theories, theories of argumentation and critical thinking, logical paradoxes, and problems in the history of logic, among others. The focus of the research of the Problem Group on Logic are various syntactic and semantic problems of classical and modal logic, as well as important issues in the philosophy of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, etc.
Scientists of the group have training of the highest professional level, repeatedly recognized in the international scientific community, both in terms of education, specializations, publications, participation in high international forums, leadership and partnership in national and international projects. Members of the unit have accumulated experience not only in research but also in teaching.
The members of the Problem Group in Logic have several publications, some of them in prestigious international journals, as well as good contacts with leading universities and academies such as the University of Oxford, the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the University of Liverpool, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, etc. Members of the Logic Problem Group published the first of its kind in Bulgaria “Encyclopedic Dictionary of Logic and Semantics” (published by “Zvezdy”, 2012), to supplement and update it.
The training of the PhD students within the Problem Group in Logic is by the legal and regulatory norms in force in the country. In the last two years, three PhD students have been dismissed with the right to defend, one of whom has already defended his dissertation and obtained the degree of Doctor of Education and Science.
Projects of the Problem Group in Logic members in the last 5 years:
Project with the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences on “Non-classical logical systems and their applications” (2017-2019 incl.) with Bulgarian supervisor – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dorothea Angelova
Project with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences on “Logical Models, Analysis and Explanation in Cognition” (2018-2021) with Bulgarian supervisor – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dorothea Angelova
Project “Analysis and Philosophical Reflection on the Role of the Beron Family in the Spiritual Development of Bulgaria and its Integration into World Culture” (2018-2022) at the Scientific Research Fund with the supervisor Prof. Martin Tabakov, PhD.
Current projects of the Problem Group in Logic:
Project with the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) within the grant scheme between BAS and PAS on the topic “The importance of logical models for modern science” with the Bulgarian leader – Assoc. Prof. Dr. Elena Tsvetkova, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kristian Enchev.
Planning project of ch. assistant professor Elena Tsvetkova, PhD, on the topic: “Experimental approach to the concept of conversational implicatures”, 2020-2023.