Popular Science Event

UNESCO World Logic Day 2025

Call for Registration

uAnalytiCon Community and Yeltsin Center

January 14, 2025

there will be a popular science event in honour of UNESCO World Logic Day.

The event will consist of two parts: a lecture and a masterclass.

Lecture How One King ‘Taught’ Syllogistics to His Dogs: Lev Lamberov will tell us about an insignificant and little-known, yet fascinating, story from the history of logic. Dogs were often depicted in engravings devoted to logic, and in the early 17th century there was a debate at Cambridge University, involving King James I and Charles, Prince of Wales, about whether dogs could compose syllogisms. Why is it that for over two thousand years, researchers have been interested in the question of whether dogs have logic, and if they do, what kind of reasoning they can do?

Masterclass How to Stop Being Afraid of Logic and Love Correct Reasoning: Aleksey Kislov, Olga Kozyreva and Ilya Gushchin will show how to use the methods of formal logic in everyday life. Participants of the masterclass will learn tactics for detecting logical errors and communicative tricks, learn how to draw correct conclusions from insufficient information, and learn how to compare alternatives when there are no obvious criteria for their comparison.

The meeting will be held in Russian, online participation is not provided.

Start time: 19:00 Yekaterinburg time (UTC+5).

You can get more information and register as an attendee on the event page on the Yeltsin Center website.