{"id":542,"date":"2025-10-24T09:57:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diagrams-conference.org\/2026\/?page_id=542"},"modified":"2026-02-04T21:07:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T21:07:46","slug":"philosophy-of-diagrams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/diagrams-conference.org\/2026\/calls-2\/philosophy-of-diagrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy of Diagrams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><p style=\"text-align: justify\">For 2026, we will have a special track devoted to philosophical issues pertaining to diagrams. Special theme topics include any research on the philosophy of diagrams, such as:<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>aesthetic properties of diagrams,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>cultural, metaphysical, epistemological aspects of diagrams,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>diagrams for syllogisms,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>diagrams in formal logic,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>diagrams in mathematical practice,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>diagrams in the mind,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>historical aspects of diagrams,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>iconicity and \u2018naturalness\u2019 of diagrams,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>imagination,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>philosophy of notation,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>reasoning and argumentation with diagrams,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>semantics and\/or pragmatics of diagrams,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>semiotics of diagrams,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>square of opposition, trees and graphs,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the nature and definition of diagrams and diagramming,<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>the work of philosophers such as Plato and C. S. Peirce<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>visualization and intuition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Submission information can be found here: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/diagrams-conference.org\/2026\/calls-2\/submission\/\">https:\/\/diagrams-conference.org\/2026\/calls-2\/submission\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Track Chair: Dave Beisecker, University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Email: beiseckd@unlv.nevada.edu<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Program Committee<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrew Aberdien, Florida Institute of Technology<br>Ben Blumson, National University of Singapore<br>Jos\u00e9-Mart\u00edn Castro-Manzano, Universidad Popular Aut\u00f3noma del Estado de Puebla<br>Daniele Chiffi, Politecnico di Milano<br>Silvia De Toffoli, IUSS Pavia<br>Lorenz Demey, KU Leuven<br>Ian Dove, University of Nevada<br>Nathan Haydon, University of Waterloo<br>Ingolf Max, Universit\u00e4t Leipzig<br>Brendan Larvor, University of Hertfordshire<br>Javier Legris, Universidad de Buenos Aires<br>Jens Lemansi, Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster<br>Amirouche Moktefi, Tallinn University of Technology<br>Mario Piazza, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa<br>Fabien Schang, Universidade Federal de Goi\u00e1s<br>Dirk Schlimm, McGill University<br>Marco Segala, Universit\u00e0 degli Studi dell&#8217;Aquila<br>Hans Smessaert, KU Leuven<br>Jean Van Bendegem Vrije, Universiteit Brussel<br>Ioannis Vandoulakis Hellenic, Open University of Cyprus<br>Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Hong Kong Baptist University<br>Arnold Oostra, Universidad del Tolima<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 2026, we will have a special track devoted to philosophical issues pertaining to diagrams. 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