A sizeable number of members of the Department of Philosophy have serious research and teaching interests in logic and the philosophy of language. Research on logic centers on philosophical logic, especially and in connection with philosophy of language; the history of logic; and applications of logic in philosophy of mathematics, science, computation, and linguistics.

The department runs a Faculty-sponsored Research Group in Logic and Language with more or less regular meetings.  The group has two overlapping aspects:

• The Vendler Research Group in Linguistics and Philosophy, which is organized in collaboration with members from the Deparment of Linguistics, and the
• Calgary Peripatetic Research Group in Logic and Category Theory,  which is organized in collaboration with members from the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics.
  

Contacts: Nicole Wyatt (Language), Richard Zach (Logic)

Group Members (Faculty)

Vendler Research Group in Linguistics and Philosophy (VRG)

The VRG is an interdisciplinary group composed of faculty and graduate students from the departments of philosophy, linguistics, and psychology. The group's main goal is to facilitate communication between researchers working on issues related to the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of natural languages. The group meets approximately once a month to discuss current research, discuss members own work, and to host visiting scholars.

Contacts: Nicole Wyatt (Philosophy), Elizabeth Ritter (Linguistics)

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Group Members in Other Departments

Calgary Peripatetic Research Group on Logic and Category Theory

The Logic and Language Research Group also maintains intensive contact with the departments of Mathematics and Computer Science in research in formal logic, foundations of mathematics, computation and category theory. The Calgary Peripatetic Research Group on Logic and Category Theory meets weekly, alternating between the departments of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Philosophy.