Logic and Theory of Science

The program is focusing on logic and its applications in the philosophy of science, particularly in the foundations of mathematics, physics, linguistics and the social sciences. Beyond a few core courses and a joint four-semester seminar series, providing a kind of common background to all students, we offer the following four thematic groups of courses: Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics, Foundations of Physics, Logic in Linguistics and Models in the Social Sciences – the student has to choose 7 of these The program bases on the many decades long successful cooperation between the Department of Logic, the Department of Algebraic Logic of the Alfred Renyi Institute of Mathematics (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and the Department of Theoretical Linguistics of the Research institute for Linguistics of the HAS.