Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology Bulletin no. 24

Abstract

Assessors:

Hanne Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Rachel Ankeny, Adelaide, Australia. Valeria de Paiva, Mountain View CA, U.S.A. Gerhard Heinzmann, Nancy, France. Concha Martinez Vidal, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Tomáš Marvan, Prague, Czech Republic. Dhruv Raina, Delhi, India. Cheng Sumei, Shanghai, China. Alasdair Urquhart, Toronto, Canada. Andrés Villaveces, Bogotá, Colombia.

Former Presidents: († = deceased)

Menachem Magidor (Israel), Elliott Sober (United States of America), Wilfrid Hodges (United Kingdom), Adolf Grünbaum† (United States of America), Michael Rabin (United States of America), Wesley Salmon† (United States of America), Jens-Erik Fenstad† (Norway), Lawrence J. Cohen† (United Kingdom), Dana S. Scott (United States of America), Jerzy Łoś† (Poland). Patrick Suppes† (United States of America), Jaakko Hintikka† (Finland & United States of America), Andrzej Mostowski† (Poland), Stephan Körner† (United Kingdom), Yehoshua Bar-Hillel† (Israel), Georg Henrik von Wright† (Finland), Stephen C. Kleene† (United States of America).

Former president Jens Erik Fenstad passed away on 14 April 2020.

The Executive Committee of the Division is composed of the President, the Vice-Presidents, the Secretary-General, the Treasurer, and the immediate Past President. The Council consists of the Executive Committee plus the Assessors.

Ordinary Members Present (number of votes and names of delegates in parentheses; total votes: 68 before Agenda item 5; 69 after Agenda item 5). Argentina (2; 1 after Agenda item 5; Víctor Rodríguez), Australia (3; Pamela Robinson), Austria (1; Georg Schiemer), Belgium (1; Peter Verdée), Brazil (2; Elaine Pimentel), Canada (3; Zeyad El Nabolsy), P. R. China (3; Chen Bo), Czech Republic (2; Libor Behounek, Robin Kopecký), Denmark (2; Magdalena Malecka), Estonia (1; Peeter Müürsepp), Finland (2; Uskali Müki), France (4; Andrew Arana, Paola Cantu, Karine Chemla, Gerhard Heinzmann), Germany (4; Benedikt Löwe), Iran (1; Benedikt Löwe), Italy (4; Daniele Molinini), Japan (4; Mitsuhiro Okada), Republic of Korea (2; Insok Ko), Mexico (2; Atocha Aliseda, Ambrosio Velasco-Gómez), The Netherlands (2; Benedikt Löwe), Poland (2; Piotr Błaszczyk), Romania (1; Sorin Costreie), Russian Federation (3; Ilya Kasavin, Andrei Rodin, Lada Shipovalova), South Africa (1; Sean Muller), Spain (2; José A. Díez Calzada), Sweden (3; Valentin Goranko), Taiwan (2; Husan-Chih Lin, Kok-Yong Lee), United Kingdom (4; Robin Hendry), and United States of America (5; Hasok Chang, Philip Kircher, Helen Longino). After Agenda item 5, the number of votes of Argentina was reduced to 1 and the new Ordinary Member Portugal (2; João Luis Cordovil, Joan Bertran-San-Millán) was admitted; therefore, the number of votes of ordinary members increased by one.

Ordinary Members Absent. Eire (cf. Agenda item 5), Hungary (1), India (1), Israel (1), Moldova (1), New Zealand (2), Norway (1).

International Members Present (total votes: 25). Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (2; Michel Ghins, Jure Zovko), Association Computability in Europe (1; Giuseppe Primiero), Association for Symbolic Logic (6; Juliet Floyd), Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (1; Marco Panza), Charles S. Peirce Society (1; Javier Legris). European Philosophy of Science Association (2; Alberto Naibo), Association for Logic, Language and Information (2; Valentin Goranko, Benedikt Löwe), Gesellschaft für Wissenschaftsphilosophie (2; Paul Hoyningen-Huene), Institut Wiener Kreis (2; Georg Schiemer), Polskie Towarzystwo Logiki i Filozofii Nauki (1; Cezary Cieśliński), Scandinavian Logic Society (1; Valentin Goranko), Société de Philosophie des Sciences (4; Alberto Naibo).

Commissions Present (total votes: 4). Commission on the Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences (1; Juan Manuel Durán), History and Philosophy of Computation (1; Giuseppe Primiero), International Association for Science and Cultural Diversity (1; Madeline Muntersbjorn), Joint Commission (1; Agnes Bolinska).

Commissions Absent. Commission on Arabic Logic (1), Inter-Division Teaching Commission (1).

Membership Candidates Present. Portugal (2; João Luis Cordovil, Joan Bertran-San-Millán).

Others. According to tradition, the General Assembly was open to all participants of CLMPST 2023. The Division for History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST) was represented by DHST President Marcos Cueto (Brazil).

Total number of votes present. 97 before Agenda item 5; 98 after Agenda item 5. The total number of votes was 109, both before and after Agenda item 5. Therefore, the number of votes present was at least half of of the valid voting power and thus the General Assembly was validly constituted according to Article 15 of the Division's statutes.

Adopted by the General Assembly of IUHPS/DLMPS; Moscow, August 18, 1987; Article 25 amended by General Assembly of IUHPS/DLMPS, Florence, Italy, August 23, 1995; Articles 9, 13 and 19 amended and new Articles 20 and 21 introduced, raising by 2 the numbering of subsequent articles, by General Assembly of IUHPS/DLMPS, Nancy, France, July 24, 2011; amendments in Articles 1, 2, 5, 12, and 21 by General Assembly of IUHPS/DLMPS, Helsinki, Finland, August 6, 2015; amendments in Articles 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, and 29 and deletion of Article 30 by General Assembly of DLMPST/IUHPST, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 27 July 2023.

These statutes were approved by the General Assembly of DHST held virtually on 31 July 2021 and the General Assembly of DLMPST in Buenos Aires on 27 July 2023.