Bimal Krishna Matilal Logic Prize 2025

Bimal Krishna Matilal (1935–1991) was at the same time an exponent of Indian logic and well conversant with modern/Western logical theories. He studied with Quine in the early 1960s and from 1977 to 1991 he was the Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics at University of Oxford. He was the founder editor of the Journal of Indian Philosophy.

The Bimal Krishna Matilal Prize in Logic is awarded once every three years.

The prize besides being honorific, supports the participation (housing + registration fee) of the winner in the World Congress of Universal Logic (UNILOG'2025 in Cusco, Peru) and the publication of the paper in the journal Logica Universalis, Birkhauser.

The awarded person will present his/her work at the 3rd World Logic Prizes Contest competing with the corresponding award winners from other countries.

Submission Guidelines

Each contender should submit a non published paper (between 10 to 30 pages) in any area of logic, written in English only.

There is no restriction of age, sex, race, nationality. The contender only needs to live in India and be affiliated with a University (or other educational institution) in India.

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.

List of Topics

Any area of logic.

Committees

Program Committee

• Mohua Banerjee, IIT Kanpur
• Sankha S. Basu, IIIT Delhi
• Mihir K. Chakraborty, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
• Amita Chatterjee, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
• Raja Natarajan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
• Rohit Parikh, City University of New York

Organizing committee

• Mihir K. Chakraborty
• Calcutta Logic Circle

Publication

The winning paper of LOGICPRIZE-2025 proceedings will be published

by the Journal "Logica Universalis".

Venue

The conference will be held in Cusco, Peru.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Sankha S. Basu (sankha@iiitd.ac.in)