Doctor Bartosz Wcisło has received the E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize for his dissertation “Understanding the strength of compositional truth”. It is the world’s most important prize for dissertation in the field of logic.

Dr. Bartosz Wcisło’s thesis in the theory of truth, written under the supervision of Prof. Cezary Cieśliński from the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw, was selected by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) out of the 14 nominated theses.

 

Each year FoLLI awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize, named in honour of the Dutch mathematician Evert Willem Beth. This prize rewards outstanding contributions in the domains of Logic, Language and Information.

 

Also, two other scholars from the University of Warsaw received the prize: Prof. Leszek Kołodziejczyk (2006) and Dr. Michał Skrzypczak (2015).

 

The official E.W. Beth Dissertation Prize awarding event will take place on 15th August during the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information 2019 in Riga.

 

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