Foundations of Temporal Logic – The WWW-site for Prior-studies
a joint project between
Department of Information Studies – University of Copenhagen
and
Department of Communication and Psychology – Aalborg University

This website opened in 2014 and is devoted to the Life and Work of Arthur Norman Prior (1914-69), the founding father of temporal logic. Furthermore, the website is one of the main news channels for the research project The Primacy of Tense: A.N. Prior Now and Then, funded 2016-2019 by the Danish Council for Independent Research | Humanities. DFF|FKK Grant-ID: DFF – 6107-00087. For further information on the research project: www.prior.aau.dk

The following ressources are vital for research into the Life and Work of Arthur Norman Prior:

Nachlass

• The Nachlass of A.N. Prior
  Papers by A.N. Prior as well as letters by A.N. Prior and contemporary researchers with whom he corresponded, not previously published, but now transcribed and proofread as a result of the work in The Virtual Lab for Prior Studies.

Virtual Lab

• The Virtual Lab for Prior Studies
  (a closed collaborative community working on the transcription of Prior’s unpublished papers and letters, you’re welcome to join)

Publications

• Engerer, Volkmar; Albretsen, Jørgen: „The Prior Internet Resources 2017: information systems and development perspectives”
  Paper presented at Workshop on Time and Modality, Skagen, Danmark.
  > Published December 2017 in ebook „Logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior”, ISBN (online): 978-87-7112-677-8, ISSN (online): 2596-4372, pp. 223-249 – click here for PDF.


• Engerer, Volkmar: „What can information specialists do for science communication? With cases from the Prior project”
  Submitted September 26, 2017, for peer review.


• Øhrstrøm, Peter; Jakobsen, David; Hasle, Per. 2017. „In Celebration of Arthur Prior’s ‘Past, Present and Future’”.
  > Published December 2017 in ebook „Logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior”, ISBN (online): 978-87-7112-677-8, ISSN (online): 2596-4372, pp. 9-27 – click here for PDF.


• Rybaříková, Zuzana; Hasle, Per Frederik Vilhelm. 2017. C. A. Meredith, A. N. Prior, and Possible Worlds.
  Paper presented at Workshop on Time and Modality, Skagen, Danmark.
  > Published December 2017 in ebook „Logic and Philosophy of Time: Themes from Prior”, ISBN (online): 978-87-7112-677-8, ISSN (online): 2596-4372, pp. 41-61 – click here for PDF.


• Engerer, Volkmar: „Information science knowledge in research, research communication and research communication research: Cases from the Prior project”
  Submitted September 5, 2017 for peer review. (Draft article  PDF).


• Engerer, Roued-Cunliffe, Albretsen, Hasle: The Prior-project: From Archive Boxes to a Research Community (long paper)
  Presented March 2017 at Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries, 2nd Conference, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
  > Published in Book of Abstracts, ISBN: 978-91-88348-83-8 (PDF).


• Special Issue of the periodical Synthese, Volume 193, Issue 11, November 2016, entitled The Logic and Philosophy of A.N. Prior
   (eds. Jørgen Albretsen, Per Hasle, and Peter Øhrstrøm), preface and 25 articles.
• Springer Link to the Synthese Special Issue on The Logic and Philosophy of A.N. Prior
Articles from the Special Issue available through Springer Nature SharedIt (PDF):
• Albretsen, Hasle, Øhrstrøm: Preface. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1240-8


• Hasle, Per; Øhrstrøm, Peter. 2016. ‘Prior’s paradigm for the study of time and its methodological motivation’. In ‘A Century of Time – Arthur Prior’s Contribution to Logic and Philosophy and its Present-Day Impact’. Synthese Special Issue: Volume 192, Issue 4 (2016), Page 1-16.
  DOI: 10.1007/s11229-016-1161-6 (available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1161-6)


• Albretsen, Hasle, and Øhrstrøm: The Virtual Lab for Prior Studies: An Example of a Closed Collaborative Community
  Working paper 2016 for the University of Copenhagen group within the research project „The Primacy of Tense: A.N. Prior Now and Then”. (PDF).


• Roued-Cunliffe, Henriette; Engerer, Volkmar: Digital Humanities research on the Prior Nachlass
  Working paper 2016 for the University of Copenhagen group within the research project „The Primacy of Tense: A.N. Prior Now and Then”. (PDF).

Digital Publication (Digital Research Resource)

• Hasle, Per; Øhrstrøm, Peter: 2014 – present date: Foundations of Temporal Logic – The WWW-site for Prior-studies: www.priorstudies.org (this website).
  The website was officially launched at the Arthur Prior Centenary Conference in 2014 and has since been expanded in a process of ongoing development. It is an official part (WP) of the project The Primacy of Tense: A.N. Prior Now and Then www.prior.aau.dk/about. It is based on app. 250 pages of text. To this comes the „Nachlass ” nachlass.prior.aau.dk, sound files and video footage.

Further information

• General information on A. N. Prior,
  for instance:
  • His ’Life’
  • A list of Secondary literature.
• Bibliography of A. N. Prior (in two parts).
• Description of the material. Prior’s papers, notes, correspondence, etc. kept in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

A lasting memory of A.N. Prior is now the Prior Centenary Conference, which was held at Balliol College, Oxford, August 20 – 22, 2014.
The following link is to the conference website, now kept for reference.
• Arthur Prior Centenary Conference, Balliol College, Oxford, August 20 – 22, 2014