In 1998 the Institute of Logic and Cognition (ILC) of Sun Yat-sen University was founded and began to offer a doctoral program in logic. In 2000, ILC was ranked as the key research institute of humanities and social sciences in Universities by the Chinese Ministry of Education. In 2001, the logical science at ILC becomes the only key discipline in the domestic field of logic. ILC is equipped with the best teaching staff and facilities in China for the academic research in this field.                        

    ILC has hosted a research group with special interests in: cognition, mathematical logic, logic of philosophy, philosophy of logic, informal logic, logic of artificial intelligence and language, Uncertain Reasoning and Decision.