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Ernst Specker died on December 10, in Zurich.  He is most well-known for his work on Quine’s New Foundations and the Kochen-Specker Theorem in quantum mechanics. He made significant contributions to many other areas of logic, as well as algebra, topology, and combinatorics. Specker’s MacTutor biography.

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Two interesting new entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia: Philosophy of Linguistics, by Barbara C. Scholz, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, and Geoffrey K. Pullum Montague Semantics, by Theo M. V. Janssen

The first annual conference of the Society for the Study of the History of Analytical Philosophy will be held at McMaster University, Hamilton (Canada) 24-26 May 2012. Invited Speakers Michael Friedman (Stanford University)Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)Thomas Uebel (University of Manchester) Canadian Student Presenters Travel Bursaries SSHAP will be offering up to 10 travel…

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

The Vienna University of Technology is looking to recruit one Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the FWF-funded project “Nonclassical Proofs: theory, applications and tools”, under the direction of Agata Ciabattoni. The work will take place within the Institute of Computer Languages (Theory and Logic group) of the Vienna University of Technology. The post is…

Phil Serchuk‘s paper (with Ian Hargreaves and me) describing some experimental philosophy of logic he did when he was writing his undergrad thesis with me back in ’05 is now out in Mind and Language.  It’s a response to a 1999 paper by Tim Williamson together with psychologists Bonini, Osherson, and Viale, and we also…

My "boss" on the Carnap Edition project, Richard Creath, has a new entry on Logical Empiricism for the Stanford Encyclopedia.

Everyone should read this new entry in the SEP.  Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (1848–1922), a contemporary of Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore at Cambridge University, worked primarily in philosophical logic and ethics. Her most significant contribution to the former area is her application of the intension-extension distinction to singular terms, anticipating Frege’s related distinction…

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship starting on September 1, 2011. The area of specialization is logic or the philosophy of science. The fellow will be expected to have a well-defined research project, teach one course in the area of specialization, and participate in the…