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Greg Hjorth died unexpectedly on January 13. He was 47.  Greg received his degree from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Hugh Wooding in 1993.  He held positions at Caltech, UCLA, and the University of Melbourne.  Together with Alexander Kechris, he recieved the ASL’s Karp Prize in 2003. Last year, he was chosen as Tarski…

Along the lines of philosophers’ "proofs that p" and methods of mathematical proof, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal brings you even better methods of proof:

Roberta Ballarin‘s excellent article on the history of modal logic is now online at the SEP.

Gregory A. Petsko is the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry & Chemistry at Brandeis University. In his column in Genome Biology (also published at Inside Higher Ed), he wrote an open letter to George Philip, the President of SUNY Albany, who evicerated the language department at his university.  Priceless: It seems to me…

A. J. Ayer was born 100 years ago today.

Sad news: With sadness we report the death on October 20 of Herbert Bruce Enderton, who had been battling leukemia for several months. He was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at UCLA and a former member of the faculties of Mathematics and of Logic and the Methodology of Science at Berkeley. Widely known for his textbooks…

If you’re interested or involved in teaching logic, please consider subitting something to this conference. And if you don’t have anything to submit, keep it in mind for your summer travel plans next year. Spain in June! Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic June 1-4 2011, Salamanca, Spain The congress will focus on…

Commenting works again…. There were a lot (and by a lot, I mean thousands!) of spam comments over the summer, which led me to first turn off commenting, and then install a spam filter, which worked so well that it would not accept any comments at all. If fallen back to a simple Captcha. Hope…

I’m supposed to choose a text for my philosophy of language course next term. So far I’ve always used Martinich, but I’m getting bored with it.  Also, of the available options, it seems to be the most expensive one.  I’ve looked at Ludlow’s collection, but that’s maybe a bit too heavy (both literally and figuratively). …

The Kurt Gödel Society is proud to announce the commencement of the second round of the Kurt Gödel Research Prize Fellowships Program. The research fellowship prize program is sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and will offer: two Ph.D. (pre-doctoral) fellowships of EUR 100,000 two post-doctoral fellowships of EUR 100,000 and one unrestricted fellowship of…