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The Carnegie Mellon University Department of Philosophy invites applications for the Herbert Simon Fellowship in Scientific Philosophy. We are seeking applications from scholars working in logic or philosophy of mathematics. Any of the following areas are particularly welcome: proof theory, category theory, formal verification, automated reasoning, or history or philosophy of mathematics. The Fellowship is…

Buckwalter and Stich just posted a very interesting survey of results concerning gender differences in answers given to philosophical thought experiments.  That there are such differences is one of the factors considered in explanations of the underrepresentation of women in philosophy — if women have the "wrong" intuitions in these cases more often than men…

My colleague and friend Maggie Osler died yesterday.  She was a wonderful person, and an admirable scholar of early modern science and natural philosophy, the Scientific Revolution, and especially on Boyle, Descartes, Gassendi, and Newton. Her 1994 book Divine Will and the Mechanical Philosophy is a standard. And I look forward to reading her last…

If you’re here for the philosophy you might not have heard: a few days ago, Vinay Deolalikar of HP Labs has posted a draft paper containing a serious attempt to prove that P ? NP, one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Millennium Problems.  The math/theory scene is all aflutter over it. This wiki page collects…

The Institute Vienna Circle is hosting a workshop on Carnap next week, June 28 and 29.  The program is here.

These two Assistant Professorships in philosophy have just been advertised at LMU Munich (see below). The deadline for applications is July 2nd, 2010. (German language skills are not mandatory.) Soon also several postdoctoral and doctoral positions in philosophy (at the new Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy) will also be advertised. (1) Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich is seeking…

Two months ago, Blogger turned off FTP publishing on blogs, which meant I couldn’t update LogBlog anymore.  It’s taken a while, but the blog has now moved.  Well, I managed to import all the old posts into Drupal, the CMS we use at the University of Calgary and which generates the rest of my site. …

Here are my slides from my PM@100 talk.

Just up on the SEP, by Yaroslav Shramko and Heinrich Wansing, an entry on truth values.

Just up on the SEP, by Yaroslav Shramko and Heinrich Wansing, an entry on truth values.