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Jake Chandler at Leuven’s Centre for Logic and Analytic Philosophy, and Jonah Schupbach, currently at Tilburg’s Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science, have started a new group blog, Choice & Inference: Welcome to the new group blog, Choice & Inference! This blog provides a platform for dialogue and news within the fields of formal…

There are a number of foundational schemes out there. ZFC set theory is perhaps the most widely known, but of course you can also develop math in type theory. And you can also do it in category theory. So what’s the difference? Steve Awodey has an answer in a preprint of a paper, now posted…

This call for applications for Elsevier Foundation Travel Grants for junior female researchers for the CiE 2009 conference just came over the wire: We are offering up to five travel grants for junior female researchers to come to CiE 2009. These grants cover the registration fee (at the early rate) plus a travel reimbursement of…

My colleague Marc Ereshefsky brought me back a book of sticky notes from LA: Logical Positivi-its. There are three: a defintional double arrow, one with a picture of Otto Neurath, and one with a picture of Wittgenstein with three check boxes: tautology, meaningless, or Schweigen (be silent).

If you’d rather go to France than Pittsburgh or LA, or you’re not an undergrad student: 21st EUROPEAN SUMMER SCHOOL IN LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION ESSLLI 2009 Bordeaux, July 20-31 2009 The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in…

We’re having a little logic conference this weekend in Calgary. If you’re in the area, please come! All talks in 1253 Social Sciences, University of Calgary. Relevant papers may be found by following the links below Nuel Belnap (Pittsburgh) Friday, March 27, 4 pm Truth Values, Neither-True-Nor-False, and Supervaluations My oral remarks are based on…

On Leiter’s blog there was a poll on the question “who’s the most important philosopher of the 20th century”, prompted by the unqualified assertion by Jim Holt in a NYT book review that that would be Wittgenstein. The results were widely debated, e.g., on Crooked Timber. The reason the results were contentious, I think, is…

FOLLI is soliciting nominations for the 2009 Beth Dissertation Prize in Logic, Language, and Information. Since 2002, FoLLI (the European Association for Logic, Language, and Information, www.folli.org) awards the E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize to outstanding dissertations in the fields of Logic, Language, and Information. We invite submissions for the best dissertation which resulted in…

On March 27, 2009, the people behind Language Proof and Logic will have a little meeting on the various courseware packages they have now and are currently developing: Openproof day will be a day of events discussing a variety of topics related to the work of the project, including: * Presentation of existing courseware packages…

Not one but two logic summer schools for undergrads this year: Carnegie Mellon Summer School in Logic and Formal EpistemologyJune 8 to 26, with courses by Steve Awodey (Categories and Structures), Teddy Seidenfeld (Decisions and Games), and Jeremy Avigad (Logic and Formal Verification)Apply by March 15 UCLA Logic Center 2009 Summer School for UndergraduatesJuly 13…