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Another exciting new blog, by Chris Pincock: Honest Toil.

My former student Rafał Urbaniak has a new blog, Entia et Nomina.

Obituary here.

Mark van Atten‘s excellent entry on the history of intuitionistic logic for the Stanford Encyclopedia is out. And last week in Jena, my Carnap Project colleague Steve Awodey got an awesome stamp commemorating the centennial (last year) of Brouwer’s thesis (not from me, so don’t ask):

Krister Segerberg will be visiting the Philosophy Department at the University of Calgary during the 2008/09 academic year as Killam Visiting Scholar. He’ll be teaching two courses, an intro to modal logic course in the Fall and an advanced course in the Winter term. There will also be a little two day workshop, most likely…

My department is advertising for a junor position in logic. Please apply or tell me if you know of any promising candidates. If you need more information, you can contact Ali Kazmi (contact details below) or me, of course. We also have a recruitment page. Salient details missing from the ad: teaching load is 2-2,…

Hannes Leitgeb has edited an interesting special issue of Studia Logica on “Psychologism in Logic?”. From the introduction: There is no doubt that Frege’s and Husserl’s famous attack on Psychologism in logic had a significant influence on the emergence of logic as a separate discipline. Now that this battle can be safely regarded won, it…

NYU Philosophy is hosting a conference on the philosophy of mathematics, October April 10-12, 2008 2009. The speakers are John Burgess, Haim Gaifman, Joel Hamkins, Kai Hauser, Peter Koellner, Stewart Shapiro, Stephen Simpson, Bill Tait, Neil Tennant, and Hugh Woodin.

The first issue of the Review of Symbolic Logic is now online.

Pictures and videos from the Gödel Centenary Fellowship celebration are online here.