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The finalists for the Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Prizes have been announced. They are: Pre-doctoral category David Fernández: Non-Deterministic Semantics for Dynamic Topological Logic Ekaterina Fokina: Index Sets for Some Classes of Structures Pavel Hrubes: On lengths of proofs in non-classical logics Maryanthe Malliaris: Realization of phi-types and Keisler’s order Kentaro Sato: The Strength of…

John Burgess has a draft of a book on Philosophical Logic up on his website. It focusses on logics with direct philosophical relevance. It starts with temporal and modal logic, deals with conditional logics, “relevantistic” logics, and intuitionistic logic. It will be a relatively slim volume, but there’s still a lot of interest in here:…

Mike Kaspari of Getting things done in academia has a useful checklist of things to do before you send off a paper. It talks about “data”, “results”, and “controls”, but it mostly applies to logic or philosophy as well. Mike asks for input on what else one should do. (HT: Semantics etc.)

New SEP entry by Herb Enderton on “Second-order and Higher-order Logic“.

Tim Chow has posted a new version of his “Beginner’s guide to forcing” (previously announced here) on arXiv, and points to other introductions to forcing: one by Kenny Easwaran, who’s also posted his “Cheerful introduction to forcing and the continuum hypothesis” on arXiv, and one by Peter Johnson, “Foundations for abstract forcing.” I’m guessing the…

CALL FOR PAPERS 31st International Wittgenstein Symposium 2008 on Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 10-16 August 2008http://www.alws.at/ INVITED SPEAKERS William Bechtel, Ansgar Beckermann, Johan van Benthem, Alexander Bird, Elke Brendel, Otavio Bueno, John P. Burgess, David Chalmers, Igor Douven, Hartry Field, Jerry Fodor, Kenneth Gemes, Volker Halbach, Stephan…

The ASL Newsletter came in the mail today, so if you’re a member, you should be getting yours about now as well. For the first time in a long while, the election to the ASL council is contested. I’m not going to ask you to vote for me, but you should vote!

From Tim Chow via FOM: I have just completed a first draft of an expository paper on forcing. http://alum.mit.edu/www/tchow/forcing.pdf This paper grew out of a sci.math.research article that I posted back in 2001 entitled “Forcing for dummies”: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math.research/msg/c2d65d1a23eabb66I made a major change, hopefully for the better, by approaching the subject via Boolean-valued models, which I…

I’m on sabbatical next term, and am off to Europe in one week–and it looks like that’s not a day too soon. Teaching modal logic and history of analytic this term was a lot of fun, but I look forward to getting writing done. Don’t have much planned yet, but I’ll be in Toulouse for…

A year and a half ago, Andy Arana and I organized a session at the Pacific APA about logic and philosophy graduate education. One of the panelists was Ted Sider, who spoke about what kinds of logic he thought a philosophy grad student should know. He’s been teaching a course on exactly that, i.e., a…