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New SEP entry on conditionals by Horacio Arlo-Costa: This article provides a survey of recent work in conditional logic. Three main traditions are considered: the one dealing with ontic models, the one focusing on probabilistic models and the one utilizing epistemic models of conditionals.

New SEP entry on Combining Logics by Walter Carnielli and Marcelo Esteban Coniglio: The subject of combinations of logics is still a young topic of contemporary logic. Besides the pure philosophical interest offered by the possibility of defining mixed logic systems in which distinct operators obey logics of different nature, there exist also many pragmatical…

Call for Papers The Society for Exact Philosophy invites submission of papers for the 36th annual S.E.P. conference to be held at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyoming. May 13-17, 2008. Keynote speakers:George Bealer (Yale),Charles Chihara (Berkeley),Graeme Forbes (Colorado). Conference organizer: Prof. Mark Moffett (Wyoming). Paper submissions in all areas of analytic philosophy are…

Two ads for positions with AOS or AOC in logic: The Department of Philosophy, University of Alberta, invites applications for a tenure-track position in Philosophy, with a specialization in Logic. Other areas of research and teaching specialization and competence are open. The appointment will be made at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1,…

The new LaTeX package turnstile lets you make fancy turnstile characters and put labels above and below the line (e.g., \vdash^x_L, but the right way). HT: The Academic Geek (aka Kai von Fintel)

Unfortunately, I didn’t think of the title myself. It’s the title of one of the workshops at the Calgary Folk Festival, one where a bunch of artists play together, usually with an emphasis on the words (I haven’t been, so I really don’t know what they’re like, but a few years ago they had Jane…

Can you help the ASL Committee on Logic Education? Please take this survey. Dear Members of the ASL, One of the responsibilities of the ASL Education Committee is to help its membership tackle pedagogical difficulties in teaching logic courses. In order to properly do this, we need to fully understand the goals such courses are…

Peter and Ole were faster than me, so I’ll just link to their posts: Peter Smith on Mathematical Logic by Chiswell and Hodges and The Mathematics of Logic by Kaye. Ole Thomassen Hjortland on Logic’s Lost Genius: The Life of Gerhardt Gentzen by Mentzler-Trott.

Below the funding statistics for grants in the Philosophy Committee for SSHRC Standard Research Grants. The explanation for why so few grants were awarded this year is pretty clear: rather than cut grants across the board, SSHRC decided to respond to the 23% cut in overall funding for the program over last year by making…

The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada has posted a list of new Standard Research Grants for 2007. (Last year’s projects were discussed here.) This year’s stats: 88 applications (2006: 85, 2005: 96, 2004: 92), 26 grants, for a success rate of 29% (2006: 37%, 2005: 38%, 2004: 48%). This year, new scholars…