Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:

The Vienna University of Technology is looking to recruit one Postdoctoral Research Assistant to work on the FWF-funded project “Nonclassical Proofs: theory, applications and tools”, under the direction of Agata Ciabattoni. The work will take place within the Institute of Computer Languages (Theory and Logic group) of the Vienna University of Technology. The post is…

Phil Serchuk‘s paper (with Ian Hargreaves and me) describing some experimental philosophy of logic he did when he was writing his undergrad thesis with me back in ’05 is now out in Mind and Language.  It’s a response to a 1999 paper by Tim Williamson together with psychologists Bonini, Osherson, and Viale, and we also…

My "boss" on the Carnap Edition project, Richard Creath, has a new entry on Logical Empiricism for the Stanford Encyclopedia.

Everyone should read this new entry in the SEP.  Emily Elizabeth Constance Jones (1848–1922), a contemporary of Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore at Cambridge University, worked primarily in philosophical logic and ethics. Her most significant contribution to the former area is her application of the intension-extension distinction to singular terms, anticipating Frege’s related distinction…

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Calgary invites applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship starting on September 1, 2011. The area of specialization is logic or the philosophy of science. The fellow will be expected to have a well-defined research project, teach one course in the area of specialization, and participate in the…

The AGM Theory of Belief Revision was 25 years old last year, and the JPL has a special anniversary issue on it.

The Swedish Academy awarded the 2011 Rolf Schock Prize to Hilary Putnam "for his contribution to the understanding of semantics for theoretical and ‘natural kind’ terms, and of the implications of this semantics for philosophy, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science and metaphysics". Here’s the citation: Hilary Putnam is one of the most versatile philosophers…

From Hannes Leitgeb’s new Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the LMU Munich: Four doctoral fellowships are being advertised at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). The MCMP, which is devoted to applications of logical and mathematical methods in philosophy, has recently been established at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) based on generous support by the…

LogBlog moved last year. I’ve tried to make it noticeable as little as possible–the RSS feed has been redirected for a while. So even if your feed reader is set to www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/atom.xml you stil get the new posts.  But you should really change it!  (to http://www.ucalgary.ca/rzach/rss.xml) And now I’ve also put in redirects from all…