Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Since Leiter just quoted data on women in philosophy faculty positions collected by Kathryn Norlock, and over at Feminist Philosophers someone asked for a breakdown by tenure status, here it is. This is survey data from 2003 (the same dataset from which the figures Leiter quotes come) which means there is sampling error. The first…

My colleagues Marian Dörk and Sheelagh Carpendale over in the Computer Science department have taken data on philosophers from Freebase as a test case for their EdgeMaps visualization project. Freebase provides data about interests, professions, birthdates, influence connections, and other relations from Wikipedia. For the purpose of this paper, we have constrained the dataset to…

New entry on the Liar Paradox by Michael Glanzberg and JC Beall.

As part of the work of the Committee on Logic Education of the Association of Symbolic Logic, Marcia Groszek and Tamara Lakins organized a special session on logic in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum at the Joint Mathematics Meeting last month in New Orleans.  The session was very successful: excellent talks, good turnout.  The talks were:…

Just happened upon this LanguageLog post on "begging the question" from last year.  Very interesting!

Greg Hjorth died unexpectedly on January 13. He was 47.  Greg received his degree from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Hugh Wooding in 1993.  He held positions at Caltech, UCLA, and the University of Melbourne.  Together with Alexander Kechris, he recieved the ASL’s Karp Prize in 2003. Last year, he was chosen as Tarski…

Along the lines of philosophers’ "proofs that p" and methods of mathematical proof, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal brings you even better methods of proof:

Roberta Ballarin‘s excellent article on the history of modal logic is now online at the SEP.

Gregory A. Petsko is the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry & Chemistry at Brandeis University. In his column in Genome Biology (also published at Inside Higher Ed), he wrote an open letter to George Philip, the President of SUNY Albany, who evicerated the language department at his university.  Priceless: It seems to me…