Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Are you sitting in front of the computer, hitting the “reload” button every two seconds to see if the October Jobs for Philosophers is posted on the APA website yet? Why not check out the job that we have right here: Assistant Professor with AOS in Logic? UPDATE: Hm, looks like there aren’t many logic…

Today I taught Ch. 13 of Peter Smith‘s book. We showed that every Σ1 function can be written as a composition of two Δ0 functions (p. 108). In his proof of this, Peter’s following Boolos Burgess & Jeffrey (Lemma 16.12 on p. 206 of the 4th & 5th ed.; it’s not in the 3rd so…

NB: History and philosophy of computation explicitly part of the scope. Note also the philosophers on the program committee and the special session on philosophical and mathematical aspects of hypercomputation. CiE 2009: COMPUTABILITY IN EUROPE 2009 –Mathematical Theory and Computational PracticeHeidelberg, Germany19 – 24 July 2009 Deadline for submissions: 20 JANUARY, 2009 http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/logic/cie2009/ CiE 2009…

So I got fed up with Bloglines one time too many, and I switched to Google Reader. It maybe it’s just that I’m still getting used to it, but I find the user interface of Bloglines a bit more intuitive. And it has served me well for years. Wait–Why do I feel bad about switching…

If you’re a member of the ASL,* you recently received the September Newsletter. In it–maybe easy to miss–this nice opportunity to acquire some logic books for cheap: For a limited time, the ASL is making available the following volumes from its book series at an additional discount. Lecture Notes in Logic (each volume $12 for…

From Theorem(e): Nuel Belnap now has two logic texbook drafts on his webpage : Notes on the Art of Logic (.pdf, 310 p.)Notes on the Science of Logic (.pdf, 237p.) The first is an intro to logic, with truth table method, natural deduction proofs, etc., the second a course on metalogic, with completeness proofs. I…

CUP is giving away copies of Martin Gardner’s New Mathematical Library if you can solve a logic puzzle–any reader of this blog should be able to solve this one! N.B. The rules that say: These books represent new editions of Gardner’s massive Scientific American corpus. Many people know these puzzles by heart. If you do,…

My colleague Robin Cockett and I have been running a research group here at Calgary where the various computer scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers interested in logic, theory, foundations, etc. meet and present work. For a long time we’ve had weekly meetings and everything went great, but then both Robin and I went on leave and…

The ASL Newsletter went out today, and it looks like the Winter Meeting will be very exciting: 2008-09 ASL Winter Meeting (with APA) Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDecember 27–30, 2008 This meeting will be held jointly with the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. The program includes three invited sessions. For the first,…

The Vienna International Summer University next year (July 13-24, 2009) will be on the topic “The Culture of Science and Its Philosophy”. Call for Participation just came in. Stupid framed website: to apply, go to the website, then click on “Application” in the navigation bar on the left. Call for ApplicationApplication deadline: January 30, 2009…