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Rosalie Iemhoff has a new entry on intuitionism in the philosophy of mathematics for the Stanford Encyclopedia. It explains the basics of intuitionistic mathematics. Together with Mark van Atten‘s entries on the history of intuitionistic logic and on Brouwer, and Joan Rand Moschovakis‘s entry on intuitionistic logic, the SEP is now probably the premier source…

Greg Lavers has a review of the Cambridge Companion to Carnap at NDPR. (HT: Greg Frost-Arnold)

SSHRC has posted the list of funded projects from the most recent Standard Research Grants competition. These grants are for three years. Last year’s results are here (plus lots of discussion on the politics of SSHRC in the comments section). This year’s stats: 92 applications (2007: 88; 2006: 85, 2005: 96, 2004: 92), 28 grants,…

Last year in May, Berkeley held a conference in honor of Bill Craig, who will turn 90 this coming November. Bill is probably best known for the Craig Interpolation Theorem and the theorem that every recursively enumerable theory is recursively axiomatizable. Just in time, the Festschrift arising from that conference has appeared online. It’s a…

Henri Cartan, last surviving member of the original Bourbakistes, died on August 13. He’ll be remembered not just for his mathematical work, but also for his political engagement for human rights and European federalism. Obits: Daily TelegraphDie ZeitLe FigaroLe MondeNew York TimesWashington Post (HT: Giuseppina Ronzitti)

The CiE series of conferences now has an associated association. At 0 EUR, membership is pretty cheap! By the way, next year’s CiE in Heidelberg will be a blast for the logic-y side of computation. Jeremy Avigad has agreed to be one of the invited speakers, Pavel Pudlák will give a tutorial, and there will…

Another exciting new blog, by Chris Pincock: Honest Toil.

My former student Rafał Urbaniak has a new blog, Entia et Nomina.

Obituary here.

Mark van Atten‘s excellent entry on the history of intuitionistic logic for the Stanford Encyclopedia is out. And last week in Jena, my Carnap Project colleague Steve Awodey got an awesome stamp commemorating the centennial (last year) of Brouwer’s thesis (not from me, so don’t ask):