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2016 Logic Colloquium in Leeds
The European Meeting of the ASL will be held in Leeds this year, July 31 to August 6. The deadline to submit a contributed talk is tomorrow! For details, see the conference website!
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Logicians Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced its 2016 class of fellows. Menachem Magidor (Hebrew University) has been elected Honorary Foreign Member. Vann McGee (MIT) has been elected to the Philosophy and Religious Studies section.
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Shapiro’s Philosophy & Mathematics Lecture on Mathtube
Stewart Shapiro gave the 2nd annual Calgary Philosophy & Mathematics Lecture a month ago. Video of his talk, “Potential Infinity: A Modal Account,” is now available on mathtube.org.
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Helmut Veith (1971-2016)
My friend and colleague Helmut Veith died yesterday. His death is a great and shocking loss to his family and friends, and the logic community, especially in Austria. I’ve known Helmut since we were undergraduates in computer science at Vienna Technical University in the early 1990s. We shared a passion for theoretical topics in computer…
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An Actual Textbook, and: Photos!
(Cross-posted from the Open Logic Project) Two exciting new things from the Open Logic Project. The first one is another sample textbook. I’ve previously written about how to get your textbook to print, and for my course “Logic II (Phil 379)” this term, I’ve done that. Properly: perfect bound paperbacks, with a nice cover, proper…
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Association of Symbolic Logic Abstract Deadline Today!
The deadline to submit abstracts for contributed talks at the ASL Annual Meeting in Storrs, CT this May is today! There will be a super exciting Special Session on History and Philosophy of Logic, featuring: Teresa Kouri (Ohio State), Carnap on translations Daniel Nolan (ANU), Reflections on Routley’s Ultralogic Program Dave Ripley (UConn), Toward a…
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Reconsidering Frege’s Conception of Number
Erich Reck and Roy Cook have edited a special issue of Philosophia Mathematica “Reconsidering Frege’s Conception of Number,” with contributions by Paddy Blanchette, Phil Ebert, Thomas Forster, Roy Cook, and Richard Heck. It is dedicated to the memory of Aldo Antonelli: Before launching into the introduction to this issue, we would first like to mention…
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The Reason We Use Symbols
In my second logic course I start with some very basic set theory. You forget just how confusing symbols can be to students who aren’t used to them. But then you also appreciate how useful they are when you try to explain in “plain English” what they mean. Even something as simple as a proof…
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Diversity Summer Program on Paradoxes
Maureen Eckert is organizing Summer Program for Diversity: Logic at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth from May 22-28, 2016. The program is open to undergraduates and recent graduates from underrepresented groups; there are 10 spaces and travel & lodging are provided. The topic of the program is paradoxes: Paradoxes present the ultimate challenge—contradictions. Logicians and…
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William Craig, 1918-2016
Bill Craig died early Thursday morning at the age of 97. He was a member of Berkeley’s philosophy department since 1961, and a central figure in Berkeley’s logic community. He was warm, supportive, approachable, just really a wonderful person. Berkeley’s memorial notice is here. We were office mates of sorts for two years. I was…
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