The Gödel Centenary Conference will include a competition for "young scholars" (born on or after 1/1/1970). "Submitted projects should be strongly connected to the scientific achievements (including recent applications) and/or life of Kurt Gödel. Projects can cover any of the disciplines, such as: logic, mathematics, physics, computer science, theology or philosophy." 10 finalists will get … Continue reading A Chance to Win €20,000

They've been around for a while, but one of the students in my Logical Positivism class made copies of them and passed them out (I suggested they start their final presentations with a joke), which reminded me: Ian Vandewalker's "Philosophical Powers" mock action figures of philosophers include four logicians: "Ferocious" Frege (includes Morning Star® and … Continue reading Logician Action Figures

Jeremy posted this to FOM yesterday: I'd like to announce a review I have written of two books that deal with logic and foundations in the early twentieth century: Calixto Badesa's The Birth of Model Theory and Dennis Hesseling's Gnomes in the Fog. The review, which will appear in the Mathematical Intelligencer, can be found … Continue reading New Stuff from Jeremy Avigad

If you're reading Obscure and Confused Ideas or the comments to this post on logicandlanguage.net, then you probably know that Greg Frost-Arnold is working on a book about what went on at Harvard in 1940/41, when Carnap, Quine, and Tarski were hanging out there. While you're waiting for that book to come out, you could … Continue reading Carnap, Quine, Tarski: 1940-1941