Benson Mates, Professor emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, died May 14. He was a logician, historian of logic, philosopher of language,epistemologist, Leibniz scholar, and author of the excellent logic textbook Elementary Logic.

In between thinking and lecturing about the epsilon-calculus, I'm in Paris for a few days: it's where all the Carnap action is right now. Heard wonderful talks by the likes of Steve Awodey, Dan Isaacson, Alan Richardson, Erich Reck, Delphine Chapuis-Schmitz, and Tom Uebel, unfortunately missed those by Michael Beaney, Juliet Floyd, and Rick Creath, … Continue reading Carnap Action in Paris

Bob Meyer, emeritus professor of logic and philosophy at ANU, died last Thursday at the age of 77. He worked mainly on relevant logics and entailment, and is remembered not just for his work in logic, but also his wit and humor.Dave Chalmers and Greg Restall remind us of the paper "God exists!", in which … Continue reading Robert K. Meyer, 1932-2009

At least I hope it does. I'll see in a couple of days, when I get there. Scheduled to give a talk on proof interpretations at the Institute Vienna Circle on Thursday (5 pm, Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Uni Wien Campus, Hof 1, 2. Stock, links). Friday, I start teaching a short course on the epsilon … Continue reading Vienna Waits For Me