From Hannes Leitgeb's new Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the LMU Munich: Four doctoral fellowships are being advertised at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP). The MCMP, which is devoted to applications of logical and mathematical methods in philosophy, has recently been established at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU) based on generous support by the … Continue reading PhD Fellowships in Mathematical Philosophy in Munich

LogBlog moved last year. I've tried to make it noticeable as little as possible--the RSS feed has been redirected for a while. So even if your feed reader is set to www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/atom.xml you stil get the new posts.  But you should really change it!  (to http://www.ucalgary.ca/rzach/rss.xml) And now I've also put in redirects from all … Continue reading LogBlog Move

Since Leiter just quoted data on women in philosophy faculty positions collected by Kathryn Norlock, and over at Feminist Philosophers someone asked for a breakdown by tenure status, here it is. This is survey data from 2003 (the same dataset from which the figures Leiter quotes come) which means there is sampling error. The first … Continue reading Representation of Women in Philosophy, Again

My colleagues Marian Dörk and Sheelagh Carpendale over in the Computer Science department have taken data on philosophers from Freebase as a test case for their EdgeMaps visualization project. Freebase provides data about interests, professions, birthdates, influence connections, and other relations from Wikipedia. For the purpose of this paper, we have constrained the dataset to … Continue reading Visual Representation of Philosophers’ Significance and Influence

New entry on the Liar Paradox by Michael Glanzberg and JC Beall.

As part of the work of the Committee on Logic Education of the Association of Symbolic Logic, Marcia Groszek and Tamara Lakins organized a special session on logic in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum at the Joint Mathematics Meeting last month in New Orleans.  The session was very successful: excellent talks, good turnout.  The talks were: … Continue reading Logic in the Undergraduate Mathematics Curriculum

Just happened upon this LanguageLog post on "begging the question" from last year.  Very interesting!

Greg Hjorth died unexpectedly on January 13. He was 47.  Greg received his degree from UC Berkeley under the supervision of Hugh Wooding in 1993.  He held positions at Caltech, UCLA, and the University of Melbourne.  Together with Alexander Kechris, he recieved the ASL's Karp Prize in 2003. Last year, he was chosen as Tarski … Continue reading Gregory Hjorth, 1963-2011

Along the lines of philosophers' "proofs that p" and methods of mathematical proof, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal brings you even better methods of proof:

Roberta Ballarin's excellent article on the history of modal logic is now online at the SEP.

Gregory A. Petsko is the Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry & Chemistry at Brandeis University. In his column in Genome Biology (also published at Inside Higher Ed), he wrote an open letter to George Philip, the President of SUNY Albany, who evicerated the language department at his university.  Priceless: It seems to me … Continue reading A Biochemist Weighs in on the Closing of Humanities Departments at SUNY Albany

A. J. Ayer was born 100 years ago today.

Sad news: With sadness we report the death on October 20 of Herbert Bruce Enderton, who had been battling leukemia for several months. He was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at UCLA and a former member of the faculties of Mathematics and of Logic and the Methodology of Science at Berkeley. Widely known for his textbooks … Continue reading Herbert B. Enderton, 1936-2010

If you're interested or involved in teaching logic, please consider subitting something to this conference. And if you don't have anything to submit, keep it in mind for your summer travel plans next year. Spain in June! Third International Congress on Tools for Teaching Logic June 1-4 2011, Salamanca, Spain The congress will focus on … Continue reading CfP: Tools for Teaching Logic 2011

Commenting works again.... There were a lot (and by a lot, I mean thousands!) of spam comments over the summer, which led me to first turn off commenting, and then install a spam filter, which worked so well that it would not accept any comments at all. If fallen back to a simple Captcha. Hope … Continue reading Commenting Works Again!

I'm supposed to choose a text for my philosophy of language course next term. So far I've always used Martinich, but I'm getting bored with it.  Also, of the available options, it seems to be the most expensive one.  I've looked at Ludlow's collection, but that's maybe a bit too heavy (both literally and figuratively).  … Continue reading Bleg: Philosophy of Language Anthologies

The Kurt Gödel Society is proud to announce the commencement of the second round of the Kurt Gödel Research Prize Fellowships Program. The research fellowship prize program is sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation and will offer: two Ph.D. (pre-doctoral) fellowships of EUR 100,000 two post-doctoral fellowships of EUR 100,000 and one unrestricted fellowship of … Continue reading Kurt Gödel Research Prize Fellowships

The Carnegie Mellon University Department of Philosophy invites applications for the Herbert Simon Fellowship in Scientific Philosophy. We are seeking applications from scholars working in logic or philosophy of mathematics. Any of the following areas are particularly welcome: proof theory, category theory, formal verification, automated reasoning, or history or philosophy of mathematics. The Fellowship is … Continue reading Postdoc at CMU

Buckwalter and Stich just posted a very interesting survey of results concerning gender differences in answers given to philosophical thought experiments.  That there are such differences is one of the factors considered in explanations of the underrepresentation of women in philosophy -- if women have the "wrong" intuitions in these cases more often than men … Continue reading Gender Differences in Philosophical Intuitions