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Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Fellowship Winners

Submitted by Richard Zach on April 3, 2008 - 3:56pm.

Ok, that was faster than I expected: The winners of the Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Fellowships have been announced. They are:

Awareness Test

Submitted by Richard Zach on April 3, 2008 - 3:53pm.

Hi, I promise to post something logic-related very soon. In the meantime, please enjoy this funny video:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4&hl=en]
Please look in the mirror before you open your car door!

Philosophy of Logic Books?

Submitted by Richard Zach on February 26, 2008 - 9:24am.

Shawn at Words and Other Things asks about good books on philosophy of logic. If you have suggestions, comment there, please.

Play the Hydra Game online!

Submitted by Richard Zach on February 2, 2008 - 5:19pm.

Nice! Andrej Bauer has implemented the Hydra Game in a Java applet. The Hydra Game, like Goodstein sequences, is a way of coding ordinals ≤ ε0 ... hence they provide independence results from Peano Arithmetic. Andrej has all the deets. (A Java applet for Goodstein sequences is here.)

Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Prize Finalists

Submitted by Richard Zach on January 28, 2008 - 7:11pm.

The finalists for the Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Prizes have been announced. They are:

John Burgess, Philosophical Logic

Submitted by Richard Zach on January 28, 2008 - 9:05am.

John Burgess has a draft of a book on Philosophical Logic up on his website. It focusses on logics with direct philosophical relevance. It starts with temporal and modal logic, deals with conditional logics, "relevantistic" logics, and intuitionistic logic. It will be a relatively slim volume, but there's still a lot of interest in here: a nice little book. (HT: Kai von Fintel)

Checklist for submitting a manuscript

Submitted by Richard Zach on January 23, 2008 - 8:10am.

Mike Kaspari of Getting things done in academia has a useful checklist of things to do before you send off a paper. It talks about "data", "results", and "controls", but it mostly applies to logic or philosophy as well. Mike asks for input on what else one should do.
(HT: Semantics etc.)

Second-order and Higher-order Logic

Submitted by Richard Zach on December 21, 2007 - 1:45pm.

New SEP entry by Herb Enderton on "Second-order and Higher-order Logic".

More Introductions to Forcing

Submitted by Richard Zach on December 18, 2007 - 11:18am.

Tim Chow has posted a new version of his "Beginner's guide to forcing" (previously announced here) on arXiv, and points to other introductions to forcing: one by Kenny Easwaran, who's also posted his "Cheerful introduction to forcing and the con

Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences

Submitted by Richard Zach on December 11, 2007 - 5:04pm.
CALL FOR PAPERS

31st International Wittgenstein Symposium 2008 on

Reduction and Elimination in Philosophy and the Sciences

Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria, 10-16 August 2008
http://www.alws.at/

INVITED SPEAKERS

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