I’ve been reading Hawthorne and Stanley’s new piece “Knowledge and Action,” (downloadable here at Jason’s website), and will post a couple of things about this really fine piece. So here’s one issue. Restrict what we are talking about to propositional … Continue reading
Wilfried Sieg of Carnegie Mellon along with Christian Schunn and Melissa Nelson of The University of Pittsburg have developed an online survey regarding introductory logic classes and are requesting that anyone who regularly teaches introductory logic (i.e., teaches a course … Continue reading
The new issue of The Reasoner is up. Guest Editor: David Corfield. Interview: with Brendan Larvor, by David Corfield. Features: Anand Jayprakash Vaidya, Conceivability, Possibility, and Counterexamples. Berit Brogaard and Joe Salerno, A Counterfactual Account of Essence. Déirdre M. Dwyer, … Continue reading
The latest version of the EasyChair conference management system is up. It is very easy to configure, supports automated submission, manages bulk rejection/acceptance notifications, and allows for several options for managing online discussion among referees. There is even an option … Continue reading
Every two months a battered envelope containing Foreign Affairs arrives in my box, and invariably I turn immediately to the reviews section to see what Walter Russell Mead thinks about what he’s been reading. In the current issue there is … Continue reading
The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies is an independent institute of the University of Helsinki which conducts cutting-edge research in the humanities, social sciences, law, behavioural sciences and theology, promotes interdisciplinary interaction, and supports international research cooperation. The Helsinki Collegium … Continue reading
More good news: Mainstream and Formal Epistemology, by CD-er Vincent Hendricks, Cambridge University Press 2006, Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2006, will appear in paperback in fall 2007. … Continue reading
From Vincent Hendricks, the following information about this important event: November 16-17, 2007 Roskilde University, Denmark, Sponsored by PHIS – The Danish Research School in Philosophy, History of Ideas and History of Science Jaakko Hintikka’s philosophical writings are some of … Continue reading
Cambridge just informed me this week that they are putting out a paperback edition of The Value of Knowledge and the Pursuit of Understanding. The price appears to be about half that of the hardback version, though I still anticipate … Continue reading
Some very exciting news: The Association for Symbolic Logic is starting a new journal, The Review of Symbolic Logic, which will begin publication in June 2008. The RSL will join The Journal of Symbolic Logic and The Bulletin of Symbolic … Continue reading