Posted in News, Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2010
From Gigacom, news that Lyric Semiconductor, an MIT spinoff, is developing a new approach to data processing, which they call “probability processing”: For over 60 years, computers have been based on digital computing principles. Data is represented as bits (1s and 0s). Boolean logic gates perform operations on these bits. Lyric has invented a new [...]
Posted in News on Jul 23rd, 2010
Postdoctoral position at ENS Cachan – LSV and CEA LIST – MeASI ————————— Credibilistic and Prevision-Theoretic Semantics and Analysis of Numerical Programs ————————— For details and deadlines, contact: ————————— Jean Goubault-Larrecq goubault@lsv.ens-cachan.fr Eric Goubault eric.goubault@cea.fr Olivier Bouissou olivier.bouissou@cea.fr Project description: This postdoctoral position is part of the ANR Blanc “Confidence, Proof and Probabilities” project. This [...]
Posted in News on Jun 21st, 2010
Hannes Leitgeb has recently posted the following information for 2 new openings for Assistant Professorships at LMU Munich. The first is for an Assistant Professorship in Logic and Philosophy of Language, and the second is for an Assistant Professorship in Mathematical Philosophy.
Posted in News on Jun 6th, 2010
An announcement from Jonathan Phillips: The Experiment Month initiative is a program designed to help philosophers conduct experimental studies. If you are interested in running a study, you can send your study proposal to the Experiment Month staff. Then, if your proposal is selected for inclusion, we will conduct the study online, send you the results [...]
Posted in News on May 24th, 2010
An obituary from the New York Times, and a notice from the OU Math Club in Norman.
Posted in News on Apr 30th, 2010
Caltech has a two year postdoctoral fellowship funded through the McDonnell Collaborative on Causal Learning. Candidates should work in some area of philosophy or psychology that makes contact with the topic of causal learning. The terms of the fellowhsip are very generous. Details may be found here: <http://www.hss.caltech.edu/jobs/philpostdoc>
Posted in News on Apr 12th, 2010
Updated schedules for both events can be found here and here. Note that the Synthese conference will take place in Faculty House, while the SIPTA workshop will take place in 716 Philosophy Hall. If you are not familiar with Columbia campus, then you might want to consult the interactive map.
Posted in News on Mar 22nd, 2010
Fourth North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information NASSLLI 2010 June 20-26, 2010 http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/ The North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) is a summer school with classes in the interface between computer science, linguistics, and logic.
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