Posted in News on Jun 27th, 2009
We are happy to announce that Phloxshop II: Modality is now open for registration. The workshop will focus on counterfactual reasoning, modal knowledge, and modal idioms in natural language. a. Date and Place Phloxshop II will take place from the 9th to the 11th of September at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. b. Keynote Speakers • [...]
Posted in News on Jun 18th, 2009
Via Philos-L: The Steering Committee of the European Society for Philosophy of Science (EPSA) are pleased to announce that a new journal with the title “European Journal for Philosophy of Science” (EJPS) has been established. EJPS is the official journal of EPSA and is published by Springer. The Editor-in- Chief is Carl Hoefer (Autonomous University [...]
Posted in Tidbits on Jun 17th, 2009
There are two new search engines that might interest you. The first, bing, from Microsoft, is a traditional search engine although it claims to have some semantic web capabilities. Although it doesn’t seem revolutionary, it is surprisingly good, by which I mean that it is fast, returns comparable results to Google and, most surprising, is [...]
Posted in Puzzles and Paradoxes on Jun 16th, 2009
Ok sorry about the lull in activity on here. Marking and conference organisation duties haven’t really helped… Here’s something that has been at the back of my mind for a few months. This is almost certainly old hat, but given that this is not my area of research and that I do not know this [...]
Posted in Tidbits on Jun 10th, 2009
Courtesy of FlowingData, geographers from Kansas State University have mapped the 7 deadly sins. Enjoy.
Posted in Formal Philosophy on Jun 5th, 2009
I have been thinking a bit more about my last post in which I presented a short version of an argument that recurs throughout this book. Quoting myself, [This argument] goes something like this: formal philosophers, by and large, have become much too comfortable with a limited set of formal tools. Such formal tools have proven too [...]
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