Posted in Teaching on Nov 28th, 2009
A compressed history: Not so long ago, a department of statistics was a boring place to be and a department of computer science was no place at all. It was the philosophy department–a good one, at least–which employed the mathematically inclined who were interested in scientific methodology and foundations. One legacy from this post-war era [...]
Posted in Teaching on Nov 19th, 2009
Let’s say that you are assigned to teach a graduate seminar (in a philosophy department) introducing your students to current work in Formal Epistemology. They all have a working knowledge of first order logic and a decent mathematical education as well (let’s say that, for the most part, they have algebra and calculus under their [...]
Posted in News on Nov 2nd, 2009
I don’t think that this is old news; it’s certainly new to me. Anyway, for anyone who does’t know, volumes 1-14 of Minnesota Studies in Philosophy of Science are now available online and for free! Go here: <http://mcps.umn.edu/philosophy/complete.html>. These are absolute classics in the field!
Posted in News on Nov 1st, 2009
Announcement and call for submissions: The European Philosophy of Science AssociatioAnnouncement and call for submissions: The European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) is pleased to announce the launch of its new journal: EUROPEAN JOURNAL FOR PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE (EJPS) Editor-in-Chief: Carl Hoefer (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) Deputy Editor: Mauro Dorato (University of Rome III, [...]
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