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Modern logic is a branch of philosophy and ALSO a branch of mathematics, but the profession of logic seems to…
Dear John, I hope you’re sitting down. I knew John Hagelin when I was in high school fifty years ago.…
> These are obviously two different things, but my sense is that part of the…paradigm shift that resulted in infinitely…
In memory of the inventor of this ingenious argument and its faithful reporter, both recently lost: “Is the ontological argument…
I did not know Timothy Smiley well, and his pioneering joint book on Plural Logics is sitting on my shelves…
Smiley cowrote the single best introduction to his field (formally and otherwise) I think will ever be written. I’m grateful…
Worldly Indeterminacy, by Chien-hsing Ho, at Oxford University Press. Available at: https://academic.oup.com/book/63418. Description The book provides a framework to support…
MOVING TO FRONT FROM SEPTEMBER 14: SEE THE UPDATE
This is a bit belated, but I only learned today that Professor Moravcsik passed away in June; he was Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, and had also taught for many years at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He was well-known for his scholarship on ancient Greek philosophy, and also worked on contemporary topics in philosophy of language and mind.
UPDATE: An informative memorial notice from Stanford.
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