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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Grad Student Questions about Publishing
5 days ago by beastaugh
The advice in this thread is just the usual guff, but the comment about the Transylvanian Journal of Vampire Philosophy is absolutely hysterical.
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academia
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5 days ago by beastaugh
Edgar Andrade-Lotero and Catarina Dutilh Novaes, 'Validity, the Squeezing Argument and Alternative Semantic Systems: the Case of Aristotelian Syllogistic', Journal of Philosophical Logic, volume 41, no. 2
8 weeks ago by beastaugh
"We investigate the philosophical significance of the existence of different semantic systems with respect to which a given deductive system is sound and complete. Our case study will be Corcoran’s deductive system D for Aristotelian syllogistic and some of the different semantic systems for syllogistic that have been proposed in the literature. We shall prove that they are not equivalent, in spite of D being sound and complete with respect to each of them. Beyond the specific case of syllogistic, the goal is to offer a general discussion of the relations between informal notions—in this case, an informal notion of deductive validity—and logical apparatuses such as deductive systems and (model-theoretic or other) semantic systems that aim at offering technical, formal accounts of informal notions. Specifically, we will be interested in Kreisel’s famous ‘squeezing argument’; we shall ask ourselves what a plurality of semantic systems (understood as classes of mathematical structures) may entail for the cogency of specific applications of the squeezing argument. More generally, the analysis brings to the fore the need for criteria of adequacy for semantic systems based on mathematical structures. Without such criteria, the idea that the gap between informal and technical accounts of validity can be bridged is put under pressure."
philosophy
logic
8 weeks ago by beastaugh
What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Ross Andersen, The Atlantic
january 2012 by beastaugh
Mainly an interview with Tim Maudlin.
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philosophy
physics
cosmology
january 2012 by beastaugh
Paul Boghossian: What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us
october 2011 by beastaugh
Rightly derides the nonsense, but doesn't state its premises (classical logic, at least, and consequently at least a restriction on which theory of truth he could hold) when discussing issues of truth, which is distressing: a philosopher should know better.
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postmodernism
academia
truth
october 2011 by beastaugh
Putting Philosophy to the Test
september 2011 by beastaugh
Popular article in Stanford Magazine on x-phi, with Joshua Knobe.
xphi
philosophy
september 2011 by beastaugh
Society of Christian Philosophers to induct Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens - New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science
april 2011 by beastaugh
I don't agree with his initial point about different sorts of pride; surely all judgements of virtue are comparative, even if it's often implicit?
christianity
religion
philosophy
atheism
ethics
april 2011 by beastaugh
Artificial Intelligence Books
april 2011 by beastaugh
Great list of AI books (and many from related fields) curated by Russell and Norvig.
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books
logic
philosophy
neuralnets
april 2011 by beastaugh
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