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Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog: Grad Student Questions about Publishing
The advice in this thread is just the usual guff, but the comment about the Transylvanian Journal of Vampire Philosophy is absolutely hysterical.
philosophy  academia  phd  humour 
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
"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
Paul Boghossian: What the Sokal Hoax Ought to Teach Us
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.
philosophy  postmodernism  academia  truth 
october 2011 by beastaugh
Putting Philosophy to the Test
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
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
Great list of AI books (and many from related fields) curated by Russell and Norvig.
ai  reference  books  logic  philosophy  neuralnets 
april 2011 by beastaugh
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