Shawn Standefer
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Philosophical logician at North Carolina State University
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My book on relevant logics will be available mid-2026
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
1 day ago
The hungry red panda at the Prospect Park Zoo? Adorable. The HungryPanda delivery app scamming small businesses? Not adorable. So they will be paying $580,000 back. We'll keep pursuing companies that take advantage of New Yorkers, and we'll keep asking if we can pet a red panda just for a second.
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
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In class today I discussed the Abilene Paradox but in my (very good) Texan drawl, and I can tell you that my students were NOT PREPARED FOR IT. (If they came to office hours, they'd know I have a cowboy hat, and a TX license plate hanging on my wall.)
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Abilene paradox - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox
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I get that a lot of philosophers find Lewis's modal realism implausible, but I don't get why it is a distinctively implausible view
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Hui-ke me up before you go go
3 days ago
Hi Bluesky! Suppose I was feeling brave and wanted to learn about how we/kids develop event cognitive capacities. Where should I start?
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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew
4 days ago
WAIT THEY CAN DRESS UP THE ZAMBONIS WHY DONT ALL THE TEAMS DO THIS
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Johanna Franklin
4 days ago
Officially published! The three of us agreed to start writing this book together almost exactly three years ago, and I'm delighted that it's available.
#MathSky
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Effective Metric Structure Theory
Book discusses the increasingly popular topic of computable metric structure theory which unifies methods from effective analysis and computable algebra.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-13322-9
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Jonathan Weisberg
8 days ago
[making my autism everyone else's problem] let's introduce a logic requirement
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The publisher-introduced errors to my "On the hyperintensionality of relevant logics and some of their rivals" have been corrected and the new version has been posted at the Synthese website.
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On the hyperintensionality of relevant logics and some of their rivals - Synthese
Synthese - In this article, we present a definition of hyperintensionality appropriate to relevant logics. We then show that relevant logics are hyperintensional in this sense, drawing consequences...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-025-05245-7
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Aidan McGlynn
9 days ago
Sorry to be a stuck record, but "graham youre a heidegger scholar" at least deserves to be an honourable mention
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ryan cooper
11 days ago
far too many people on this site just cannot handle Baby's First Use/Mention Distinction. try to actually understand before flipping tf out
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
11 days ago
this is HILARIOUS
therepublicjournal.com/essays/ai-an...
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Doug Gordon
19 days ago
"Consensus" only ever works in one direction, and that direction favors cars and parking.
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Jonathan Weisberg
26 days ago
Where else are the kids gonna learn about S4.2
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Juan Diego Rodriguez
26 days ago
To to experts in TCS and especially Boolean function theory -- is this obvious? Is this useful for anything? Context: this came out of asking Claude to train a binary-valued MLP in spectral space (Walsh-Fourier decomposition per layer, not for the whole network)
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okay Kelly
28 days ago
awoke from uneasy sleep to find myself transformed into a feature not a bug
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A new issue of the AJL is available
ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ajl/index
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The Australasian Journal of Logic
https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ajl/index
about 1 month ago
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Aidan McGlynn
over 1 year ago
It's what he would have wanted
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Daily Wah (red pandas)
about 1 month ago
Booping the Daily red panda
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Ramón Alvarado
about 1 month ago
Why do people think the Turing test is abt machine intelligence? It’s clearly about OUR ability to discern/tell the difference given ONLY output/behavior concerning discreet tasks. Two completely different things. If you think otherwise, you didn’t read that paper correctly.
#AIethics
#philtech
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Benedict Eastaugh
about 1 month ago
Realising I haven't advertised this here—I'm hiring! Walter Dean and I have a project on measuring the strength of mathematical theorems used in philosophy, and we're looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO344/r...
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Research Fellow (11324-0226) at University of Warwick
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Fellow (11324-0226) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO344/research-fellow-11324-0226
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕
about 2 months ago
Is there a good omnibus tracker about how states and hospitals have rolled back gender affirming care for minors since 2025? I read news here and there but I'm really hoping for something like a table with dates and specific interventions that have been discontinued.
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WeRateDogs
about 2 months ago
This is Bruegger. He learned a highly advanced new trick, demonstrating excellent use of both free will and spatulas. 13/10 (TT: maddmaddmad)
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Ethan Landes
about 2 months ago
Philosophers, specifically philosophy of language nerds: Are there any clear examples of successfully defined or explicated concepts in the humanities? Every example I can think of (e.g., square, planet, watt) are from the sciences
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Jill Weinberger
about 2 months ago
I feel like every British small town murder mystery series takes place in a seaside town. I know they're an island country, but surely SOME small inland towns are also full of secrets and murder.
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Drew
5 months ago
Question for teaching philosophers: what texts do you teach that get your undergraduate students most excited?
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Micah
about 2 months ago
have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it
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https://www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-pratchetts-discworld-harpercollins-encore-2026-books
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Anyone have any favorite examples of plausibly valid arguments in philosophy articles? I mean arguments presented in prose, rather than listed out in a numbered list.
about 2 months ago
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Clayton Littlejohn
about 2 months ago
If I ask you whether your uni library has a book in your area of philosophy on the shelf from the past 5 years from one of the most significant publishers (you choose), do you think (a) certaintly, (b) probably, (c) flip a coin, (d) probably not, or (e) almost certainly not?
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Tobias Gerstenberg
about 2 months ago
I'm very sad to have learned today that Joe Halpern passed away. Joe was a giant who knew no scientific boundaries. He loved science with a contagious, child-like enthusiasm. He was wonderful and I'm so grateful that I got to learn from him. Thank you Joe 🙏
www.bangsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/j...
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Gearing up for an exciting evening of reviewing page proofs
about 2 months ago
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Kevin Zollman
2 months ago
I'm very excited to be Planet Money's guest when they come to Pittsburgh! Stop by if you're in our (and Mr. Roger's) neighborhood.
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okay Kelly
about 2 months ago
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...: the starry heavens above me and the microplastics within me.
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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕
2 months ago
So, umm, any others who teach history of philosophy and who do in-class exams have ideas on how to do that? I mean, I know I can test for received interpretations from the textbook, which they should have some awareness of. But to me, that's not quite the real interest of the class. Advice welcome
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Kevin Zollman
2 months ago
Yep, came here to say this. Zero marginal cost of distribution isn't zero marginal cost of production. And ESPECIALLY not zero marginal cost of consumption: many academics NEED word limits (even though they won't admit it).
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1. Introduction to Syntactic Theory (HPSG) 2. Sociolinguistics 3. Computability Theory 4. Japanese history 5. Linguistic Semantics
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My book on relevant logics will be available mid-2026
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My book’s page now has the cover image
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Shriram Krishnamurthi
3 months ago
Thanks for the helpful auto-complete, Gmail.
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Mel Andrews
3 months ago
I often hear, in my line of work, that large language models have surpassed the capabilities of “mere stochastic parrots.” Yet few are willing to attribute to them anything like “understanding.” What, in your view, is the best recent appraisal of the limitations of LLMs?
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Caro Flores
3 months ago
#PhilSky
: Looking for recs of good recent work on epistemology and technology: the risks of AI, deepfakes, epistemic problems with recommender algorithms, etc. This is for an upper division course, so ideally stuff that is big picture and teachable. Self-recommendations welcome :)
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okay Kelly
3 months ago
philosopher of language going down an undetached rabbit parts hole
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My forthcoming book now has a webpage at the publisher
www.cambridge.org/universitypr...
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Relevant Logics | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/philosophy/logic/relevant-logics-implication-modality-quantification
3 months ago
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Philip Sink | Rorty Vindicator
3 months ago
Does anyone have a good intuition for why Q (Robinson Arithmetic) doesn't prove Lob's Theorem?
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Franz Berto
3 months ago
The updated SEP entry on
#Hyperintensionality
is online! As the topic has exploded in recent years, might be Daniel and I haven't managed to mention YOUR stuff. Don't be upset: rest assured we've mentioned something intensionally equivalent to that. 😎
plato.stanford.edu/entries/hype...
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Hyperintensionality (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hyperintensionality/
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Franz Berto
3 months ago
It's World
#Logic
Day and this year, too, I plan to make valid inferences all day, while ignoring what I'm talking about and whether what I say is true. 🙂
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World Logic Day
14 January
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/world-logic
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Sara Ayhan
3 months ago
Today is officially my first day starting my new job as assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. I'm super excited to be here - the city is lovely, everyone at university so welcoming and friendly and the logic group is amazing! 😍
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