Semiotic paradox alert!

The Journal of Philosophical Logic is dead (again!?). Long live Philosophical Logic! https://www.openlibhums.org/news/875/

Directions in Relevant Logic 3 will be in Bochum in July 2026 sites.google.com/view/drl3

<thick german accent> The jungle is a place of pure negation... #philosophy #philsky #philosophysky #hegel #herzog #film

The learned helplessness that many academics display when it comes to connecting their devices to projectors and displaying slides is a form of negligence Knowing your tools is part of the job

I'm doing two massive projects right now and one involves looking at where people earned their doctorates before winning a very, very fancy thing and boy Stanford can't even see Cal it's so far ahead

Two-year postdoc w/ Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science! Scholars in all areas of #philsci, inclusive of philosophical approaches to logic&math, are eligible. This is understood broadly to include issues in the history&practice of particular sciences.Deadline 5 Dec 2025. buff.ly/MhR4PcK

Well don't I feel stupid

New post-doctoral position at Notre Dame Core analytic/logic/phil math. philjobs.org/job/show/29622 2 year position, $75K annual salary plus $15K expense account. Please apply! (I am chairing this search.)

The AJL just published a special issue in honor of Ross Brady. It is a great collection of papers, adding up to nearly 300 pages on Ross's work. ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ajl/issue/vi...

PhD position with Benno van den Berg on the semantics of Homotopy Type Theory (esp. effective Kan fibrations) at the ILLC in Amsterdam! https://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/News/Positions/newsitem/15777/PhD-Position-in-the-Semantics-of-Homotopy-Type-Theory Application deadline: 27 September […]

I’m super excited to finally announce that I’ll be heading to Purdue this Fall as a postdoc. I’ll be there to contribute to their Cog Sci/AI domination 🧠 🤖 I’m super sad to leave WashU, but some of the best people are at Purdue and I can’t think of a better place to go next!

Whenever I’m applying for a job I always keep ten coins in my pocket just in case.

Hot-tip: when someone asks you for your number, give them your OrcID

we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878

It is tragic that there is no day when people neither fail to know De Morgan’s laws nor fail to seize opportunities to apply them.

Spread the word! Another postdoc job in St Andrews-Arché, in the @leverhulme.bsky.social-funded WIKI project! Apply from here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Looking for a specialist of logic and/or the psychology of reasoning, ideally with expertise in hypothetical thought.

Metaphysical Indeterminacy Conference University of St Andrews, 17-18 June 2025 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS! See official webpage: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...

Philosophers publishing: next time you get asked to contribute writing or plan to submit your work to a journal published by pdcnet.org, refuse to do so unless there's an open-access option. PDC's current subscription model locks your work behind a paywall forever and nobody will read it.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

Academics in Jan: So happy to have sent off those papers before classes started! Those same academics later in Jan: How am I getting so many referee requests! It’s only January!

SOON

2-year Research Fellowship for my EPSRC-funded Unity Project at the Arché: Philosophical Research Centre. Looking for a metaphysician with background in philosophy of science, cognitive science, or formal ontology. Apply here (deadline 31 January): www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

It's what he would have wanted

The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU Munich is now on Bluesky. Please help us spread the word. #Philosophy #Mathematics #Science #Logic

The Call for Paper for the upcoming DEON conference in Vienna is out! sites.google.com/view/deon-20... Distribute widely, and do consider submitting!

Many of the talks from the AAL have been recorded and put on the AAL youtube page: www.youtube.com/@australasia...

how I log into BlueSky:

My book on Knowledge is out today (World Philosophy Day) with Open Book Publishers. It's freely downloadable in PDF and Epub form, and cheap to order in hardback or paperback. #philsky

Sorry for delayed #PSA24 post, but I had such a good time presenting my poster. I got a lot of supportive and critical feedback. Really appreciate it. You can find it here!

It has to be the connectives. mitpress.mit.edu/978026201654...

I made a starter pack of Logic folks go.bsky.app/Q6NbAiN

The website for the next AWPL, in Feb 2025 in Kolkata, is up. Submission deadline is Aug 15. sites.google.com/view/awpl202...

Boosting for the morning and European folks. I’m doing an OFFRoad event at Roadburn with @joostvervoort.bsky.social next week! I will talk mainly focus on trauma, and deep contemplative engagement with trauma-inspired metal!

@rohanfrench.bsky.social , as an Australian logician, is not talking about Australian logic topics, at the Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic

Would someone that is involved with Computer Science academia be up for answering a couple of questions to help out a student regarding school choice?

FEW 2024 is going to be held in Australia, at the ANU. Submit! sites.google.com/view/few-202...

holy shit: "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole," by Isabel J. Kim. (the title is the content warning) clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

True, Untrue, Valid, Invalid, Provable, Unprovable, Zach Weber apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/...

hired Werner Herzog to fake the moon landing and he just did it for real like Fitzcarraldo and now Klaus Kinski is running around up there

If listening to Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” doesn’t make you want to teach predicate logic are you even a philosopher

It won't arrive in time for Christmas, but you can now pre-order this book which has a chapter on realism and instrumentalism in Bayesian cognitive science by me and Danielle Williams @okaydaniellle.bsky.social

The list of accepted papers for the 6th Asian Workshop on Philosophical Logic is available sites.google.com/view/awpl202...

Hello! Do you like *free* things that are *boring* for most people, but *interesting* for a few? Then maybe you'd like a copy of my book *Modeling Scientific Communities* - downloadable from Cambridge for the next two weeks- www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Recently I had the pleasure to be interviewed on Christine Ladd-Franklin by the Lost Women in Science project. The episode is now available -- you can access a link to the podcast and read the transcript of the episode over at Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...