Starmer and Reeves wave white flags on tough decisions yet still oversee the collapse of the Labour vote as frustrated voters on the Left go to Greens, Centre to Plaid, LibDems or SNP and the Right to Reform that will lead their own MPs to replace them sooner rather than later Futile cowardice

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

What do you think when you see this hand sign? Live long and prosper? Well this is a headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt maybe 400 years old. It’s the sign of the kohanim priestly blessing, which Leonard Nimoy is said to have remembered from his childhood, and which he adopted for Spock.

I realised yesterday that, if I want an accurate picture of how bad Man Utd currently are, I can track 27 live match stats on the BBC. People CAN in fact comprehend complex numerical information - it takes real effort to create and maintain economic ignorance at the level our media does.

Paua Quinon @ludolphine.bsky.social gives a keynote at the British Logic Colloquium on "Is the Concept of Computation a Conceptual Fixed Point?"

When the MP nomination threshold in leadership contests was doubled in 2021, many of us warned this move was designed to keep left-wing candidates off future ballots. Sadly, this contest has proved us right. We should have had a conversation, not a coronation.

We cannot out-Reform Reform. But we can be more Labour. We must stand up for working people with clear policies that tackle inequality, protect communities and put peace, justice and welfare at the heart of all we do. We must take a much harder line with Israel.

It seems that those UCU HEC members who voted for the hare-brained scheme of balloting for a strike, which will cost us 200k, likely fail, and which has been roundly criticized - those HEC members are displeased with our condemnation & call us "undemocratic." Reminds me of Brecht's little poem:

I was lucky enough to be a guest a few times. Right before starting he would say, "our audience is very well informed, so go as deep as you want, and if need be I'll ask you to clarify." Thought that was pretty amazing, like, the opposite of saying "dumb it down please."

I think this is quite interesting. Still not really sure what to make of the imo surprising results. Huge thanks to Gabe Goldberg and Pen Maddy for quite different forms of generous assistance.

A poster for the Feminist Logic workshop at the Bochum university U-bahn station!

I am obviously never really going to see displays of English flags as anything other than weird and unsettling, because that's how it's been for my whole life. I live in Devon near lots of places with space for a flagpole so I daresay I will get used to it ...

My paper ‘Arrow’s theorem, ultrafilters, and reverse mathematics’ appears in the latest issue of the Review of Symbolic Logic. doi.org/10.1017/S175...

My paper ‘Arrow’s theorem, ultrafilters, and reverse mathematics’ appears in the latest issue of the Review of Symbolic Logic. doi.org/10.1017/S175...

I realise editors need a shorthand for encouraging authors to polish their language but this can be done without using nativist language. Some of us who learned English later in life are bigger snobs about it than many native speakers. Let’s just encourage attention to clarity of expression.

Mangraviti also has a paper in the AJL on Plumwood's "liberation argument" against classical mathematics which you might find interesting. doi.org/10.26686/ajl...

Lovely endorsements for my forthcoming book! “brilliant and vivid biography” @emilyherring.bsky.social “a joy to read” @nigelwarburton.bsky.social Out in November. Preorder now: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Newly revised: the SEP entry on Modularity of Mind, by me and Philip Robbins. It’s got a whole new section on the role of modularity in debates about the border between perception and cognition! #philsky #philosophy

Along with many excellent colleagues, I signed this letter in support of Fiona Hill, in response to a letter from some unsurprising figures, attacking her. Text in screenshots for those who don't want to give the Guardian their money or data: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Visit Tottenham. Because anything would be better than Visit Rwanda. Sign the petition here. #GunnersForPeace www.gunnersforpeace.co.uk

Synthese has a cfp for a collection on Feminist Logic, edited by Sara Ayhan link.springer.com/collections/...

As part of the British Philosophy Fortnight, we’re excited to be launching a number of grants & funding opportunities to support high-quality philosophical thinking! To kick things off, our schools programmes are now open: buff.ly/2Tb9t6m #PhilosophyMatters

The British Philosophical Association launches the first annual Philosophy Fortnight #philofortnight2025 in the Westminster Parliament today. #PhilosophyMatters

It is hard to believe I wrote the most accessed article published in Erkenntnis in 2024! I am so thrilled by the amount of messages i receive regularly from scientists who share how much this paper has changed the way they feel about their work and gave them motivation or meaning 💗

I cannot believe 'What is a Beautiful Experiment?' has reached 10 000 downloads! Surreal for a philosophy paper, thanks to everyone who has taken an interest in this work! #philsci #philsky #aesthetics #Science #Philosophy link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I am beyond honoured to receive the 2024 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Prize for my article “What Is a Beautiful Experiment?”. from the American Philosophical Association! It means so much to receive this incredible recognition, thank you! www.apaonline.org/page/2024pri...

Internet Archive is having a funding drive to keep access to their free content. I've donated. Feels like the time.

The MCMP's Professor Hannes Leitgeb wins a Leibniz Prize of the DFG. Many congratulations! www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...

Sixty years ago to the day, John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones recorded this album in a single session at Rudy van Gelder's studio.

The useful idiots are at it again. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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

If you're interested in contemporary set theory and large cardinals, then this paper is a must-see! www.math.uni-hamburg.de/home/luecke/...

This was a labour of love. Co-written with Giulia Palazzolo. Since the field consists of disconnected pockets of intense research, I think this is likely the most complete and systematic overview of the philosophy of animal communication literature to date. plato.stanford.edu/entries/anim...

One recent intellectual development that warms my heart is the merging of formal and feminist epistemology. For a long time there was this ridiculous thought that somehow mathematical philosophy was politically conservative. I'm delighted that there are so many talented people showing that's wrong.

Dhruv Kulshreshtha A Reverse Mathematical Analysis of Hilbert's Nullstellensatz and Basis Theorem https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01336

New SEP article on Ruth Barcan Marcus