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Christine Ladd-Franklin
Christine Ladd-Franklin (1847-1930) was a philosopher, logician, and psychologist. A student of C. S. Peirce, she made numerous contributions to…
Dec 3, 2019
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November 2019
"If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands!"
How should we translate this into a logical sentence in order to capture everything that’s going on here? First, we could just translate it as “P” but…
Nov 24, 2019
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Designated Values
In logic a designated value is a valuation of sentences in the logic that is preserved by entailments. In other words, if we define a logic L=⟨P,F,⊢⟩…
Nov 21, 2019
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Revisiting the Categories
When we think about giving a “logic” of something, what guides our choices? What makes some concepts logically apt while others seem to resist…
Nov 19, 2019
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Properties of Relations
I often want a list of properties that can obtain for two-place relations and don’t have a good place to look them up. Here is an ongoing list. First…
Nov 12, 2019
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July 2019
Being Nicer Won't Save Us
Right now I’m reading Generous Thinking by Kathleen Fitzpatrick. (link) It’s an interesting, challenging book. Fitzpatrick’s thesis is that the crises…
Jul 5, 2019
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June 2019
Check out our Soundcloud
We’re starting a podcast on the intersection of philosophy and parenthood. Listen to our first episode at the link below…
Jun 24, 2019
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Who should count as a co-author on a paper?
In many scientific fields, co-authorship is distributed liberally among members of a lab, collaborators, advisers and students, etc. In philosop…
Jun 17, 2019
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Philosophy and Practical Interests
What role should academic philosophers have in changing the world?
Jun 17, 2019
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A Very Brief Introduction to the Logic of the Mīmāṃsā.
Mīmāṃsā is an orthodox (roughly, pro-Vedic) school of Hindu philosophy. Recently, several philosophers (see e.g. Ciabattoni, et. al. 2013, Srinivasan…
Jun 13, 2019
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Modals for Imperative Logic
This is pretty underdeveloped, but bear with me. Modal logic is the study of logics that include modalities. For propositional logics, a modality is a…
Jun 10, 2019
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What does building dual power in philosophy look like?
What are the main functions of an academic discipline that are worth reproducing? Which of these things can we maintain while building a new, he…
Jun 7, 2019
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