Multimedia from Arché

Through the Arché website, it's just been announced that recordings of some of the talks from the 1st Workshop in the Foundations of Logical Consequence have been made available online. It's great that FLC is the first project out with media from workshops. For now only two talks are online: one by Graham Priest and one by yours truly. We're hoping to make more available soon, amongst others Crispin Wright's talk at the same workshop.

Hopefully, more talk will be put online from all the Arché projects. I'll keep you updated.

UPDATE: Some twittering philosophers have alerted me to a number of problems with the website and audio. Apparently it's not running well in IE.

Arché Summer School

If your idea of a good summer is spending time indoors, in rainy Scotland, while following lectures on epistemology, methodology, logic and philosophy of language, then your best bet is probably the Arché Summer School.

The summer school will be held from June 29th to July 3rd in idyllic St Andrews, Scotland. All of the Arché Projects will contribute with lectures by senior members of Arché and project post docs. For the logic interested, FLC has four lectures on nonclassical logics and related philosophical issues. All of our investigators, Stephen Read, Graham Priest, and Stewart Shapiro, will be lecturing.

Registration here. Course info here.

van Benthem on Logical Pluralism

The following just came to my attention. van Benthem has a paper on logical pluralism out in AJL. The paper is called Logical pluralism meets logical dynamics? and is accompanied by a paper by Graham Priest, Logical Pluralism Hollandaise. van Benthem's paper, I believe, is a written version of his pluralism talk at the Tartu conference.

The following is the last passage---entitled Logical Pluralism---from an earlier van Benthem paper, The Landscape of Deduction:

In other words then, the secret of reasoning need not be hidden in any particular treasure chest, hidden somewhere in the above landscape, waiting for us to come with daggers and spades, in order to fight about preferences and priorities: the true marvel might well be that landscape itself. (ibid., p. 374)

Malapropos Experimental Philosophy

It's Sunday, and I'm writing a brief section on the history of sequent calculus for my thesis. Wanted to dig up some old papers that I need, but - of course - the uni library is closed.

So, a digression: After seeing Francis Jeffry Pelletier give a talk about the logic of generics in Oslo (@ CSMN), I got a bit interested in experimental philosophy and logic. Pelletier did some nice work testing intuitions about generics, and related this to default logic. My thought was that the idea of testing "inferential intuitions" rather than "truth-conditional intutions" might lead us to some interesting collaboration between Arché FLC and Methodology. (If anyone can recommend recent work on experimental philosophy for logic/phil of logic, I would be pleased.) Yet, this is just Sunday morning musings.

Instead of undigested thoughts on the issue, I give you the perils of experimental philosophy.

Methodology Blog

If you haven't already checked it out, go to Arché's Methodology blog.

If you don't know about the Arché Methodology project, go here.

FLC Studentships

The Foundations of Logical Consequence project in Arché is still looking for applicants for the associated studentships. The studentships are for 3-year PhDs in the research centre, working primarily within the remits of the project, but also contributing to other Arché projects. Note that the funding is for EU students only.

Details here. Please write Stephen Read or myself with any questions you might have.