'Impossible Worlds are Here to Stay' is out! Link below. 2K-word critical commentaries on it can be submitted to Crítica Editor Santiago Echeverri(santiago.echeverri@filosoficas.unam.mx) by July 31.
There'll be invited commentaries by Kit Fine, Katalin Bimbó, Steve Yablo, Koji Tanaka, Zeynep Soysal.
If you thought this sounded cool, register to attend either in-person or online! Schedule here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...
Register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/q4DhBX3K30
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@standrewsphil.bsky.social is becoming the imagination hub -- happening in May, feat. Amy Kind, Nick Wiltsher, Alice Murphy, Mike Stuart, Justin D'Ambrosio , William D'Alessandro, Petronella Randell:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...
Talking of logic & framing effects in two days in Milan -- alas, online only:
luci.unimi.it/workshop-log...
So I'm getting a contract from Oxford UP for an upcoming book, provisionally called:
Imagine
The Formal Epistemology of Counterfactual Thought
It's surprising that I got away with such a title (thanks to lenient referees). So I'll be wearing Lennon-style glasses.
You don't need proof when you have emojis.
'Impossible Worlds are Here to Stay' is out! Link below. 2K-word critical commentaries on it can be submitted to Crítica Editor Santiago Echeverri(santiago.echeverri@filosoficas.unam.mx) by July 31.
There'll be invited commentaries by Kit Fine, Katalin Bimbó, Steve Yablo, Koji Tanaka, Zeynep Soysal.
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...
Spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, call for papers here:
academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...
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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. 🙂
www.unesco.org/en/days/worl...
Must sometimes brag about PhDs I've supervised... Here's Levin with an impossibility result concerning AI safety, obtained *just by logic*:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Here's Francisca using topic-neutrality as the mark of logical vocabulary:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Little paper 'Saying the Same Thing' is out in Erkenntnis, Open Access here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Pablo of @pingpongphilosophy.bsky.social interviews me for his podcast and I reveal who my favourite living philosopher is (I see y'all on the edge of your seat):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KdK...
Paper forthcoming in Erkenntnis, preprint here:
philpapers.org/archive/BERS...
Take that, Alan!
At @standrewsphil.bsky.social we have now appointed -- hold your hats -- Jennifer Saul, Amie Thomasson, and Stephen Gardiner as Professorial Fellows:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...
PFs have part-time appointments to carry out research with us, participate in conferences, supervise PhDs.
Spread the word! The Philosophical Quarterly is celebrating the philosopher philosophers love: 'Themes from David Lewis's Metaphysics' will be our next Special Issue, call for papers here:
academic.oup.com/pq/pages/cal...
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Forthcoming in Ergo, why we should ditch Williamson's 'heuristics' for counterfactuals:
philpapers.org/archive/BERT...
Thx to the editors for the smooth processing: your online submission system is cool!
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'Killed by poisoned vegan haggis.'
So currently our paper is the 2nd most read in Mind. This'd be all good and well, if we hadn't been beaten by... Some bloke's 75 year old stuff. 😎
academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
@levinhornischer.bsky.social @standrewsphil.bsky.social @oupphilosophy.bsky.social
The third 2025 issue of The Philosophical Quarterly is out!
academic.oup.com/pq/issue/75/3
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We have *three* new lecturers joining the castle -- ehm, the department @standrewsphil.bsky.social : Alice Murphy @alicemurphs.bsky.social, Matthew Vermaire, Nick Wiltsher @nickwiltsher.bsky.social. Welcome folks!
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/philosophy/n...
(The Dr. Strangelove reference, of course, is actually to @consequently.bsky.social :
consequently.org/writing/negrl/ )
'The Logic of Dynamical Systems Is Relevant' is out!
(Or, How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Relevant Logic Again.)
Download here, Open Access of course:
academic.oup.com/mind/advance...
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@bweatherson.bsky.social @carriejenkins.net can you pm me email addresses of yours we can use to add you as online attenders? (No commitment of course)
Will have Walter add your abdn email for online attendance
Will ask the organizers and let you know!
Philosophers: spread the word! Starting May 27, Arché celebrates its founder in a three-day Crispin Wright conference. Like anyone who knows what Crispin has meant for this place, I am so happy that this is happening. Programme here:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/arche/event/...
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