But it was hot too. Last week I visited Oftersheim, Germany in order to see meine Mutter. It’s a small town just a bit south of Mannheim and Heidelberg. My lady came with me, and as luck would have it, my sister was able to travel over from Boston the same time [...]

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics hosted a conference last month on a topic which is very much at the intersection of physics and philosophy: the nature of laws of nature. Carnegie Mellon Philosophy’s own Kevin Kelly was there to give a talk related to one of his favorite pet subjects, Ockham’s razor.
Scientific American’s [...]

I just stumbled across a cornucopia of Quine videos on YouTube. Specifically, they are videos coming from this series. From the looks of things, nothing from the Boolos, Dreben or Dennett panels is up on YouTube. But the Fara interview, as well as the Block, Fogelin and Goldfarb panels, are all there. [...]

Here’s something I just read about over at LogBlog. It’s a graphic novel with a logical focus, written by Apostolos Doxiadis (author of the mathematically-tinged 1992 novel Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture) and computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou.
Papadimitriou might be best known to logicians from his textbook with Harry Lewis on the theory of computation. [...]

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