Ben Blumson

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Happy New Year!

Q. Why do intuitionists love to hate boolean algebra? A. Because they like Heyting algebra.

AAL - AAL Conference 2024 This meeting is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic. Student ASL members may apply for (limited) ASL travel funds (see here). The requirement is strict that they must be members of the AS...

I'm looking forward to the AAL conference, which runs this Tuesday-Thursday. There's a great line up of papers.

sites.google.com/view/aalogic...

Malcolm and I are editing a special issue of the Asian Journal of Philosophy on Resemblance. We’re interested in all perspectives (aesthetics or metaphysics, historical or contemporary, etc.) so if you have something that might fit, do submit!

Hare writes about when he was a prisoner of war: "An attempt was made to start a ‘Changi University’ in our camps, and there were some good philosophical lectures in a nearby camp that I heard about too late, just before the lecturer was sent overseas." I wonder if anyone knows who the lecturer was?

Conversely, I have a friend called ‘Brian’ who teaches English, so his wife likes to mock him by calling him ‘Professor Brain’

Confusing sign for the logic of ‘actually’ #philsky

Dialetheism and distributed sorites - Synthese Noniterative approaches to the sorites paradox accept single steps of soritical reasoning, but deny that these can be combined into valid chains of soritical reasoning. The distributed sorites is a pu...

I have a new paper on dialetheism and the sorites paradox. Official version here: doi.org/10.1007/s112... (Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/BLUDAD-4) #philsky

Impossible cube in the wild

Looking forward to reading this

Thanks for sharing!

New paper on dialetheism and the problem of evil: philarchive.org/rec/BLUDAT

The mirror paradox asks why writing looks back to front in mirrors instead of upside down. Part of the answer is that in fact sometimes it does look upside down.