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April 21, 2005
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There's a new blog on the philosophy of mathematics here. (Well, it's newish - older than this blog, yet younger than the year.) At the helm is Kenneth Easwaran, a Berkeley graduate student studying for his qualifying exams. So far topics covered include fictionalism and platonism, logicism, logical consequence and conservative extensions.
In his first post Kenneth says he started the blog "to give myself a place to write up my thoughts on various things that I'm reading in preparation for my qualifying exam. Hopefully some of the thoughts on these and related issues will eventually turn into research projects that will be worth discussing."
This makes a lot of sense to me. When I have graduate students I think I might start a group blog and encourage them each to contribute something each week.
Posted by logican at April 21, 2005 10:39 PM
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I think I have to give Kenny a good talking to for letting you scoop me on this.
Posted by: Richard Zach at April 22, 2005 12:42 AM
Not very different from why I started mine, except we don't have quals down under :)
Posted by: Jon at April 22, 2005 08:19 AM
Well, Professor Zach, if you can't take the heat...
Posted by: Gillian Russell at April 24, 2005 01:09 AM
Well, I had planned on not publicizing it until after my exams (which are in a week and a half), but in the past few days, when posting comments, it's seemed to make the most sense to use that as my URL.
I suppose now that people know about it, I should put up a blogroll of other logic blogs, which will definitely include all three linked in these comments (which I read pretty often).
Posted by: Kenny Easwaran at April 24, 2005 08:36 PM