The Reasoner (www.thereasoner.org) is a monthly digest highlighting exciting new research on reasoning, inference and method broadly construed. It is interdisciplinary, covering research in, e.g., philosophy, logic, AI, statistics, cognitive science, law, psychology, mathematics and the sciences.
Editorial: Much ado about nothing – Mary Leng
Interview with Jody Azzouni – Mary Leng
Truth and Success, Again: Reply to Held on Generalist versus Particularist (Anti-)Realism – Matteo Morganti
The Right Squares – Hartley Slater
Sellars at 100: “No Intellectual Holds Barred” on Kant, Science, and Sensibility – James R. O’Shea
Midwest Workshop in the Philosophy of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, 13–14 April – Bernd Buldt & Ioan Muntean
The Progress of Science, 25–27 April – Jan Sprenger
Expressivism and Epistemic Normativity, 9–10 May – Anne Coubray
Logic and Rational Interaction – Dominik Klein
Uncertain Reasoning – Hykel Hosni
Author Archives:
Inventing the Book
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Nothing.
In this week’s eSkeptic, Andrew Zak Williams reviews Lawrence Krauss’ latest book A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, with an Afterword by Richard Dawkins (Free Press, 2012, ISBN-13: 978-1451624458). This review appears in the Skeptic magazine 17.2 (2012).
Andrew Zak Williams is a barrister based in England. He has written for The Independent newspaper, The New Statesman, The Humanist and American Atheist. He is also a columnist at www.secularnewsdaily.com.
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Lobby on!
Khalil Bendib, Cartoon: Award-winning Berkeley-based editorial cartoonist Khalil Bendib’s cartoons are regularly featured in dozens of small and mid-size newspapers across the country, and they can be viewed at www.bendib.com
. They have also been featured in USA Today, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and numerous other large mainstream newspapers.
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Samberg’s speech at Harvard.
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Sunday’s Sermon
Transcendence, Survival, and UU Religion in the 21st Century
John A. (Lex) Crane
The ultimate challenge facing humanity is whether we can widen and deepen our consciousness to fill the vacuum created by the fantastic increase of our technological power.
It seems to me that… is the issue on which our survival hinges.1
I. Introduction
Einstein observed that, since the invention of nuclear weapons, everything has changed but our thinking. Science has developed extraordinary weapons of mass destruction for us, and they are sufficiently powerful to obliterate or at least cripple all life on earth. These massively destructive weapons now are proliferating around the world. It is painfully clear that humanity must learn to live with a substantial degree of universal cooperation rather than in violent competition. If we fail to achieve world-wide harmony, our future on earth is problematic.
Read more here.
And here are two additional sermons!
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Journal Access
I am glad to announce that JHS is now offering hypertext/ hyperlinked versions of all articles and reviews published from 1996 to 2009 (inclusive of 2009). The editors are
currently working to include versions of the 2010/2011 articles and reviews. Click on the image above to access articles!
A New Gatsby
Egyptians vote
If Sabahi can maintain his narrow lead over Ahmad Shafiq, the resulting run-off will give Egyptians a choice between a leftist secularist and a Muslim fundamentalist, both of them from the opposition to Mubarak.
If Shafiq can pull back ahead of Sabahi, the resulting election would be a huge catastrophe for Egypt.
Read Juan Cole’s report here.
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Teach yourself logic
There are several free texts and programs that will assist you. And doing logic is fun!
A Modern Formal Logic Primer
by Paul Teller
Welcome to the A Modern Formal Logic Primer website. The Primer was published in 1989 by Prentice Hall, since acquired by Pearson Education. Pearson Education has allowed the Primer to go out of print and returned the copyright to me. I am now happy to make it available without charge for instructional and educational use.
Each volume is broken into individual chapters. And each volume has an associated solutions manual (the last item under each volume). There is a file with corrections to both the text and the answer manual. Also note a file with the diagrammatic summary of the rules that appeared on the inside cover of the published version of the primmer. All files are in Adobe Acrobat PDF 6 format. – they require version 6, or newer, of Adobe, which can be down loaded here. All files are fully searchable.
The answer manual was produced by Jennifer Faust, and I am eager to thank her for this and much other help in producing the Primer.
There are also several links to Software that may be used with the Primer. Tom Weston’s “Prooftutor” is designed to be used with the Primer’s natural deduction system. Austen Clark has Logic Software for both natural deduction systems and truth trees. The foregoing are free. For a modest fee you can also use Wandering Mango – Deductions, a natural deduction proof assistant, written for Mac OS X and featuring immediate feedback, hints, video tutorials and comprehensive help.
PLEASE NOTE! If you are using the text for a class, please DOWNLOAD ALL THE FILES YOU WILL BE USING SO THAT YOU WILL HAVE THEM ON YOUR MACHINE just in case there is a transient problem with our server here at UCDavis when you need the files.
If you have problems, questions, or suggestions for the site, please email me at prteller@ucdavis.edu
Enjoy!
Paul Teller
Click Here for the Logic Primer Files
