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So the dates are now settled! Next summer Ghent will host three fun logic-and-philosophy-of-science-related events in a row ! First, we'll host HOPOS 2014  (History and Philosophy of Science), July 3-6. (The local organizer is  Maarten Van Dyck . There's a chance he won't dress like that , but still, HOPOS might be worth your time.) Then, we'll have Trends in Logic XIV (aka Entia et Nomina IV), July 8-11. The conference is titled: The road less travelled. Off-stream applications of formal methods. (I am the local organizer, but I'll be just slacking around and delegating most of the work to other organizers, Gillman Payette , Agnieszka Rostalska  and Inge De Bal .) Next, we'll host DEON conference, July 12-14, focused on deontic logics. (The local organizer is Joke Meheus .) For now, the only event fancy enough to have a webpage is HOPOS, but we're on it (well, you should see a tab devoted to TiL above, but the page has no content yet). Stay tuned...

I have finished drafting section summaries with short reading guides to PhilPapers sections that I am editing.If you think I should revise, or that I forgot about something, drop me a line: [EDIT: these below are links] Ontology of Mathematics Mathematical Fictionalism Mathematical Nominalism Mathematical Platonism Mathematical Structuralism Mathematical Neo-Fregeanism Indeterminacy in Mathematics Indispensability Arguments in Mathematics Numbers

Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education has recently published this year's report on higher education in Poland. While the topic doesn't have much to do with logic, here are some points that caught my attention, together with my (sociologically incompetent) remarks. FACT  The number of students: 390 409 in 1990, peaking at 1 953 832 in 2005, now dropping and reaching 1 764 060 in 2011. While in 1990 the ratio of students among citizens aged 19-24 was 9,8% in 1990, it peaked at 40,9 in 2009 and is slowly dropping, having reached 40,6 in 2011. REMARK This shouldn't be taken as a direct measure of how educated the Polish society is. There are many factors which make (say) a Master's from 1990 in principle more valuable than that from 2010. - While there is a bunch of public higher education institutions (including 19 universities), there were practically no private higher education institutions in 1990 - so 100% of full time university students studi...

There are two jobs at the level of Adjunct Professor (but I think they're fixed-term). One in logic and one in philosophy of science. The postings are in Polish, but from what I gather, they actually need someone who would teach in English, and none of the postings literally require that the applicant should speak Polish. The calls are available here: http://www.uw.edu.pl/strony/praca/nauk/adiunkt_logika.pdf http://www.uw.edu.pl/strony/praca/nauk/wfis_a.pdf The deadline is June 14, the decisions are  to be made on June 25. The calls don't mention who you should contact with informal inquiries, but the chair of logic is directed by Prof. Anna Wójtowicz and the chair of philosophy of science is directed by Prof. Krzysztof Wójtowicz . 

My book on Leśniewski,  Leśniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics , is coming out soon (it's already available on Springer's website ). It is not my PhD dissertation. I wrote the whole book pretty much anew and only part of the material overlaps with my dissertation. And even the stuff that I already included in my dissertation is different: I re-worked the material to make it more accessible and slightly less boring (probably failing at least at the latter task). HT to Severi Hamari , who co-authored one of the chapters.