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Logic and formal semantics for epistemology

John Symons...

I'm a philosopher who is interested in a range of topics in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and epistemology. My recent work focuses on the problem of emergence as it figures in traditional metaphysics and in the sciences. I live in El Paso, where I teach in the department of philosophy at The University of Texas at El Paso. Since 2002, I've been editor of Synthese: An International Journal for Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.Read More
Logic and formal semantics for epistemology

Philosophy and Complexity: Paper deadline extended for the ECCS meeting....

With the newly extended deadline there are 8 more days to send a paper for the European Conference on Complex Systems.  For the first time at the ECCS philosophers who work on complex systems will have a session set aside for their papers.  Deta...Read More
Logic and formal semantics for epistemology

Logic and formal semantics for epistemology...

This essay introduces some of the formal apparatus of epistemic logic and discusses its applicability to epistemological questions.   A shorter version will appear as a chapter in Pritchard and Bernecker’s forthcoming Routledge Companion t...Read More
Logic and formal semantics for epistemology

An argument against the completeness of physicalism...

Lehigh University’s department of philosophy has a weekly faculty seminar which they kindly invited me to last week.  It was especially nice for me because they encourage speakers to talk for a whole hour (!) before discussion.  I talked a...Read More
Logic and formal semantics for epistemology

David Chalmers talk on simulation and the singularity...

A very good and highly entertaining talk by David Chalmers on dealing with the superintelligence to come. Here Read More