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Gödel Without Tears, not quite the end

I was intending to post Chapter 17 today — the final chapter, dealing with Löb’s Theorem and related results. But looking again at my draft version yesterday, I thought it was/is rather a ...

Posted: Thursday, September 24, 2020

Streaming music is more efficient than CDs, right? Wrong. “The environmental cost of music is now greater than at any time”  

Streaming music is more efficient than CDs, right? Wrong. “The environmental cost of music is now greater than at any...

Posted: Thursday, September 24, 2020

82 - What should we do about facial recognition technology?

 Facial recognition technology has seen its fair share of both media and popular attention in the past 12 months. The runs the gamut from controversial uses by governments and police forces, to c...

Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Florida’s Proposed War on Protest

While the protests in Florida have generally been peaceful, Governor DeSantis is making proposals that are clearly aimed at intimidating protestors and allowing the legal suppression of constitutional...

Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and its History in Islamic Spain. By Sarah Stroumsa

Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and its History in Islamic Spain. By StroumsaSarah. Princeton University Press, 2019. xxi + 220 pages. $35.00 (hardcover), $35.00...

Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Gödel Without Tears, slowly, 16

Today’s chapter is optimistically entitled ‘Proving the Second Incompleteness Theorem’. Of course we don’t actually do that! But we do say something more about what it takes to prove it (stating the s...

Posted: Wednesday, September 23, 2020

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  • Professor of Religion and Professor of Philosophy
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