Ben Blumson
Ben Blumson
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January 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Happy New Year!
January 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Q. Why do intuitionists love to hate boolean algebra? A. Because they like Heyting algebra.
November 28, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Reposted by Ben Blumson
I'm looking forward to the AAL conference, which runs this Tuesday-Thursday. There's a great line up of papers.

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AAL - AAL Conference 2024
This meeting is sponsored by the Association for Symbolic Logic. Student ASL members may apply for (limited) ASL travel funds (see here). The requirement is strict that they must be members of the AS...
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November 24, 2024 at 6:48 AM
Malcolm and I are editing a special issue of the Asian Journal of Philosophy on Resemblance. We’re interested in all perspectives (aesthetics or metaphysics, historical or contemporary, etc.) so if you have something that might fit, do submit!
March 11, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Hare writes about when he was a prisoner of war: "An attempt was made to start a ‘Changi University’ in our camps, and there were some good philosophical lectures in a nearby camp that I heard about too late, just before the lecturer was sent overseas." I wonder if anyone knows who the lecturer was?
October 20, 2023 at 9:05 AM
Confusing sign for the logic of ‘actually’ #philsky
October 6, 2023 at 5:19 AM
I have a new paper on dialetheism and the sorites paradox. Official version here: doi.org/10.1007/s112... (Preprint here: philpapers.org/rec/BLUDAD-4) #philsky
Dialetheism and distributed sorites - Synthese
Noniterative approaches to the sorites paradox accept single steps of soritical reasoning, but deny that these can be combined into valid chains of soritical reasoning. The distributed sorites is a pu...
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October 5, 2023 at 2:47 AM
Impossible cube in the wild
October 2, 2023 at 8:23 AM
Looking forward to reading this
Hi! I'm a philosopher working in epistemology. I'm esp interested in practical and experiential knowledge. I just submitted a short Elements book for CUP titled *Knowing What it is Like* related to this recent open access paper. #HiSky! #Introduction
academic.oup.com/pq/article/7...
Expanding the Client’s Perspective
Abstract. Hawley introduced the idea of the client's perspective on knowledge, which she used to illuminate knowing-how and cases of epistemic injustice involvi
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October 1, 2023 at 6:00 AM
New paper on dialetheism and the problem of evil: philarchive.org/rec/BLUDAT
September 18, 2023 at 6:52 AM
The mirror paradox asks why writing looks back to front in mirrors instead of upside down. Part of the answer is that in fact sometimes it does look upside down.
September 17, 2023 at 6:56 AM
August 26, 2023 at 4:53 AM