Academic #philosophy question for the Mastodon hive mind: can anyone point me to a good example of a philosophy paper, preferably recent, which does *not* have #logic as its primary subject, but does use formal logical notation to present its argument? I'm writing slides introducing logic and want to give some sense of how it is used in analytic philosophy (as well as other fields). Boosts welcome.
I think my paper on Dummett, proof assistants and pluralism has shaped up rather nicely, and it will be good to see it out in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society in a few months’ time. You can read the preprint now.
Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on earlier drafts, and discussed these issues along the way.
There's more to be done, but I hope to have clarified some issues around how we can think about the relationship between constructive and classical reasoning, and how philosophers might engage with what is going on in the application of dependent type theory in proof assistants, programming language design, and the formalisation and mechanisation of reasoning.
I'm a little puzzled at the salience that is being given to the Apple conclusions on #LLM #reasoning when we have lots of prior art. For example: LLMs cannot correctly infer a is b, if their corpora only contain b is a. #Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2309.12288
We expose a surprising failure of generalization in auto-regressive large language models (LLMs). If a model is trained on a sentence of the form "A is B", it will not automatically generalize to the reverse direction "B is A".
Coming up in the new academic year, I get to spend the semester with a fresh bunch of second-year students who are going on to learn some more logic than the first-year basics.
Like last year, in Intermediate Logic we’ll be exploring natural deduction proof theory and different kinds of models for propositional, modal and first-order predicate logic.
New this year, my Doktorvater, Prof. Graham Priest, will be joining us in the last week of classes, so we’ll have a fun back-and-forth about truth-value gaps, gluts and paradoxes to end things with a bit of a bang.
In this video I will explain the AU Net Send and AU Net Receive Plug-ins built into Logic Pro which enable you to pipe audio from an audio track to a MIDI tr...
#AudioMo: Welcome to the Shift R trick. I play stuff, I shift R it, I hope it’s OK.
This is a track-stack with two Keyscape sounds, the Double Felt Grand, and the Dulcitone. Shift R in #Logic is basically like the capture option in #Ableton, IE: even when the transport is stopped, it will capture what you recorded and add it to the focused MIDI track. Doesn't work with audio.
