Professor Kai von Fintel is a world-leading linguist (Section Head at MIT) who is well known for his contributions to Semantics, an academic fields which sits at the intersection of many disciplines which is typically concerned with the meaning of linguistic…

Thomas Cormen is a world-renowned Computer Scientist, famous for co-writing the indispensable 'Introduction to Algorithms' textbook. He is currently a professor at Dartmouth College and former Chairman of the Dartmouth College Department of Computer Science.…

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political commentator, social justice activist, and anarcho-syndicalist advocate. Sometimes described as the "father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic…

My future life or experience doesn’t belong to me in such a way that it’s something that can be taken away from me. It can’t be thought of as a possession in that way. To think that it’s something that can be taken away from me is like thinking that

This is a first installment and a sketching of some thoughts on toy aesthetics and a design for a pinball machine inspired by Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations. To assume the discernable …

The fact that the standard probabilistic calculus does not define probabilities for sentences with embedded conditionals is a fundamental problem for the probab...

The aim of the paper is to draw a connection between a semantical theory of conditional statements and the theory of conditional probability. First, the probability calculus is interpreted as a ...

# Paris - Savoirs ENS 14.10.2011
Trannoscription of the lecture: https://pml.flu.cas.cz/uploads/PML-Paris14Oct11.pdf
What is logic? Is it the study of the process of inference or reasoning, called demonstration in mathematics, by means of which we justify…