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The State of Modus Ponens and of Rational Discussion

December 28, 2012 Peter Ladkin

A bit of intellectual biography, prompted by a couple of days’ free time leading me to a paper written 27 years ago by a pal, which I have just read. I say a little of what’s in the paper, to… Read moreThe State of Modus Ponens and of Rational Discussion

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Another Glitch, Same Old Moral

February 23, 2012 Peter Ladkin

Martyn Thomas chaired a committee convened by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering on infrastructure vulnerabilities to GPS disturbances. The committee reported in March 2011 and Martyn was briefly on the front page of UK news media on March 10,… Read moreAnother Glitch, Same Old Moral

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Michael

January 10, 2012 Peter Ladkin

Michael. Everyone knew him as Michael. I was a freshman at Oxford in mathematics, interested in logic. I had been reading Chomsky in my first quarter because I had been told Chomsky had mathematised language. My tutor in algebra, Ian… Read moreMichael

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John McCarthy

November 11, 2011 Peter Ladkin

John McCarthy has died. The great John McCarthy. Brilliant and entertaining, fun to be around, accessible unlike many of his stature, who carried an aura about him which blessed you with the feeling, if you came within it, that you… Read moreJohn McCarthy

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Swinburne’s Bayesian Arguments

January 4, 2008 Peter Ladkin

I recently looked through Nature’s List of Top 50 Science Blogs and ended up reading quite a lot of the Good Math, Bad Math Weblog of Mark Chu-Carroll, a computer scientist at a major industry research center who is enamoured… Read moreSwinburne’s Bayesian Arguments

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