This is my directory page. To read about my research and to see my selected publications (with links), please go to my webpage. I am on sabbatical in the 2021/22 academic year and I will not be teaching.
Visuals and audio-visuals (from some conferences):
Logic Colloquium 2021 slides
AAL 2021 keynote slides, abstract, talk [The beginning of the talk is missing; the recording starts in the middle of a sentence.]
[Updated on 04/03/2022.]
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The courses below are automatically pulled from a U of A site. (I do not have control over the content of the blurbs in the University Calendar, or on the aforementioned site, or whether there is any blurb at all.)
A brief review of sentential logic followed by an intensive study of predicate logic with identity. Topics include translation, semantics, decision procedures, natural deduction systems, mathematical induction. Other topics include: theories of definite descriptions, elementary modal logic, formal axiomatic systems. Prerequisite: PHIL 120 or consent of Department.
Fall Term 2022Philosophical issues arising from computation and computer science. No previous familiarity with computing is necessary.
Fall Term 2022Overview of approaches to the foundations of mathematics and of philosophical issues concerning the nature of mathematical objects, mathematical theories and the special status of mathematics among the sciences and other areas of knowledge.
Winter Term 2023Standard modal systems in sentential and predicate logic including possible world semantics and completeness proofs. Tense logic and epistemic logic may be considered. Prerequisite: PHIL 220 or consent of Department.
Winter Term 2023Winter Term 2023