divulgando. __________________ An Elphinstone PhD Scholarships is available in philosophy of mathematics at the University of Aberdeen. This scholarship covers the entirety of tuition fees for a PhD student of any nationality commencing full-time study in October 2014, for the three-year duration of their studies.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/cass/graduate/elphinstone-phd-scholarships-329.php The candidate will be supervised by Toby Meadows and Øystein Linnebo on a project relating to set theory and formal theories of truth. The project will exploit philosophical and mathematical resources to take insights from set theory into truth theory and vice versa. Some important questions and problems in this area include: • How can the technical tools of set theory be applied to develop better formal theories of truth? • What insights can the problems of semantic paradoxes offer to the problem of developing a thoroughgoing foundation for mathematics? • Is there a uniform means of classifying logical paradoxes including both semantic and set theoretic varieties? • What can this tell us about how they should be solved? An ideal candidate will have experience in formal logic, metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics. Please contact me if you are interested. [email protected] _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
