Being a logician, I thought of a kind of seduction that relies on logic rather than psychology to ensnare and entangle its targets. Let me first state the puzzle in terms of a more standard sort ...

Recently, the Swedish logician Dag Prawitz observed that, perhaps surprisingly, the traditional treatment of logic entirely fails to capture this intuition.

Arthur Norman Prior's early theological writings have been relatively neglected for many years. Moreover, to the extent that they have been discussed at all they have been treated mainly as youthful ...

Augustus De Morgan was a British mathematician and logician. Today marks the birth anniversary of Augustus De Morgan, one of the most influential figures in the history of mathematics and logic ...

NEW YORK — Raymond Smullyan, whose merry, agile mind led him to be a musician, a magician, a mathematician, and, most cunningly, a puzzle-creating logician, died Feb. 6 in Hudson, N.Y. He was 97 ...

Recently, the Swedish logician Dag Prawitz observed that, perhaps surprisingly, the traditional treatment of logic entirely fails to capture this intuition. The modern discipline of logic, the sturdy ...