Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein were founders (although not by any means the sole founders) of the analytic tradition in philosophy; but they did not found the philosophy of language, which has roots stretching back much further. Their principal contribution, indeed, could be regarded as being in the opposite direction: it is not so much that they applied philosophical methods to the study of l...

This paper discusses a recent retreat of multiculturalism in the liberal state. This retreat has occurred both at the level of theory and practice. With the help of some recent liberal critiques of multiculturalism (by B.Barry, G.Sartori, and Y.Levy), the first part maps out some shortcomings of the notion of minority integration through cultural recognition, particularly with respect to immigr...

We present a general stochastic model showing that colonial breeding can lead to complex multicolony population dynamics when combined with nothing more than (inevitably) imperfect decisionmaking by individuals. In particular, frequent “switching cascades”—mass movement of individuals between locations from one breeding season to the next—arise naturally from our model, bringing into question t...

ing the differential semantics of rule-based models: exact and automated model reduction (revised version) Vincent Danos, Jérôme Feret, Walter Fontana, Russell Harmer, and Jean Krivine University of Edinburgh LIENS, INRIA-ENS-CNRS Harvard Medical School CNRS, Université Paris-Diderot

Jean Nicod (1893–1924) is a French philosopher and logician who worked with Russell during the First World War. His PhD, preface from Russell, was published under title La géométrie dans le monde sensible in 1924, year of his untimely death. The book did not have impact he deserved. In this paper, I discuss methodological aspect Nicod’s approach. My aim twofold. would first like to show that de...

This paper sets out a predicative response to the Russell-Myhill paradox of propositions within the framework of Church’s intensional logic. A predicative response places restrictions on the full comprehension schema, which asserts that every formula determines a higher-order entity. In addition to motivating the restriction on the comprehension schema from intuitions about the stability of ref...