[matthewwiese]

I've only just skimmed the first section, and already I feel like I'm in for a trip. The math is indeed as approachable as you suggest. I'm only a philosophy major (though our logic department is seriously the bees knees, shout-out to Tennant!) yet I'm still able to pick up what you're putting down. Very fascinating paper, thank you for sharing.

Also, one of the many nerds across the street in University Hall says hello :)

[xamuel]

Hi, hope you'll enjoy the paper! I'm not at OSU any more unfortunately (miss it a lot). Agreed the philosophy dept is great there, I even had Stewart Shapiro cross departments to be on my thesis committee :) How far along are you in your program and is Tennant your advisor?

[matthewwiese]

Shapiro! I'm actually in Advanced Symbolic Logic (PHILOS 5500) this semester and he happens to be teaching it. Talk about Hacker News serendipity.

Tennant isn't my advisor, but I've taken a handful of classes with him, and his "holistic" (that's the best descriptor I can come up with atm) approach to teaching logic and philosophy of science makes everything fall into place in my head. His pleasant, informal teaching style combined with a skill for connecting big ideas across disciplines is seriously pedagogical magic.

And I'm currently a senior, hoping to wrap everything up by this summer. :)