Carnegie Mellon Philosophy Undergraduate Summer School

January 30, 2006 in Logic/Math | No comments

I wanted to take a moment to let everyone out there know about the summer school in logic and formal epistemology that will be offered through Carnegie Mellon Philosophy this summer. Here’s a short excerpt from the webpage:

There is a long tradition of fruitful interaction between philosophy and the sciences. Logic and statistics emerged, historically, from combined philosophical and scientific inquiry into the nature of mathematical and scientific inference; and the modern conceptions of psychology, linguistics, and computer science are the results of sustained reflection on the nature of mind, language, and computation. In today’s climate of disciplinary specialization, however, foundational reflection is becoming increasingly rare. As a result, developments in the sciences are often conceptually ill-founded, and philosophical debates lack scientific substance.

In 2006, the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University will launch a three-week summer school in logic and formal epistemology for promising undergraduates in philosophy, mathematics, computer science, linguistics, and other sciences. The goals are to:

* introduce promising students to cross-disciplinary fields of research at an early stage in their career; and
* forge lasting interdisciplinary links between the various disciplines.

Other points to note are:

1. The program is open to all undergraduates or those who will have just received their undergraduate degrees.
2. The costs of housing and tuition are $0. In other words, this opportunity won’t break the bank. Some costs will apply, such as food, but all in all the price is quite inexpensive.
3. The dates of the program run from Monday, June 12 to Friday, June 30, 2006

For more information please reference the web page for the summer school here. There is also a PDF flyer for the program located here.

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