The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at LMU in Munich is now having its first (and very busy!) semester in full operation. In particular, there are two series of colloquia (programs here and here), focusing mostly, though not exclusively, on applications of formal, mathematical methods to philosophical problems. The lectures are being filmed, and some of them have already been turned into ultra-professional video podcasts, which are made available here (you do need to have iTunes installed in your computer to view them). As far as I know, the plan is to make all talks of the two colloquia available as podcasts.
So far, there are talks by Volker Halbach, Douglas Patterson, Berit Brogaard, Richard Pettigrew, Alexandru Baltag, Sonja Smets, and myself. I gave two talks at the Center last week, with the titles 'Cognitive motivations for treating formalisms as calculi' and 'The 'fitting problem' for logical semantic systems'; the second one is the one available as a video podcast (for now at least). (I watched bits of it yesterday, and found it amusing to notice that I am at my most Brazilian in terms of body language: 'speaking' with my hands almost as if I were a user of sign-language. Oh well, at least it's lively, I suppose (^_^) ) For those interested in keeping up with the Center's activities and developments in 'mathematical philosophy' more generally, this is a very useful service indeed. And of course, there's also the M-Phi blog, to which I also contribute, and which is basically the 'official' blog of MCMP.
UPDATE: Now there are many more video podcasts availabe, including my 'Cognitive motivations...' and talks by Ed Zalta, Branden Fitelson, Steve Awodey, among others.
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