What with the Red Sox series and the BloggerCon and some real work to do, blogging has been quiet the last few days. I’m not sure when it will return to normal. If you want your fill of pop philosophy, check out The Economist on the latest attempts to use fuzzy logic to solve the liar paradox. I’m not sure of the history claims the post makes. (Had no one used fuzzy logic on the liar before 1979? Only on a fairly narrow construal of fuzzy logic I’d guess.) And the philosophy doesn’t look much better. (Just for fun, try and figure out from the article whether there’s any way to generalise the account given to a solution to the strengthened liar.) But it’s philosophy (of a sort) in the popular (of a sort) press.

Thanks to Sasha Volokh for the link.