- Department of Philosophy
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montréal (QC), H3A 2T7
Canada
- Office: Leacock 916
- Email: dirk (dot) schlimm (at) mcgill (dot) ca
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- My paper "On the creative role of
axiomatics. The discovery of lattices by Schröder,
Dedekind, Birkhoff, and others" has been accepted for publication in
Synthese (July 2008)
- I have been invited to give a talk at the
session on "Historical
Ideals of Rigor in Mathematics" of the Winter
2008 meeting of the Association of Symbolic Logic (with APA), in
Philadelphia, PA
(June 2008).
- My paper "On the Importance of asking the
right research questions: Could Jordan have proved the Jordan-Hölder
Theorem?" has appeared in Erkenntnis
(May 2008)
- My paper on "Modeling ancient and modern
arithmetic practices: Addition and multiplication with Arabic and
Roman numerals" (with Hansjörg Neth, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute) has been accepted for
publication in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of
the Cognitive Science Society
(April 2008).
- Awarded 3-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC) Standard Research Grant for the research project
"The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap," with PI
Richard Zach, University of Calgary (April 2008).
- My paper on "Two Ways of Analogy"
has been accepted for publication in Philosophy of Science
(February 2008).
- My book review of Franzén's
"Gödel's Theorem: An incomplete guide to its use and abuse"
has been published (January 2008).
- My paper on "Bridging theories with
axioms: Boole, Stone, and Tarski"
has been accepted for publication in Perspectives on Mathematical
Practices, Vol. II, J.-P. van Bendegem and B. van Kerkhove
(eds.) (December 2007).
- I'm now listed on the Cognitive Science webpage at
McGill (September 2007).
- My paper on "Learning from the existence
of models. On psychic machines, tortoises, and computer simulations"
has been accepted for publication in Synthese (August 2007).
- Since June 2007: Associate Member of the School of
Computer Science, McGill University.
- Awarded 3-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
(SSHRC) Standard Research Grant for the research project
"Geometry and Logic from Pasch to Hilbert," with co-applicant
Michael Hallett (April 2007).
- The proceedings with my paper on "Axiomatics
and progress in the light of 20th century philosophy of science and
mathematics" have been published (January 2007).
- Co-Editor of The Collected Works of Rudolf Carnap Project (February 2006).
- Two articles published in the October 2005
volume of Synthese.
- Recipient of the university-wide
CMU Graduate Student Teaching Award 2002-03
(more,
grad
student times).
- Nomen
est
omen (now also in Chinese).
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