Dirk Schlimm

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Department of Philosophy
McGill University
855 Sherbrooke St. W.
Montréal (QC), H3A 2T7
Canada
Office: Leacock 916
Office hours: Tuesday, 2:00-3:00 (Comp 230)
Thursday, 2:00-3:00 (Phil 411)
Email: dirk (dot) schlimm (at) mcgill (dot) ca

News and highlights:

My paper on "Two Ways of Analogy: Extending the Study of Analogies to Mathematical Domains" has appeared in Philosophy of Science (September 2008).
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).
My paper on "Modeling ancient and modern arithmetic practices: Addition and multiplication with Arabic and Roman numerals" (with Hansjörg Neth, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) has appeared in the Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (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).
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 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).