Engineering Sexual Orientation

Saturday, Aug 9, 2025

Perhaps Lady Gaga was right - sexual orientation is not our choice: baby, we were born this way. This conception has, after all, done much for the mainstream acceptance of certain queer identities. …

Ingredients and Logic - Is putting pineapple on pizza rational?

Monday, Aug 4, 2025

A MoL dinner

After a week of intense study, four MoL students - $E$, $M$, $S$, and $J$ - met at a renowned Amsterdam pizzeria. The restaurant offered a special deal:

Any group of students …

Interview with Prof. Catarina Dutilh Novaes

Monday, Feb 16, 2026

For the first The Illogician MoL alumni interview series, meet Prof. Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU). Catarina is a philosopher who moves effortlessly from medieval manuscripts to modern logic, asking big …

Logic Dating Profiles

Monday, Feb 16, 2026

Intuitionistic type

I take things constructively

Topos type

Looking for someone who accepts my internal logic

Euclidean Frame type

All my exes know each other

Reflexive Frame type

I am very self-aware …

Mathematicians, list your ingredients!

Saturday, Aug 9, 2025

A wise friend of mine once compared being a constructivist to being a vegetarian: even if you are convinced it is the right choice, it is hard to fully commit to it in practice. As a vegetarian and a …

Regularity Properties of the Reals and the Axiom of Choice

Saturday, Aug 9, 2025

In this article, we aim to give an introduction to the set theoretic study (Jech 2003) of relation between regularity properties of the reals and the Axiom of Choice. Broadly conceived, regularity …

The Logico-Empirical Foundations of Medieval Witchcraft Ascertainment: A Pythonian Analysis

Monday, Aug 4, 2025

This paper examines the application of proto-scientific methodology in the well-documented medieval inquiry portrayed in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, specifically the “She’s a …

The Story of Moscow's Methodological Circle

Monday, Feb 16, 2026

The Moscow Methodological Circle was a philosophical, cultural, and political phenomenon which took part in the rebirth of the study of logic in the USSR, vastly influenced Soviet economy, and still …