New Issue: Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics

The first issue of the new Journal for the Philosophy of Mathematics appeared back in September 2024. A second issue, now edited by Alex Paseau, has now appeared, just a day before the end of 2025. This is a collection of just seven, again mostly invited, pieces. And despite the officially quite wide-ranging remit of the journal, five of the seven papers are about sets and pluralities.

However, on a quick browse, the papers – particularly those on set theory – do look to be very promising and seriously interesting. So do check out the freely downloadable, open-access, issue. I am sternly telling myself that I must finish my proof-reading marathon (and tidy the few sections of the category theory notes that now seem particularly below par) before I let myself properly read, and perhaps comment, on these papers. But I look forward to eventually doing that. And I do hope the Journal is now properly under way, and beginning to receive enough unsolicited pieces of similar quality.

(A minor thing, no doubt, but the way the Journal is produced for online reading strikes me as very elegantly done: all praise to the designer.)

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One of the most moving musical videos I’ve come across in the last two or three years is of an extraordinary Die Schöne Müllerin, deeply felt and beautifully sung by Julian Prégardien, accompanied by Els Biesemans (who it seems can hardly hold back tears at the end) on a plangent fortepiano. Here – and decidedly more cheeringly! – is Els Biesemans playing a version of Mozart’s Piano Concerto K466 as you’ve never heard it before, again on a fortepiano, with just five string players. Delightful.