Landon Elkind
Assistant Professor Of Philosophy at Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolLandon Elkind is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Western Kentucky University and a self-described logical atomist whose research centers on the Principia Rewrite project. He combines rigorous formal training—a PhD in Philosophy and an MS in Mathematics from the University of Iowa—with a long-standing passion for symbolic logic sparked during his undergraduate years at George Washington University. With eight years of academic experience including a Killam postdoc at the University of Alberta and visiting professorships, he bridges analytic philosophy and formal methods. His work is notable for blending historical reconstruction of logical systems with contemporary technical precision. Based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he brings both scholarly depth and a storyteller’s origin—discovering philosophy on a junior-high road trip—into his teaching and research.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at The George Washington UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Philosophy at University of Iowa
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
latex10
rewrite10
logic10
coq9
opam8
graph6
pandas6
csv6
python6
dataframe6
visualization3
jekyll3
philosophy3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LogicalAtomist/PM-MATS
Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
principia mathematica editorial apparatus
Contributions:4 PRs, 38 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
LogicalAtomist/Landon-DC-Elkind
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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