Friday, August 23, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 28 Aug, 2pm

Hi all,

next week, we'll discuss another paper on counterfactuals and
probabilities, by Dorothy Edgington (oddly called 'I -
Counterfactuals'):
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2008.00233.x/pdf#

See you on Wednesday at 2pm in the Benjamin library!

Best,
wo.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 21 August, 2pm

Hi all,

this Wednesday we continue our discussion of Hannes Leitgeb's "A
probabilistic semantics for counterfactuals". Again, the full paper
can be found here:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RSL&volumeId=5&seriesId=0&issueId=01#,
but it'll suffice if you read the parts I've extracted in
http://umsu.de/temp/Leitgeb.pdf#, starting at around the triviality
proof in section 2.

(Here, by the way, is the triviality result I wrote on the whiteboard
last week: http://umsu.de/temp/leitgeb-triviality.pdf#.)

See you on Wednesday at 2pm in the Benjamin library!

wo.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 14 Aug, 2pm

Hi all,

the probability reading group meets as usual on Wednesday at 2pm in
the Benjamin library. Next time we'll look at Hannes Leitgeb's "A
probabilistic semantics for counterfactuals". You can find the full,
2-part, 95-page paper here:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RSL&volumeId=5&seriesId=0&issueId=01#,
but I've also created an abridged version with (what I took to be) the
most important and/or interesting parts:
http://umsu.de/temp/Leitgeb.pdf#. It's still 40 pages long, but you
can mostly skim the first nine pages up to the little triviality
proof. See you on Wednesday!

wo.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 7 August, 2pm, Benjamin library

Dear all,

the probability reading group will meet again on Wednesday (7 Aug) at
2pm in the Benjamin library to discuss Richard Bradley's
"Multidimensional Possible-World Semantics for Conditionals":
http://philreview.dukejournals.org/content/121/4/539.full.pdf+html#.

Best,
wo.