When: Friday, 5th November, 2010 3-5pm
Where: Seminar Room E
Contact: rachael{dot}brown{at}anu{dot}edu{dot}au
Friday, October 29, 2010
Social and Political Philosophy meeting
When: Friday, 5 November, 2010 11.30am-1pm
Where: Coombs Seminar Room F (3233)
Reading: “Individualism: True and False” in Individualism and Economic Order by Frederick Hayek
Contact: Cavit.Hacihamdioglu@anu.edu.au
Where: Coombs Seminar Room F (3233)
Reading: “Individualism: True and False” in Individualism and Economic Order by Frederick Hayek
Contact: Cavit.Hacihamdioglu@anu.edu.au
Mathematics Reading Group - Session 4
The next session will be Tuesday 16 November, 11 AM, Coombs Seminar Rm F.
The reading is Chapter 4, "Continuity" from Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Supplementary reading is Chapter 4, "Functional Limits and Continuity" from Abbott's Understanding Analysis. (The supplementary reading is especially useful for the section on discontinuities). Electronic copies available upon request.
The schedule for the remaining sessions is:
30/11 - Differentiation
7/12 - Integration
14/12 - Function spaces & uniform convergence
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
The reading is Chapter 4, "Continuity" from Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Supplementary reading is Chapter 4, "Functional Limits and Continuity" from Abbott's Understanding Analysis. (The supplementary reading is especially useful for the section on discontinuities). Electronic copies available upon request.
The schedule for the remaining sessions is:
30/11 - Differentiation
7/12 - Integration
14/12 - Function spaces & uniform convergence
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
Formal Semantics Group - 3. Meeting
Next meeting: Friday 5. 11., 11am - 1pm.
Location: Tea balcony
Reading: Steven T. Kuhn: Quantifiers as Modal Operators
available at:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u16340vv37474804/fulltext.pdf
Contact: Clas.Weber@anu.edu.au
Location: Tea balcony
Reading: Steven T. Kuhn: Quantifiers as Modal Operators
available at:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/u16340vv37474804/fulltext.pdf
Contact: Clas.Weber@anu.edu.au
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Probability meeting
2pm Wednesday 3 November 2010, Coombs seminar room D
Carl Hoefer (2007). The Third Way on Objective Probability: A Sceptic's Guide to Objective Chance. Mind 116 (463):549-596.
Carl Hoefer (2007). The Third Way on Objective Probability: A Sceptic's Guide to Objective Chance. Mind 116 (463):549-596.
This week we'll only discuss the first half of the paper (where the first half is defined as up to and including section 4.2 Examples).
The paper is available at:
Foundations seminar - meeting 3
The Material Objects foundations seminar will have its third meeting on Nov 2, 2pm, seminar room C, to discuss Sider's "The Argument from Vagueness".
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Practical Cognition -- meeting 4
UPDATE: This week's meeting has been postponed. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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The next meeting will be at 2pm on Friday, October 29 on the Tea Room balcony.
We will continue discussing Susanna Schellenberg's "Action and Self-Location in Perception".
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The next meeting will be at 2pm on Friday, October 29 on the Tea Room balcony.
We will continue discussing Susanna Schellenberg's "Action and Self-Location in Perception".
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Social and Political Philosophy meeting
When: Friday, 29th October, 2010 11.30am-1pm
Where: Coombs Seminar Room F (3233)
Reading: “Individualism: True and False” in Individualism and Economic Order by Frederick Hayek
Contact: Cavit.Hacihamdioglu@anu.edu.au
Where: Coombs Seminar Room F (3233)
Reading: “Individualism: True and False” in Individualism and Economic Order by Frederick Hayek
Contact: Cavit.Hacihamdioglu@anu.edu.au
Foundations Seminar - meeting 2
The Material Objects foundations seminar will have its second meeting today (Oct 26, 2pm, seminar room C) to discuss van Inwagen's "The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts".
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Probability meeting
The probability reading group will meet at 4pm on Wednesday 27 October in Coombs seminar room E to discuss:
Christopher S. I. Mccurdy (1996). Humphrey's Paradox and the Interpretation of Inverse Conditional Propensities. Synthese 108 (1). Available via:
John
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Tip: Subscribing
A number of people have asked whether there is some way to get posts on this blog delivered to email. In reply, it may be worth trying out a good news reader for a little while, to see whether this need persists. Many like Google reader.
If you find that you really do want notifications delivered to your inbox, there seems to be many options available; one might for example consider http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ or this this add-on to Firefox.
You do not have to subscribe to notifications for all reading groups: you can subscribe only to post that have a certain label. As long as the conveners are careful to label all their posts, this should work well.
All you have to do is to give the following url to your feedreader (or to feedmyinbox.com etc).
Obviusly, replace "labelname" with the actual name of the label you are interested in.
If you find that you really do want notifications delivered to your inbox, there seems to be many options available; one might for example consider http://www.feedmyinbox.com/ or this this add-on to Firefox.
You do not have to subscribe to notifications for all reading groups: you can subscribe only to post that have a certain label. As long as the conveners are careful to label all their posts, this should work well.
All you have to do is to give the following url to your feedreader (or to feedmyinbox.com etc).
http://anuphilrgs.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default/-/labelnameObviusly, replace "labelname" with the actual name of the label you are interested in.
Practical Cognition -- meeting 3
The next meeting will be at 2pm on Friday, October 22 on the Tea Room balcony.
We will be discussing Susanna Schellenberg's "Action and Self-Location in Perception".
We will be discussing Susanna Schellenberg's "Action and Self-Location in Perception".
Monday, October 18, 2010
Probability reading group meeting
The next meeting will be at 12.30pm on Friday 22 October 2010 in Coombs seminar room A.
The reading is John Cusbert 'Crystal balls and admissibility' (temporarily) available here.
John Cusbert
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Foundations Seminar on Material Objects
This foundations seminar is open to all ANU graduate students and visiting graduate students. The topic is the metaphysics of material objects, and our focus will be the various pressures (vagueness, causation, arbitrariness, coincidence) that have led many metaphysicians to accept what seem to be radically revisionary conceptions of which kinds of material objects there are.
Meeting Time: Tuesdays, 2pm, from Oct 19 to Nov 23 (inclusive)
Location: Seminar Room C
Contact: Dan Korman, dzkorman at gmail dot com
The tentative reading list is: Lewis’s “Many, But Almost One”, van Inwagen’s “The Doctrine of Arbitrary Undetached Parts”, Sosa’s “Existential Relativity”, Sider’s “The Argument from Vagueness”, Merricks’s “Epiphenomenalism and Eliminativism”, and Thomasson’s “Realism about Human Kinds”.
Ethics and International Public Policy reading group
The group aims to explore ethical dilemmas arising in international public policy. We plan to cover readings from a range of disciplines including moral and political theory, economics, international relations, decision theory, law, and international political economy.
We also encourage our regular members and occasional visitors to the ANU to distribute and discuss their work in progress with us. Members may also volunteer to make informal 15-minute presentations of thoughts-in-progress, followed by 45 minutes of discussion. Presentations of members' own work will have priority over published readings.
Participation in the group is open - new members are welcome. The group generally meets fortnightly on Tuesdays (12.30-2pm) in Coombs Seminar Room B.
For more information, contact Jonathan Pickering [jonathan.pickering [at] anu.edu.au].
Friday, October 15, 2010
Formal Semantics Group - 2. Meeting
Next meeting: Friday 29. 10., 11am - 1 pm.
Location: Tea balcony
Reading: W.V. Quine: Variables Explained Away
Contact: Clas.Weber@anu.edu.au
Location: Tea balcony
Reading: W.V. Quine: Variables Explained Away
Contact: Clas.Weber@anu.edu.au
Mathematics Reading Group - Session 3
The third meeting of the Mathematics Reading Group is Tuesday 26 October, 11 AM, Coombs Seminar Room F.
The reading is Chapter 3, "Numerical Sequences and Series", from Walter Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis - but we'll only be looking at pages 47--58.
Supplementary reading is Chapter 2, "Sequences and Series", from Stephen Abbott's Understanding Analysis. (It's highly recommended that you read section 2.2 before starting on Rudin).
Shameless advertising: if you didn't know what the hell your maths teachers were on about with the epsilon-delta definition of limits, then this is the session to clear all that up!
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
The reading is Chapter 3, "Numerical Sequences and Series", from Walter Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis - but we'll only be looking at pages 47--58.
Supplementary reading is Chapter 2, "Sequences and Series", from Stephen Abbott's Understanding Analysis. (It's highly recommended that you read section 2.2 before starting on Rudin).
Shameless advertising: if you didn't know what the hell your maths teachers were on about with the epsilon-delta definition of limits, then this is the session to clear all that up!
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
Evo Cog RG XVII Postponed
The Evolution of Cognition RG meeting for today is cancelled due to the expected absence of a high number of regular attendees. The next meeting will take place next week as follows;
Evolution of Cognition Reading Group Meeting XVII
When: Friday, 22nd October, 2010 3-5pm
Where: Seminar Room E
Reading:
Rachael
Monday, October 11, 2010
Philosophy of probability reading group
This group meets most weeks to discuss a paper in the philosophy of probability. The focus is on recent work, and we're particularly keen to discuss participants' work.
There's no overriding sub-theme, but here are a few topics we've discussed recently:
- Rationality constraints on credences
- Probabilities of conditionals and conditional probabilities
- Propensities
- De se credences
- Regularity and infinitesimal probabilities
- The relationship between credence and objective probability
All are very welcome to attend (but be warned that the discussion can get fairly technical at times).
The meetings often occur on Wednesday at 2pm, but please check more recent posts for up-to-date information.
Contact: Wolfgang Schwarz, wo at sign umsu dot de
Social and Political Philosophy RG Next Meeting-29/10/10
When: Friday, 29th October, 2010 11.30am-1pm
Where: Coombs Seminar Room F (3233)
Reading: “Individualism: True and False” in Individualism and Economic Order by Frederick Hayek
Contact: Cavit.Hacihamdioglu@anu.edu.au
Where: Coombs Seminar Room F (3233)
Reading: “Individualism: True and False” in Individualism and Economic Order by Frederick Hayek
Contact: Cavit.Hacihamdioglu@anu.edu.au
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