Probability reading group Wed 24 April

Hi all,

Antony Eagle will be here this week and we honour his visit by
discussing his (surveyish) paper "Probability and randomness",
temporarily to be found here:
http://umsu.de/temp/eagle-randomness.pdf#.

Wednesday 24 April 1.30 pm (yes, 1.30), Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #10

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #10

When: Tuesday April 23rd from 11-12.30

Where: Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

This week we continue our discussion of Daniel Nolan's paper "Platitudes and Metaphysics" from Braddon-Mitchell, D. and Nola, R. (eds) (2009) Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.


Please contact Rachael Brown for photocopies if you do not have access to the book.

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #9

When: Tuesday April 16th from 11-12.30

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

This week we will be reading more from Braddon-Mitchell, D. and Nola, R. (eds) (2009) Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. Please read:

Chapter 1: Braddon-Mitchell and Nola "Introducing the Canberra Plan"  and Chapter 12: Nolan "Platitudes and Metaphysics"  (particularly parts 1 and 2)

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Probability Reading Group: Wed 17 April

Dear all,

the next meeting of the probability reading group will look at Richard
Bradley's paper "Ramsey and the Measurement of Belief":
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/bradleyr/pdf/Ramsey.Gillies.pdf#. We meet on
Wednesday at 2pm (yes 2pm, not 1pm) in the Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Evolution RG

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2.30PM, Friday 12th April in the Benjamin Library, Coombs Building, ANU. 

Reading:

Dickins & Barton (forthcoming) "Reciprocal causation and the proximate–ultimate distinction"Biology & Philosophy, online first.

Contact: rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Probability Reading Group: Wed 10 April

Dear all,

next week, we will discuss "Representation Theorems and the
Foundations of Decision Theory" by Chris Meacham and Jonathan
Weisberg: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2010.510529

See you on Wednesday at 1pm in the Benjamin library!

Best,
wo.

Evolution RG

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2.30PM, Friday 5th April in the Benjamin Library, Coombs Building, ANU. 

Over the coming month or so we will be discussing the usefulness of Mayr's proximate-ultimate distinction. We will begin with:

KN Laland, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt & T Uller (2012) "More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited" Biology and Philosophy 

(NB: the arguments in this paper expand upon those in a paper discussed by the group at an earlier meeting:  KN Laland, K Sterelny, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt and T Uller (2011) Cause and effect in biology revisited: Is Mayr's proximate-ultimate dichotomy still useful? Science 334: 1512-1516.)

In future weeks we will move on to discuss the responses to these papers.

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Probability reading group: Wed 3 March

Dear all,

next week the probability reading group will take a brief detour to
look at a question about counterfactual conditionals. The reading is a
forthcoming paper by Lee Walters and Robbie Williams, "An Argument for
Conjunction Conditionalization":
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~some3090/papers/An%20Argument%20for%20Conjunction%20Conditionalization.pdf#.

See you on Wednesday at 1pm in the Benjamin library!
wo.

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #6

When: Tuesday 26th March from 11-12.30

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Chakravartty, Anjan 'Six Degrees of Speculation: Metaphysics in Empirical Contexts', in B. Monton (ed.)Images of Empiricism (2007), Oxford University Press. 

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #5

When: Tuesday 12th March from 11-12.30

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Carrie Jenkins' paper:  "Naturalistic Challenges to the A Priori" (Forthcoming in A. Casullo and J. Thurow (ed.s), The A Priori in Philosophy, Oxford University Press)

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Metaphysics and Science Reading Group

When: Tuesday 5th of March from 11-12.30 

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Ladyman (2012) "Science, Metaphysics and Method" Philosophical Studies160: 31-50. 

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution RG

When: 2-3.30pm, Friday 8th March, 2013

Where: Benjamin Library (Coombs Building).

Reading: 

Dickinson (2012) "Associative Learning and Animal Cognition" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 367, 2733-2742.

Heyes (2012) "Simple minds: a qualified defence of associative learning" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 367, 2695-2703. 

Contact: Rachael rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Probability reading group: Wed 6 March

Hello,

the next meeting of the probability reading group will discuss Jamie
Dreier's (1996) "Rational Preference: Decision theory as a theory of
practical rationality":
http://www.springerlink.com/index/q54k6u2224u35102.pdf#.

We meet on Wednesday at 2pm in the Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Evolution Reading Group

When: 2-3.30pm, Friday 1st March, 2013
Where: Benjamin Library (Coombs Building).
Reading: Heyes (2012) "Simple minds: a qualified defence of associative learning" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 367, 2695-2703. 


Contact: rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Probability reading group: Wed 27 Feb

Hello,

the next meeting of the probability reading group will discuss Alan
Hajek's "Unexpected Expectations", which you can temporarily find
here: http://umsu.de/temp/unexpected.pdf#. We meet on Wednesday at 2pm
in the Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 20 Feb 2pm

Hello,

the probability reading group meets on Wednesday at 2pm in the
Benjamin library to discuss Richard Bradley's 'Reaching a consensus':
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/23866/1/Reaching_a_Consensus_(LSERO).pdf#.
(Apologies for the short notice.)

Best,
wo.

Evolution Reading Group

When: 2-3.30pm, Friday 15th February, 2013

Where: Benjamin Library (Coombs Building).

Reading: Sterelny's 2010 paper "Minds: extended or scaffolded?" (Phenom Cogn Sci (2010) 9:465–481). 

NB: The discussion will assume familiarity with Clark and Chalmers' paper "The Extended Mind" (from Analysis 58:10-23, 1998). 

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Metaphysics and Science RG Meeting #3

When: Tuesday 26th of February from 11-12.30 (note: there is no meeting on Tuesday 19th of February)

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building


Reading: Laurie Paul's "Metaphysics as modeling: the handmaiden's tale" (from Philos Stud (2012) 160:1–29)


Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Metaphysics and Science Reading Group

The Science and Metaphysics Reading Group focuses on the relationship between metaphysics and science, in particular the similarities and differences between the methodologies of the two fields.

We read a paper each week and the group is open to all graduate students and staff in the School of Philosophy. Others interested in attending should contact the convenor, Rachael Brown (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au).

During Semester I, 2013 we will be meeting at 11-12.30 on Tuesdays, in the Benjamin Library  (Coombs Building).

Evolution RG

The first meeting of the Evolution Reading Group for 2013 will be held on Friday 8th of February at 2pm in the Benjamin Library (Coombs Building).

We will be taking a little detour into some philosophy of cognitive science and discussing two short papers:

(1) Clark (1999) "An embodied cognitive science?" Trends in Cognitive Science, 3(9): 345-350.

(2) Taylor et. al (2010) "An Investigation into the Cognition Behind Spontaneous String Pulling in New Caledonian Crows" PLosOne, 5(2): e9435.

- Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)