Probability meeting

2pm Wednesday 1 December 2010, Coombs seminar room D.

David Christensen, "Rational Reflection"

To download the paper, you can go to the author's website (here) and click on "online papers".

Social and Political Philosophy meetings on again next year

Social and Political Philosophy reading group will not meet for the rest of the year.

I will make further announcements when we resume.

Probability meeting

2pm Wednesday 24 November 2010, Coombs seminar room D.

Christopher J. G. Meacham (2005). Three Proposals Regarding a Theory of Chance. Philosophical Perspectives 19 (1):281–307.

The paper is available here.

Evolution of Cognition Reading Group

This week's meeting is a rather different affair to normal. We shall attend the following Author-Meets-Critic session in the RSSS.

Public and Private Reasoning Theme: Special Event
Friday, November 26

On Friday, November 26th, Paul Seabright, the author of The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life, will be visiting the RSSS for an Author-Meets-Critics session on his books.

The critics are: Geoff Brennan, Kim Sterelny and Ben Fraser. Paul will respond, and there will be an opportunity for questions and comments from the audience.

This will take place at the Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre, from 2pm-5pm.

Mathematics Reading Group - Session 5

The next session will be Tuesday 30 November, 11 AM, Coombs Seminar Rm F.

The reading is Chapter 5, "Differentiation" from Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Supplementary reading is Chapter 5, "The Derivative" from Abbott's Understanding Analysis. (Sections 5.4 and 5.5 of Abbott contain useful discussion of the relationship between continuity and differentiability). Electronic copies available upon request.

A reminder that the schedule for the remaining sessions is:
7/12 - Integration
14/12 - Function spaces & uniform convergence

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Social and Political Philosophy meeting cancelled

As some people are out of town, we are not meeting tomorrow.

I will make an announcement later as to whether we will meet for the rest of the year. Cavit

Practical Cognition -- meeting 6

The next meeting will be at 4pm on Monday, November 22 on the Tea Room balcony. (Note the day/time change!)

We will be discussing John Bengson and Marc Moffett's "Non-propositional Intellectualism".

Formal Semantics Group - 4. Meeting

Next meeting: Friday 03.12., 11am - 1pm.

Location: Tea balcony

Reading: Maxwell Cresswell: Semantic Indexicality; Chapter 1.

copies can be found in Wolfgang's pigeon hole (i.e. in front of Steph's, Adam's, Luc's office).

Contact: Clas.Weber@anu.edu.au

Social and Political Philosophy meeting

When: Friday, 19 November, 2010 11.30am-1pm
Where: Coombs Seminar Room F (3233)
Reading: Scheffler, Samuel. "Relationships and Responsibilities" in Boundaries and Allegiances pp.97-110
Contact: Cavit.Hacihamdioglu@anu.edu.au

Practical Cognition -- meeting 5

The next meeting will be at 2pm on Friday, November 12 on the Tea Room balcony.

We will continue discussing Susanna Schellenberg's "Action and Self-Location in Perception".

Foundations seminar - meeting 5

The Material Objects foundations seminar will have its fifth meeting on Nov 16, 2pm, seminar room C, to discuss Thomasson's "Realism and Human Kinds".

Social and Political Philosophy meeting

We are not meeting on 12 November due to Kioloa conference.

We will resume our meeting on the 19th of November. I will distribute the reading next week. Cavit

Probability meeting

2pm Wednesday 10 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.

Note: we discussed some of the paper last time, and this time we'll pick things up from the beginning of section 3.4.

The paper is available at:
http://mind.oxfordjournals.org/content/116/463/549

Evolution of Cognition Reading Group

The meeting of this group scheduled for tomorrow afternoon has been cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience that this may cause.

- Rachael

Foundations seminar - meeting 4

The Material Objects foundations seminar will have its fourth meeting on Nov 9, 2pm, seminar room C, to discuss Sosa's "Existential Relativity".