Monday, December 13, 2010

Probability meeting

4pm Friday 17th December in Coombs Seminar room D.

We'll discuss two short pieces, one by Branden Fitelson and another by Branden Fitelson and Kenny Easwaran. The theme: some worries about `accuracy-based` arguments for probabilism. As an added bonus, Branden will join us!

Friday, December 10, 2010

Formal Semantics - Meeting 6

Next meeting: Friday 17.12., 11am - 1pm.

Location: Tea balcony (or Seminar Room F).

Reading: Pauline Jacobson: Towards a Variable-Free Semantics (Sections 1&2).

The paper can be found here or in Wolfgang's pigeon hole.

Contact: Clas.Weber@anu.edu.au

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Mathematics Reading Group - Session 7

Hi all,

The last session for the year will be Tuesday 14 December, 11 AM, Coombs Seminar Rm F.

The reading is Chapter 7, "Sequences & Series of Functions" from Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Supplementary reading is Chapter 4, "Function Spaces" from Pugh's Real Mathematical Analysis. Electronic copies available upon request.

Plans are afoot to reconvene in February with a new topic - possibilities include linear algebra, measure theory & probability, point-set topology...

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

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Formal Semantics - 5. Meeting

Next meeting: Friday 10.12., 11am - 1pm.

Location: Tea balcony (or Seminar Room F).

Reading: Maxwell Cresswell: Entities and Indices; Chapter 13 & 14.

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

Practical Cognition -- meeting 8

The next meeting will be at 4pm on Wednesday, December 8th on the Tea Room balcony.

The reading is Marta Vidal's "Agency and Intentional Action". Please email me (john.bengson@anu.edu.au) if you would like a copy of the paper.

This will be our final meeting of 2010.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Probability meeting

Tuesday December 7th 2pm. Location: Tea Room / Balcony.

We'll be reading Leon Leontyev's paper "Disagreement and Credence-Credence Principles."

The paper can be downloaded here.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Evolution of Cognition Reading Group

This group is taking a break until the new year.

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

Practical Cognition -- meeting 7

The next meeting will be at 2pm on Friday, December 3rd on the Tea Room balcony.

We will continue discussing John Bengson and Marc Moffett's "Non-propositional Intellectualism", focusing on sections 4-5.

Mathematics Reading Group - Session 6

The next session will be Tuesday 7 December, 11 AM, Coombs Seminar Rm F.

The reading is Chapter 6, "Riemann-Stieltjes Integration" from Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis. Supplementary reading is Chapter 7, "The Riemann Integral" from Abbott's Understanding Analysis. (Sections 7.6 and 8.1 of Abbott contain useful discussion of integration topics not discussed by Rudin). Electronic copies available upon request.

A reminder that the final session for the year is:
14/12 - Function spaces & uniform convergence

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

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Formal Semantics - 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