Sunday, November 17, 2013

Probability reading group: Wednesday 20 Nov

Hi all,

the next meeting of the probability reading group is on Wednesday at
2pm in the Benjamin library.

We'll discuss two short papers: Adam Elga's "Subjective Probabilities
Should be Sharp" (2010),
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/phimp/3521354.0010.005/1#, and Sahlin and
Weirich's "Unsharp Sharpness" (2013),
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/theo.12025/full#.

Best,
wo.

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Probability reading group: Wednesday 6 Nov, 2pm

Hi all,

at the next meeting of the probability reading group we'll talk about
John Cantwell's "Conditionals in causal decision theory":
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0197-5#. We meet on Wednesday at
2pm in the Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 30 Oct, 2pm

Hi all,

the probability reading group meets as usual on Wednesday at 2pm in
the Benjamin library. This week we'll discuss Arif's "Causal decision
theory: a counterexample":
http://philreview.dukejournals.org/content/122/2/289.full.pdf+html#.

Best,
wo.

Sunday, October 20, 2013

Probability reading group: Wednesday 23 Oct, 2pm

Hi all,

the probability reading group meets as usual on Wednesday at 2pm in
the Benjamin library. We will discuss Daniel Rothschild's "Do
indicative conditionals express propositions?":
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00825.x/pdf#.

Best,
wo.

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 11 September, 2pm

Dear all,

this week we will continue discussing Al's, "Probabilities
of Counterfactuals and Counterfactual Probabilities", which you can
temporarily find here: http://umsu.de/temp/hajek.pdf#. As usual, we
meet at 2pm in the Benjamin library!

wo.

Monday, September 2, 2013

Probability Reading Group: Wed 4 September, 2pm

Dear all,

on Wednesday we will discuss a brand-new draft by Al, "Probabilities
of Counterfactuals and Counterfactual Probabilities", which you can
temporarily find here: http://umsu.de/temp/hajek.pdf#.

See you at 2pm in the Benjamin library!

wo.

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.

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 31 July, 2pm, Benjamin library

Hi all,

conditional on the absence of further unforeseen events, the
probability reading group meets next Wednesday at 2pm in the Benjamin,
to discuss my paper "No interpretation of probability":
http://umsu.de/papers/nochance.pdf#. (If you read the earlier version:
there are a few minor changes, mainly in section 2, but the substance
is the same.) We'll also talk about what to read for future sessions.

Best,
wo.

Monday, July 15, 2013

Re: Probability reading group: Wed 17 July, 2pm, Benjamin library

Hi again,

turns out that the reading group clashes with Robbie's pre-talk this
week, and with the MSPT graduate workshop next week. Since other
candidate slots are also taken, I suggest that we postpone the next
meeting by two weeks to the 31st. So, no probability reading group
this week.

Apologies for the confusion.

Best,
wo.


On 14 July 2013 13:54, Wolfgang Schwarz <wo@umsu.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the probability reading group is back. We begin with a short piece by
> myself, called "No interpretation of probability":
> http://umsu.de/papers/nochance.pdf#. See you on Wednesday at 2pm in
> the Benjamin library!
>
> Best,
> wo.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 17 July, 2pm, Benjamin library

Hi all,

the probability reading group is back. We begin with a short piece by
myself, called "No interpretation of probability":
http://umsu.de/papers/nochance.pdf#. See you on Wednesday at 2pm in
the Benjamin library!

Best,
wo.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

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.

Saturday, April 20, 2013

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.

Monday, April 15, 2013

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)

Sunday, April 14, 2013

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.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

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

Saturday, April 6, 2013

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.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

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)

Friday, March 29, 2013

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.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

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)

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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)

Monday, March 4, 2013

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

Saturday, March 2, 2013

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.

Monday, February 25, 2013

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

Sunday, February 24, 2013

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.

Monday, February 18, 2013

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.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Evolution Reading Group


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

Where: Benjamin Library (Coombs Building).


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).

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

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)

Science and Metaphysics RG


When: Tuesday 12th of February from 11am-12noon

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading:
Godfrey-Smith, P. (2006), ‘Theories and models in metaphysics’, Harvard Review of Philosophy, 14: 4-19.

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