The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 1st April, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.
The reading is chapter 6, "Deception", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.
Electronic copies are available upon request.
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
Monday, March 28, 2011
Foundations Meeting
The Foundations Reading Group on mental representation will meet in Tuesday March 29 in Seminar Room D, 1330 - 1530. The reading is 'Advertisement for a Semantics for Psychology', by Ned Block. Contact Angela for a copy of the reading.
Foundations
The Foundations reading groups are led by faculty members. Each group typically runs for six sessions, and aims to give the sudents an advanced introduction to a particular philosophical topic area.
Previous groups have treated topics such as probability, perception, physicalism, meta-logic, normative ethics, mathematics, metaphysics, intuition, and action.
The Foundations reading groups are open only to postgraduate students enrolled in or visiting the ANU Philosophy program. A certain level of participation is required for enrolled students; see the page on the 'Foundations Course'.
Current Foundations Reading Group
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Previous groups have treated topics such as probability, perception, physicalism, meta-logic, normative ethics, mathematics, metaphysics, intuition, and action.
The Foundations reading groups are open only to postgraduate students enrolled in or visiting the ANU Philosophy program. A certain level of participation is required for enrolled students; see the page on the 'Foundations Course'.
Current Foundations Reading Group
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Probability meeting
We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 30 March, in Coombs seminar room E to discuss:
Frank Arntzenius (1995).Indeterminism and the Direction of Time. Topoi 14 (1).
The paper is available here.
Frank Arntzenius (1995).
The paper is available here.
Moral and Political Philosophy - 30 March
lThe next meeting of the Moral and Political Philosophy Reading Group will wrap-up our discussion of Justice as Fairness. Details are as follows:
Wednesday 30 March
2:30-3:45pm
Seminar Room F, Coombs Building
All are welcome. After next week's reading group we will be starting an eight week reading of Rosalind Hursthouse's On Virtue Ethics. Those wishing to obtain an electronic copy of the introduction and first chapter of the Hursthouse reading should contact Jon Herington.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 5
The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 25th March, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.
The reading is chapters 4 & 5, "Evolution" and "Evolution in Lewis Signaling Games", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.
Electronic copies are available upon request.
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
The reading is chapters 4 & 5, "Evolution" and "Evolution in Lewis Signaling Games", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.
Electronic copies are available upon request.
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Ethics & International Public Policy - Tue 22 Mar
Next meeting: Tuesday 22 March, 12.30-1.30 pm
Location: Coombs Seminar Room B.
Informal presentation: Luara Ferracioli on 'Skill flow and moral responsibility'
Contact: jonathan dot pickering at anu etc
Location: Coombs Seminar Room B.
Informal presentation: Luara Ferracioli on 'Skill flow and moral responsibility'
Contact: jonathan dot pickering at anu etc
Monday, March 14, 2011
Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 4
Hi all,
The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 18th March, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.
The reading is chapter 3, "Information", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.
Electronic copies are available upon request.
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 18th March, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.
The reading is chapter 3, "Information", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.
Electronic copies are available upon request.
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
Probability meeting
2pm, Wednesday 16 March 2011 in Coombs seminar room E, to discuss:
Chapter 12 ('Induction and Objectification') of Richard Jeffrey's book, The Logic of Decision.
Update: The reading is available here.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Practical Cognition -- meeting 13
We will meet Friday, 11th March, at 2pm on the tea room balcony to discuss the final bit of Michael Thompson's Life and Action, specifically, section 4 of chapter 10 and chapter 11.
A copy of the reading available for photocopying is in the pigeon hole bearing the name "John Bengson", located among the pigeon holes located near the elevator (the one by the tea room) on the second floor of Coombs.
A copy of the reading available for photocopying is in the pigeon hole bearing the name "John Bengson", located among the pigeon holes located near the elevator (the one by the tea room) on the second floor of Coombs.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Moral and Political Philosophy - 9 March
The next meeting of the Moral and Political Philosophy Reading Group will continue our discussion of Part IV of Justice as Fairness. Details are as follows:
Wednesday 9 March
2:30-3:45pm
Seminar Room F, Coombs Building
Those wishing to attend can obtain an electronic copy of the reading from Jon Herington
Friday, March 4, 2011
Probability meeting
2pm Wednesday 9 March, in Coombs seminar room E, discussing:
Paul Humphreys (2004). Some Considerations on Conditional Chances. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 55 (4):667-680.
The paper is available here.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Ethics & International Public Policy - Tue 8 Mar
Next meeting: Tuesday, 8 March, 12.30-1.30 pm
Location: Coombs Seminar Room C.
Informal presentation: Scott Wisor on 'Public reason and poverty measurement'
Contact: jonathan dot pickering at anu etc
Location: Coombs Seminar Room C.
Informal presentation: Scott Wisor on 'Public reason and poverty measurement'
Contact: jonathan dot pickering at anu etc
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Practical Cognition -- meeting 12
We will meet Friday, 4th March, at 2pm on the tea room balcony to discuss part three, "Practical Generality", of Michael Thompson's Life and Action.
A copy of the reading available for photocopying is in the pigeon hole bearing the name "John Bengson", located among the pigeon holes located near the elevator (the one by the tea room) on the second floor of Coombs.
A copy of the reading available for photocopying is in the pigeon hole bearing the name "John Bengson", located among the pigeon holes located near the elevator (the one by the tea room) on the second floor of Coombs.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 3
Hi all,
The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 4th March, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.
The reading is up to the end of chapter 2 of Brian Skyrms' monograph Signals.
Electronic copies of the texts mentioned are available upon request.
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 4th March, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.
The reading is up to the end of chapter 2 of Brian Skyrms' monograph Signals.
Electronic copies of the texts mentioned are available upon request.
Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)
Formal (Meta)-Semantics - Meeting 14
Location: Seminar Room F.
Reading: Brian Skyrms: Signals. Chapter 1&2.
Contact: Clas.Weber@anu.edu.au
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Probability meeting
2pm on Wednesday 2 March, in Coombs seminar room E.
We'll discuss three sevenths (see below) of Antony Eagle's 'Twenty-One Arguments against Propensity Analyses of Probability', which is available here.
The parts we'll discuss: Section 3, Arguments 1, 2, 5, 6 and 13-17 (inclusive)
For those not too familiar with propensity accounts of probability, it might also be helpful to look at the introductory parts of the paper - Sections 1 (Analysing probability) and 2 (Propensity analyses), excluding subsection 2.5, which is about a version of the propensity view that isn't targeted by the arguments we'll be discussing.
We'll discuss three sevenths (see below) of Antony Eagle's 'Twenty-One Arguments against Propensity Analyses of Probability', which is available here.
The parts we'll discuss: Section 3, Arguments 1, 2, 5, 6 and 13-17 (inclusive)
For those not too familiar with propensity accounts of probability, it might also be helpful to look at the introductory parts of the paper - Sections 1 (Analysing probability) and 2 (Propensity analyses), excluding subsection 2.5, which is about a version of the propensity view that isn't targeted by the arguments we'll be discussing.
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Practical Cognition -- meeting 11
We will meet Friday, 25th February, at 2pm on the tea room balcony to discuss part two, "Naive Action Theory", of Michael Thompson's Life and Action. We'll focus on chapters 7 and 8.
A copy of the reading available for photocopying is in the pigeon hole bearing the name "John Bengson", located among the pigeon holes located near the elevator (the one by the tea room) on the second floor of Coombs.
A copy of the reading available for photocopying is in the pigeon hole bearing the name "John Bengson", located among the pigeon holes located near the elevator (the one by the tea room) on the second floor of Coombs.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Mathematics Reading Group
Despite popular demand, the Mathematics reading group will not run this semester. Plans to study measure theory & the mathematical foundations of probability may come to fruition in the next semester.
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