Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 12

The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 3rd June, 2:30 PM, in Seminar Rm F.

The readings are chapter 14, "Learning to Network", from Brian Skyrms' Signals, and Kim Sterelny's critical notice of Signals.

Electronic copies are available upon request.

The group will be taking a break for at least a couple of weeks after that. We may resume later in June.

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

Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 11

The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 27th May, 2:30 PM, in Seminar Rm F.

The reading is chapters 13 & 14, "Networks II: Teamwork" and "Learning to Network", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.

Electronic copies are available upon request.

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

Probability meeting

We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 25 May, in Coombs seminar room E to discuss:

Michael Strevens, 'Bayesian Confirmation Theory: Inductive Logic, or Mere Inductive Framework?'

The paper is available here.

Ethics & International Public Policy - Tue 24 May

Next meeting: Tuesday 24 May, 1-2pm

Location: Coombs Seminar Room B.

Paper: Terry Nardin on 'Middle-ground ethics: Can One Be Politically Realistic Without Being a Political Realist?'

Contact: jonathan dot pickering at anu etc

Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 10

Due to the "Thursday" seminar being on Friday this week, the next session of the joint Formal Semantics and Evolution of Cognition reading group will be Thursday 19th May, 4 PM, Benjamin Library.

The reading is chapters 11 & 12, "Networks 1: Logic and Information Processing" & "Complex Signals and Compositionality", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.

Electronic copies are available upon request.

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

Probability meeting

4pm Wednesday 18 May 2011, in the Benjamin library (Coombs building, nearish seminar room E, on the same level).

We'll discuss sections 1,2,3 and 6 of Williamson, Very Improbable Knowing, available here.

Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 9

The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 13th May, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.

The reading is chapter 10, "Inventing New Signals", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.

Electronic copies are available upon request.

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

Moral and Political Philosophy - 11 May

Just a reminder that the MPP reading group will be continuing this week. We will be starting 15 minutes later than usual to accommodate an employment workshop for CAPPE students. We will covering Chapters 4 and 5 of the Hursthouse reading

Wednesday 11 May

2:45-4pm

Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Please email Jonathan Herington for the reading

Probability meeting

We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 11 May 2010, in Coombs seminar room E, to discuss:

Alan Hajek, Is strict coherence coherent? (The paper is available here.)

Foundations Meeting

Foundations Seminar resumes next Tuesday, May 10, at 1330 in SR D.

The topic for Tuesday is intentionalism. These are the readings: 

- Gilbert Harman, "The Intrinsic Quality of Experience" - http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/2214186.pdf

- Fred Dretske, "Experience as Representation" - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1533-6077.00005/pdf

Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 8

The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 6th April, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.

The reading is chapter 9, "Generalizing Signaling Games: Synonyms, Bottlenecks, Category Formation", from Brian Skyrms' Signals. Useful additional reading on this material is Donaldson, Lachmann, Bergstrom (2007), "The evolution of functionally referential meaning in a structured world," Journal of Theoretical Biology 246: 225–233

Electronic copies of both texts are available upon request.

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

Ethics & International Public Policy - Tue 10 May

Next meeting: Tuesday 10 May, 12-1pm

Location: Coombs Seminar Room F.

Informal presentation: Alejandra Mancilla on ''Does the Old Duty of Humanity Assist or Harm the Global Justice Debate?'

Contact: jonathan dot pickering at anu etc

Probability meeting

We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 4 May 2011 in Coombs seminar room E to discuss:

Michael Strevens (1995). A Closer Look at the 'New' Principle. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (4):545-561.

The paper is available here.

Moral and Political Philosophy - 11 May

The MPP Reading Group will be taking a short hiatus over the next two weeks and will return on Wednesday 11 May.

It will continue its discussion of On Virtue Ethics with discussion of Chapters 4 and 5: "Aristotle and Kant" and "Virtue and the Emotions. Details are, as usual:

Wednesday 11 May

2:30-3:45pm

Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Please email Jon Herington if you have not received the reading.

Probability meeting

We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 27 April 2011 in Coombs seminar room E.

We'll finish discussing the Skyrms chapter (1A) that we started last time (beginning from section 1A4, p.19 as they're marked in the document linked below); and we'll also discuss appendix 2.

Here are links to the reading:

1. Chapter 1A of Skyrms's "Causal Necessity", temporarily available here.
2. Appendix 2 of the same book, temporarily available here.

Evolution of Cognition reading group, session 8 - cancelled

Apologies for the late notice. Today's (Friday 15th April) session has been cancelled.

Foundations Meeting

The next foundations meeting will be

Tuesday 19/4, 1330 - 1530
Seminar Room D

We will finish the Stalnaker text, start looking at an exerpt from Lewis's Plurality of Worlds, and discuss measurement theory. Contact Wolfgang if you're missing some of the reading.

Probability meeting

We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 20 April 2011 in Coombs seminar room E to discuss:

Section 1A of Skyrms's "Causal Necessity", temporarily available here.

Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 8

The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 15th April, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.

The reading is chapter 9, "Generalizing Signaling Games: Synonyms, Bottlenecks, Category Formation", from Brian Skyrms' Signals. Useful additional reading on this material is Donaldson, Lachmann, Bergstrom (2007), "The evolution of functionally referential meaning in a structured world," Journal of Theoretical Biology 246: 225–233

Electronic copies of both texts are available upon request.

The group will be taking a break for a couple of weeks after that. We'll probably resume on Friday 6th May.

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

Foundations Meeting, Tue 12/4, 1330-1530, SR D

The next Foundations meeting will be:


Tuesday the 12th of April
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Seminar Room D.

The reading is the same as last last week: chapter 1 of Stalnaker's Inquiry. Contact Wolfgang if you need a copy of the reading.