Posted in Formal Philosophy on May 20th, 2009
This morning, I read through (and very much enjoyed) Greg’s quick book review of Hendricks and Symon’s collection, Formal Philosophy: Aim, Scope, Direction - the review is hot off the presses in the new issue of Philosophy of science. Greg does a marvelous job of highlighting some of the most interesting ideas developed by the book’s contributors in a [...]
Posted in News on May 11th, 2009
Modelling Preference Change Preference change is a phenomenon that everyone experiences in himself or herself. Such change can be gradual or radical, expected or surprising, caused by external experiences (such as encountering another culture) or by internal influences (such as aging), and so on. How should preference change be explained and modelled? This is a [...]
Posted in News on May 7th, 2009
Graduate Conference 2009 Philosophy of Probability II 8th – 9th June 2009 Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) London School of Economics (LSE) Organizers: Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Conrad Heilmann Supported by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science<http://www.thebsps.org/> and the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method<http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/philosophyLogicAndScientificMethod/> at the LSE The [...]
Posted in News on May 5th, 2009
Workshop on Metacognition, Belief Change and Conditionals 11-12 September 2009 Department of Philosophy Institute for Advanced Studies University of Bristol, UK Metacognition, i.e. “thinking about thinking” or introspection, is a crucial topic in various areas of philosophy. Metacognitive processes involving conditionals are of particular interest: e.g., if an indicative conditional is accepted by a rational [...]
Posted in News on May 5th, 2009
Progic 2009 – 4th Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic, to be held in Groningen, The Netherlands, 17-19 September 2009 http://www.philos.rug.nl/progic2009/ We welcome submissions of papers on the special focus of the workshop, or indeed on any aspect of combining probability and logic. The deadline for submitting abstracts is June 1st. The special focus is [...]
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