Posted in Puzzles and Paradoxes on Jul 23rd, 2009
I just finished reading this interesting paper recently written (and presented at the last PSA) by the philosopher of mathematics Chris Pincock. In this work, Pincock highlights the following puzzle for Bayesians. Paraphrasing, The rules of the probability calculus mandate that logically equivalent propositions be assigned the same probability; however, insofar as probabilities are interpreted as [...]
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Posted in News on Jul 23rd, 2009
University of Oxford, Faculty of Philosophy; Thursday, September 24 – Friday, September 25, 2009 URL: http://bit.ly/probability-conference The Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford presents a mini conference on the philosophy of probability. The topic is taken broadly, encompassing among other things Bayesian epistemology, the foundations of statistics, and physical probability. Speakers so far [...]
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Posted in Formal Philosophy, Tidbits on Jul 20th, 2009
A quick heads up: there is an interesting discussion going on at It’s Only a Theory pertaining to the question of whether Bayes’s Theorem has any “special epistemological significance.”
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Posted in Concepts on Jul 17th, 2009
Gärdenfors’s work on conceptual spaces hinges on a principle for natural concepts, which he has dubbed Criterion P in (2004, Minds and Matter), among other places. Criterion P: A natural concept is a convex region of conceptual space. He mentions a conjecture from Berlin and Kay (1969) that, although different languages divide the color circle [...]
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Posted in Causation on Jul 12th, 2009
At Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, Andrew Gelman has a very nice discussion about differences between Pearl and Rubin’s approach to causal statistical modeling. The discussion ranges over four recent posts (the first; the second; the third, which clarifies some issues raised in the first two; and the fourth (so far), which continues the discussion from the first [...]
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Posted in News on Jul 4th, 2009
On August 5-6, the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands hosts a master class on the stochastic theory of causality. There are still a few places for interested students and young researchers. Please visit: http://www.waldorp.nl/lourens/wShopCausality.htm The course is free of charge, and will include an introduction to EffectLite, a free programme for the statistical [...]
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Posted in News on Jul 3rd, 2009
[Update: ESSLLI 2010 Website here.] 22nd European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information ESSLLI 2010, 9-20 August, 2010, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) is organized every year by the Association for Logic, Language and Information (FoLLI) in different sites around Europe. The main focus of [...]
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