Posted in Objective Probability, Philosophy of Religion on Feb 25th, 2010
Choice & Inference readers may well want to check out Alexander Pruss's thoughts on a recent application (via Michael Tooley) of Carnap's measure of objective probability to the Problem of Evil here.
Posted in Causation, Counterfactuals, Explanation on Feb 20th, 2010
I am re-reading the chapters devoted to causal explanation of Woodward's Making Things Happen: A theory of causal explanation. The book is very interesting and ambitious and probably Woodward is offering there one of the most complete and attractive theories of causal explanation available today. I am sympathetic to some of the main ideas. The [...]
Posted in Exchangeability, de Finetti on Feb 12th, 2010
Eventually here, I want to share some thoughts and a question that I have had lately pertaining to de Finetti’s notion of exchangeability. First, however, I want to set the stage for these thoughts by providing some background. If you are already informed on the basic points pertaining to de Finetti’s representation theorem and its [...]
Posted in News on Feb 11th, 2010
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics Philosophy of Probability III Graduate Conference 2010 Friday 25th and Saturday 26th June 2010 The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science announces its Third Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability to be held at the London School of Economics. We are [...]
Posted in News on Feb 5th, 2010
The Synthese Conference in 2010 will take place at Columbia University in New York City on April 15-16. The topic of the conference is epistemology and economics. The invited speakers include Alexandru Baltag, Adam Brandenburger, Cristina Biccieri, Christian List and Wlodek Rabinowicz. If you plan to attend the conference, please register (registration is free) by [...]
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