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 very pleased to have Professor Dorothy Edgington (Birkbeck), Professor Mauricio Suárez (Compultense University) and Dr. Antony Eagle (Oxford) as our keynote speakers.

The conference will commence on Friday 25th June. There will be a conference dinner in the evening. The conference will continue on the Saturday 26th.

Call for papers

Submissions are invited from graduate students. Papers may be on any topic within the philosophy of probability, including, but not restricted to, interpretations of probability in the social and natural sciences. Papers should be suitable for presentation in 30 minutes. Each paper will be followed by 5-10 minutes of comments by speakers at past conferences or members of LSE faculty and then 10-15 minutes of questions. Abstracts of strictly between 1000 – 1500 words should be received by no later than Friday 16th April 2010. Please send submissions by email (in the body of a message, or as attachments in PDF or Microsoft Word format) to <s.c.bradley@lse.ac.uk> Please put “POP III” in the subject line of your email. Abstracts will be refereed and successful contributors notified by 14th May 2010. Successful contributors may also apply for help with travel expenses within the UK.

Organizers: Seamus Bradley, Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Conrad Heilmann