Janina Hosiasson鈥檚 logic of rational degrees of belief: subjective probability before and after Ramsey Abstract: In 1931, Janina Hosiasson-Lindenbaum proposed a proto-decision-theoretic answer to the value of evidence problem, originally…
Topic: Writing the history of women in analytic philosophy – how and why?
Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58吃瓜 & Stirling) Should Science Journalists Know About Science? Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researcher鈥檚 unfounded claims…
Title:聽A Theory of Location Abstract:聽TBC
Title: Some Thoughts on Victimhood and Feminism Abstract: In her book Conflict Is Not Abuse (2016), Sarah Schulman argues that, in many domains of public and private life, false accusations…
Title: ‘Logic and Inference in the Sender-Receiver Model’ Abstract: Logic, inference, language 鈥� somehow these are all connected. But how? One of David Lewis鈥檚 goals in his book聽Convention聽(1969)聽was to answer…
Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) Should have Known聽and Epistemically Appropriate Belief Sometimes people don鈥檛 know things they should have known. For instance, cardiologists should know about recent…
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