ANU Philosophy Reading Groups

Probability reading group: Wednesday 20 Nov

2013-11-17T10:47:00.001+11:00

Hi all,

the next meeting of the probability reading group is on Wednesday at
2pm in the Benjamin library.

We'll discuss two short papers: Adam Elga's "Subjective Probabilities
Should be Sharp" (2010),
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/phimp/3521354.0010.005/1#, and Sahlin and
Weirich's "Unsharp Sharpness" (2013),
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/theo.12025/full#.

Best,
wo.

Probability reading group: Wednesday 6 Nov, 2pm

2013-11-03T16:17:00.000+11:00

Hi all,

at the next meeting of the probability reading group we'll talk about
John Cantwell's "Conditionals in causal decision theory":
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-012-0197-5#. We meet on Wednesday at
2pm in the Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 30 Oct, 2pm

2013-10-27T17:22:00.000+11:00

Hi all,

the probability reading group meets as usual on Wednesday at 2pm in
the Benjamin library. This week we'll discuss Arif's "Causal decision
theory: a counterexample":
http://philreview.dukejournals.org/content/122/2/289.full.pdf+html#.

Best,
wo.

Probability reading group: Wednesday 23 Oct, 2pm

2013-10-20T18:29:00.000+11:00

Hi all,

the probability reading group meets as usual on Wednesday at 2pm in
the Benjamin library. We will discuss Daniel Rothschild's "Do
indicative conditionals express propositions?":
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00825.x/pdf#.

Best,
wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 11 September, 2pm

2013-09-08T14:41:00.000+10:00

Dear all,

this week we will continue discussing Al's, "Probabilities
of Counterfactuals and Counterfactual Probabilities", which you can
temporarily find here: http://umsu.de/temp/hajek.pdf#. As usual, we
meet at 2pm in the Benjamin library!

wo.

Probability Reading Group: Wed 4 September, 2pm

2013-09-02T08:54:00.000+10:00

Dear all,

on Wednesday we will discuss a brand-new draft by Al, "Probabilities
of Counterfactuals and Counterfactual Probabilities", which you can
temporarily find here: http://umsu.de/temp/hajek.pdf#.

See you at 2pm in the Benjamin library!

wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 28 Aug, 2pm

2013-08-23T18:11:00.000+10:00

Hi all,

next week, we'll discuss another paper on counterfactuals and
probabilities, by Dorothy Edgington (oddly called 'I -
Counterfactuals'):
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2008.00233.x/pdf#

See you on Wednesday at 2pm in the Benjamin library!

Best,
wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 21 August, 2pm

2013-08-19T09:39:00.001+10:00

Hi all,

this Wednesday we continue our discussion of Hannes Leitgeb's "A
probabilistic semantics for counterfactuals". Again, the full paper
can be found here:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RSL&volumeId=5&seriesId=0&issueId=01#,
but it'll suffice if you read the parts I've extracted in
http://umsu.de/temp/Leitgeb.pdf#, starting at around the triviality
proof in section 2.

(Here, by the way, is the triviality result I wrote on the whiteboard
last week: http://umsu.de/temp/leitgeb-triviality.pdf#.)

See you on Wednesday at 2pm in the Benjamin library!

wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 14 Aug, 2pm

2013-08-10T11:23:00.001+10:00

Hi all,

the probability reading group meets as usual on Wednesday at 2pm in
the Benjamin library. Next time we'll look at Hannes Leitgeb's "A
probabilistic semantics for counterfactuals". You can find the full,
2-part, 95-page paper here:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RSL&volumeId=5&seriesId=0&issueId=01#,
but I've also created an abridged version with (what I took to be) the
most important and/or interesting parts:
http://umsu.de/temp/Leitgeb.pdf#. It's still 40 pages long, but you
can mostly skim the first nine pages up to the little triviality
proof. See you on Wednesday!

wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 7 August, 2pm, Benjamin library

2013-08-03T22:06:00.000+10:00

Dear all,

the probability reading group will meet again on Wednesday (7 Aug) at
2pm in the Benjamin library to discuss Richard Bradley's
"Multidimensional Possible-World Semantics for Conditionals":
http://philreview.dukejournals.org/content/121/4/539.full.pdf+html#.

Best,
wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 31 July, 2pm, Benjamin library

2013-07-25T13:42:00.001+10:00

Hi all,

conditional on the absence of further unforeseen events, the
probability reading group meets next Wednesday at 2pm in the Benjamin,
to discuss my paper "No interpretation of probability":
http://umsu.de/papers/nochance.pdf#. (If you read the earlier version:
there are a few minor changes, mainly in section 2, but the substance
is the same.) We'll also talk about what to read for future sessions.

Best,
wo.

Re: Probability reading group: Wed 17 July, 2pm, Benjamin library

2013-07-15T09:46:00.001+10:00

Hi again,

turns out that the reading group clashes with Robbie's pre-talk this
week, and with the MSPT graduate workshop next week. Since other
candidate slots are also taken, I suggest that we postpone the next
meeting by two weeks to the 31st. So, no probability reading group
this week.

Apologies for the confusion.

Best,
wo.

On 14 July 2013 13:54, Wolfgang Schwarz <wo@umsu.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> the probability reading group is back. We begin with a short piece by
> myself, called "No interpretation of probability":
> http://umsu.de/papers/nochance.pdf#. See you on Wednesday at 2pm in
> the Benjamin library!
>
> Best,
> wo.

Probability reading group: Wed 17 July, 2pm, Benjamin library

2013-07-14T13:54:00.001+10:00

Hi all,

the probability reading group is back. We begin with a short piece by
myself, called "No interpretation of probability":
http://umsu.de/papers/nochance.pdf#. See you on Wednesday at 2pm in
the Benjamin library!

Best,
wo.

Probability reading group Wed 24 April

2013-04-21T11:14:00.001+10:00

Hi all,

Antony Eagle will be here this week and we honour his visit by
discussing his (surveyish) paper "Probability and randomness",
temporarily to be found here:
http://umsu.de/temp/eagle-randomness.pdf#.

Wednesday 24 April 1.30 pm (yes, 1.30), Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #10

2013-04-20T12:23:00.001+10:00

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #10

When: Tuesday April 23rd from 11-12.30

Where: Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

This week we continue our discussion of Daniel Nolan's paper "Platitudes and Metaphysics" from Braddon-Mitchell, D. and Nola, R. (eds) (2009) Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

Please contact Rachael Brown for photocopies if you do not have access to the book.

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #9

2013-04-15T17:28:00.002+10:00

When: Tuesday April 16th from 11-12.30

Where: Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

This week we will be reading more from Braddon-Mitchell, D. and Nola, R. (eds) (2009) Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. Please read:

Chapter 1: Braddon-Mitchell and Nola "Introducing the Canberra Plan" and Chapter 12: Nolan "Platitudes and Metaphysics" (particularly parts 1 and 2)

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Probability Reading Group: Wed 17 April

2013-04-14T11:01:00.001+10:00

Dear all,

the next meeting of the probability reading group will look at Richard
Bradley's paper "Ramsey and the Measurement of Belief":
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/bradleyr/pdf/Ramsey.Gillies.pdf#. We meet on
Wednesday at 2pm (yes 2pm, not 1pm) in the Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Evolution RG

2013-04-11T13:52:00.001+10:00

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2.30PM, Friday 12th April in the Benjamin Library, Coombs Building, ANU.

Reading:

Dickins & Barton (forthcoming) "Reciprocal causation and the proximate–ultimate distinction"Biology & Philosophy, online first.

Contact: rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Probability Reading Group: Wed 10 April

2013-04-06T15:58:00.001+11:00

Dear all,

next week, we will discuss "Representation Theorems and the
Foundations of Decision Theory" by Chris Meacham and Jonathan
Weisberg: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2010.510529

See you on Wednesday at 1pm in the Benjamin library!

Best,
wo.

Evolution RG

2013-04-02T17:47:00.005+11:00

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2.30PM, Friday 5th April in the Benjamin Library, Coombs Building, ANU.

Over the coming month or so we will be discussing the usefulness of Mayr's proximate-ultimate distinction. We will begin with:

KN Laland, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt & T Uller (2012) "More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited" Biology and Philosophy

(NB: the arguments in this paper expand upon those in a paper discussed by the group at an earlier meeting: KN Laland, K Sterelny, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt and T Uller (2011) Cause and effect in biology revisited: Is Mayr's proximate-ultimate dichotomy still useful? Science 334: 1512-1516.)

In future weeks we will move on to discuss the responses to these papers.

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Probability reading group: Wed 3 March

2013-03-29T14:39:00.000+11:00

Dear all,

next week the probability reading group will take a brief detour to
look at a question about counterfactual conditionals. The reading is a
forthcoming paper by Lee Walters and Robbie Williams, "An Argument for
Conjunction Conditionalization":
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~some3090/papers/An%20Argument%20for%20Conjunction%20Conditionalization.pdf#.

See you on Wednesday at 1pm in the Benjamin library!
wo.

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #6

2013-03-14T17:16:00.001+11:00

When: Tuesday 26th March from 11-12.30

Where: Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Chakravartty, Anjan 'Six Degrees of Speculation: Metaphysics in Empirical Contexts', in B. Monton (ed.)Images of Empiricism (2007), Oxford University Press.

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #5

2013-03-06T14:13:00.002+11:00

When: Tuesday 12th March from 11-12.30

Where: Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Carrie Jenkins' paper: "Naturalistic Challenges to the A Priori" (Forthcoming in A. Casullo and J. Thurow (ed.s), The A Priori in Philosophy, Oxford University Press)

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Metaphysics and Science Reading Group

2013-03-04T13:32:00.002+11:00

When: Tuesday 5th of March from 11-12.30

Where: Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Ladyman (2012) "Science, Metaphysics and Method" Philosophical Studies160: 31-50.

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Evolution RG

2013-03-04T13:31:00.003+11:00

When: 2-3.30pm, Friday 8th March, 2013

Where: Benjamin Library (Coombs Building).

Reading:

Dickinson (2012) "Associative Learning and Animal Cognition" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 367, 2733-2742.

Heyes (2012) "Simple minds: a qualified defence of associative learning" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 367, 2695-2703.

Contact: Rachael rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au