Dr Knox appears in the second episode of Dr Hannah Fry’s Magic Numbers series available now on iPlayer.
Eleanor Knox features in the BBC programme Magic Numbers
19 Friday Oct 2018
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Patrick Butlin at the Science Gallery London
18 Thursday Oct 2018
Posted in Events, Public talks
Patrick will feature in the panel discussion on:
‘Addiction: What, Why and Who?’
This Friday, 19 Oct, 20:15-21:00
The Science Gallery London is a new gallery at Guy’s Campus, KCL.
The discussion is part of the ‘Hooked Weekender‘, a weekend-long series of events connected with the gallery’s ‘Hooked’ exhibition on addiction and recovery.
Seamus Bradley (Leeds) at King’s Formal Methods seminar
10 Wednesday Oct 2018
Posted in Events, Formal Methods, Research, Seminars
“Belief models, aggregation and impossibility”
Friday Oct 12th – 14:00-16:00
Room 508, Philosophy Building
Abstract:
The “Belief Models” framework is a very general formal theory of rational belief. It encompasses propositional logic belief sets, but also ranking functions and lower previsions (i.e. lower probabilities). De Cooman (2005) shows that AGM-style expansion and revision operators can be defined in this framework. In this paper I will discuss aggregation of belief models, and draw some connections to various well-known impossibility results for aggregation.
Masterclass on Personal Identity
08 Monday Oct 2018
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Bill Brewer will be delivering a masterclass on personal identity for the Guardian newspaper next week (15th October).
More infromation can be found here.
Publication News
08 Monday Oct 2018
Posted in Announcements, Research
Congratulations to Thomas Hodgson on the publication of his paper ‘Russellians can solve the problem of empty names with nonsingular propositions’ which is now available online with Synthese!
Click here to read Thomas’s paper.
Protest Art
07 Sunday Oct 2018
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What is protest art? What are its limits and what are its possibilities? …
Sarah Fine will be chairing a discussion with Sacha Golob, Robert Montgomery and Stephanie Schwartz.
10th December, 1830-2000
Click here for details.
2018 Annual Sowerby Lecture
03 Wednesday Oct 2018
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Peter Sowerby Essay Contest 2018
03 Wednesday Oct 2018
Posted in Announcements
Topic: “Doctor, will my treatment make me better?” Who is responsible for reducing uncertainties about the effects of treatments?
Eligibility: Students and alumni of all University of London schools, including undergraduate and postgraduate, and medical and professional schools.
Prize: £500
Length: less than 4,000 words
Due: 28 October 2018
Submission: Prepare your paper for blind review by making sure your name does not appear anywhere in the pages of the file, and send it to philandmed@kcl.ac.uk. Essays will be assessed by a panel of distinguished academics from the University of London, chaired by Dr Tuomas Pernu.
Click here for more details.
Bill Brewer at the Jowett Society
02 Tuesday Oct 2018
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Bill Brewer is giving a talk at the Jowett Society in Oxford on the 2nd November.
Details here.
Necessary Beings: A Conference in Memory of Bob Hale
01 Monday Oct 2018
Posted in Conference reports, Events
A two-day conference in memory of Bob Hale will be taking place at the Institute of Philosophy this month (15th and 16th October).
The full schedule can be found here.
Bob was a visiting professor at KCL and at Birkbeck and was an active member of the London philosophy scene over the past few years.
There will also be a book coming out in Bob’s honour, co-edited by Jessica Leech.
