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Monthly Archives: October 2018

John Callanan on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow

24 Wednesday Oct 2018

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John Callanan will feature in tomorrow morning’s  (25 Oct) In Our Time episode to discuss Bernard Mandeville’s “The Fable of the Bees”.

You will be able to listen to the broadcast live at 9:00am, or afterwards on the iPlayer.

Eleanor Knox features in the BBC programme Magic Numbers

19 Friday Oct 2018

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Dr Knox appears in the second episode of Dr Hannah Fry’s Magic Numbers series available now on iPlayer.

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Patrick Butlin at the Science Gallery London

18 Thursday Oct 2018

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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

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“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

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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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art, Sacha Golob, Sarah Fine

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

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2018 Annual Sowerby Lecture

03 Wednesday Oct 2018

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Philosophy and Medicine

13 November 2018 – 19:30-21:00

Reflections on why I want what I want from research and researchers — as a patient

Lecture: Sir Iain Chalmers

Theatre 2, New Hunt’s House, KCL Guy’s Campus

Click here for details and here for the Facebook event page.

Peter Sowerby Essay Contest 2018

03 Wednesday Oct 2018

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Essay Competition, Philosophy and Medicine

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.

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