04 Thursday Jun 2020
Posted in Formal Methods, Seminars
The Formal Methods research group re-launches its seminar online in June. We have two guest talks given by Branden Fitelson and by Matt Mandelkern, organized with the London Group for Formal Philosophy.
Continue reading24 Monday Feb 2020
Posted in Formal Methods, Research
Schedules of guest speakers for the Formal Methods Group in winter 2020. Some of these talks are organized jointly with the newly formed London Group for Formal Philosophy. (Note: we are planning further talks and may update this page accordingly)
10 Thursday Jan 2019
Posted in Formal Methods, Rationality, Research
The Rationality and Formal Methods Group run guest speakers series at the same time slot. The guest speakers for winter and spring 2019 are as follows. (“FM” and “R” indicate talks organised by the formal methods and rationality groups, respectively.)
Fri Jan 18th Georgi Gardiner (Oxford) (R)
Fri Feb 1st Johannes Stern (Bristol) (FM)
Fri March 1st Corinne Besson (Sussex) (FM)
Fri March 8th Lavinia Picollo (UCL) (FM)
Fri March 15th Michael Hannon (Nottingham) (R)
Fri March 22st Nick Hughes (Durham / Oxford) (R)
Fri March 29th Louise Hanson (Durham) (R)
Fri May 17th James Studd (Oxford) (FM)
Fri May 24th Balthasar Grabmayr (Jerusalem) (FM)
The talks take place on Fridays 3:00-5:00, in room 508, Philosophy Building, KCL Strand Campus. Everyone is welcome, but if you come from outside King’s you need to email Julien Dutant at julien.dutant@kcl.ac.uk in advance to be included in the visitor list.
20 Thursday Dec 2018
Posted in Formal Methods, Workshops
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Andrew Bacon, Formal Methods, formal methods masterclass, free recombination, fundamentality, higher-order metaphysics, Jessica Leech, logic, metaphysics, modality, model theory, Nick Jones, propositions, Timothy Williamson
Prof. Andrew Bacon (USC) will give a masterclass on Higher-Order Metaphysics at King’s College London on May 8th-10th, 2019. The masterclass will include guest talks by Nick Jones (Birmingham), Jessica Leech (KCL), and Timothy Williamson (Oxford).
The event is open to graduate students and researchers from any institution. Attendance is free but registration is required. To register fill in the form below.
You can download a pdf version of the programme.
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22 Thursday Feb 2018
Posted in Events, Formal Methods, Research, Seminars
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conditionals, credence, epistemic modals, epistemic norms, epistemology, evidence, formal epistemology, knowledge, legal proof, peer disagreement, pragmatic encroachment, probabilistic semantics, probability, racial profiling, statistical evidence, transformative experience, women's speech
Prof. Sarah Moss (Michigan) will give a masterclass on Probabilistic Knowledge at King’s College London on March 6th-7th, 2018. The masterclass will include guest talks by Siliva Milano (LSE), Jason Konek (Bristol), Matt Mandelkern (Oxford) & Daniel Rothschild (UCL), Bernhard Salow (Cambridge) and Richard Holton (Cambridge). The keynote lecture of the masterclass is a joint session with LSE’s Choice Group.
The event is open to graduate students and researchers from any institution. Attendance is free but registration is required. To register fill in the form below.
Here is a pdf version of the programme. Final location confirmed: though the strike is taking place and many of us would have preferred not to cross picket lines, the event will have to take place in KCL (venues below).
26 Wednesday Jul 2017
Posted in Ideas, Interviews, Uncategorized
King’s Eliot Michaelson teams up with Hollywood star James Franco in Philosophy Time, a newly released series of short video interviews with contemporary philosophers on the topics of beauty, abortion, metaphor and imagination. Continue reading
02 Tuesday May 2017
Posted in Events, Public talks
Clayton Littlejohn and Julien Dutant are taking part in the large interdisciplinary conference From Reasonable Doubt to Undue Scepticism organized by Ulrike Hahn and Marion Worms at Birkbeck this week. Both will be defending knowledge-centred views on the topic. See the programme here.
04 Tuesday Apr 2017
Posted in Events, Formal Methods, Research, Seminars
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belief, Clayton Littlejohn, epistemic utility theory, epistemology, formal epistemology, Jason Konek, Julien Dutant, knowledge, Richard Pettigrew
Prof. Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) will give a masterclass on Epistemic Utility Theory at King’s College London on Thursday-Saturday April 27th-29th, 2017. In addition to the masterclass we will have three guest talks by Jason Konek (Kent), Julien Dutant (KCL) and Clayton Littlejohn (KCL).
The event is open to graduate students and researchers from any institution. Attendance is free but registration is required. To register fill in the form below.
Here is a pdf version of the programme.
10 Friday Mar 2017
Posted in News
The philosophy department has just extended for a few days the deadline for applying to Graduate Teaching Assistant positions in 2017-2018. The new deadline is this sunday March 12th, midnight.
01 Wednesday Mar 2017
Posted in Uncategorized
The philosophy department is hiring a permanent Lecturer in Philosophy with expertise in Logic. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a growing and lively department. Full details here.
