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Formal methods research seminar 2018-19

03 Saturday Nov 2018

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The Formal Methods Group runs a guest speaker series. The guest speakers for 2017-18 are as follows:

Autumn 2018

Fri Oct 12th – Seamus Bradley (Leeds): “Belief models, aggregation and impossibility”
Fri Nov 9th – Weng Hong Tang (NUS): “Reliabilism and Imprecise Credences”
Fri Nov 16th – Nilanjan Das (UCL): “Externalism and Exploitability”

Winter 2019

Fri Feb 1st Johannes Stern (Bristol)
Fri March 1st Corinne Besson (Sussex)
Fri March 8th Lavinia Picollo (UCL)

Spring 2019

Fri May 17th James Studd (Oxford)

The talks take place on Fridays 14:00-16:00, 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.

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.

David Papineau’s recommended books on Philosophy and Sport

09 Monday Jul 2018

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Five Books interviews David Papineau on his recommended readings on Philosophy and Sport. Of course, David has recently published his own work on the topic, Knowing the Score (2017), but here are his other picks:

  1. The Grasshopper by Bernard Suits
  2. Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace
  3. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
  4. Basil D’Oliviera: Cricket and Controversy by Peter Oborne
  5. Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby

The whole interview can be read here.

Sarah Fine’s work on borders features in The New Yorker

05 Thursday Jul 2018

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The fraught political debate on immigration in the United States has led some commentators to look beyond orthodox positions and tired slogans. There is an increasing desire to question presuppositions on the topic, and re-examine the fundamental ethical principles that underlie existing policies.

In this context, Sarah Fine’s work on the right to exclude (explanatory podcast) has influenced one argument in The New Yorker explicitly in favour of open borders. Is political philosophy starting to make its way into political discourse and practice once more?

MM McCabe in conversation

07 Thursday Jun 2018

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MM has recently spoken at length with the Los Angeles Review of Books on the themes of her recent book, Platonic Conversations.

And she also has some insights into reading gleaned from the decades of reading ancient philosophy for The Reading List – as well as confessing to the the crime of marginalia writing!

Both interviews are well worth a read.

Colleagues in the Times Literary Supplement

02 Saturday Jun 2018

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The latest edition of the Times Literary Supplement features two of our colleagues:

The rest of this edition of the TLS can be found here.