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Talks, conferences, workshops and seminars at the department.

Masterclass on Higher-Order Metaphysics with Andrew Bacon

20 Thursday Dec 2018

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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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Updates to the Philosophy and Visual Arts website

27 Tuesday Nov 2018

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Vanessa Brassey has led a number of written interviews on the In a Nutshell section of the site, while Sacha Golob can be seen interviewing Scottish sculptor Kenny Hunter and sculptor and performance artist Hester Reeve on video (both here).

For more about the Centre for Philosophy and the Visual Arts at King’s, check out their website at https://philosophyandvisualarts.com/

Workshop on Disagreement and Bayesian Networks, this Friday

26 Monday Nov 2018

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Friday Nov 30th: 10:00 – 16:00
King’s College London, Strand Campus, Philosophy Building, Room 508

Programme:

  • 10:00-11:00 – Julien Dutant (KCL) and Alexandru Marcoci (UNC Chapel-Hill): “Catching Peer Disagreement in Bayes’s nets“
  • 11:30-12:30 – Frederik Joakim Andersen (Copenhagen): “The epistemic significance of moral disagreement“
  • 1:30-2:30 – Josefine Lomholt Pallavicini (Copenhagen): “Hybrid defeaters in Bayes’s nets“
  • 3:00-4:00 – Klemens Kappel (Copenhagen): “Independence and higher order evidence“

Workshop co-organized by The Social Epistemology Group, University of Copenhagen and the Department of Philosophy Formal Methods group, King’s College London. The workshop will explore issues of disagreement, peer disagreement and higher-order evidence from a Bayesian perspective.

Everyone is welcome, but if you come from outside King’s you need to email Julien Dutant (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.