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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.

King’s History of Philosophy Seminar

18 Tuesday Sep 2018

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[Updated] The KHOPS schedule for this year is as follows:

Semester 1
October 26th – Mogens Laerke (CNRS, Paris), On Spinoza – K0.19, Strand Campus, King’s College London
November 16th – Susanne Sreedhar (Boston University), On Hobbes – Rm 405, Philosophy Building, Stand Campus, King’s College London
December 7th -Anastaisa Berg (Cambridge) – On Kant – Small Committee Room, Strand Campus, King’s College London
Semester 2
January 25th – Julia Borcherding (Cambridge) – On Conway –  Rm 405, Philosophy Building, King’s College London
February 15th – Jeremy Dunham (Durham) – On James – Small Committee Room, Strand Campus, King’s College London
March 29th – Eric Watkins (UC San Diego) – On Kant – Small Committee Room, Strand Campus, King’s College London

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Art and Philosophy at Tate Britain

25 Wednesday Apr 2018

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Sacha Golob, Vanessa Brassey and Emma Syea will be leading a series of art/philosophy discussions at Tate Britain over the summer in response to their hugely popular All Too Human show (Bacon, Freud, Rego, Souza and others).

The first event features Amalia Ulman, described by the Telegraph as having created the first ever ‘Instagram masterpiece’, the philosopher Timothy Secret and the Bacon specialist Katharina Guenther:

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN: THE GAZE
12 May 2018
13:00-15:00 and 15:30-17:30
(full details and bookings)

Masterclass on Probabilistic Knowledge with Sarah Moss

22 Thursday Feb 2018

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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).

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Formal Methods Seminar: The Logic of Justification

05 Monday Feb 2018

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Thu Feb 8th, 14:00-16:00
Philosophy building, room 508
King’s College London

Sven Rosenkranz (LOGOS, ICREA, U Barcelona), will give a talk titled “The Logic of Justification – Reloaded” at the Formal Methods research seminar, King’s College London, this Thursday 2-4pm. Open to all graduates and scholars interested. Please sign in as a visitor at the entrance, follow the signs to the Philosophy building, follow the signs to the philosophy office, room 508 is just right of the office.

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Paul Egré at the Formal Methods seminar

23 Tuesday Jan 2018

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Paul Egré (CNRS, Paris, http://paulegre.free.fr/) will give a talk on:

“Vagueness and Moving Thresholds” (joint work with Steven Verheyen)

Thursday 25th, 14:00-16:00
Room 508 (Philosophy building).

All are welcome. If you are not from King’s, simply sign in and follow the signs to the philosophy building and then room 508 (you may need to ask your way around).

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Formal methods research seminar 2017-18

15 Monday Jan 2018

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

Thu 26 Oct – Davide Fassio (KCL / Zhejiang )
Thu 23 Nov – Peter Brössel (Rhur-University Bochum)
Thu 25 Jan – Paul Egré (Jean Nicod, Paris)
Thu 8 Feb – Sven Rosencranz (LOGOS, Barcelona)
Thu 1 Mar – Julien Dutant (KCL)
Thu 1 Mar – Tim Smartt (Sydney)
Thu 24 May – Corine Besson (Sussex, Royal Institute of Philosophy)

The seminar takes place on Thursdays 2-4, in room 508, Philosophy Building. It is open to students and researchers from outside KCL. Please contact Julien Dutant for directions and to make sure you are granted access to the building.

King’s History of Philosophy Seminar (KHOPS) — 2017/18

03 Friday Nov 2017

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King’s History of Philosophy Seminar will meet regularly through the academic year at King’s College London.  The Seminar aims to promote discussion of methods and approaches to the History of Philosophy as well as of thinkers and topics within the tradition.  We wish to encourage contextual and interdisciplinary perspectives, and welcome researchers in disciplines such as History, Theology, and Political Theory as well as Philosophy.  Meetings take place on Fridays from 11am to 1pm.  All welcome. For inquiries contact John Callanan (john.callanan@kcl.ac.uk or Clare Carlisle (clare.carlisle@kcl.ac.uk).

 

KHOPS 2017-18 Schedule

 

November 10th 2017 (K2.41, King’s Building) – Niall O’Flaherty (KCL), On Malthus.

December 1st 2017 (K2.41, King’s Building)  – David McNaughton (Edinburgh), On Joseph Butler.

February 16th 2018 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building)– Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), On Spinoza.

March 23rd 2018 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building)–- Sharon Kirshek (Tel Aviv), On Kierkegaard.

April 27th 2081 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building) – Christopher Insole (Durham), On Kant.

May 25th 2018 (Small Committee Room, King’s Building) – Emily Thomas (Durham), On May Sinclair.

Guardian Masterclass: Understanding personal identity with Professor Bill Brewer

22 Friday Sep 2017

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“From Descartes and Locke to philosophers of the present day, learn how great thinkers can help you to understand who you are.”

Professor Bill Brewer hosted this masterclass on 12 September at The Guardian headquarters. More philosophy masterclasses by King’s philosophers can be expected in the future.

London Conference: Post-Kantian Receptions of the Enlightenment — 30 August

31 Monday Jul 2017

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Announcing a one-day London based workshop on “Post-Kantian receptions of the Enlightenment”.

August 30, 2017: 9:00 — 18:00

Senate House, University of London.

Registration required by 10 August by email to Alexis Papazoglou: alexis.papazoglou@rhul.ac.uk 

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