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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.

Necessary Beings: A Conference in Memory of Bob Hale

01 Monday Oct 2018

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A two-day conference in memory of Bob Hale will be taking place at the Institute of Philosophy this month (15th and 16th October).

The full schedule can be found here.

Bob was a visiting professor at KCL and at Birkbeck and was an active member of the London philosophy scene over the past few years.

There will also be a book coming out in Bob’s honour, co-edited by Jessica Leech.

London Mind Group

24 Monday Sep 2018

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The first meeting of the London Mind Group will take place in Senate House on the 11th October 4-6pm. Matthew Crosby (Imperial) is speaking.

From the London Mind Group website:

“We are an intercollegiate University of London group featuring read-ahead meetings where postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers can share their work. Once each academic term we also host an invited guest for a more traditional, non-read-ahead meeting.”

The full schedule for the 2018/19 academic year can be found here.

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

Click here for more details.

 

Publications

18 Tuesday Sep 2018

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Congratulations to King’s Philosophy PhD student, Jake Wojtowicz, on the publication of his paper ‘Bernard Williams on Regarding One’s Own Action Purely Externally’ in the Journal of the American Philosophical Association.

Congratulations to Alex Franklin and Eleanor Knox on the publication their paper ‘Emergence without limits: The case of phonons’ in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. 

And congratulations to Alex Franklin on his paper ‘Whence the Effectiveness of Effective Field Theories?’, which is forthcoming in the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.