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Nilanjan Das at the Formal Methods seminar this Friday

12 Monday Nov 2018

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Nilanjan Das (University College London) will present at the Formal Methods this Friday, November 16th, on:

Externalism and Exploitability

Abstract: According to Bayesian orthodoxy, an agent should update – or at least should plan to update – her credences by conditionalization. Some have defended this claim by means of a diachronic Dutch book argument. They say: an agent who doesn’t plan to update her credences by conditionalization makes herself vulnerable (by her own lights) to a diachronic Dutch book, i.e., a sequence of bets which, when accepted, pose a risk of monetary loss without any possibility of monetary gain. Here, I will argue that this argument is in tension with an attractive conception of evidence: namely, evidence externalism, i.e., the view that an agent’s evidence can entail non-trivial propositions about the external world.

Room 508, Philosophy Building, Strand Campus
14:00 – 16:00

Weng Hong Tang at the Formal Methods seminar this Friday

05 Monday Nov 2018

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Weng Hong Tang (National University of Singapore) will present at the Formal Methods this Friday, November 9th, on:

Reliabilism and Imprecise Credences

Abstract: According to the process reliabilist, a belief is justified if and only if it is produced (or sustained) by a reliable process or system of processes—that is, one that tends to produce a high ratio of true to false beliefs. Given, however, that beliefs are not merely all-or-nothing—given that they come in degrees—a natural question arises as to how the reliabilist may account for justified degrees of belief or credences. Unlike all-or-nothing beliefs, credences do not in general admit of truth or falsity. But like all-or-nothing beliefs, they may be justified or unjustified. Recently, reliabilist accounts of justified credences have been put forward by Dunn (2015), Tang (2016), and Pettigrew (forthcoming). But such accounts focus on precise credences. In this talk, I explore how the reliabilist may deal with imprecise credences.

Room 508, Philosophy Building, Strand Campus
14:00 – 16:00

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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Clayton Littlejohn and Julien Dutant on Reasonable Doubt

02 Tuesday May 2017

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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.

Epistemic Utility Theory Masterclass with Richard Pettigrew

04 Tuesday Apr 2017

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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.

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Knowledge First Philosophy of Mind

09 Thursday Mar 2017

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– A new Templeton Funded research project led by Matthew Parrott (KCL) and Anil Gomes (Oxford) which will involve seminars exploring different ways in which central topics in the epistemology of mind can be brought to bear on questions concerning the nature of mind.  These will prepare the groundwork for a two-day international conference on the metaphysical implications of the epistemology of mind. Philosophical study of the mind has too long ignored epistemological considerations. The primary aim in this project is to explore an epistemology-first approach to understanding the nature of the mind.

The first seminar will be on 8 May.

The website of the entire project can be found here.

Epistemology at King’s

26 Thursday Jan 2017

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King’s College London is one of the top 5 research centres for philosophy in the country. One of its particular strengths is in Epistemology. For the past few years, we’ve been running a fortnightly normativity seminar. This seminar provides the opportunity to discuss recent research in epistemology and ethical theory done by visiting speakers and members of our staff. We’ve also made an impressive number of junior and senior appointments that have strengthened this particular area.

Maria Alvarez, Maria Rosa Antognazza, Bill Brewer, John Callanan, Julien Dutant, Ellen Fridland, David Galloway, Sacha Golob, Clayton Littlejohn, Eliot Michaelson, David Owens, David Papineau, Matthew Parrott, Shaul Tor, Sherri Roush, Matthew Soteriou, and Shaul Tor have all recently published work in epistemology. This work covers a wide range of topics (e.g., traditional epistemological problems, discussions of epistemology in the history of philosophy, issues at the interface of epistemology and philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and practical reason). Because of this overlap of interests, King’s has become a fantastic place to do epistemology.

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