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Rationality and Formal methods research seminars 2019

10 Thursday Jan 2019

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The Rationality and Formal Methods Group run guest speakers series at the same time slot. The guest speakers for winter and spring 2019 are as follows. (“FM” and “R” indicate talks organised by the formal methods and rationality groups, respectively.)

Winter 2019

Fri Jan 18th Georgi Gardiner (Oxford) (R)
Fri Feb 1st Johannes Stern (Bristol) (FM)
Fri March 1st Corinne Besson (Sussex) (FM)
Fri March 8th Lavinia Picollo (UCL) (FM)
Fri March 15th Michael Hannon (Nottingham) (R)
Fri March 22st Nick Hughes (Durham / Oxford) (R)
Fri March 29th Louise Hanson (Durham) (R)

Spring 2019

Fri May 17th James Studd (Oxford) (FM)
Fri May 24th Balthasar Grabmayr (Jerusalem) (FM)

The talks take place on Fridays 3:00-5:00, 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.

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.

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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

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.

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.

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.