First LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability

Friday 27th - Saturday 28th June 2008

Please find details of the Philosophy of Probability Graduate Conference, 2008 below. Registration is now closed. Lunch and tea/coffee will be provided on both days for registered attendees.

The conference has been made possible through the generous support of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science| and the Roberts Researcher Development Fund| and the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE|.

We look forward to meeting you at the conference!

Schedule

Friday 27th June
9.00 - 9.45	Registration and Welcoming
9.45 - 10.00	Introduction
10.00 - 11.30	Professor Donald Gillies (UCL) "Bayesian versus Classical Statistics and the Theory of Bayesian Networks"
	Chair: Arhat Virdi
11.30 - 12.00	Tea/Coffee Break
12.00 - 12.45	Luke Glynn (Oxford) "Deterministic Chance"
	Chair: Prof. Mauricio Suarez
12.45 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.45	Isabel Guerra (Universidad Complutense Madrid) "On Quantum Conditionality"
	Chair: Foad Dizadji-Bahmani
15.00 - 15.45	Wolfgang Pietsch (Technische Universität München) "The Epistemic and the Subjective in Probability"
	Chair: Dr. Roman Frigg
15.45 - 16.30	Tea/Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.15	Eric Raidl (IHPST, Paris) "Rehabilitating Classical Probability"
	Chair: Arhat Virdi
17.30 - 19.00	Professor David Makinson (LSE) "Why Logicians should be more interested in Probability"
	Chair: Foad Dizadji-Bahmani
Saturday 28th June
10.00 - 10.45	Lorenzo Cassini (Kent) "Fetzer's Solution to the Reference Class Problem"
	Chair: Arhat Virdi
11.00 - 11.45	Ittay Nissan (LSE) "Objective Interpretations of Probability in Game Theory and Decision Theory"
	Chair: Dr. Matt Parker
11.45 - 12.15	Tea/Coffee Break
12.15 - 13.00	Luigi Gobbi (Bristol) "Contra Scotching Dutch Books"
	Chair: Conrad Heilmann
13.00 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	Dr Jon Williamson (Kent) "In Defence of Objective Bayesianism"
	Chair: Stanislav Larski
15.30 - 16.00	Tea/Coffee and Farewell