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Second LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability

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Supported by the British Society for the Philosophy of Science| and the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the LSE

Draft Programme

Monday, 8th June 

10.15 Welcome and Introduction (Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Conrad Heilmann)
10.30 Keynote Speaker: Alan Hájek (ANU) All Values Great and Small
  Chair: Conrad Heilmann (LSE)
12.00 Lunch
13.30 Daniel Greco (MIT) Significance Testing in Theory and Practice
  Comment: Brendan Clarke (UCL)
  Chair: David Makinson (LSE)
14.20 Tea/Coffee Break
14.40 Moritz Schulz (Humboldt Universität Berlin) What Should I Believe?
  Comment: Ittay Nissan (LSE)
  Chair: Arhat Virdi (LSE)
15.30 Tea/Coffee Break
15.50 Bengt Autzen (LSE) Bayesianism and the Principal Principle
  Comment: Wolfgang Pietsch (Technische Universität München)
  Chair: Charlotte Werndl (Cambridge)
16.40 Tea/Coffee--end of day 1.

 

  British Society for Philosophy of Science (BSPS) event|
  17.15 Harvey Brown (Oxford) BSPS Presidential Address

Tuesday, 9th June

10.30 Alastair Wilson (Oxford) Contextual Admissibility, Deterministic Chance, and Counterfactuals
  Comment: Luke Glynn (Oxford)
  Chair: Roman Frigg (LSE)
11.20 Tea/Coffee Break
11.40 Owen Rees (Bristol) An Investigation into the Validity of the Dutch Book Argument
  Comment: Jonny Blamey (KCL)
  Chair: Matt Parker (LSE)
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Seamus Bradley (LSE) Against Probabilism
  Comment: Iñaki San Pedro (Universidad Complutense Madrid)
  Chair: Richard Bradley (LSE)
14.50 Tea/Coffee Break
15.30 Panel: "Risk and Probability in Philosophy of Public Policy", chaired by Luc Bovens (LSE).
  Keynote speakers: Katie Steele (LSE), Jonathan Wolff (UCL)
17.00 Drinks at George IV--conference ends.

Directions

  • Venue: London School of Economics, New Academic Building (building NAB on the LSE campus map). All talks will be in Wolfson Theatre, NABLG01.
  • Directions to LSE can be found here, the LSE Campus Map is here.

Contact

For further information, do not hesitate to contact Foad: f.dizadji-bahmani@lse.ac.uk|

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