Friday 25th and Saturday 26th June 2010
The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science announces its Third Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability to be held at the London School of Economics.
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Keynote Speakers
Professor Dorothy Edgington (Birkbeck)
Professor Mauricio Suárez (Complutense)
Dr. Antony Eagle (University of Oxford)
Schedule
Friday 25th June
Venue: T206, Lakatos Building, LSE
09:15 - 09:30 Welcome and Introduction
09.30 - 11.00 Professor Dorothy Edgington (Birkbeck) "Estimating Conditional Chances and Evaluating Counterfactuals"
11.00 - 11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30 - 12.50 Isabel Guerra (Complutense/LSE) "On Quantum Bayesianism". Comments: Roman Frigg
12.50 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.20 Jonny Blamey (KCL) "Challenging the Assumption of Stake Size Invariance". Comments: Richard Bradley
15.20 - 16.00 Tea/Coffee
16.00 - 17.30 Professor Mauricio Suarez (Complutense) "Propensities and Pragmatism"
Saturday 26th June
Venue: T206, Lakatos Building, LSE
09.30 - 11.00 Dr. Antony Eagle (University of Oxford) "The Epistemic Significance of Agreement"
11.00 - 11.30 Tea/Coffee
11.30 - 12.50 Sylvia Wenmackers (KU Leuven) "Probability and Epistemology of Denumerable Lotteries Using Non-Standard Analysis". Comments: Jason Alexander
12.50 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.20 Julia Staffel (University of Southern California) "A New Application of Dutch Books: Measuring Degrees of Incoherence". Comments: Rory Smead
15.30 - 16.50 Chris Clarke (University of Bristol) "Why Behaviourism about Subjective Probability is Anything but Trivial". Comments: Luc Bovens
16.50 - 17:30 Tea/Coffee.
End of conference.
Financial Support
We are very grateful for financial support from:
Directions
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Venue: London School of Economics, Lakatos Building, T206.
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Directions to LSE can be found here, the LSE Campus Map is here.
Contact
Organizers: Seamus Bradley, Foad Dizadji-Bahmani and Conrad Heilmann
For further information, do not hesitate to contact Seamus:s.c.bradley at lse.ac.uk.