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Third LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability

 

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:

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Directions

  • Venue: London School of Economics, Lakatos Building, T206.
  • 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.

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