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Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz): “Truth and Rationality”
9 May 2013, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Lakatos Award Lecture
Truth and Rationality
Speaker: Wolfgang Spohn (University of Konstanz)
Chair: Richard Bradley (LSE)
Thursday 9 May; from 6 pm
Hong Kong Theatre; Clement House; LSE
Drawing on his Lakatos Award winning book The Laws of Belief; Wolfgang Spohn asks how is truth best characterised? And what are the relationships between truth and what it is rational to believe?
Wolfgang Spohn is chair in philosophy and philosophy of science at the University of Konstanz.