WORKSHOP: PHILOSOPHICAL PROGRESS
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The program for this week's ANU workshop on Philosophical Progress is now available. The workshop will be held on Thursday July 3 and Friday July 4 in the Innovations Lecture Theatre (in the Innovations Building off Garran Road near University House). The workshop is organized by…
Reuben Stern (UW Madison): Decision and Intervention
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In their 1994 paper, “Conditioning and Intervening,” Christopher Meek and Clark Glymour use the interventionist approach to causal modeling to articulate a novel way of understanding the rift between causal decision theorists and evidential decision theorists. Specifically, they claim that we can…
Aidan Lyon (Maryland/MCMP/Melbourne): Collective Wisdom
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Recently there as been a surge of interest by researchers in the so-called wisdom of crowds (WoC) effect. Roughly speaking, the WoC effect occurs when a group of people, as a collective, perform some task much better than the individuals in the group. As exciting as examples of the WoC effect are…
Ryan Cox (ANU): ‘Because’ and ‘Why’ in Context
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How does rational explanation—the explanation of actions and attitudes in terms of an agent’s reasons—relate to other kinds of explanation? Is it just like other kinds of explanation? Is it fundamentally unlike other kinds of explanation? One way to make progress on these questions is by getting…