Past events
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Jul
2013
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Jul
2013
Sara Bernstein (Duke): Omissions as Possibilities
Other
Abstract: Last week I watered my plant, causing it to look green and healthy. But this week I failed to water it, causing it to look brown and wilted. My watering the plant was a “positive” event, but what, exactly, was my omission to water it? Causal claims involving omissions—roughly, events that…
23
Jul
2013
Paul Bartha (UBC): Satan, Saint Peter and Saint Petersburg
Other
Abstract: Dominance reasoning is a paradigm of rationality. Intransitive preferences are a paradigm of irrationality. Yet there are cases where an infinite sequence of decisions guided by dominance reasoning leads to a situation closely analogous to having intransitive preferences…
23
Jul
2013
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Jul
2013