Apr 12 - TBC
Seminar
Speaker TBC 12–1PM 12 APRIL 2023 Location: RSSS room 6.71 or online via this Zoom link Paper title, details for accessing the paper and session details will be circulated through the Philsoc-l mailing list, which you can subscribe to here.
A Life Hack with a Future - Elijah Millgram (University of Utah)
Seminar
Speaker: Elijah Millgram Personal identity - what it takes to be the same person over time - is best understood from what Dennett called the design stance. Rather than pursue traditional conceptual analysis - a list of necessary and sufficient conditions for being who you…
Amnesia and the Ordinary Conception of Time - Carl Craver (WUSTL)
Seminar
Speaker: Carl Craver The thesis that the “ordinary conception of time” requires the capacity for episodic memory is common in neuroscience and philosophy alike. In neuropsychology, this thesis is expressed in the contrapositive thesis that people with episodic amnesia are “trapped…
Practical Reason and Permissible Preference - Joe Horton (UCL)
Seminar
Speaker: Joe Horton How should you choose when you do not know how to evaluate your options? Suppose, for example, that a consequentialist theory evaluates your options one way, a deontological theory evaluates them another way, and you do not know which of these theories is correct…
21 Mar - TBC
Seminar
Almost all of our reasoning is *defeasible*: that is, our inferences go through only other things equal, and there are always more of them -- the list of things that might go wrong is open-ended, and doesn't run out. Most work on defeasibility (or non-monotonic reasoning, if you're in…
Bounded Utilities and Ex Ante Pareto - Petra Kosonen (UT Austin)
Seminar
Speaker: Petra Kosonen This talk shows that decision theories on which utilities are bounded, such as standard axiomatizations of Expected Utility Theory, violate Ex Ante Pareto if combined with an additive axiology, such as Total Utilitarianism. A series of impossibility theorems…
Bounded Utilities and Ex Ante Pareto
Seminar
This talk shows that decision theories on which utilities are bounded, such as standard axiomatizations of Expected Utility Theory, violate Ex Ante Pareto if combined with an additive axiology, such as Total Utilitarianism. A series of impossibility theorems point toward Total…