Hume’s Law and Other Barriers to Entailment - Gillian Russell (Australian Catholic University)
Seminar
On Thursday 24 March, Gillian Russell will present on "Hume’s Law and Other Barriers to Entailment". Abstract: This paper looks at how to prove Hume’s law as one of a number of interrelated barriers to entailment and in particular what to make of proposed counterexamples that require complex…
CMSPT Seminar Series 2021 and 2022
Seminar
Each seminar will be a one-hour discussion of a precirculated paper, with the discussion group convening in 6.71 and the author virtually present on Zoom through a screen in the room. Authors will send us their paper one week before the session. 2022 seminars: 11 Feb - Leif Wenar (Stanford…
Alan Hájek (ANU) - Would Work
Seminar
This Friday, June 25th, Alan Hájek (ANU) will present on "'Would' Work". Abstract: I have long argued that most counterfactuals are false. The chanciness of most counterfactuals’ consequents, and the unspecificity of their antecedents, entail their falsehood. A…
Mario Günther (ANU) - "Probabilities of Conditionals and Imaged Probabilities"
Seminar
This Friday, June 18th, Mario Günther (ANU) will present on "Probabilities of Conditionals and Imaged Probabilities". Abstract: Probabilities of conditionals are conditional probabilities. This equation has the ring of truth. And yet, Lewis has proven it to be false---trivial cases aside. We show…
PhilSoc: Ross Pain - "Stone tools, predictive processing and the evolution of language”
Seminar
Date and time: 25/05/21, 15:30-17:00 Location: RSSS 6.71 Zoom link: https://anu.zoom.us/j/89376839319?pwd=ZkFCMXNlQjN6N3dORkpXQytYNTA3UT09 Abstract: In this talk I argue that making stone tools was an important precursor to the evolution of language. Recent experimental work suggests a…
Seth Lazar (ANU) - "Legitimacy, Authority, and the Political Value of Explanations"
Seminar
This Friday, May 14th, Seth Lazar (ANU) will present on "Legitimacy, Authority, and the Political Value of Explanations". Abstract: As rapid advances in Artificial Intelligence and the rise of some of history's most potent corporations meet the diminished…