Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Moral and Political Philosophy - 11 May

The MPP Reading Group will be taking a short hiatus over the next two weeks and will return on Wednesday 11 May.

It will continue its discussion of On Virtue Ethics with discussion of Chapters 4 and 5: "Aristotle and Kant" and "Virtue and the Emotions. Details are, as usual:


Wednesday 11 May
2:30-3:45pm
Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Please email Jon Herington if you have not received the reading.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Probability meeting

We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 27 April 2011 in Coombs seminar room E.

We'll finish discussing the Skyrms chapter (1A) that we started last time (beginning from section 1A4, p.19 as they're marked in the document linked below); and we'll also discuss appendix 2.

Here are links to the reading:

1. Chapter 1A of Skyrms's "Causal Necessity", temporarily available here.
2. Appendix 2 of the same book, temporarily available here.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Evolution of Cognition reading group, session 8 - cancelled

Apologies for the late notice. Today's (Friday 15th April) session has been cancelled.

Foundations Meeting

The next foundations meeting will be

Tuesday 19/4, 1330 - 1530
Seminar Room D

We will finish the Stalnaker text, start looking at an exerpt from Lewis's Plurality of Worlds, and discuss measurement theory. Contact Wolfgang if you're missing some of the reading.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Probability meeting

We'll meet at 2pm on Wednesday 20 April 2011 in Coombs seminar room E to discuss:

Section 1A of Skyrms's "Causal Necessity", temporarily available here.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 8

The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 15th April, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.

The reading is chapter 9, "Generalizing Signaling Games: Synonyms, Bottlenecks, Category Formation", from Brian Skyrms' Signals. Useful additional reading on this material is Donaldson, Lachmann, Bergstrom (2007), "The evolution of functionally referential meaning in a structured world," Journal of Theoretical Biology 246: 225–233

Electronic copies of both texts are available upon request.

The group will be taking a break for a couple of weeks after that. We'll probably resume on Friday 6th May.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Foundations Meeting, Tue 12/4, 1330-1530, SR D

The next Foundations meeting will be:


Tuesday the 12th of April
1:30pm to 3:30pm
Seminar Room D.

The reading is the same as last last week: chapter 1 of Stalnaker's Inquiry. Contact Wolfgang if you need a copy of the reading.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Moral and Political Philosophy - 13 April

The MPP Reading Group will continue its discussion of On Virtue Ethics with discussion of Chapter 2: "Resolvable Dilemmas". Details are as follows:

Wednesday 6 April
2:30-3:45pm
Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Please email Jon Herington if you have not received the reading.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Evolution of Cognition reading group, meeting 7

The next meeting of the Evolution of Cognition reading group is Friday 8th April, 2:30 PM, Seminar Rm F.

The reading is chapters 7 & 8, "Learning" & "Learning in Lewis Signaling Games", from Brian Skyrms' Signals.

Electronic copies are available upon request.

Contact: Stephan Kubicki (stephan.kubicki{at}anu.edu.au)

Moral and Political Philosophy - 6 April

Tomorrow the MPP Reading Group starts On Virtue Ethics. The First chapter will be the focus of discussion, with the introduction being assumed reading. Details are as follows:

Wednesday 6 April
2:30-3:45pm
Seminar Room F, Coombs Building

Monday, April 4, 2011

Foundations Meeting

The Foundations Reading Group on mental representation will be lead by Wolfgang for the next few weeks, on the topic of pragmatic theories of intentionality.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday the 5th of April. The reading is chapter 1, of Stalnaker's Inquiry. Please contact Wolfgang to obtain a copy of the reading. We're asked to read at least up until the top of p 17.