Probability reading group Wed 24 April

Hi all,

Antony Eagle will be here this week and we honour his visit by
discussing his (surveyish) paper "Probability and randomness",
temporarily to be found here:
http://umsu.de/temp/eagle-randomness.pdf#.

Wednesday 24 April 1.30 pm (yes, 1.30), Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #10

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #10

When: Tuesday April 23rd from 11-12.30

Where: Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

This week we continue our discussion of Daniel Nolan's paper "Platitudes and Metaphysics" from Braddon-Mitchell, D. and Nola, R. (eds) (2009) Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.


Please contact Rachael Brown for photocopies if you do not have access to the book.

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #9

When: Tuesday April 16th from 11-12.30

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

This week we will be reading more from Braddon-Mitchell, D. and Nola, R. (eds) (2009) Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism. MIT Press, Cambridge MA. Please read:

Chapter 1: Braddon-Mitchell and Nola "Introducing the Canberra Plan"  and Chapter 12: Nolan "Platitudes and Metaphysics"  (particularly parts 1 and 2)

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)

Probability Reading Group: Wed 17 April

Dear all,

the next meeting of the probability reading group will look at Richard
Bradley's paper "Ramsey and the Measurement of Belief":
http://personal.lse.ac.uk/bradleyr/pdf/Ramsey.Gillies.pdf#. We meet on
Wednesday at 2pm (yes 2pm, not 1pm) in the Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.

Evolution RG

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2.30PM, Friday 12th April in the Benjamin Library, Coombs Building, ANU. 

Reading:

Dickins & Barton (forthcoming) "Reciprocal causation and the proximate–ultimate distinction"Biology & Philosophy, online first.

Contact: rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au

Probability Reading Group: Wed 10 April

Dear all,

next week, we will discuss "Representation Theorems and the
Foundations of Decision Theory" by Chris Meacham and Jonathan
Weisberg: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2010.510529

See you on Wednesday at 1pm in the Benjamin library!

Best,
wo.

Evolution RG

The next meeting of the Evolution Reading Group is 2.30PM, Friday 5th April in the Benjamin Library, Coombs Building, ANU. 

Over the coming month or so we will be discussing the usefulness of Mayr's proximate-ultimate distinction. We will begin with:

KN Laland, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt & T Uller (2012) "More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited" Biology and Philosophy 

(NB: the arguments in this paper expand upon those in a paper discussed by the group at an earlier meeting:  KN Laland, K Sterelny, J Odling-Smee, W Hoppitt and T Uller (2011) Cause and effect in biology revisited: Is Mayr's proximate-ultimate dichotomy still useful? Science 334: 1512-1516.)

In future weeks we will move on to discuss the responses to these papers.

Contact: Rachael (rachael.brown{at}anu.edu.au)