Friday, March 29, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 3 March

Dear all,

next week the probability reading group will take a brief detour to
look at a question about counterfactual conditionals. The reading is a
forthcoming paper by Lee Walters and Robbie Williams, "An Argument for
Conjunction Conditionalization":
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~some3090/papers/An%20Argument%20for%20Conjunction%20Conditionalization.pdf#.

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

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #6


When: Tuesday 26th March from 11-12.30

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Chakravartty, Anjan 'Six Degrees of Speculation: Metaphysics in Empirical Contexts', in B. Monton (ed.)Images of Empiricism (2007), Oxford University Press. 

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

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Science and Metaphysics RG Meeting #5


When: Tuesday 12th March from 11-12.30

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Carrie Jenkins' paper:  "Naturalistic Challenges to the A Priori" (Forthcoming in A. Casullo and J. Thurow (ed.s), The A Priori in Philosophy, Oxford University Press)

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

Monday, March 4, 2013

Metaphysics and Science Reading Group


When: Tuesday 5th of March from 11-12.30 

Where:  Benjamin Library, Coombs Building

Reading: Ladyman (2012) "Science, Metaphysics and Method" Philosophical Studies160: 31-50. 

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

Evolution RG



When: 2-3.30pm, Friday 8th March, 2013
Where: Benjamin Library (Coombs Building).
Reading: 
Dickinson (2012) "Associative Learning and Animal Cognition" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 367, 2733-2742.

Heyes (2012) "Simple minds: a qualified defence of associative learning" Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B, 367, 2695-2703. 


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

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Probability reading group: Wed 6 March

Hello,

the next meeting of the probability reading group will discuss Jamie
Dreier's (1996) "Rational Preference: Decision theory as a theory of
practical rationality":
http://www.springerlink.com/index/q54k6u2224u35102.pdf#.

We meet on Wednesday at 2pm in the Benjamin library.

Best,
wo.