MCMP – Epistemology
By MCMP Team
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Description
Mathematical Philosophy - the application of logical and mathematical methods in philosophy - is about to experience a tremendous boom in various areas of philosophy. At the new Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, which is funded mostly by the German Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, philosophical research will be carried out mathematically, that is, by means of methods that are very close to those used by the scientists. The purpose of doing philosophy in this way is not to reduce philosophy to mathematics or to natural science in any sense; rather mathematics is applied in order to derive philosophical conclusions from philosophical assumptions, just as in physics mathematical methods are used to derive physical predictions from physical laws. Nor is the idea of mathematical philosophy to dismiss any of the ancient questions of philosophy as irrelevant or senseless: although modern mathematical philosophy owes a lot to the heritage of the Vienna and Berlin Circles of Logical Empiricism, unlike the Logical Empiricists most mathematical philosophers today are driven by the same traditional questions about truth, knowledge, rationality, the nature of objects, morality, and the like, which were driving the classical philosophers, and no area of traditional philosophy is taken to be intrinsically misguided or confused anymore. It is just that some of the traditional questions of philosophy can be made much clearer and much more precise in logical-mathematical terms, for some of these questions answers can be given by means of mathematical proofs or models, and on this basis new and more concrete philosophical questions emerge. This may then lead to philosophical progress, and ultimately that is the goal of the Center.
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| 1 | VideoDisagreement and Epistemic Modality | Elke Brendel (Bonn) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (17 June, 2015) titled "Disagreement and Epistemic Modality". Abstract: Intuitively, the truth conditions of sentences with epistemic modals, such as “It might be that p”, depend on what is epi | 6/29/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoA Pragmatic Vindication of Epistemic Utility Theory | Ben Levinstein (Oxford) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (6 May, 2015) titled "A Pragmatic Vindication of Epistemic Utility Theory". Abstract: Traditionally, probabilism and other norms on partial belief have been motivated from a pragmatic point of | 5/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoAn Axiomatization of Individual and Social Updates | Denis Bonnay (Paris Quest/IHPST) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (30 April, 2015) titled "An Axiomatization of Individual and Social Updates". Abstract: In this talk, I will consider update rules, which an agent may follow in order to update her sub | 5/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoNew Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles | Greg Gandenberger (Pittsburgh) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (22 April, 2015) titled "New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles". Abstract: The Likelihood Principle is important because the frequentist statistical | 5/4/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoAgent-based Models and Confirmation Theory | Michael Weisberg (Pennsylvania) gives a talk at the Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy (11-13 December, 2014) titled "Agent-based Models and Confirmation Theory". Abstract: Is it possible to develop a confirmation theory for agent-based mo | 1/28/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoThe Formation of Epistemic Networks | Kevin Zollman (CMU) gives a talk at the Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy (11-13 December, 2014) titled "The Formation of Epistemic Networks". Abstract: One important area of study for social epistemology is the social structure epistemic | 1/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoCollective Accuracy: Agent Based & Emergent vs Statistical and Assumed | Scott Page (Michigan) gives a talk at the Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy (11-13 December, 2014) titled "Collective Accuracy: Agent Based & Emergent vs Statistical and Assumed". Abstract: In this talk, I describe two broad classes of mo | 1/8/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 8 | VideoI Believe I don't Believe. (And So Can You!) | Aidan Lyon (Maryland, MCMP) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (13 November, 2014) titled "I Believe I don't Believe. (And So Can You!)". Abstract: Contemporary epistemology offers us two very different accounts of our epistemic lives. According to Tra | 12/2/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 9 | VideoThe Principal Principle implies the Principle of Indifference | Jon Williamson (Kent) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (8 October, 2014) titled "The Principal Principle implies the Principle of Indifference". Abstract: I'll argue that David Lewis' Principal Principle implies a version of the Principle of Indiffer | 10/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 10 | VideoBelief vs Probability | Branden Fitelson (Rutgers) meets Hannes Leitgeb (MCMP/LMU) in a joint session on "Belief vs Probability" at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Sept, 2014, German House, New York City). The 2-day trans-continental meeting in mathematical philosoph | 9/11/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 11 | VideoBridging the Gap between Informal and Formal Social Epistemology | Alvin I. Goldman (Rutgers) meets Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU) in a joint session on "Bridging the Gap between Informal and Formal Social Epistemology" at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Sept, 2014, German House, New York City). The 2-day trans- | 9/3/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 12 | VideoCoherence | Branden Fitelson (Rutgers) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 July, 2014) titled "Coherence". | 8/6/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 13 | VideoImprecise (Full Conditional) Probabilities, Graphs and Graphoids Independence Assumptions | Fabio G. Cozman (Sao Paulo) gives a talk at the Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy (27-28 June, 2014) titled "Imprecise (Full Conditional) Probabilities, Graphs and Graphoids Independence Assumptions". Abstract: Research in | 6/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 14 | VideoImprecise Priors as Expressions of Epistemic Values | Jim Joyce (Michigan) gives a talk at the Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy (27-28 June, 2014) titled "Imprecise Priors as Expressions of Epistemic Values". Abstract: As is well known, imprecise prior probabilities can help | 6/30/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 15 | VideoDominance and Elicitation in IP Theory | Teddy Seidenfeld (CMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy (27-28 June, 2014) titled "Dominance and Elicitation in IP Theory". Abstract: I review de Finettis two coherence criteria for determinate probabi | 6/27/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 16 | VideoFast, Frugal and Focused: When less information leads to better decisions | Gregory Wheeler (MCMP) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (25 June, 2014) titled "Fast, Frugal and Focused: When less information leads to better decisions". Abstract: People frequently do not abide by the total evidence norm of classical Bayesian rati | 6/26/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 17 | VideoEpistemic Landscapes and Optimal Search | Jason McKenzie (LSE) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (30 April, 2014) titled "Epistemic Landscapes and Optimal Search". Abstract: In a paper from 2009, Michael Weisberg and Ryan Muldoon argue that there exist epistemic reasons for the division of co | 5/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 18 | VideoStructure Induction in Diagnostic Causal Reasoning | Michael R. Waldmann (Göttingen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (23 April, 2014) titled "Structure Induction in Diagnostic Causal Reasoning". Abstract: Our research examines the normative and descriptive adequacy of alternative computational models | 4/24/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 19 | VideoModels of rationality and the psychology of reasoning (From is to ought, and back) | Vincenzo Crupi (Turin) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 April, 2014) titled "Models of rationality and the psychology of reasoning (From is to ought, and back)". Abstract: Diagnoses of (ir)rationality often arise from the experimental investigati | 4/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 20 | VideoEpistemically Detrimental Dissent and the Milian Argument against the Freedom of Inquiry | Anna Leuschner (KIT) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (9 April, 2014) titled "Epistemically Detrimental Dissent and the Milian Argument against the Freedom of Inquiry". Abstract: I'll present a joint work that I have been conducting with Justin Biddl | 4/14/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 21 | VideoSleeping Beauty in Quantumland | Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (10 February, 2014) titled "Sleeping Beauty in Quantumland". Abstract: A recent philosophical controversy in the analysis of the probability puzzle about Sleeping Beauty is presented. The issue | 2/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 22 | VideoUnderstanding epistemic grouping, networking and division of labour: What can simple macroscopic models do? | Rainer Hegelmann (Bayreuth) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (15 January, 2014) titled "Understanding epistemic grouping, networking and division of labour: What can simple macroscopic models do?". Abstract: In my talk I’ll start with a minimalisti | 2/20/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 23 | VideoVague Desire: The Sorites and the Money Pump | David Etlin (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (21 November, 2013) titled "Vague Desire: The Sorites and the Money Pump". Abstract: The similarity between the sorites paradox of vagueness and the money pump of decision theory has been noted | 11/22/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 24 | VideoMeasuring Overconfidence with Imprecise Probabilities & The Wisdom of Collective Credences | Aidan Lyon (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (6 November, 2013) titled "Measuring Overconfidence with Imprecise Probabilities & The Wisdom of Collective Credences". Abstract: What explains the Wisdom of Crowds effect? Page (2008) has made s | 11/17/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 25 | VideoEmpiricism, Probability, and Knowledge of Arithmetic | Sean Walsh (Irvine) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Empiricism, Probability, and Knowledge of Arithmetic". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 26 | VideoGreat Expectations. Strictly Coherent Preferences, No Holds Barred | Arthur Paul Pedersen (Max Planck Institut for Human Development) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Great Expectations. Strictly Coherent Preferences, No Holds Barred". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 27 | VideoTowards Classifying Propositional Probabilistic Logics | Glauber de Bona (Sao Paulo) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Towards Classifying Propositional Probabilistic Logics". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 28 | VideoStochastic Lambda-Calculi | Dana Scott (CMU Pittsburgh and Berkeley) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Stochastic Lambda-Calculi". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 29 | VideoObjective Bayesian epistemology for inductive logic on predicate languages | Jon Williamson and Jürgen Landes (University of Kent) give a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Objective Bayesian epistemology for inductive logic on predicate languages". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 30 | VideoAn application of Carnapian inductive logic to philosophy of statistics | Teddy Groves (University of Kent) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "An application of Carnapian inductive logic to philosophy of statistics". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 31 | VideoAcceptance without Certainty or Stability | Kevin T. Kelly (CMU Pittsburgh) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Acceptance without Certainty or Stability". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 32 | VideoThe Humean Thesis on Belief. Belief and Stable Probability | Hannes Leitgeb (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "The Humean Thesis on Belief. Belief and Stable Probability". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 33 | VideoQuantifying over events in probability logic: expressibility vs. computability | Stanislav O. Speranski (Novosibirsk State University) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Quantifying over events in probability logic: expressibility vs. computability". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 34 | VideoComparing Degrees of Incoherence | Liam Kofi Bright (CMU Pittsburgh) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Comparing Degrees of Incoherence". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 35 | VideoThe logical structure of de Finetti's notion of event | Hykel Hosni (CPNSS) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "The logical structure of de Finetti's notion of event". | 10/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 36 | VideoExternalism, Internalism, and the KK Principle | Alexander Bird (Bristol) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (24 July, 2013) titled "Externalism, Internalism, and the KK Principle". Abstract: The KK principle states that if a subject knows some fact then she is in a position to know that she knows th | 7/25/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 37 | VideoIs There Anything Besides Me? | C. Ulises Moulines (LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "New Perspectives on External World Scepticism" (9-10 July, 2013) titled "Is There Anything Besides Me?". Abstract: The question “Is there anything besides me?” appears to be a most basic ph | 7/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 38 | VideoImmediate justification, bootstrapping and cognitive penetrability | Berit Brogaard (St. Louis) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "New Perspectives on External World Scepticism" (9-10 July, 2013) titled "Immediate justification, bootstrapping and cognitive penetrability". Abstract: I argue that dogmatism offers an adequa | 7/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 39 | VideoRethinking Scepticism about Justification. Don't Forget the Old Evil Demon. | Thomas Grundmann (Cologne) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "New Perspectives on External World Scepticism" (9-10 July, 2013) titled "Rethinking Scepticism about Justification. Don't Forget the Old Evil Demon.". Abstract: Mentalism about justification | 7/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 40 | VideoScepticism and Probabilism | Ralph Wedgwood (Southern California) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "New Perspectives on External World Scepticism" (9-10 July, 2013) titled "Scepticism and Probabilism". Abstract: Philosophers who work within a broadly probabilistic epistemological | 7/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 41 | VideoThe Pragmatics of Knowledge, Counter-Examples to Pragmatic Contaminations of Knowledge, Pragmatic Inconsistencies, and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion | Igal Kvart (Jerusalem) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (20 June, 2013) titled "The Pragmatics of Knowledge, Counter-Examples to Pragmatic Contaminations of Knowledge, Pragmatic Inconsistencies, and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion". Abstract: In thi | 7/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 42 | VideoHow to be a truthy psychologist about evidence | Veli Mitova (Vienna) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (6 June, 2013) titled "How to be a truthy psychologist about evidence". Abstract: I defend the view that the only things that count as evidence for belief are factive tokens of psychological state | 6/11/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 43 | VideoReasons to Believe and Reasons to not | Jake Chandler (Leuven) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (6 February, 2013) titled "Reasons to Believe and Reasons to not." Abstract: The provision of a precise, formal treatment of the relation of evidential relevance–i.e. of providing a reason to | 2/13/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 44 | VideoReasoning biases and non-monotonic logics | Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (24 January, 2013) titled "Reasoning biases and non-monotonic logics". Abstract: Stenning and van Lambalgen (2008) have argued that much of what is described in the psychology of rea | 1/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 45 | VideoGarber and Field Conditionalization | Benjamin Bewersdorf (Konstanz) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (23 January, 2013) titled "Garber and Field Conditionalization ". Abstract: The most influential formal account on rational belief change is Jeffrey conditionalization. Given a plausible | 1/23/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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