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 | VideoReasoning biases and non-monotonic logics | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
2 | VideoReasons to Believe and Reasons to not | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
3 | VideoGarber and Field Conditionalization | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
4 | VideoHow to be a truthy psychologist about evidence | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
5 | VideoStructure Induction in Diagnostic Causal Reasoning | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
6 | VideoEpistemically Detrimental Dissent and the Milian Argument against the Freedom of Inquiry | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
7 | VideoModels of rationality and the psychology of reasoning (From is to ought, and back) | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
8 | VideoEpistemic Landscapes and Optimal Search | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
9 | VideoFast, Frugal and Focused: When less information leads to better decisions | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
10 | VideoThe Principal Principle implies the Principle of Indifference | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 4/18/2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
11 | VideoNew Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 7/21/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
12 | VideoThe Formation of Epistemic Networks | Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy | 7/20/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
13 | VideoDisagreement and Epistemic Modality | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 7/7/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
14 | VideoA Pragmatic Vindication of Epistemic Utility Theory | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 5/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
15 | VideoAn Axiomatization of Individual and Social Updates | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 5/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
16 | VideoCoherence | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 2/17/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
17 | VideoCollective Accuracy: Agent Based & Emergent vs Statistical and Assumed | Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy | 2/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
18 | VideoAgent-based Models and Confirmation Theory | Conference Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy | 2/11/2015 | Free | View in iTunes |
19 | VideoI Believe I don't Believe. (And So Can You!) | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 12/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
20 | VideoBridging the Gap between Informal and Formal Social Epistemology | MCMP Workshop Bridges 2014 | 11/4/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
21 | VideoBelief vs Probability | MCMP Workshop Bridges 2014 | 10/16/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
22 | VideoDominance and Elicitation in IP Theory | Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy | 7/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
23 | VideoImprecise (Full Conditional) Probabilities, Graphs and Graphoids Independence Assumptions | Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy | 7/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
24 | VideoImprecise Priors as Expressions of Epistemic Values | Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy | 7/13/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
25 | VideoSleeping Beauty in Quantumland | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 2/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
26 | VideoUnderstanding epistemic grouping, networking and division of labour: What can simple macroscopic models do? | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 2/21/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
27 | VideoVague Desire: The Sorites and the Money Pump | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 2/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
28 | VideoMeasuring Overconfidence with Imprecise Probabilities & The Wisdom of Collective Credences | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 2/17/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
29 | VideoGroup Knowledge and Probability | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 1/22/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
30 | VideoExternalism, Internalism, and the KK Principle | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 1/7/2014 | Free | View in iTunes |
31 | VideoStochastic Lambda-Calculi | Progic 2013 | 11/24/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
32 | VideoEmpiricism, Probability, and Knowledge of Arithmetic | Progic 2013 | 11/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
33 | VideoGreat Expectations. Strictly Coherent Preferences, No Holds Barred | Progic 2013 | 11/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
34 | VideoTowards Classifying Propositional Probabilistic Logics | Progic 2013 | 11/9/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
35 | VideoObjective Bayesian epistemology for inductive logic on predicate languages | Progic 2013 | 11/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
36 | VideoAn application of Carnapian inductive logic to philosophy of statistics | Progic 2013 | 11/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
37 | VideoAcceptance without Certainty or Stability | Progic 2013 | 11/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
38 | VideoThe Humean Thesis on Belief. Belief and Stable Probability | Progic 2013 | 11/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
39 | VideoQuantifying over events in probability logic: expressibility vs. computability | Progic 2013 | 11/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
40 | VideoComparing Degrees of Incoherence | Progic 2013 | 11/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
41 | VideoThe logical structure of de Finetti's notion of event | Progic 2013 | 11/8/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
42 | VideoImmediate justification, bootstrapping and cognitive penetrability | Workshop on New Perspectives on External World Scepticism | 11/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
43 | VideoRethinking Scepticism about Justification. Don't Forget the Old Evil Demon. | Workshop New Perspectives on External World Scepticism | 11/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
44 | VideoScepticism and Probabilism | Workshop New Perspectives on External World Scepticism | 11/3/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
45 | VideoIs There Anything Besides Me? | Workshop New Perspectives on External World Scepticism | 11/2/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
46 | VideoThe Pragmatics of Knowledge, Counter-Examples to Pragmatic Contaminations of Knowledge, Pragmatic Inconsistencies, and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion | Colloquium Mathematical Philosophy | 10/10/2013 | Free | View in iTunes |
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