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John Wigglesworth (LSE and Institute of Philosophy): Cognitive Biases and Nonmonotonic Logics
Wednesday 13th November; 17:30pm
Find out more »Felix Pinkert (Oxford): Solving coordination problems in the spirit of individual rational choice
Wednesday 20th November; 17:30pm
Find out more »Hilary Greaves (Oxford): “Antiprioritarianism”
Wednesday 27th November; 17:30pm
Find out more »Alex Voorhoeve (LSE): Ambiguity Aversion; the Hurwicz Criterion; and the Principle of Insufficient Reason: a Planned Experiment
Wednesday 4th December; 17:30pm
Find out more »Philipp Koralus (Oxford): Decisions; Questions; and Illusory Reasons
Decisions; Questions; and Illusory Reasons Philipp Koralus (Oxford) It is a remarkable fact that we make seemingly irrational choices in systematic ways; amply documented in the experimental literature. It is an equally remarkable fact that we are capable of systematically rational decisions. An explanation of the nature of human decision-making that gives equal weight to these facts is elusive. I…
Find out more »Joe Halpern (Cornell): “Causality; Responsibility; and Blame: A Structural-Model Approach”
Joe Halpern (Cornell) Causality; Responsibility; and Blame: A Structural-Model Approach
Find out more »Jason Konek (Bristol): Why Accuracy-First Epistemology Does Not Sanction Epistemic Bribe-Taking
Jason Konek Title:
Find out more »Luc Bovens (LSE): The Affirmative Action Debate is Stuck in the First Moment
Luc Bovens
Find out more »Adam Oliver (LSE): A Return to the Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk
Adam Oliver
Find out more »Joe Mazor (LSE; Philosophy and Government): Momentary Maximization; Anticipatory Feelings; and the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Joe Mazor (LSE; Philosophy and Government): Momentary Maximization; Anticipatory Feelings; and the Evolution of Human Intelligence
Find out more »Katya Tentori (University of Trento): Judging the probability of hypotheses versus the impact of evidence: which form of inductive inference is more reliable?
Title: Judging the probability of hypotheses versus the impact of evidence: Which form of inductive inference is more reliable? Abstract: Humans
Find out more »Jim Franklin (UNSW; Maths): Extreme risk. Decision-making with data-free statistics
Jim Franklin (UNSW; Maths): Extreme risk: decision-making with data-free statistics
Find out more »Workshop: Rationality & Consistency
London School of Economics; Lakatos Building; LAK.206 16:00: Welcome coffee 16:15
Find out more »Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage
Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage Launch of the WHO Consultative Committee Report Thursday; 1 May; 5:00-6:45 pm. LSE; Clement House 99 Aldwych; WC2B 4JF Room CLM 6.02 Countries around the world are moving towards Universal Health Coverage. Along the way; they face difficult choices. The WHO Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage has…
Find out more »Geoff Brennan: (ANU; Philosophy; UNC & Duke; Philosophy & Political Science)
Wednesday; 7 May; 5.30 - 7pm Geoff Brennan (ANU; Philosophy; UNC & Duke; Philosophy & Political Science) Voting and Causal Responsibility The paper is a response (by Geoff Sayre-McCord and me) to a claim by Goldman in a 1999 paper (taken up by Tuck in his Free-Riding book) to the effect that standard methods of assessing causality in over-determination cases…
Find out more »Caspar Hare (MIT; Philosophy): Shall We Wish Well to All?
Speaker: Caspar Hare (MIT; Philosophy) Time: 5:30pm - 7pm Title: Shall we wish well to all? An abstract: Some moral theories have a curious feature. They conflict with rational beneficence
Find out more »Arif Ahmed (Cambridge; Philosophy)
Speaker: Arif Ahmed (Cambridge; Philosophy) Time: 5:30pm - 7pm Title & Abstract: tba
Find out more »Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley; Philosophy)
Speaker: Lara Buchak (UC Berkeley; Philosophy) Time: 5:30pm - 7pm Title:Inequality and Relative Priority Abstract:
Find out more »Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary; Economics and Finance): Opportunities as Chances: maximising the probability that everybody succeeds
Speaker: Roberto Veneziani (Queen Mary; Economics and Finance) Time: 5:30pm - 7pm Title: Opportunities as chances: maximising the probability that everybody succeeds Abstract:
Find out more »Melody Zhifang Ni (Imperial; Medicine): Risks in predicting the location of nasogastric tubes in adult patients
Speaker: Melody Zhifang Ni (Imperial; Medicine) Time: 5:30pm - 7pm Title: Risks in predicting the location of nasogastric tubes in adult patients (joint work with Oliver Priest; Larry Phillips and George Hanna) Abstract: We present a project in which we have applied Bayesian network (BN) to analyse risks associated with available bedside tests to verify position of nasogastric (NG) tubes.…
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