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4th LSE Graduate conference in Philosophy of Probability

6 Jun 2014
London, U.K.

4th LSE Graduate Conference in Philosophy of Probability

Venue: LAK2.06, Lakatos Building, LSE
7 Portugal Street, WC2A 2HJ London

Date: Friday 6 June 2014, 9:30

9:30-10:00 Registration

10:00-11:30 Keynote Speaker: Hannes Leitgeb (MCMP, LMU Mnchen)
?The Humean thesis on belief?

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-12:30 Teddy Groves (University of Kent)

?Accuracy arguments for probabilism in the context of Carnapian inductive logic?

12:30-13:00 Catrin Campbell-Moore (MCMP, LMU Mnchen)

?Imprecise Probabilities and Supervaluational Logic?

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Danny November (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

?Bertrand?s Paradox Resurrected ? The Problem of Probability Assignment?

14:30-15:00 Benjamin Bewersdorf (University of Groningen)

?Total Evidence, Uncertainty and A Priori Beliefs?

15:00-15:30 Rossella Marrano (Scuola Normale Superiore)

?Degrees of Truth as Objective Probabilities?

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Keynote Speaker: Katya Tentori (University of Trento)

?Evidence assessment: Theoretical issues, experimental results, and directions for future research?

19:00 Speakers? Dinner

Date: Saturday 7 June 2014, 10:00

10:00-11:30 Keynote Speaker: Mikls Rdei (LSE)

?Quantum probability theory?

11:30-12:00 Coffee Break

12:00-12:30 Mrton Gmri (ELTE, Hungary)
?What is a physical ?and???

12:30-13:00 Hugh Desmond (KU Leuven, Belgium)

?Probabilistic Explanation isn?t about Probability?

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Eric Johannesson (Stockholm University)

?Centered Worlds and Conditional Probabilities: A Challenge for Thirders?

14:30-15:00 Amanda Macaskill (NYU)

?Safe Scoring Rules?

15:00-15:30 Jean Baccelli (cole Normale Suprieure)

?Further Issues with the Identification of Subjective Probabilities?

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Keynote Speaker: Joe Halpern (Cornell University)

?Language-based Games?

18:00 Informal Drinks (meet in front of the Lakatos building)

Registration:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/events/GraduateConferences/pop2014/registrationForm.aspx

For more information, please see www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/events/GraduateConferences/pop2014/