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Dr. Alexander Gebharter (MCMP, LMU Munich): Unification and Explanation: A Causal Perspective

08.06.2021, 18:30 Uhr - 20:15 Uhr

Abstract:

We discuss two influential views of unification: mutual information unification (MIU) and common origin unification (COU). We propose a simple probabilistic measure [...]


Prof. Erik J. Olsson (Lund University): Reliabilist Epistemology as Reliability Engineering

01.06.2021, 18:30 Uhr - 20:15 Uhr

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Reliabilism is the view that knowledge can be defined in terms of the reliable process giving rise to a true belief. There are various criticisms of reliabilism [...]


Prof. Jonah N. Schupbach (University of Utah): The Structure of Best Explanations

18.05.2021, 18:30 Uhr - 20:15 Uhr

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Inference to the Best Explanation (IBE) invokes the “uniqueness claim” that exactly one explanation should be inferred when accounting for an explanandum. This [...]


Prof. Julia Staffel (University of Colorado): Transitional Attitudes and the Unmooring View of Higher-Order Evidence

11.05.2021, 18:30 Uhr - 20:15 Uhr

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This paper proposes a novel answer to the question of what attitude agents should adopt when they receive misleading higher-order evidence that avoids the drawbacks [...]


Prof. Christian List (MCMP, LMU Munich): Dynamically rational judgement aggregation

04.05.2021, 18:30 Uhr - 20:15 Uhr

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Judgment-aggregation theory has always focused on the attainment of rational collective judgments. But so far, rationality has been understood in static terms: as [...]



Dr. Maria Sekatskaya (Univ. Düsseldorf): Supervenient Fixity and Agential Possibilities

20.04.2021, 18:30 Uhr - 20:15 Uhr

Abstract:

One of the central problems within the free will debate consists in the seeming incompatibility of an agent's ability to do otherwise and determinism. Recently, [...]



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