Center for Formal Epistemology@CMU
CENTER FOR FORMAL EPISTEMOLOGY OPENING CELEBRATION CONFERENCE June 26-27, 2010 Department of Philosophy Carnegie Mellon University Everyone interested is welcome to attend! Confirmed speakers include:...
View ArticleProbabilism
I am reading an early book that de Finetti wrote in the 20′s called “Probabilismo” and the recently published “L’invenzione della verita”. Both are philosophical texts that complement the...
View ArticleCMU: Postdoctoral position in linguistics and formal epistemology
Carnegie Mellon University, with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is pleased to accept applications for two A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities for the...
View ArticleExperience, heuristics, and choice: Prospects for bounded rationality
On December 1st there will be a workshop on bounded rationality, choice and heuristics at CMU. The workshop is sponsored by the Center for Formal Epistemology at CMU. Details about talks, schedule and...
View ArticleEPISTEME@CMU Call for papers
The 2011 EPISTEME conference will focus on the intersection of formal and social epistemology. The use of formal models in social epistemology is not a new development. Many philosophers have modeled...
View ArticleProgic 2011@Columbia
A call for papers for Progic 2011 can be found here. The Progic conference series is intended to promote interactions between probability and logic. The fifth installment of the series will be held...
View ArticleCongratulations Jonah!
I just read that Jonah has been hired by the University of Utah. He has been a driving force behind this blog and we will miss him around Pittsburgh but it is nice to see that he is moving ahead in...
View ArticleSymposium on belief and degrees of belief CFE@CMU
On March 16, 12:00-4:00 there will be a symposium on uncertain acceptance involving Hannes Leitgeb, Horacio Arlo-Costa, Kevin Kelly, Paul Pedersen, and Hanti Lin in DH. The symposium will be a chance...
View ArticleThe Debate about “The Truth Wears Off”
Jonah Lehrer published in the New Yorker an intriguing article about the “decline effect” which is the tendency of many exciting empirical results in science to fade over time. After receiving many...
View ArticleEPISTEME@CMU
The schedule for the EPISTEME conference at CMU this summer is up. A selection of articles will appear in the recently renewed version of EPISTEME (the journal) which now intends to publish articles in...
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