Podcasts by MCMP – Epistemology
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.
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Reasoning biases and non-monotonic logics from 2019-04-18T22:01:17
Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Groningen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (24 January, 2013) titled "Reasoning biases and non-monotonic logics". Abstract: Stenning and van Lambalgen (2008) have argued...
ListenReasons to Believe and Reasons to not from 2019-04-18T21:59:55
Jake Chandler (Leuven) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (6 February, 2013) titled "Reasons to Believe and Reasons to not." Abstract: The provision of a precise, formal treatment of the relation ...
ListenGarber and Field Conditionalization from 2019-04-18T21:56:27
Benjamin Bewersdorf (Konstanz) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (23 January, 2013) titled "Garber and Field Conditionalization ". Abstract: The most influential formal account on rational belief...
ListenHow to be a truthy psychologist about evidence from 2019-04-18T21:55:34
Veli Mitova (Vienna) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (6 June, 2013) titled "How to be a truthy psychologist about evidence". Abstract: I defend the view that the only things that count as evide...
ListenStructure Induction in Diagnostic Causal Reasoning from 2019-04-18T21:28:51
Michael R. Waldmann (Göttingen) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (23 April, 2014) titled "Structure Induction in Diagnostic Causal Reasoning". Abstract: Our research examines the normative and d...
ListenEpistemically Detrimental Dissent and the Milian Argument against the Freedom of Inquiry from 2019-04-18T21:26:59
Anna Leuschner (KIT) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (9 April, 2014) titled "Epistemically Detrimental Dissent and the Milian Argument against the Freedom of Inquiry". Abstract: I'll present a ...
ListenModels of rationality and the psychology of reasoning (From is to ought, and back) from 2019-04-18T21:25:36
Vincenzo Crupi (Turin) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 April, 2014) titled "Models of rationality and the psychology of reasoning (From is to ought, and back)". Abstract: Diagnoses of (ir)r...
ListenEpistemic Landscapes and Optimal Search from 2019-04-18T21:25:19
Jason McKenzie (LSE) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (30 April, 2014) titled "Epistemic Landscapes and Optimal Search". Abstract: In a paper from 2009, Michael Weisberg and Ryan Muldoon argue t...
ListenFast, Frugal and Focused: When less information leads to better decisions from 2019-04-18T21:19:35
Gregory Wheeler (MCMP) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (25 June, 2014) titled "Fast, Frugal and Focused: When less information leads to better decisions". Abstract: People frequently do not abi...
ListenThe Principal Principle implies the Principle of Indifference from 2019-04-18T21:17:42
Jon Williamson (Kent) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (8 October, 2014) titled "The Principal Principle implies the Principle of Indifference". Abstract: I'll argue that David Lewis'Principal P...
ListenNew Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles from 2015-07-21T13:00
Greg Gandenberger (Pittsburgh) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (22 April, 2015) titled "New Responses to Some Purported Counterexamples to Likelihoodist Principles". Abstract: The Likelihood Pr...
ListenThe Formation of Epistemic Networks from 2015-07-21T06:46:02
Kevin Zollman (CMU) gives a talk at the Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy (11-13 December, 2014) titled "The Formation of Epistemic Networks". Abstract: One important area of study f...
ListenDisagreement and Epistemic Modality from 2015-07-08T04:00
Elke Brendel (Bonn) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (17 June, 2015) titled "Disagreement and Epistemic Modality". Abstract: Intuitively, the truth conditions of sentences with epistemic modals,...
ListenA Pragmatic Vindication of Epistemic Utility Theory from 2015-05-12T03:18:21
Ben Levinstein (Oxford) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (6 May, 2015) titled "A Pragmatic Vindication of Epistemic Utility Theory". Abstract: Traditionally, probabilism and other norms on parti...
ListenAn Axiomatization of Individual and Social Updates from 2015-05-11T07:08:44
Denis Bonnay (Paris Quest/IHPST) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (30 April, 2015) titled "An Axiomatization of Individual and Social Updates". Abstract: In this talk, I will consider update rul...
ListenCollective Accuracy: Agent Based&Emergent vs Statistical and Assumed from 2015-02-12T04:02:11
Scott Page (Michigan) gives a talk at the Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy (11-13 December, 2014) titled "Collective Accuracy: Agent Based&Emergent vs Statistical and Assumed". Abst...
ListenAgent-based Models and Confirmation Theory from 2015-02-12T03:00:42
Michael Weisberg (Pennsylvania) gives a talk at the Conference on Agent-Based Modeling in Philosophy (11-13 December, 2014) titled "Agent-based Models and Confirmation Theory". Abstract: Is it poss...
ListenI Believe I don't Believe. (And So Can You!) from 2014-12-18T07:44:13
Aidan Lyon (Maryland, MCMP) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (13 November, 2014) titled "I Believe I don't Believe. (And So Can You!)". Abstract: Contemporary epistemology offers us two very dif...
ListenBridging the Gap between Informal and Formal Social Epistemology from 2014-11-05T02:48:27
Alvin I. Goldman (Rutgers) meets Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU) in a joint session on "Bridging the Gap between Informal and Formal Social Epistemology" at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Se...
ListenBelief vs Probability from 2014-10-17T01:00
Branden Fitelson (Rutgers) meets Hannes Leitgeb (MCMP/LMU) in a joint session on "Belief vs Probability" at the MCMP workshop "Bridges 2014" (2 and 3 Sept, 2014, German House, New York City). The 2...
ListenDominance and Elicitation in IP Theory from 2014-07-14T03:42:25
Teddy Seidenfeld (CMU) gives a talk at the Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy (27-28 June, 2014) titled "Dominance and Elicitation in IP Theory". Abstract: I review de...
ListenImprecise (Full Conditional) Probabilities, Graphs and Graphoids Independence Assumptions from 2014-07-14T02:42:02
Fabio G. Cozman (Sao Paulo) gives a talk at the Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy (27-28 June, 2014) titled "Imprecise (Full Conditional) Probabilities, Graphs and Gr...
ListenImprecise Priors as Expressions of Epistemic Values from 2014-07-14T01:41:29
Jim Joyce (Michigan) gives a talk at the Workshop on Imprecise Probabilities in Statistics and Philosophy (27-28 June, 2014) titled "Imprecise Priors as Expressions of Epistemic Values". Abstract: ...
ListenSleeping Beauty in Quantumland from 2014-02-21T17:17:33
Lev Vaidman (Tel Aviv) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (10 February, 2014) titled "Sleeping Beauty in Quantumland". Abstract: A recent philosophical controversy in the analysis of the probabili...
ListenUnderstanding epistemic grouping, networking and division of labour: What can simple macroscopic models do? from 2014-02-21T08:20:06
Rainer Hegelmann (Bayreuth) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (15 January, 2014) titled "Understanding epistemic grouping, networking and division of labour: What can simple macroscopic models do...
ListenVague Desire: The Sorites and the Money Pump from 2014-02-18T03:21:29
David Etlin (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (21 November, 2013) titled "Vague Desire: The Sorites and the Money Pump". Abstract: The similarity between the sorites paradox of vaguene...
ListenMeasuring Overconfidence with Imprecise Probabilities&The Wisdom of Collective Credences from 2014-02-18T01:13:21
Aidan Lyon (MCMP/LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (6 November, 2013) titled "Measuring Overconfidence with Imprecise Probabilities&The Wisdom of Collective Credences". Abstract: What explai...
ListenGroup Knowledge and Probability from 2014-01-23T03:52:52
Eleonora Cresto (Buenos Aires) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (7 November, 2013) titled "Group Knowledge and Probability". Abstract: The talk addresses the concept of group knowledge and its r...
ListenExternalism, Internalism, and the KK Principle from 2014-01-08T02:03:12
Alexander Bird (Bristol) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (24 July, 2013) titled "Externalism, Internalism, and the KK Principle". Abstract: The KK principle states that if a subject knows some ...
ListenStochastic Lambda-Calculi from 2013-11-25T00:45:18
Dana Scott (CMU Pittsburgh and Berkeley) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Stochastic Lambda-Calculi".
ListenEmpiricism, Probability, and Knowledge of Arithmetic from 2013-11-09T10:21:37
Sean Walsh (Irvine) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Empiricism, Probability, and Knowledge of Arithmetic".
ListenGreat Expectations. Strictly Coherent Preferences, No Holds Barred from 2013-11-09T09:17:58
Arthur Paul Pedersen (Max Planck Institut for Human Development) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Great Expectations....
ListenTowards Classifying Propositional Probabilistic Logics from 2013-11-09T08:17:06
Glauber de Bona (Sao Paulo) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Towards Classifying Propositional Probabilistic Logics".
ListenObjective Bayesian epistemology for inductive logic on predicate languages from 2013-11-09T07:15:43
Jon Williamson and Jürgen Landes (University of Kent) give a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Objective Bayesian epistemology...
ListenAn application of Carnapian inductive logic to philosophy of statistics from 2013-11-09T06:08:54
Teddy Groves (University of Kent) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "An application of Carnapian inductive logic to ph...
ListenAcceptance without Certainty or Stability from 2013-11-09T05:08:21
Kevin T. Kelly (CMU Pittsburgh) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Acceptance without Certainty or Stability".
ListenThe Humean Thesis on Belief. Belief and Stable Probability from 2013-11-09T04:10:09
Hannes Leitgeb (LMU/MCMP) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "The Humean Thesis on Belief. Belief and Stable Probability".
ListenQuantifying over events in probability logic: expressibility vs. computability from 2013-11-09T03:13:47
Stanislav O. Speranski (Novosibirsk State University) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Quantifying over events in pro...
ListenComparing Degrees of Incoherence from 2013-11-09T02:08:09
Liam Kofi Bright (CMU Pittsburgh) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "Comparing Degrees of Incoherence".
ListenThe logical structure of de Finetti's notion of event from 2013-11-09T01:07:27
Hykel Hosni (CPNSS) gives a talk at "Progic 2013", the Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (17-18 Sept, 2013), titled "The logical structure of de Finetti's notion of event".
ListenImmediate justification, bootstrapping and cognitive penetrability from 2013-11-03T12:59:57
Berit Brogaard (St. Louis) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "New Perspectives on External World Scepticism" (9-10 July, 2013) titled "Immediate justification, bootstrapping and cognitive penetrabi...
ListenRethinking Scepticism about Justification. Don't Forget the Old Evil Demon. from 2013-11-03T12:59:39
Thomas Grundmann (Cologne) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "New Perspectives on External World Scepticism" (9-10 July, 2013) titled "Rethinking Scepticism about Justification. Don't Forget the Ol...
ListenScepticism and Probabilism from 2013-11-03T12:59:01
Ralph Wedgwood (Southern California) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "New Perspectives on External World Scepticism" (9-10 July, 2013) titled "Scepticism and Probabilism". Abstract: Philosophers ...
ListenIs There Anything Besides Me? from 2013-11-02T09:03:20
C. Ulises Moulines (LMU) gives a talk at the MCMP workshop "New Perspectives on External World Scepticism" (9-10 July, 2013) titled "Is There Anything Besides Me?". Abstract: The question “Is there...
ListenThe Pragmatics of Knowledge, Counter-Examples to Pragmatic Contaminations of Knowledge, Pragmatic Inconsistencies, and the Knowledge Norm of Assertion from 2013-10-10T18:53:45
Igal Kvart (Jerusalem) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (20 June, 2013) titled "The Pragmatics of Knowledge, Counter-Examples to Pragmatic Contaminations of Knowledge, Pragmatic Inconsistencies,...
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