Dear all, This is a reminder that Helen Beebee (Manchester) will be speaking at the Moral Sciences Club tomorrow. She will give a talk entitled "Causation: The Prospects for Ramseyan Projectivism". An abstract is provided below.
The meeting will be held at 5:15 on Tuesday 29 October in the *Dirac Room* (found in the Fisher Building), St. John's College. For more information, including details about our fees, and our 2013-2014 programme, please visit our website at http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc. We look forward to seeing many of you there. Best, Shyane Siriwardena and Kyle Mitchell ABSTRACT: Projectivist accounts of causation are typically broadly Humean, in that they take causal talk to project our evidential situation onto a world of mere regularity. But what exactly is the evidential situation that we project? In this talk, I start by showing how Ramsey's approach -- which takes the evidential situation of the deliberating agent to be the basis for projection -- is superior to Hume's own approach, since the former, but not the latter, can account for the asymmetry of causation. I go on to argue that independent motivation for a Ramseyan account of causation can be gained from endorsing Ramsey's 'Equivalence Thesis', which identifies conditional probabilities with the probabilities of conditionals. Finally, I briefly argue that the Ramseyan approach better captures the notion of the 'two-way dependence' of effects on causes than does the Lewisian counterfactual approach. -- Kyle Mitchell and Shyane Siriwardena Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc
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