In conjunction with Caspar Hare's visit from MIT this term, several of us (Ahmed, Holton, Maier, Price) are running a research seminar on Ramsey's tantalizing remark that "my present action is an ultimate and the only ultimate contingency", and on issues arguably related to it, such as causation, free will and the epistemic perspective of agents.
The seminar will meet 2:30–4:00 on Fridays, in the grad common room in the Faculty, beginning next week (the 17th). The reading for the first session is Ramsey's "General propositions and causality" and my piece "Where would we be without counterfactuals?", which gives an introduction to what I take Ramsey to be on about, in the relevant sections of his paper. At that meeting we'll settle on readings for later weeks, which are likely to include pieces by Levi, Spohn, and Rabinowicz, as well as by several of us. The readings for the first session are accessible online at http://philoscience.unibe.ch/documents/kursarchiv/WS03/ramsey.pdf and http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10040/1/InauguralPreprint.pdf All welcome. Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)32987 Web: prce.hu/w/
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