Dear all This term, together with Yang Liu (newly arrived from Columbia as a postdoc in CSER), I'll be running a graduate seminar on Decision Theory. We'll meet Thursdays 11–12:30, in the Philosophy Common Room in the Faculty.
We aim to cover some classic material and recent controversies, and to try to get far enough to see why issues in the philosophy of decision theory seem to relevant to the theoretical challenges of friendly AI. There's a list of possible topics with suggested readings here – https://www.dropbox.com/s/nsy1nmzil66civm/DecisionTheoryTopicsMT2015.pdf?dl=0 – though we don't need to stick rigidly to this, and certainly don't expect that people attending will read everything listed. For the first meeting, this Thursday (8 October), could those planning to attend please read the highly accessible introduction of Arif Ahmed's recent book, *Evidence, Decision and Causality* (CUP 2014)? The eBook version is available here: http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139107990 (Raven login required). Please let me know if you have queries. 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/ _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
