Dear all This week we'll be introducing Savage's Decision Theory. For background reading please see Ch 1 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).
We'll also be circulating some introductory notes provided by Yang, later in the week. Best wishes Huw. On 5 October 2015 at 21:37, Huw Price <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/ -- 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.
