Dear all Thanks to Yang, we now have an excellent webpage for the seminar, here: http://yliu.net/teaching/dt15
There's reading listed there for this week, with a JSTOR link for the main piece -- please try to have a look at that in advance. We'll be looking at Jeffrey's decision theory, and Spohn's objections to it. See you on Thursday. Huw. On 12 October 2015 at 14:27, Huw Price <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/ -- 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.
