Dear all, This is a reminder that the first Lent meeting of the mental sciences group will be TODAY Wednesday afternoon, the 22nd of January, from 3-4:30 p.m in the new and improved location of the board room in the philosophy department.
Dan Williams will be leading a discussion on some new work in progress titled “Beliefs, Signals and Groups” Abstract: I clarify and defend the following hypothesis: in the political domain, certain beliefs function as signals of group membership and loyalty. Drawing on signalling theory and various characteristics of human psychology and coalitions, I develop a theoretical framework for understanding this phenomenon and I try to show how it can be distinguished from other well-known causal pathways (e.g. filter bubbles, echo chambers, groupthink, etc.) through which group membership can lead to inaccurate beliefs. We will have 3 other sessions this term, all at the same time and place (note - I previously got the date of the 3rd session wrong, it’s the 4th, not the 5th of March as previously stated) Preliminary details are below. All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you there! 5th February: Erlend Owesen (HPS) “The Meta-Problem and Eliminativism about Phenomenal Consciousness” 19th February: Karina Vold (HPS) TBD 4th March: Katharina Zuhlsdorff (Psychology) “what can we learn about the neural basis of drug addiction from computation modeling?” Best wishes, Jessie and Tom _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
