Dear all The third CamPoS seminar of Lent term will be given by Bryan W Roberts <http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/ <http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/>>, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Details as follows:
Time: Today 1-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Free School Lane, CB2 3RH) Title: The good news about killing people Abstract: Modern economics has designed a body of theory for how to make decisions involving irreversible outcomes. Motivated by this theory, we propose a 'Good News Principle' for the decision to kill one's self or others, which states that such a decision depends on the quantity and probability of future good news (supporting not killing), but not of future bad news (supporting killing). We then derive this principle as a theorem of a simple consequentialist model for irreversible acts. Full information about the talk is here: https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/132112 <https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/132112> All details for CamPoS are available at https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos <https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos> You can also follow us at https://twitter.com/CamPhilSci <https://twitter.com/CamPhilSci> CamPoS schedule announcement: Due to the forthcoming industrial action at the university, the rest of the scheduled CamPoS seminars for Lent term are postponed until further notice. The HPS department can provide assisted step-free access to Seminar Room 2 by arrangement via the back door to the Whipple Museum (which has a lift that can take a person to all levels) and also the Library (which also has assisted lift access to all levels). For further details please contact the HPS Reception <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>, or consult the university's Building Access Guide <https://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/building-access-guide <https://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/building-access-guide>>. All are welcome. All the best Matt Matt Farr • Teaching & Research Associate in Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge • Department of History & Philosophy of Science Free School Lane | Cambridge | CB2 3RH w mattfarr.co.uk <http://www.mattfarr.co.uk/> | e [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> | t 01223334559 _____________________________________________________ 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.
