Dear All,
Emma and I are starting a reading group focusing on decision theory and its philosophy. You are all very welcome to join! We are going to start by reading David Krepps book 'Notes on the Theory of Choice', meeting every other week to discuss the problems at the end of the chapters. To begin with, this will involve quite a lot of "learning decision theory", but as time goes on we will hopefully be able to apply these tools to philosophical problems and investigate the shortcomings of classical decision theory. A tentative schedule is given below. We intend to meet on Mondays, between 16.00-17.30 (though, this time is negotiable). If fewer than six people want to join (heaven forfend) we intend to meet in person as it's hard to do this stuff without being able to write things down. Date Reading 9th Nov Ch. 1 & Ch. 2 (Introduction & Preference Relations and Revealed Preferences) 23rd Nov Ch. 3 & Ch. 4 (Ordinal Utility & Uncertainty - Formulations and Representations) 7th Dec Ch. 5 (von Neumann-Morgenstern Expected Utility) 4th Jan Ch. 6 (Utility Functions for Money) 18th Jan Ch. 7 (Horse Races, Lotteries and Roulette Wheels) 1st Feb Ch. 8 & Ch. 9 (Subjective Probability & Savage's Theory of Choice Under Uncertainty) 15th Feb Ch. 10 (Conditional Preference, Conditional Probability and Contingent Choice) 1st March Ch. 11 (Independence, Exchangeability and De Finetti's Theorem) Yours, Aiden _____________________ Aiden Woodcock PhD Candidate, University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ 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.
