Greetings all,
This coming Monday, 1.00-2.30 in teh philosophy common room Rachael
Briggs, Sydney, will talk to us about 'Two interpretations of the
Ramsey Test"
According to the Ramsey Test, a person should accept a conditional to
the extent
that she would accept the consequent on the supposition that the
antecedent is
true. There are two apparently attractive ways of interpreting the
Ramsey
test: one probabilistic, and the other in terms of truth conditions and
possible worlds. Unfortunately, these two interpretations are
difficult to
combine due to a set of triviality results. The difficulty remains
even when
the probabilistic interpretation is adjusted to allow for `local' as
well as a
`global' readings of certain conditionals. I suggest that both
readings of the
Ramsey Test can be fruitfully understood using the concept of a
general imaging
function.
See the current projects webpage for more details at:
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
Dr. Kristie Miller
University of Sydney Research Fellow
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry and
The Centre for Time
The University of Sydney
Sydney Australia
Room 411, A 18
[email protected]
[email protected]
Ph: 02 93569663
http://homepage.mac.com/centre.for.time/KristieMiller/Kristie/Home_Page.html
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