Dear All
This Wed 20 May in The Refectory, from 3.30 to 5,30, Mark Jago from
Macquarie will be speaking to us on the following topic:
Epistemic Possibilities
Here's an abstract:
It’s intuitive to model the acquisition of new beliefs or new
information as the ruling out of certain possibilities. On this
picture, an agent’s state of knowledge or belief corresponds to a set
of possible scenarios. But what are these scenarios, and what
properties do they have? This amounts to the question, what would be
epistemically possible for an agent who sets all her a posteriori
knowledge to one side? This is the question I will address. I’ll offer
a solution which recognizes that epistemic concepts are normative,
without over-idealizing the reasoning powers of agents.
As usual, there will be be a pre-talk or graduate students and other
interested parties, in which the background to the talk will be
covered. Graduate students are strongly encouraged to attend,
especially if they are working in different areas from the talk, as
this is the chance to get some breadth so that you'll be able to truly
claim some diversity in your graduate education, and get it from
leading international philosophers.
The Pre-Talk takes place at 2PM in the Philosophy Common Room.
cheers
d
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