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Symposium on FORMAL EPISTEMOLOGY
30 April 2014 @ 13:15 - 17:00
|The Departement of Theoretical Philosophy of the University of Groningen hosts a symposium on
FORMAL EPISTEMOLOGY
on April 30 from 13:00 to 17:00 at the University of Groningen, Faculty of Philosophy, Oude Boteringestraat 52, room Omega.
TIME TABLE
There are short breaks between all sessions.
14:30 Paul Pedersen (Berlin) TBA
15:45 Simon Huttegger (UC Irvine) “Foundations for boundedly rational learning”
17:00 Drinks and dinner
ABSTRACTS
When does evidence suffice for conviction?
Martin Smith (Glasgow)
There is something puzzling about statistical evidence. One place this manifests is in the law, where courts are reluctant to use evidence of this kind, in spite of the fact that it is quite capable of meeting the standards of proof enshrined in legal doctrine. After surveying some proposed solutions to this problem, I shall outline a somewhat different approach – one that makes use of a notion of normalcy that is distinct from the idea of statistical frequency. The problem is not, however, merely a legal one. Our unwillingness to base beliefs on statistical evidence is by no means limited to the courtroom, and is at odds with almost every general principle that epistemologists have ever proposed as to how we ought to manage our beliefs.
Dogmas, Dominance, and Disintegrations
Paul Pedersen (Berlin)
Foundations for boundedly rational learning
Simon Huttegger (UC Irvine)
The core idea of rational Bayesian learning is that learning from experience should be consistent with one’s inductive assumptions. I will use this idea to develop foundations for so-called bounded rationality learning rules, which are based on much less informational inputs than Bayesian conditioning. This results in foundations for bounded rationality learning very similar to those of a more standard Bayesian type.
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