Colloquia

November 20, 2024 | 5:00PM – 7:00PM Dodd Hall 247 & Zoom RSVP HERE   Join us on Wednesday, November 20, 2024 in Dodd Hall 247 for a talk by Emily Adlam, Chapman University, as part of the History, Philosophy, and Science of Science (HPASS) speaker series.   Against Self-Location   In this talk, I will make a distinction between pure self-locating credences and superficially self-locating credences, and then argue that there is never any rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locating credences. I will first argue that from a practical point of view, pure self-locating credences simply encode our...

November 22, 2024 | 4:00PM – 6:00PM Dodd Hall 167 & Zoom RSVP HERE   Join us on November 22, 2024 for a colloquium with Thomas Kelly, Princeton University. The talk will take place in Dodd Hall 167 from 4:00PM – 6:00PM with a reception to follow.   Bias: Some Surprising Truths   In this talk, I’ll argue for three claims about bias that many people find deeply counterintuitive if not obviously false: (i) Externalism about bias: a person can count as biased because of their social environment, even if all of their internal cognitive processes are functioning impeccably; (ii) Rationality requires...