formal epistemology Archives - Department of Philosophy

Close crop of Branden Fitelson, a middle-aged white man with short gray hair standing smiling in front of an open window.

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Branden Fitelson, a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University, shows how to apply the insights of David Lewis to repair Lewis’s own triviality argument against the Adams’s thesis, leading to a more reasonable rendition of the equation.

Francesca Zaffora Blando wearing a green flowered dress leaning of a table while sitting, bookshelves in the background.

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Francesca Zaffora Blando (Carnegie Mellon) devotes most of her work to showing that the theory of algorithmic randomness can be fruitfully applied to shed light on the foundations of inductive learning.

Harley Valentine‘s abstract sculpture artwork with ballet dancer

Harley Valentine 3D-printed sculpture.

Tuesday June 12, 2018 - Thursday June 14, 2018

The 2018 Formal Epistemology Workshop will present papers in formal epistemology, broadly construed to include related areas of philosophy as well as cognate disciplines like statistics, psychology, economics, computer science, and mathematics. This year’s FEW will feature two keynote addresses, by Lara Buchak and Mike Titelbaum, as well as 10 submitted papers.

formal epistemology

Public Lecture in Celebration of World Logic Day (Branden Fitelson, Northeastern)

Logic and Philosophy of Science Group Talk (Francesca Zaffora Blando, Carnegie Mellon)

2018 Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW)