Dear Cambridge philosophers of science, Tomorrow, 7 February, is the third meeting of CamPoS for Lent, as usual at 1 p.m. in the HPS department in seminar room 2 in the basement. Wolfgang Schwarz of Edinburgh University will be speaking on ‘No Interpretation of Probability’. An abstract is below.
Sincerely, J. Brian Pitts Abstract: Many scientific theories involve probabilities. What would the world have to be like for such a theory to be true? I argue that none of the usual interpretations of probability provides a plausible answer. Instead, I suggest that we should not give probabilistic theories truth-conditional content at all. The aim of such theories is not to register facts about a special probabilistic quantity, but to capture noisy patterns in the world. I also explore some ramifications of this view for our knowledge of probabilities. -- J. Brian Pitts Senior Research Associate Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] Ph.D., Philosophy/History & Philosophy of Science, University of Notre Dame Ph.D., Physics, University of Texas at Austin _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
