Dear all, the first Lent meeting of the mental sciences group will be next Wednesday afternoon, the 22nd of January, from 3-4:30 p.m in the board room in the philosophy department.
Dan Williams will be leading a discussion on some new work in progress titled “Beliefs, Signals and Groups” Abstract: I clarify and defend the following hypothesis: in the political domain, certain beliefs function as signals of group membership and loyalty. Drawing on signalling theory and various characteristics of human psychology and coalitions, I develop a theoretical framework for understanding this phenomenon and I try to show how it can be distinguished from other well-known causal pathways (e.g. filter bubbles, echo chambers, groupthink, etc.) through which group membership can lead to inaccurate beliefs. We will have 3 other sessions this term, all at the same time and place. Preliminary details are below. All are welcome and we look forward to seeing you there! 5th February: Erlend Owesen (HPS) “The Meta-Problem and Eliminativism about Phenomenal Consciousness” 19th February: Karina Vold (HPS) TBD 5th March: Katharina Zuhlsdorff (Psychology) “what can we learn about the neural basis of drug addiction from computation modeling?” Best wishes, Jessie and Tom -- Lecturer in Philosophy University of Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge CB3 9DA Email: jm2...@cam.ac.uk jessiemunton.wixsite.com/philosophy _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
