Dear all The third CamPoS seminar of Lent term will be given by Bryan W Roberts <http://personal.lse.ac.uk/ROBERT49/>, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Details as follows:
Time: Wednesday 12 February, 1-2:30pm Place: Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (Free School Lane, CB2 3RH) Title: The good news about killing people Abstract: Modern economics has designed a body of theory for how to make decisions involving irreversible outcomes. Motivated by this theory, we propose a 'Good News Principle' for the decision to kill one's self or others, which states that such a decision depends on the quantity and probability of future good news (supporting not killing), but not of future bad news (supporting killing). We then derive this principle as a theorem of a simple consequentialist model for irreversible acts. Full information about the talk is here: https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/132112 <https://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/132112> All details for CamPoS are available at https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos <https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/seminars-reading-groups/campos> You can also follow us at https://twitter.com/CamPhilSci <https://twitter.com/CamPhilSci> The HPS department can provide assisted step-free access to Seminar Room 2 by arrangement via the back door to the Whipple Museum (which has a lift that can take a person to all levels) and also the Library (which also has assisted lift access to all levels). For further details please contact the HPS Reception <hps-ad...@lists.cam.ac.uk <mailto:hps-ad...@lists.cam.ac.uk>>, or consult the university's Building Access Guide <https://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/building-access-guide <https://www.disability.admin.cam.ac.uk/building-access-guide>>. All are welcome. All the best Matt Matt Farr • Teaching & Research Associate in Philosophy of Science University of Cambridge • Department of History & Philosophy of Science Free School Lane | Cambridge | CB2 3RH w mattfarr.co.uk <http://www.mattfarr.co.uk/> | e mw...@cam.ac.uk <mailto:mw...@cam.ac.uk> | t 01223334559 _____________________________________________________ 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.
