[CamPhilEvents] Philosophy of Physics Mini-Meeting :: Tuesday 2 July 9:30 – 1:00

antum Theory Adam Caulton: Does Physics need Mereology? 1:00 Lunch Location: MR12 in CMS, Clarkson Road, Cambridge All welcome! -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)35095 Web:

[CamPhilEvents] Reminder: No attachments, please

rs may inadvertently distribute copyright material as attachments, in which case the Faculty is potentially liable. For advice on making copyright material available to your target audience, please contact the Faculty Librarian, Jenni Lecky-Thompson. Many thanks Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Pro

[CamPhilEvents] Ultimate Contingency Seminar, 2:30–4:00 Fridays in Lent Term

l as by several of us. The readings for the first session are accessible online at http://philoscience.unibe.ch/documents/kursarchiv/WS03/ramsey.pdf and http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/10040/1/InauguralPreprint.pdf All welcome. Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy Univer

[CamPhilEvents] Ultimate Contingency seminar 2:30–4:00 Friday, Grad Common Room

#x27;s proofs, etc. It is available at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/td0hy0klvz51619/Rumfitt.pdf 2. From Hugh Mellow: This, if I may say so, is also relevant: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32992546/MMR-03-Conditionals.pdf See you on Friday. Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor

[CamPhilEvents] Fwd: Cosmology and Constants of Nature meeting for philosophers of science: Monday 17 March to Weds 19 March (mornings), Cambridge

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[CamPhilEvents] Ultimate Contingency seminar 2:30–4:00 Friday, Grad Common Room

Dear all Our reading this week is Ch. 2 of Isaac Levi's The Covenant of Reason (CUP, 1997). Ch. 2 is called 'Rationality, Prediction, and Autonomous Choice', and a copy is accessible on CamTools here: http://bit.ly/Levi97 See you on Friday. Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russe

[CamPhilEvents] Ultimate Contingency seminar 2:30–4:00 Friday, Grad Common Room

3684.doc (John Maier to present). Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)32987 Web: prce.hu/w/ _ To unsubscribe from the Ca

[CamPhilEvents] Ultimate Contingency seminar 2:30–4:00 Friday, Grad Common Room

Dear all Our reading for this week is as follows: 1. Huw Price, 'Agency and probabilistic causality'. *British Journal for the Philosophy of Science* *42*(1991) 157—176. Published version at http://www.jstor.org/stable/688050 (preprint at http://prce.hu/w/preprints/AgencyPC.pdf). 2.

[CamPhilEvents] CSER Public Lecture: Martin Rees, Jaan Tallinn and Huw Price on "Existential Risk – Surviving the 21st Century", Wed 26/2, 5:30–6:45, Lady MItchell Hall

; DATE: Wednesday, February 26th at 5:30pm-6:45pm (drinks reception to follow). LOCATION: Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge SPEAKERS: Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal Jaan Tallinn, co-founder of Skype Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge “In the c

[CamPhilEvents] Ultimate Contingency seminar 2:30–4:00 Friday, Grad Common Room

Forwarded message: Dear all, Next Friday we'll be looking at the following chapters from my *Evidence, Decision and Causality*. There is nothing really new in the Introduction but it gives a little bit of the background to the issues that ch. 8 discusses. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1026

[CamPhilEvents] Fwd: HPS Dept Seminar, 6 March: Rae Langton on generic speech acts and social kinds

Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:46:13 + From: Helen Anne Curry Subject: HPS Dept Seminar, 6 March: Rae Langton on generic speech acts and social kinds To: hps-discuss...@lists.cam.ac.uk Message-ID: <53145d75.60...@cam.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" *Rae Langton *(

[CamPhilEvents] Ultimate Contingency seminar 2:30–4:00 Friday, Grad Common Room

here: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/8983/ See you then. Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)32987 Web: prce.hu/w/ _ To un

[CamPhilEvents] BA Conference "How Universal are Universals"? (26-27 April).

s and refreshments are provided. Anyone wishing to attend is kindly asked to register at www.phil.cam.ac.uk or to write to the organizer, Dr Caterina Tarlazzi ( ct...@cam.ac.uk). A detailed programme can be found here: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/ events/universals. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Profess

[CamPhilEvents] Reminder: The Practical Turn – Thursday 2 October

, London SW1Y 5AH http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2014/The_Practical_Turn.cfm -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)32987 Web: prce.hu/w/

[CamPhilEvents] Fwd: What Would Plato Say? Rebecca Goldstein at Trinity Philosophy Society – 18:30, Wednesday 22 October

College. If you have any questions e-mail Keith at kw...@gmail.com. Afterwards we'll be having a drink and snacks reception with a chance for a more informal chat, hope to see you all there! TPS Committee -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mai

[CamPhilEvents] Reminder: Rebecca Goldstein at Trinity TONIGHT

A reminder for this event – I understand that it will start just a few minutes late, for the benefit of those who also want to attend Rae Langton's Festival of Ideas talk on the Sidgwick Site at 5:30. There's an excellent recent interview with Rebecca Goldstein here: http://www.prospectmagazine.co

[CamPhilEvents] The Ethics of Translation: 7.45 pm, Tues 28th Oct, Clare Hall Colloquium

Clare Hall Colloquium 19.45 Tuesday 28 October Meeting Room, Clare Hall The Ethics of Translation Power, Exchange, and Hospitality Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D. Professor of Religious Studies, Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Northwestern University Translation may be described as the central

[CamPhilEvents] Cambridge Pragmatism – Reading Group and Research Seminar

Dear all We will be running a reading group next term on Cambridge Pragmatism. We'll be starting with Ramsey, and intending to get as far as Mellor, Blackburn and Price. We'll meet 9:30–11:00 on Mondays, in the Grad Common Room, and everyone is welcome. Reading for the first two weeks: Week 1 (1

[CamPhilEvents] Reminder – Cambridge Pragmatism Seminar

l passages from Ramsey's manuscripts, available here: http://bit.ly/MoreRamsey All welcome! Huw & Cheryl On 19 December 2014 at 20:50, Huw Price wrote: > Dear all > > We will be running a reading group next term on Cambridge Pragmatism. > We'll be starting with Rams

[CamPhilEvents] Cambridge Pragmatism – reading for 26 Jan

—341), PDF here -- http://prce.hu/w/preprints/Ramsey_paper.pdf -- or on JSTOR here: http://www.jstor.org/discover/3506087 A reminder that we meet 9:30–11 in the Grad Common Room – all welcome. Huw and Cheryl. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Tr

[CamPhilEvents] Fwd: Talk on al-Farabi THIS THURSDAY

these features, according to him, entail with respect to communication and science. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)32987 Web: prce.

[CamPhilEvents] Cambridge Pragmatism – reading for 2 February

ied by Cheryl: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102602/Wittgenstein-supplement.pdf -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)32987 Web: prce.hu/w/ _

[CamPhilEvents] Cambridge Pragmatism – reading for 9 February

Dear all Next Monday (9 Feb) we'll be reading Hugh Mellor's 'The time of our lives', available here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/32992546/TimeLife.pdf We meet 9:30–11 in the Grad Common Room – all welcome. Huw & Cheryl -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor

[CamPhilEvents] Cambridge Pragmatism – Reading for next week

Dear pragmatists Reading for next week (16 Feb): Chaps 1 and 2 of Edward Craig, *Knowledge and the State of Nature,* OUP, 1999. Available from Oxford Scholarship Online here: http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/0198238797.001.0001/acprof-9780198238799# We think that this link will wo

[CamPhilEvents] Cambridge Pragmatism – reading for Monday 23 February

tion”'. In Mario De Caro and David Macarthur, eds., Naturalism and Normativity (Columbia University Press, 2010), 253–262. http://prce.hu/w/preprints/RortyPriceExchange.pdf Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2

[CamPhilEvents] Cambridge Pragmatism – reading for next week (2 March)

Dear Pragmatists Our reading for next week is chapter 1 of Jonathan Bennett's Linguistic Behaviour -- available on Google Books here: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YsGARmRjAl8C&pg=PA1&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false -- plus this piece by Simon: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhp7vyeap

[CamPhilEvents] Cambridge Pragmatism – Reading for 9 March

Dear all Here's next week's reading, from Jane, on Anscombe on the first Person: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/102602/Anscombe%20and%20Pragmatism.pdf Huw & Cheryl _ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your member

[CamPhilEvents] Fwd: Public Lecture by Professor Steven Lukes, 14 May

The End of Progress? Public Lecture by Professor Steven Lukes, New York University. Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College Thursday 14th May, 5.30pm Supported by Trinity College and the Division of Social Anthropology. Steven Lukes is the author of numerous books and articles about politic

[CamPhilEvents] Philosophy/CSER Alumni Festival Event – 'A Conversation on the Future of Intelligence'

t is first come, first served. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 1223 (3)32987 Web: prce.hu/w/ _ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mail

[CamPhilEvents] Decision Theory Seminar, Thursdays 11-12:30

book, *Evidence, Decision and Causality* (CUP 2014)? The eBook version is available here: http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139107990 (Raven login required). Please let me know if you have queries. Huw. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosoph

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Decision Theory Seminar, Thursdays 11-12:30

doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139107990 (Raven login required). We'll also be circulating some introductory notes provided by Yang, later in the week. Best wishes Huw. On 5 October 2015 at 21:37, Huw Price wrote: > > Dear all > > This term, together with Yang Liu (newly arrived from Columbia

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Decision Theory Seminar, Thursdays 11-12:30

ion theory, and Spohn's objections to it. See you on Thursday. Huw. On 12 October 2015 at 14:27, Huw Price wrote: > Dear all > > This week we'll be introducing Savage's Decision Theory. For background > reading please see Ch 1 of Arif Ahmed's recent book, Evidence,

[CamPhilEvents] 'What do we owe the Universe?' – this Saturday afternoon

Dear all A reminder that Rae Langton and I will be joining Martin Rees and Partha Dasgupta in asking 'What do we owe the Universe?', this Saturday afternoon. Details here: http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/events/cfi-owe-universe Huw. _ To unsubscribe

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Decision Theory Seminar, Thursdays 11-12:30

Dear all A reminder that we are not meeting this week – we resume next week. Best wishes Huw. On 20 October 2015 at 17:31, Huw Price wrote: > Dear all > > Thanks to Yang, we now have an excellent webpage for the seminar, > here: http://yliu.net/teaching/dt15 > > There'

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Decision Theory Seminar, Thursdays 11-12:30

Dear Decision Theorists A reminder that we resume tomorrow – reading is on the webpage: http://yliu.net/teaching/dt15 Cheers Huw. > > On 20 October 2015 at 17:31, Huw Price wrote: > >> Dear all >> >> Thanks to Yang, we now have an excellent webpage for the semina

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Decision Theory Seminar, Thursdays 11-12:30

Dear Decision Theorists A reminder that we resume tomorrow – reading is on the webpage: http://yliu.net/teaching/dt15 Best Huw. On 5 October 2015 at 21:37, Huw Price wrote: > > Dear all > > This term, together with Yang Liu (newly arrived from Columbia as a > postdoc in

[CamPhilEvents] Reminder – Professor Jane Heal Public Lecture at CSER tomorrow!

ou can update your preferences <http://cser.us7.list-manage.com/profile?u=4ea4100d3725552d8efc5a0ef&id=b96dceb22c&e=f03b5de785> or unsubscribe from this list <http://cser.us7.list-manage1.com/unsubscribe?u=4ea4100d3725552d8efc5a0ef&id=b96dceb22c&e=f03b5de785&c=e6aee4f1ac>

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Decision Theory Seminar – Tomorrow!

Dear all A reminder that we are meeting on *Wednesday* this week (i.e. tomorrow), at *10:30–12* in the usual room. Best Huw. On 18 November 2015 at 12:06, Huw Price wrote: > Dear Decision Theorists > > A reminder that we resume tomorrow – reading is on the webpage: > htt

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Decision Theory Seminar, Thursdays 11-12:30

Dear all A reminder that we'll meet for our last session of the term this Thursday – usual time, usual place, and reading on the webpage, thanks to Yang! Best Huw. On 18 November 2015 at 12:06, Huw Price wrote: > Dear Decision Theorists > > A reminder that we resume tomorrow –

[CamPhilEvents] CSER Seminar *tomorrow*: Kay Firth-Butterfield (Lucid AI) on Ethics in the AI industry

t the University of Texas Law School on Law and Policy regarding AI and other emerging technologies. Photo credit: 'Electric Neuron' by Ronnie, Creative Commons via Flickr Professor Huw Price <http://cser.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ea4100d3725552d8efc5a0ef&id=06700e8a11&

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Dinner with Samir Okasha after the Moral Sciences Club

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[CamPhilEvents] CSER Public Lecture, Friday 29/4 – Prof Hilary Greaves (Oxford) on 'Extinction risk and population ethics'.

much harder to argue that population size ought to be reduced via any of the usual routes. Second, however, I will sketch one new (and tentative) argument for population-size reduction that is a *result* of the thesis that extinction risk is overwhelmingly important. -- Huw Price Bertrand

Re: [CamPhilEvents] Population Ethics and Extinction Risk.

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. > -- Huw Pri

[CamPhilEvents] Today's CSER Lecture by Hilary Greaves CANCELLED

Dear all We regret to announce that Hilary Greaves' lecture on Extinction Risk and Population Ethics, scheduled for 4pm this afternoon has been cancelled, due to illness. We hope to reschedule it in the near future. Huw. -- Sent from Gmail Mobile _

[CamPhilEvents] Reminder: Paul Ehrlich on POPULATION, ENVIRONMENT, EXTINCTION AND ETHICS, next Monday

: The Babbage Lecture Theatre - New Museums Site Pembroke Street , Cambridge, CB2 3QZ Bookings here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/blavatnik-public-lecture-with-prof-paul-ehrlich-tickets-24281900819 -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy Academic Director, CSER.ORG University of

[CamPhilEvents] CSER Public Lecture – Professor Hilary Greaves (Oxford) – Extinction Risk and Population Ethics – THIS FRIDAY

) argument for population-size reduction that is a *result* of the thesis that extinction risk is overwhelmingly important. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy Academic Director, CSER.ORG University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ Ph & voicemail: +44 122

[CamPhilEvents] Reminder: CSER Public Lecture TOMORROW, Friday 10/6 – Prof Hilary Greaves (Oxford) on 'Extinction risk and population ethics'.

e the lane turns left, the entrance you need is on the right (and well signposted at that point). Map here: http://map.cam.ac.uk/Hopkinson +Lecture+Theatre#52.203036,0.119635,17 -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy Academic Director, CSER.ORG University of Cambridge Mail: Tr

[CamPhilEvents] Reminder: This Saturday, Heather Douglas (Waterloo) – Responsibility and Inequality in a Risky World (CSER Public Lecture)

Prof Heather Douglas (Waterloo) – Responsibility and Inequality in a Risky World *April 29 @ 5:30–7:00 pmWinstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College* We live in a world full of emerging risk. We generate new capacities with the potential to reorder our world and we discover new risks from old

[CamPhilEvents] TIME CORRECTION and Reminder – Prof. Arindam Chakrabarti (University of Hawaii) – Tomorrow at 11am (NOT 11:30)

Philosophy of Art. His next major book Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects and Other Subjects is forthcoming from Bloomsbury by the end of 2018. Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, UK Ph & voicemail: +44

[CamPhilEvents] Public lecture by Professor Onora O'Neill – 4pm, 12 July 2019, Frankopan Hall, Jesus College (free, but registration required)

se register for this event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/norms-for-communication-and-digital-technologies-professor-onora-oneill-tickets-64363945293 Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy University of Cambridge Mail: Trinity College, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, UK Ph & v

[CamPhilEvents] David Deutsch – TODAY AT 3:30PM (by video link)

and there's no sign of its being imminent. •Progress in AI is not progress in AGI. •Qua computer program, AI is the opposite of AGI. •AGIs are people. •Trying to shackle an AGI's thinking is slavery. -- Huw Price Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy