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Philosophy Colloquium: Rachael Briggs (Stanford)

Friday, April 8, 2016 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM CT
University Hall, 102, 1897 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Rachel Briggs (Standord)

Title: "Chances and Impossibilities"

I present an argument that impossible worlds are useful for modeling objective chances. The argument includes a negative part, where I argue that the epistemic and decision theoretic roles of chance are not enough to rule out the use of impossible worlds, and a positive part, where I argue that using impossible worlds solves two philosophical puzzles: David Lewis's Big Bad Bug, and one of Arif Ahmed's recent counterexamples to causal decision theory.

Reception immediately following in Crowe 1-140

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Jasmine Hatten   (847) 491-3656

j-bomer@northwestern.edu

Interest

  • Academic (general)

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