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Bayesianism, Fundamentally
817R Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh

Friday, October 13, 2006: Gateway Event

 3:30 pm

Annual Lecture Series, Center for Philosophy of Science
Rational Belief and Reasonable Belief, a Ramseyian Distinction
James Joyce, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

Saturday, October 14, 2006:

     Morning Session: The Subjective and the Objective
     Chair: James Joyce

 9:00

 9:30-10:45

 
10:45-11:15

11:15-12:30




12:30 - 2:00

Continental Breakfast

::: Objective Bayes: Old and New Questions, Some Answers
Jayanta K. Ghosh, Department of Statistics, Purdue University

Coffee

Probability is like a language used to
express personal degrees of uncertainty
Jay Kadane, Department of Statistics,
Carnegie Mellon University

Break for lunch

     Earlier Afternoon Session: Unbounded Utilities
     Chair: Jim Bogen

 2:00-3:15
 
 
 
  3:15-3:30

::: A price too great for unbounded utilities?
Teddy Seidenfeld, Department of Statistics and Philosophy,
Carnegie Mellon University

Coffee

     Later Afternoon Session: Prior Problems
     Chair: Jim Bogen

 3:30-4:45
 
 
 
 
 4:45-5:00

 5:00-6:15

::: Comparative Probability, Comparative Confirmation, and the 'Conjunction Fallacy'
Branden Fitelson, Department of Philosophy,
University of California at Berkeley
 
Coffee

::: Ignorance and Indifference
John D. Norton, Department of History & Philosophy of Science and Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh

Organizing Committee

John D. Norton, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
and Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh (chair)

John Earman, Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Pittsburgh

Branden Fitelson, Department of Philosophy,
University of California at Berkeley

James Joyce, Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

Teddy Seidenfeld, Department of Statistics and Philosophy,
Carnegie Mellon University

Sponsors

Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
Sarah and Robert Boote
Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan

"We wish to thank Sarah and Robert Boote and the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, for their support of this event."

Limited graduate student travel support available.
 
Revised 3/10/08 - Copyright 2006