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Evidence & Belief in the Age of Mass Information
Perhaps at no other time in history has information been more widely & easily accessible. But how reliable is it? What do we do when confronted with fundamental disagreement about matters of social importance, including climate change and vaccination? Whom should we trust? Experts might help us. But who counts as an expert? Our experiences […]
Philosophical Issues in Research Ethics Workshop
The Philosophical Issues in Research Ethics Workshop will bring together leading scholars in the field. Building on the success of the two-day workshop held at Carnegie Mellon University in November 2018, this workshop seeks to: (1) Create a high-level forum for exchange of ideas among philosophers working on problems in research ethics; (2) Foster a […]
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Work in Progress Seminar with Cailin O’Connor
Work in Progress Seminar with Cailin O’Connor
Join Cailin O'Connor for a work in progress seminar focused on her paper, Measuring Conventionality. ABSTRACT Conventions are usually treated as univocal, but I argue here that they are better thought of as coming in degrees of arbitrariness. In doing so, I use information theory to measure the degree to which a convention could have been […]