Causation and Decision Theory :: 8–9 January 2009 Tusculum, Manning St, Potts Point
This Centre for Time research workshop is open to all, but prior registration is essential (for catering purposes). To register, please send an email to Pete Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, saying that you wish to attend. Further details will be available here: http://www.usyd.edu.au/time/events.htm . Enquiries to Pete Evans < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The workshop is supported by the Australian Research Council and the University of Sydney. PROVISIONAL PROGRAM Thursday 8 January 9:30 – 11:00 David Papineau (Kings College London) :: "The Insignificance of Interventions" COFFEE 11:15 - 12:45 Rachael Briggs (MIT/Sydney) :: "Comparing Adams conditionals and Ramsey-test conditionals" LUNCH 2:15 - 3:15 Jonathan Schaffer (ANU) :: TBA 3:15 - 4:15 Owen Maroney (Sydney) :: "Arrows and Agents: some things that statistical mechanics cannot possibly explain!" COFFEE 4:30 - 6:00 Peter Menzies (Macquarie) :: "Default Reasoning in Counterfactuals and Causation" Friday 9 January 9:30 - 11:00 Helen Beebee (Manchester) :: "Agent probabilities and freedom of the will' COFFEE 11:15 - 12:15 Jenann Ismael (Sydney/Arizona) :: "Freedom, interventionism, and determinism" 12:15 - 1:15 Jossi Berkovitz (Toronto/Sydney) :: TBA LUNCH 2:30 - 3:30 Eric Cavalcanti (Griffith) :: "*Newcomb's* problem and Bell's theorem" 3:30 - 4:30 Huw Price (Sydney) :: "One Boxer Rebellion" COFFEE 4:45 - 6:15 Alan Hájek (ANU) :: "All Values Great and Small"
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