Author Archives: Yang Liu

Formal Epistemology Reading Group FA11 #6

The next meeting of the formal epistemology reading group will take place on Sunday (October 30) 6:00 pm in Room 720. We will finish discussing the fixed point theorems from last time. Then I suggest we move to Backward Induction. … Continue reading

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Formal Epistemology Reading Group FA11 #5

The next meeting of the formal epistemology reading group will take place on Sunday (October 23) 6:00 pm in Room 720. We will continue our discussion from last week. I shall also prepare a handout on Brouwer-Kakutani-Glicksberg fixed-point theorem for … Continue reading

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Formal Epistemology Reading Group FA11 #4

The next meeting of the formal epistemology reading group will take place on Sunday, October 16, at  6:00 pm in Room 720, Philosophy Hall, Columbia University. For the coming meeting, I will continue the tutorial on strategic games (Normal Form, … Continue reading

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Formal Epistemology Reading Group FA11 #3

Due to various schedule conflicts, the formal epistemology reading group will be moved to Sunday afternoons. The next meeting is on October 9, 3pm in room 720 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University. For the coming meeting, I will give a short … Continue reading

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Formal Epistemology Reading Group FA11 #2

The next meeting of the formal epistemology reading group will take place on Wednesday (September 28) 6:00 pm in Room 720, Philosophy Hall, Columbia University. Thanks to Jeff and Vincent’s recent entry on the Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) we now … Continue reading

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Formal Epistemology Reading Group FA11 #1

The Formal Epistemology Reading Group will resume this week. We will be meeting on Wednesdays 6pm in the graduate student lounge (720 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University). Here is a tentative list of topics that we prepare to cover this semester: … Continue reading

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Formal Epistemology Reading Group FA11 #0

There are two announcements in this message: The formal epistemology reading group will resume next week. Please click this link for a poll at Doodle.com which, hopefully, enables us to isolate a time slot that best fits everyone’s schedule. We … Continue reading

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Progic 2011 at Columbia University

Please see the original announcement here. The Progic conference series is intended to promote interactions between probability and logic. The fifth installment of the series will be held at Columbia University in New York on September 10th and 11th of … Continue reading

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Common Knowledge Reading Group #8

Dear All, The next meeting of the Common Knowledge reading group will take place on Thursday (June 30) 2 pm in room 720. We will continue to discuss the problems from the last metting and Rubinstein’s 1990 article (attached). Hope … Continue reading

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Common Knowledge Reading Group #7

Dear All, The next meeting of the Common Knowledge reading group will take place on Thursday (June 24) 2 pm in room 720. We will be discussing Prof. Parikh’s 1990 papers “Communication, Consensus, and Knowledge”(attached). As usual, I will spend … Continue reading

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