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Joe Halpern: Substantive Rationality and Backward Induction

Substantive Rationality and Backward Induction Joe Halpern (CS, Cornell) Friday, December 9, 11 AM 716 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Abstract. Some of the major puzzles in game theory today involve the notion of rationality. Assuming that all players are rational, and … Continue reading

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Joe Halpern: Iterated Regret Minimization

SEMINAR IN LOGIC AND GAMES AT CUNY Iterated Regret Minimization: a new solution concept Joe Halpern (Cornell) Friday, December 9, 4:15 PM Room 9205, CUNY Graduate Center Abstract. For some well-known games, such as the Traveler’s Dilemma or the Centipede Game, … Continue reading

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Commemorative Colloquium for Horacio Arlo-Costa

The Center for Formal Epistemology of Carnegie Mellon University will host the Commemorative Colloquium for Horacio Arló-Costa, November 19 and November 20. Talks begin on Saturday at 9:00 AM.  A schedule of talks and events related to the colloquium may be found on the webpage for … Continue reading

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Greg Wheeler on Coherence – 11/14, 12pm, 716 Philosophy Hall

News from Jeff: I want to call your attention to the following “brown bag lunch” talk by Greg Wheeler, Senior Research Scientist and Executive Board Member at the Center for Artificial Intelligence (CENTRIA) in Lisbon. The talk should be of interest to … Continue reading

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Kit Fine: Truthmaker Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic

SEMINAR IN LOGIC AND GAMES AT CUNY Truthmaker Semantics for Intuitionistic Logic Kit Fine (Philosophy, NYU) Friday, Novermber 11, 4:15 PM Room 4419, CUNY Graduate Center Abstract:  I present a new semantics for intuitionistic logic, which is a kind of cross … Continue reading

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Levi Celebration

On October 22nd, the philosophy department at the University of Toronto will host an event in honor of Isaac Levi. Of most interest to the group, the morning session will be on formal pragmatist epistemology. Ian Hacking and Levi will give the … 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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The Reasoner

Check out the current issue (June 2011) of The Reasoner, guest edited by Jeff Helzner. There’s an interview with Haim Gaifman.

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