Wednesday 15 May 2013, 5.15PM to 6.45pm
Speaker(s): Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University
Professor Wlodek Rabinowicz's areas of research are moral philosophy, value theory, decision theory and philosophical logic.
Setting off from the Fitting-Attitudes analysis of value, according to which x is valuable if it is fitting to have a proattitude towards x, I will go through my account of different types of value relations. On this account, it is conceptually possible to possess in some cases normative freedom with respect to proattitudes. I will then suggest that a structurally analogous approach could be used to model probability. The suggestion is that to be probable is to be credible: roughly, x is probable if it is fitting (given evidence) to assign high credence to x. Here, again, normative freedom with respect to credences is conceptually possible. This yields a rich taxonomy of different types of qualitative probability relations.
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This event is hosted jointly with the Department of Philosophy.
Location: ATB/042 - please note change of venue
Admission: All PEP students are welcome to attend.