On Wednesday January 6, there is a conference in Paris [10:30, IHPST, 13, rue du Four, Paris 6] by Joseph Berkovitz (University of Toronto) on the philosophy of probability of Bruno de Finetti. Too bad this is during MCMSkv! De Finetti is one of the founding fathers of the modern theory of subjective probability, where […]
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on de Finetti’s instrumentalist philosophy of probability
January 5, 2016philosophy at the 2015 Baccalauréat
June 18, 2015[Here is the pre-Bayesian quote from Hume that students had to analyse this year for the Baccalauréat:] The maxim, by which we commonly conduct ourselves in our reasonings, is, that the objects, of which we have no experience, resembles those, of which we have; that what we have found to be most usual is always […]
latest interviews on the philosophy of religion(s)
November 1, 2014“But is the existence of God just a philosophical question, like, say, the definition of knowledge or the existence of Plato’s forms?” Gary Gutting, NYT Although I stopped following The Stone‘s interviews of philosophers about their views on religion, six more took place and Gary Gutting has now closed the series he started a while […]
Philosophy of Science, a very short introduction (and review)
November 3, 2013When visiting the bookstore on the campus of the University of Warwick two weeks ago, I spotted this book, Philosophy of Science, a very short introduction, by Samir Okasha, and the “bargain” offer of getting two books for £10 enticed me to buy it along with a Friedrich Nietzsche, a very short introduction… (Maybe with […]
Controversies in the philosophy of Bayesian statistics
August 2, 2011Today is the day of the roundtable on Controversies in the philosophy of Bayesian statistics organised by Andrew Gelman. Here are my slides, recovered from my class slides… I am not terribly happy with them, actually, as they do not address philosophy…
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