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Wednesday 14 January 2015
Professor Barry C Smith , Director of the Institute of Philosophy (IP) and Jane Winters , Professor of digital history and head of digital publications at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) , have been interviewed by the Times Higher Education magazine.

Normativity: New Directions, 6 February 2015

Thursday 18 December 2014
Normativity: New Directions Institute of Philosophy Organised by SoNG: the Southern Normativity Group Friday 6th February: 10am-6.30pm,  Room G22/ G26 (Ground Floor), Senate House

The New Philosophy of Photography, 13-14 February 2015

Wednesday 10 December 2014
INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY The New Philosophy of Photography Fri 13 – Sat 14 February 2015, 09:30 - 18:00, Room 349, Senate House James Welling, Glass House 9818 (2009) Image © James Welling, courtesy of the artist  A collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick.

IP Conference: Second Symposium on the Foundations on Mathematics, 12-13 January 2015

Wednesday 10 December 2014
INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY IP Conference: Second Symposium on the Foundations on Mathematics 12 January 2015, 09:30 - 13 January 2015 18:00 Speakers: Sy-David Friedman (Kurt Gödel Research Center for Mathematical Logic, University of Vienna), James Ladyman (Bristol), Toby Meadows (Aberdeen), Victoria Gitman (City University of New York) Room 349 (Third Floor), Senate House PROGRAMME DETAILS AND REGISTRATION Supported by Birkbeck and Mind Association. Registration to follow. Enquiries .

Objective Probability, and Conditional Reasoning seminar: Propensities and Conditional Probabilities, Isabelle Drouet, 16 Dec

Wednesday 10 December 2014
INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY 16 December 2014, 17:15 - 19:00 Room 243 (Second Floor), Senate House Objective Probability, and Conditional Reasoning seminar: Propensities and Conditional Probabilities Isabelle Drouet (Sorbonne) My talk will deal with the objection that Paul Humphreys raised against the propensity interpretation of probability, i.e. “Humphreys’ paradox”. A typology of existing answers and solutions is offered, which are confronted with Humphreys’ 2004 rejoinder. Finally, an original solution is formulated and discussed.  

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