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Formal Representations of Ignorance

17-18 March 2017
Center for Philosophy of Science
817 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA USA

To register, email yann.bd@pitt.edu

PROGRAM (more details coming soon)

Friday, March 17

9:00	Session 1: Yann Benétreau-Dupin & Ben Eva Ignorance, Indifference, & Imprecision Qualitative Principles of Indifference
10:40	Coffee Break
10:55	Session 2: Lee Elkin & Susanna Rinard Complete Ignorance Represented by Lower Probability Ignorance is not Maximally Imprecise Probability
12:35	Lunch (On Your Own)
2:00	Session 3: John Norton The Invariances of Ignorance
2:50	The workshop will break to let participants attend the Pitt Philosophy Department Colloquium: Daniel Greco (Yale), On the Very Idea of an Epistemic Dilemma

Saturday, March 18

9:05	Session 4: Miriam Schoenfield & Teddy Seidenfeld Beliefs Formed Arbitrarily Measure and Category: when large also is small
10:45	Coffee Break
11:00	Session 5: Jennifer Carr & Peter Brössel The Inevitability of Groundless Beliefs Bayesian Strategies to Avoid the Pitfalls of Ignorance

Sessions = (30-min talk + 15-min Q&A)

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The Center for Philosophy of Science