BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260611T195048Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20120523T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20120523T180000 SUMMARY:Cambridge / MIT workshop on Decision Theory\, etc. UID:20260618T013950Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Cambridge\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:

Nozick's 1970 statement of Newcomb's problem inaugurated a dispute in the \;foundations of decision theory that at present shows no sign of resolution. \;The basic question is over the role of causal information in \;decision-making. Perhaps agents *must* possess such information in \;practical settings\, in which case only a *Causal* Decision Theory can \;appropriately formalize practical reasoning. Or perhaps they need only \;possess whatever statistical and other non-causal information guides the \;predictions and retrodictions of disinterested spectators--in which case an \;*Evidential* theory is sufficient. Or perhaps the conflict is itself \;illusory: maybe causation itself is a form of evidential connection that is \;only visible from the agential perspective. This workshop presents recent \;and in-progress work on these issues.

Program

12pm-1.10pm: Caspar Hare / Brian Hedden (MIT): Self-Reinforcing and \;Self-Undermining Decisions

1.10-2 Lunch: (own arrangements)

2-3.10: Arif Ahmed (Cambridge): Deliberation and myopia

3.15-4.25: Richard Holton / Caspar Hare (MIT): Determinism\, Sloth and the \;Opacity of the Future

4.25-4.50: Tea

4.50-6pm: Huw Price (Cambridge / Sydney): Retrocausality -- What would it \;take?


Registration is free but if you are interested please email Arif Ahmed at \;ama24@cam.ac.uk \;to give us an idea of numbers.

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