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3/11
Philosophy Brown Bag Series
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3/11
Berel Lang: “Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History—Again”
Berel Lang: “Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History—Again”
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
01:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Storrs Campus Babbidge Library, Class of '47 Room
Please join us for the Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies, presented by Professor Berel Lang on "Against the Lachrymose View of Jewish History—Again."
This event is free and open to the public. A kosher lunch will be served.
About the Talk:
The historian Salo Baron attacked the "lachrymose view of Jewish history" as mistakenly focused on events or practices of persecution and violence in that history--at the same time providing strong evidence that still more basic factors shaped the history of Jewish flourishing and survival. But the same lachrymose view still dominates current popular Jewish understanding, and this has (on the talk's claim) severe, even dangerous practical consequences.
About the Speaker:
Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, SUNY at Albany (BA, Yale; Ph.D, Columbia). Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University, University of Connecticut, Wesleyan. Author of twelve books, including 'Writing and the Moral Self', 'Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide', 'The Anatomy of Philosophical Style', 'Writing and the Holocaust', and 'Primo Levi: The Matter of a Life'. -
3/13
Logic Colloquium: Ehtibar Dzhafarov (Purdue)
Logic Colloquium: Ehtibar Dzhafarov (Purdue)
Friday, March 13th, 2020
02:00 PM - 03:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Seminar Room (4th Floor Homer Babbidge Library)
Join us in the Logic Colloquium for a talk by psychologist Ehtibar Dzhafarov (Purdue, http://www.psych.purdue.edu/~ehtibar/ )
Contextual analysis, epistemic probabilities, and paradoxes
Abstract
Contextual analysis deals with systems of random variables. Each random variable within a system is labeled in two ways: by its content (that which the variable measures or responds to) and by its context (conditions under which it is recorded). Dependence of random variables on contexts is classified into (1) direct (causal) cross-influences and (2) purely contextual (non-causal) influences. The two can be conceptually separated from each other and measured in a principled way. The theory has numerous applications in quantum mechanics, and also in such areas as decision making and computer databases. A system of deterministic variables (as a special case of random variables) is always void of purely contextual influences. There are, however, situations when we know that a system is one of a set of deterministic systems, but we cannot know which one. In such situations we can assign epistemic (Bayesian) probabilities to possible deterministic systems, create thereby a system of epistemic random variables, and subject it to contextual analysis. In this way one can treat, in particular, such logical antinomies as the Liar paradox. The simplest systems of epistemic random variables describing the latter have no direct cross-influences and the maximal possible degree of purely contextual influences.
All welcome!
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Award Ceremony for the Third Annual Ruth Garrett Millikan Graduate Research Fellowship
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Philosophy Brown Bag Series
