3rd Belgrade Conference on Conditionals

May 28-30, 2017

Philosophy department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade

 

Unfortunately, this even is cancelled.
Hopefully it will happen sometime in the future.

 

Chances, credences and counterfactual probabilities:

Workshop on probability and determinism

May 31 - June 1 2017

  Organized by Nenad Filipovic and Vladan Djordjevic

Subject: (In)compatibilism of chance and determinism. Are there other concepts of objective probability compatible with determinism? Talks will be related to the main types of answers:

I) the concept of chance is not compatible with determinism because the role we expect that chances play in relation with other concepts (credence, laws, etc) cannot be fulfilled unless chances take only extreme values.

II) the concept of chance is compatible with determinism because probabilities which play roles in special sciences such as classical statistical mechanics and evolutionary biology cannot be credences, so these probabilities must be chances.

III) the concept of chance is not compatible with determinism, but probabilities which play roles in special sciences are not credences. They are another kind of objective probabilities – counterfactual probabilities.

IV) the concept of chance is compatible with determinism, but probabilities which play roles in special sciences are not credences. They are another kind of objective probabilities – counterfactual probabilities.




     Confirmed speakers so far:
  • Nenad Filipovic (Belgrade) • TBA
  • Carl Hoefer (Barcelona) • TBA
  • Aidan Lyon (Maryland) • TBA