FEW 2004 Schedule

[All sessions will be held in 5101 Tolman Hall. All papers/presentations are in Adobe PDF.]

21 May 2004
22 May 2004
23 May 2004
8:30am–9am
(Coffee/Mingling)
Coffee/Mingling/Welcome
Coffee/Mingling
Coffee/Mingling
9am–10:15am
(Paper)

Patrick Suppes
Keynote Address
Naturalized Epistemology:
A Sampler of Problems [slides]

Clark Glymour
Elementary Lectures on Thirteen
Problems for Science and Its Philosophy

Comments by Fabrizio Cariani

Elliott Sober
Coincidences and How to Think About Them [slides]
Comments by Wouter Meijs
10:15am–11:15am
(Tutorial)
Stephan Hartmann
Bayesian Networks

Clark Glymour
Bayes Nets and the
Automation of Discovery

Jim Joyce
The Accuracy of Partial Beliefs
11:15am–12:30pm
(Paper)
Jim Hawthorne
A Better Bayesian Convergence Theorem [slides]
Comments by Christopher Pappas
Peter Vranas
Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: The Old
Principal Principle Reconciled with the New
[slides]

Comments by Gabriella Pigozzi
Susan Vineberg
Beauty's Cautionary Tale
Comments by Mike Titelbaum
12:30pm–1:45pm
(Lunch)
Lunch Break
Lunch Break

Lunch Break

1:45pm–3pm
(Paper/Tutorial)
Michael Strevens
The Wrong Problem: Relevance and
Irrelevance in Bayesian Confirmation Theory

[slides]
Comments by Luca Moretti
Alan Hájek
Symmetry is the Very Guide of Life
Comments by Madison Williams

Jim Joyce
The Accuracy of Partial Beliefs
3pm–4pm
(Tutorial)
Stephan Hartmann
Applications in Epistemology
Clark Glymour
Bayes Nets and the
Automation of Discovery
Discussion/Farewell
4pm–4:30pm
(Break/Discussion)
Break/Discussion
Break/Discussion


Photo taken by Alan Hájek

4:30pm–5:45pm
(Paper)
Sherrilyn Roush
The Probability of the Evidence [slides]
Comments by James Justus
Brian Weatherson
Uncertainty, Probability and
Non-Classical Logic

Comments by Kenny Easwaran
5:45pm–7pm
(Dinner Break)
Dinner Break
Dinner Break
7pm–8:15pm
(Tutorial/Paper)
Stephan Hartmann
Applications in Philosophy of Science
Franz Huber
Assessing Theories [slides]
Comments by Alexander Moffett