Schedule: Probability Conference – The Metaphysics of Laws and Probability

Rutgers Conference on the Philosophy of Probability

October 24-26, 2019

Thursday, October 24

3:00 – 6:00pm: Opening Session: Metaphysics of Objective Probability

Ned Hall (Harvard) “Humean revisionism about chance” (3:00-4:00) video
Jenann Ismael (Columbia) “Some Worries About Humean Probabilities” (4:00-5:00) video
10-min Break
Discussion & Audience Q&A (5:10-6:00)

Friday, October 25

9:00 – 9:50am: Coffee & Pastries

9:50 – 10:00am: Welcome & Introductory Remarks (Barry Loewer)

10:00am – 1:00pm: Session #2: Chance

Katie Elliott (UCLA) “Chance Explanation” (10:00-11:20)
20-min Break
Christopher Meacham (Amherst) “What a non-Humean Lewisian should say about laws and chance” (11:40-1:00) video

1:00 – 2:30pm: Break for lunch

2:30 – 5:30pm: Session #3: Probabilities in the Special Sciences

Wayne Myrvold (Western Ontario) “Beyond Chance and Credence” (2:30-3:50) video
20-min Break
Carl Hoefer (Barcelona) “How a priori should the chances be in Statistical Mechanics?” (4:10-5:30) slides video

Saturday, October 26

9:00 – 10:00am: Coffee & Pastries

10:00am – 1:00pm: Session #4: Chance-Credence Principles

Richard Pettigrew (Bristol) “What accuracy can teach us about chance-credence principles” (10:00-11:20) video
20-min Break
Jack Spencer (MIT) “How (Not) to Justify Chance-Credence Norms” (11:40-1:00)

1:00 – 2:30pm: Break for lunch

2:30 – 5:30pm: Session #5:Typicality and the Statistical Postulate

Valia Allori (NIU) “Typicality, Probability, and Explanation” (2:30-3:30) slides video
David Albert (Columbia) “Typicality?” (3:30-4:30) video
10-min Break
Discussion & Audience Q&A (4:40-5:30)