Join us in Auerbach Hall Room 321 at the University of Hartford or online this Wednesday, March 26, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., for our next meeting of the University of Hartford Philosophy Club for the following presentation and discussion, "A Priori and A Posteriori Probability—What are the Odds?" with Clark Sexton.
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What are the odds of a tossed coin coming up heads? How do we determine the answer to this question? Clark Sexton will discuss the distinction between a priori and a posteriori probability and how these concepts apply to these questions.
So much fun stuff involved in our seminar!
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Money (coins, at least)
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Gambling
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Classic Cult Films
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Magic / Sleight of hand
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Robots and A.I.
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Logic
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Philosophy (especially Epistemology)
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The Nature of Mathematical Truths
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And even a little Poetry!
Where to begin?
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Introduction to Probability
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Probability Turned on its Head?
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead!
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Discussion
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Inductive Logic - Introduction
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The A Priori / A Posteriori Distinction
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A Priori Probability
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Philosophy of Mathematics
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A Little Clearer? "... we should be obliged to become a little clearer than is usual about the distinction between arithmetic and physics, that is all."
[C.I. Lewis]
Clark Sexton of Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas, earned doctorates both in Computer Science from Kansas State University and in Philosophy from the University of Kansas. His research in Computer Science was in Artificial Intelligence, and, more specifically, Natural Language Processing. For this research, he implemented an NLP system that could parse a wide range of syntactic structures of English, perform type-checking to determine whether a sentence is meaningful, and disambiguate certain ambiguous expressions.
Clark Sexton continued his exploration of the relations of meanings in his dissertation in Philosophy, in which he presented a brief history of the analytic/synthetic distinction, replied to Quine's objections, and provided and presented arguments for his own account of the distinction.
The University of Hartford Philosophy Club has an informal, jovial atmosphere. It is a place where students, professors, and people from the community at large meet as peers. Sometimes presentations are given, followed by discussion. Other times, topics are hashed out by the whole group.
Presenters may be students, professors, or people from the community. Anyone can offer to present a topic. The mode of presentation may be as formal or informal as the presenter chooses.
Come and go as you wish. Bring friends. Suggest topics and activities. Take over the club! It belongs to you! Just show up! - Brian Skelly (bskelly@hartford.edu; 413.273.2273)