IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor - Linguistics and Philosophy

Haley Schilling, Philosophy Graduate Student

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: none

This year’s MITing of the Minds is the Fourteenth Annual MIT Philosophy Alumni Conference. The conference will showcase recent work in a variety of areas of contemporary philosophy. Presentations will be accessible to a broad audience.

Sponsor(s): Linguistics and Philosophy
Contact: Christine Graham, 32-D808, 617 253-4653, CGRAHAM@MIT.EDU

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MITing of the Minds 2018

Feb/01

Thu

10:30AM-06:00PM

32-D461

Please see website for complete details: http://web.mit.edu/philosophy/mm/

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MITing of the Minds 2018

Feb/02

Fri

09:30AM-04:00PM

32-D461

Please see website for complete details: http://web.mit.edu/philosophy/mm/

Cosmo Grant

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

A short primer on statistics, covering the basics of significance testing, hypothesis testing, and parameter estimation, from both Bayesian and frequentist points of view, including some criticisms of the two.

Basic probability theory (e.g. being comfortable with random variables) would help, but isn't required.

Sponsor(s): Linguistics and Philosophy
Contact: Cosmo Grant, 617-331-8374, cdg@mit.edu

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	Jan/22	Mon	10:30AM-12:00PM	32-D461
	Jan/23	Tue	10:30AM-12:00PM	32-D461

Cosmo Grant

Thomas Byrne, Daniel Munoz

Jan/24

Wed

01:00PM-03:00PM

32-D831

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: No

An overview of the ethics (and psychology) of the most notorious thought experiment of the 20th century: the Trolley Problem.

Sponsor(s): Linguistics and Philosophy
Contact: Thomas Byrne, tJbb@mit.edu