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
Feb/01 | Thu | 10:30AM-06:00PM | 32-D461 |
Please see website for complete details: http://web.mit.edu/philosophy/mm/
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
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
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