Helena Fang
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PhD student at MIT philosophy; learning how to flip a fair coin. www.helenafang.com
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I'm excited to share that my first paper "Guessing and its Limits" is forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research! Thread below. TLDR: I present a novel puzzle for a recent "question-sensitive" theory of guessing/belief in multi-question scenarios.
philpapers.org/rec/FANGAI-2
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Helena Fang, Guessing and its Limits - PhilPapers
Guessing is the thesis that, roughly put, you may believe something iff it is among the most probable answers to a salient question. The thesis is motivated by observed features of ...
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I'm excited to share that my first paper "Guessing and its Limits" is forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research! Thread below. TLDR: I present a novel puzzle for a recent "question-sensitive" theory of guessing/belief in multi-question scenarios.
philpapers.org/rec/FANGAI-2
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Helena Fang, Guessing and its Limits - PhilPapers
Guessing is the thesis that, roughly put, you may believe something iff it is among the most probable answers to a salient question. The thesis is motivated by observed features of ...
https://philpapers.org/rec/FANGAI-2
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Jonathan Weisberg
28 days ago
Reviewers reading my technical appendix:
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Come to our session at the Eastern APA next week!
@chenhao345.bsky.social
will present an excellent solution to my puzzle about inter-question guessing (so-called "weak belief"); then
@benholguin.bsky.social
and I will respond. (AFAIK this is the first response in the literature!) Should be fun.
about 1 month ago
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I’ve been harassing every single person I know over the past couple of months about this paper nonstop and now here’s an even better promotion
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Juan Murillo Vargas
about 2 months ago
I know of some work vaguely in this direction (e.g., studies on how non-human primates don't learn language) but wanted to ask: does anyone know studies/literature on whether non-human animals ask questions? (My understanding is they don't but want to read the lit before I form a strong view.)
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Kenneth Black
about 2 months ago
Two-boxers, you know what to do
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Zoe Drayson
2 months ago
There’s more. She reviews “Steffan Yabble” here.
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Kevin Zollman
3 months ago
Happy to report that this paper is now out (Open Access!)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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writing my paper for my history course at harvard in the most mit way possible:
3 months ago
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Kate Klonick
3 months ago
Everything I know about legal formalism I learned from It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
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or as Helena calls it "simple-modelogy"
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3 months ago
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As a formal epistemologist AND rhythm game nerd I just came to the realization that the two fields ARE THE SAME---both are about MAXIMIZING ACCURACY
3 months ago
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Okay this is for next week
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4 months ago
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me: so i decided to write my fifth term paper on a cursed topic; guess which one my committee: de se belief me: not THAT cursed
4 months ago
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Having so much fun making my advising meeting handouts
4 months ago
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Kenneth Black
7 months ago
Pleased to announce that my paper, “Common Ground, Conditionals, and Ceteris Paribus Pragmatics,” is forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy! 🧵
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Kenneth Black, Common Ground, Conditionals, and _Ceteris Paribus_ Pragmatics - PhilArchive
In conversation, we make use of shared information in order to communicate. But what shared information? In theorising about conversation, it’s popular to allot a privileged position to a single body ...
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Juan Murillo Vargas
6 months ago
Happy to announce that my paper "How Language-Like is the Language of Thought?" is forthcoming at Ergo! Thread with a TL;DR below!
philpapers.org/rec/MURHLI-3
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Juan Murillo Vargas, How Language-Like is the Language of Thought? - PhilPapers
The language of thought hypothesis (LoTH) claims that thoughts are underpinned by language-like vehicles. A central motivation is that there is a relevant similarity between language and thought expla...
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Brett Karlan
7 months ago
New theory of deontic modality just dropped
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Experimental Philosophy
7 months ago
Yale Philosophy offers a course on “Formal Philosophical Methods” — a broad introduction to probability, logic, formal semantics, etc. Instructor Calum McNamara has now made all materials for the course (78 pages) freely available
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Dmitri Gallow
8 months ago
Last semester, I taught a graduate seminar on Bayesian epistemology. Here are my lecture notes:
jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf
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Four reasons why one should come to Iceland: 1. For my FEW 2. For
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's amazing comments and epic table 3. For seeing a normal distribution in real life 4. For THE CLOCK (a marked one though)
8 months ago
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increasingly convinced that philosophy is all about preorders
10 months ago
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Did 3 presentations in 4 days consisting of (i) my first talk in a room full of strangers (ii) a prosem presentation where I made my handout in an hour and (iii) presenting for the epistemology reading group during prospective visits on a paper almost impossible to present. EXTREMELY proud of myself
10 months ago
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Absolutely horrendous truth: I didn't know how to flip a coin. (Until was taught this morning.) I literally did not know. Even though all my papers are on coinflips rip
10 months ago
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my second fav argument in philosophy: argument from elegance
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@chenhao345.bsky.social
: i think when ppl say 'might or might not p' they simply ARE conveying trivial information (hence triviality doesn't matter) Me: oops guess i should stop writing like that in my paper
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am at a point where I simply hate partition sensitivity: it makes everything too easy that it makes everything too hard
about 1 year ago
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everything in Knowledge and its Limits
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about 1 year ago
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Richard Pettigrew
about 1 year ago
Same thing almost made Lewis give up Humeanism
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Kenneth Black
about 1 year ago
First two chapters of Inquiry *obviously*
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Finally found my way here!
about 1 year ago
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you reached the end!!
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