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>Happy new year to everyone. A couple of highlights of 2005:
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>1. My book, "Bayesian nets and causality: philosophical and computational
>foundations" (OUP) is now available.
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>Bayesian nets are widely used in artificial intelligence as a calculus for
>causal reasoning, enabling machines to make predictions, perform diagnoses,
>take decisions and even to discover causal relationships. This book, aimed
>at researchers and graduate students in computer science, mathematics and
>philosophy, brings together two important research topics: how to automate
>reasoning in artificial intelligence, and the nature of causality and
>probability in philosophy.
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>http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11/jw.htm#bnac
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>2. Progic2005: second workshop on Combining Probability and Logic
>special focus: Objective Bayesianism
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>Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of
>Economics, 6th-8th July 2005
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>http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11/progic2005/
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>You are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the workshop and
>publication in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and
>Computation.
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>There is a clear connection between probability and logic: both appear to
>tell us how we should reason. But how, exactly, are the two concepts
>related? Objective Bayesianism offers one answer to this question. According
>to objective Bayesianism, probability generalises deductive logic: deductive
>logic tells us which conclusions are certain, given a set of premises, while
>probability tells us the extent to which one should believe a conclusion,
>given the premises (certain conclusions being awarded full degree of
>belief). According to objective Bayesianism, the premises objectively (i.e.
>uniquely) determine the degree to which one should believe a conclusion.
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>The aim of this workshop is to explore the connections between probability
>and logic, and in particular to evaluate aspects of the connection forged by
>objective Bayesianism. The workshop is intended to be interdisciplinary: the
>themes of the workshop are relevant to mathematicians, logicians,
>philosophers, computer scientists, psychologists and engineers, for example.
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>Further details:
>http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11/progic2005/
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>All the best,
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>Jon Williamson
>Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of
>Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
>http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11
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