Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #rfmp2019
Most recents (2)
Ok! Day 2 of Rethinking Formal Methods in Philosophy #RFMP2019 - today we're talking metaphilosophy, and some concrete examples of formal tools in philosophy. We're starting with a talk by Branden Fitelson (@fitelson) How to Model Epistemic Probabilities of Conditionals
Literal galaxy brain take? Not so, #RFMP2019 host Samuel Fletcher assures us - that’s just what Massachusetts looks like. 
His paper is on Lewis work on Probabilities of Conditionals: Fitelson says in early work Lewis made a subtle mistake about what how formal methods can fruitfully interact with philosophy, and so misled a generation into rejecting Adam's Thesis (philsci-archive.pitt.edu/15208/1/gigo8c…)
Ok about to kick off the Rethinking Formal Methods in Philosophy #RFMP2019 conference, gonna livetweet it in this thread today. First talk by Joshua Knobe, discussing what Formal Methods are Most Used in Philosophy? - empirical evidence about what we're actually doing!
Why care what formal methods we should actually use? Knobe says he is thinking in particular about what we should teach students, maybe especially graduate students given that they will go on to shape the field #RFMP2019
He used to think this was just a bureaucratic question about how we organise our departments - but he now thinks it is important that we think what sort of knowledge will be best for our students as they go on in life, and how we answer this changes what knowledge they will have.
