{"id":3085,"date":"2016-09-08T14:07:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T12:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2016-10-08T15:12:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T13:12:09","slug":"lira-session-branden-fitelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/2016\/09\/lira-session-branden-fitelson\/","title":{"rendered":"LogiCIC\/LIRa session: Branden Fitelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: <a href=\"http:\/\/fitelson.org\/\">Branden Fitelson<\/a> (Northeastern University, Boston)<\/p>\n<p>Date and Time: Monday, September&nbsp;19th 2016, 11:00-12:30<\/p>\n<p>Venue: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107.<\/p>\n<p>Title: <strong>Two New(ish) Triviality Results for Indicative Conditionals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: I will do two things in this talk: (1) present an axiomatic generalization of Gibbard&#8217;s (logical) triviality result for indicative conditionals, and (2) present an algebraic strengthening of Lewis&#8217;s (probabilistic) triviality result for indicative conditionals. Both results start from a very weak background theory (either logical or probabilistic) of the indicative conditional, and (relative to these weak backgrounds) both results will rely only on the so-called Import-Export Law. So, these results can be viewed as (general, and strong) &#8220;odd consequences&#8221; of Import-Export.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University, Boston)<br \/>\nDate and Time: Monday, September&nbsp;19th 2016, 11:00-12:30<br \/>\nVenue: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107.<br \/>\nTitle: Two New(ish) Triviality Results for Indicative Conditionals.<br \/>\nAbstract: I will do two things in this talk: (1) present an axiomatic generalization of Gibbard&#8217;s (logical) triviality result for indicative conditionals, and (2) present an algebraic strengthening of Lewis&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3146,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/3146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}