{"id":5334,"date":"2025-01-16T11:29:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/?p=5334"},"modified":"2025-02-20T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:54:24","slug":"lira-session-gerhard-schurz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/2025\/01\/lira-session-gerhard-schurz\/","title":{"rendered":"LIRa session: Gerhard Schurz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recording of this talk: <a href=\"https:\/\/video.uva.nl\/media\/LIRa+seminar+on+2025-02-20+by+Gerhard+Schurz\/0_ir67kvbl\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Speaker: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.philosophie.hhu.de\/professuren\/seniorprofessur-theoretische-philosophie-gerhard-schurz\/gerhard-schurz\">Gerhard Schurz<\/a> (Heinrich-Heine-Universit\u00e4t D\u00fcsseldorf)<\/p>\n<p>Date and time: Thursday, February&nbsp;20th 2025, 16:30-18:00<\/p>\n<p>Venue: <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/guidelines-for-online-sessions\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Title: <strong>Meta-Induction and Its Applications in Social Epistemology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Abstract.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meta-induction has been developed as a new approach to Hume&#8217;s problem of justifying induction.\u00a0 The approach concedes the force of Hume\u2019s sceptical arguments against the possibility of a non-circular justification of the reliability of induction. What it demonstrates is that one can nevertheless give a non-circular justification of the optimality of induction based on meta-induction. The method of meta-induction tracks the success records of all accessible methods of prediction or action (including advice from experts, peers, or algorithms) and combines them in a success-dependent way, in order to obtain a superior method that is provably optimal among all predic\u00adtion methods accessible to the epistemic agent.<\/p>\n<p>Since meta-induction can be viewed as a form of social learning, it has important applications in social epistemology. In the second part of the talk a form of social learning called local meta-induction is presented. In local meta-induction it is assumed that individuals can access only the success records of the individuals in their immediate epistemic neighborhood. It is shown that local meta-inductive learning can spread reliable information over the entire population, and has clear advantages compared to success-independent social learning methods such as peer-imitation and authority-imitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recording of this talk: click here<\/p>\n<p>Speaker: Gerhard Schurz (Heinrich-Heine-Universit\u00e4t D\u00fcsseldorf)<br \/>\nDate and time: Thursday, February&nbsp;20th 2025, 16:30-18:00<br \/>\nVenue: online.<br \/>\nTitle: Meta-Induction and Its Applications in Social Epistemology<br \/>\nAbstract.<br \/>\nMeta-induction has been developed as a new approach to Hume&#8217;s problem of justifying induction.\u00a0 The approach concedes the force of Hume\u2019s sceptical arguments against the possibility of a non-circular justification of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5334"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5380,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5334\/revisions\/5380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.illc.uva.nl\/lgc\/seminar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}