Dear all,
next Monday we will have our first LIRa session for this semester. Please note the special day and time. Regular sessions will start on Friday the 23rd. For all details see https://www.illc.uva.nl/lgc/seminar/
Speaker: Branden Fitelson (Northeastern University, Boston)
Date and Time: Monday, September 19th 2016, 11:00-12:30
Venue: ILLC Seminar Room F1.15, Science Park 107.
Title: Two New(ish) Triviality Results for Indicative Conditionals.
Abstract: I will do two things in this talk: (1) present an axiomatic generalization of Gibbard's (logical) triviality result for indicative conditionals, and (2) present an algebraic strengthening of Lewis'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) "odd consequences" of Import-Export.
Hope to see you all!
The LIRa team