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8. Anna Mahtani | What are probabilities? Portugal Street Philosophy Podcast
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Welcome to the eighth episode of the Portugal Street Philosophy Podcast, the official podcast of the LSE Philosophy Society. In each episode, we take an important philosophical question and explore our best current attempts to answer it. For this episode, our question is “What are probabilities?” and our guide to the topic is Professor Anna Mahtani.
In this episode we discuss:
Subjective and objective probabilities
The Kolmogorov axioms
Interpretations of probability
Dutch Book arguments and rationality
Subjective probabilities and epistemic states
Epistemic states of real vs. ideal agents
Open questions in bounded rationality: awareness growth, imprecise probabilism
About our guest:
Anna Mahtani is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. She works on the philosophy of language, decision theory, formal epistemology, and welfare economics, as well as the relationship between these areas. She has published on a wide range of topics, including vagueness, imprecise probabilism, arguments for probabilism, and the ex-ante Pareto principle. She is currently writing a book called The Objects of Credence. Check out Anna's website here: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/mahtania/
About your host:
Eric Chen is an undergraduate studying Philosophy and Economics at the London School of Economics.
Welcome to the eighth episode of the Portugal Street Philosophy Podcast, the official podcast of the LSE Philosophy Society. In each episode, we take an important philosophical question and explore our best current attempts to answer it. For this episode, our question is “What are probabilities?” and our guide to the topic is Professor Anna Mahtani.
In this episode we discuss:
Subjective and objective probabilities
The Kolmogorov axioms
Interpretations of probability
Dutch Book arguments and rationality
Subjective probabilities and epistemic states
Epistemic states of real vs. ideal agents
Open questions in bounded rationality: awareness growth, imprecise probabilism
About our guest:
Anna Mahtani is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. She works on the philosophy of language, decision theory, formal epistemology, and welfare economics, as well as the relationship between these areas. She has published on a wide range of topics, including vagueness, imprecise probabilism, arguments for probabilism, and the ex-ante Pareto principle. She is currently writing a book called The Objects of Credence. Check out Anna's website here: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/mahtania/
About your host:
Eric Chen is an undergraduate studying Philosophy and Economics at the London School of Economics.
51 мин.