Workshop on Learning, Randomness, and Complexity

October 8-9, 2022
Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie Mellon University (Adamson Wing, Baker Hall)

Program

Saturday, October 8, 2022

8:30am-9:00am Light breakfast 

9:00am-9:10am Opening Remarks by Kevin Kelly, Center for Formal Epistemology Director

9:10am-10:25am Chris Porter (Drake University), Learning, Randomness, and Depth

10:25am-10:45am Coffee break

10:45am-12:00pm Johanna Franklin (Hofstra University), Algorithmic randomness and mind changes

12:00pm-2:00pm Lunch break

2:00pm-3:15pm Gordon Belot (University of Michigan), That Does Not Compute: David Lewis on Credence and Chance

3:15pm-3:30pm Coffee break

3:30pm-4:45pm Francesca Zaffora Blando (Carnegie Mellon University), Learning and Chances for Computable Bayesian Agents

4:45pm-6:00pm Reception, Adamson Wing, Baker Hall

6:00pm Workshop dinner

Sunday, October 9, 2022

8:30am-9:00am Light breakfast 

9:00am-10:15am Simon Huttegger (University of California, Irvine), Superconditioning

10:15am-10:45am Coffee break

10:45am-12:00pm Kevin Kelly (Carnegie Mellon University), Random Sampling, Topological Complexity, and Learnability