Dmitri Gallow
@dmitrigallow.bsky.social
Philosopher @ USC
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@dmitrigallow.bsky.social
Philosopher @ USC
I don't see the contradiction between "I don't owe you X" and "if you're not an asshole, I'll give you X".
It's my policy on Halloween candy, for instance. I don't owe it to anyone, but if they're not an asshole, I'll give them some.
Last semester, I taught a graduate seminar on Bayesian epistemology. Here are my lecture notes:
jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf
Look, I agree with you, but the strategy for persuading OP has to be "ultimately, insincerity isn't a good strategy". She's never gonna go for "I just say what I think".
07.03.2025 02:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Video of a talk I gave at USC's Information Science Institute. It's meant to give an opinionated overview of the developments in the philosophy of causation over the past 30 years.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt...
Next was a thought-provoking talk by @dmitrigallow.bsky.social on recent developments in the philosophy of causation at the USC Information Sciences Institute www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rqt... (3/6)
11.02.2025 04:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This is my favorite song about my home state of Georgia, but since moving to LA, I can't really enjoy it in the same way.
27.01.2025 07:23 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0For every cardinal size, a set of things that size could but does not exist
19.01.2025 22:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Way more
19.01.2025 22:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
15.01.2025 20:44 — 👍 21 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 2
You can supervise any number of grad students, but only a certain number of dissertations. You just need to start encouraging your students to coauthor dissertations.
12.01.2025 21:10 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0That was my first choice
10.01.2025 14:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes
10.01.2025 14:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I reserve "decision" for the situation you are in when you have to select an option and "choice" for the selection you make. I don't think that distinction is there is ordinary English.
10.01.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I hope that, in the future, we're more focused on the philosophy than the philosophers.
07.01.2025 15:37 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This paper, offering two game-theoretic arguments against Uniqueness in epistemology, is now forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
#philsky
brian.weatherson.org/quarto/posts...
Jefferson dodges the real question of whether the distance between error and suspension is greater than the distance between suspension and truth
04.01.2025 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I believe this is just the Borel-Kolmogorov paradox, but Kenny and Snow keep telling me there's more to it that I'm missing
04.01.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Using the cdf avoids the Bertrand style paradoxes, but won't (1) imply that, for a uniform distribution over (0,1), 1/4 is less likely than 3/4, conditional on their disjunction? For the cdf, F(x) = Prob(X <= x) = x. So, conditional on 1/4 or 3/4, it's 1/4 likely to be 1/4.
04.01.2025 18:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0...But given the implied distribution over X^2, it's intuitive that the probability of X^2=1/4 is greater than the probably of X^2=9/4, conditional on their disjunction.
04.01.2025 17:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0... For instance, given a uniform distribution over X (which takes values between 0 and 2) it's intuitive that the probability of X=1/2 is the probability of X=3/2, conditional on their disjunction...
04.01.2025 17:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I heard about the argument from Brian Hedden, but when I went looking I couldn't find it in the de Finetti.
One reason to worry about the argument: as Wayne Myrvold points out, similar uniformity judgements conditional on prob zero events face Bertrand-style paradoxes...
I have been told that de finetti makes that argument against countable additivity
04.01.2025 17:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
