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Dario Mantovani
Wealth and justice : the thinking of the Ancients
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Abstract The ancient Roman world never had a body of knowledge comparable to the science of economics as we understand it today. However, in antiquity, there was a discourse on " economics " and numerous treatises on the subject (for example, those of …
2:30 - 3:30pm

Laurent Keller
Social evolution and ecological success
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Documents and media Download support …
11:30am - 12:30pm

Olivier Rioul
Information leaks and back-channel attacks
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Abstract The definitions of Shannon entropy, Kullback-Leibler divergence and Fano mutual information were used by Shannon in " operational form " to solve coding problems (compression and transmission). Other types of problem call on other notions, such …
11:15am - 12:15pm

Tatiana Giraud
The evolution of behavior : why are we capable of altruism ?
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Abstract This lecture is devoted to current theories, within the framework of neo-Darwinian theory, aimed at explaining the evolution of behaviors or traits that have long remained enigmas, such as cooperation (how can a behavior that costs offspring by …
10:00 - 11:30am

Stéphane Mallat
Compression using orthogonal transforms
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Abstract Audio and image compression algorithms are often based on an orthogonal transformation that produces many small coefficients that can be approximated by zeros. The resulting coefficients are quantized and then represented in binary form using …
9:30 - 11:00am

Seth Yalcin
Discussion (5)
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) …
7:00 - 7:45pm

Seth Yalcin
Iffy Knowledge and Iffy Existence
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) Abstract We know that Holmes doesn't exist. Yet we seem also to have lots of iffy knowledge of the form: if Holmes exists, Holmes is F (Yablo 2020). I will consider the question how best to …
6:15 - 7:00pm

Kit Fine
Discussion (4)
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) …
5:15 - 5:45pm

Kit Fine
Is Self-Reference Possible?
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) Abstract Yes, but not as easy to achieve as one might have thought. Kit Fine Kit Fine is University Professor and Silver Professor in Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. He mainly …
4:30 - 5:15pm

Gideon Rosen
Discussion (3)
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) …
3:45 - 4:30pm

Gideon Rosen
Coincidence and Consciousness
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Session chaired by : Anouk Barberousse (Sorbonne University) Abstract Yablo 1987 is an early statement of modal profile pluralism (MPP): the idea that in the vicinity of every ordinary object there exist infinitely many coincident objects, one for each …
3:00 - 3:45pm

Friederike Moltmann
Discussion (2)
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Session chaired by : Jean-Baptise Rauzy (Sorbonne University) …
12:30 - 1:15pm

Friederike Moltmann
Object-Based Truthmaker Semantics for Different Clause Types
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Session chaired by : Jean-Baptise Rauzy (Sorbonne University) Abstract I will present a development of object-based truthmaker semantics for different types of clauses, that-clauses on different readings, wh-clauses and infinitival clauses. Friederike …
11:45am - 12:30pm

Paul Égré
Discussion (1)
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Session chaired by : Jean-Baptise Rauzy (Sorbonne University) …
11:00 - 11:45am

Jenny Wallensten
Exploring the interface between men and gods in ancient Greece (3)
Guest lecturer
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5:00 - 6:00pm

Jean-Noël Robert
Farewell to the Lotus
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10:30 - 11:30am

Carolina Sartorio
Discussion (5)
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Session chaired by : Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (Collège de France) …
6:00 - 7:00pm

Carolina Sartorio
A Good Cause
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Session chaired by : Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (Collège de France) Abstract I draw attention to an underappreciated virtue of Yablo's account of causation. It's the fact that the concept of cause that results from it is (in principle, at least) particularly …
5:15 - 6:00pm

Max Kistler
Discussion (4)
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Session chaired by : Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (Collège de France) …
4:15 - 4:45pm

Max Kistler
Reply to the Exclusion Argument in Terms of Proportional and Specific Causation
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Session chaired by : Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (Collège de France) Abstract Stephen Yablo has offered an influential solution to the problem raised by Kim's "exclusion argument" according to which mental events, and more generally higher-level events of any …
3:30 - 4:15pm

Matteo Plebani
Discussion (3)
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Session chaired by : Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (Collège de France) …
2:45 - 3:30pm

Dominique Bureau
Carbon costs
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Dominique Bureau Dominique Bureau is Chairman of the Commission de l'économie du développement durable. He was previously Chairman of the French Official Statistics Authority, after serving as Director of Economic and International Affairs at the Ministry …
11:15am - 12:15pm

Matteo Plebani
Predicative Subject Matter
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Session chaired by : Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (Collège de France) Abstract Philosophers and logicians have recently devoted considerable effort to trying to elucidate the elusive notion of subject matter (Fine 2016, 2020, Yablo 2014, Hawke 2017, Berto 2018, …
2:00 - 2:45pm

Christian Gollier
End of the world and end of the month : how to reconcile economics and ecology ?
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Summary proposals and recommendations for climate policies: Citizens' Climate Convention, European Green Pact, COP26 in Glasgow... Documents and media Download …
10:00 - 11:00am