Practical Reason and Permissible Preference - Joe Horton (UCL)
Seminar
Speaker: Joe Horton How should you choose when you do not know how to evaluate your options? Suppose, for example, that a consequentialist theory evaluates your options one way, a deontological theory evaluates them another way, and you do not know which of these theories is correct…
The Logic and Impacts of Rebel Public Services Provision: Evidence from Taliban Courts in Afghanistan
Seminar
Rebel organizations regularly provide public services, even as they primarily focus on fighting. Existing scholarship documents many predictors of insurgent services, but the theoretical mechanisms for, and downstream effects of, these activities remain unclear. This study examines Taliban courts…
Russia’s War on Ukraine: Where from and Where to now?
Seminar
It is now over a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and there is little indication that the fighting is subsiding. Indeed, with increasing levels of support among different nations for both Russia and Ukraine, the war may be intensifying. The panel of experts on Russia, Eurasia and…
21 Mar - TBC
Seminar
Almost all of our reasoning is *defeasible*: that is, our inferences go through only other things equal, and there are always more of them -- the list of things that might go wrong is open-ended, and doesn't run out. Most work on defeasibility (or non-monotonic reasoning, if you're in…
Demography Flash Session: 2 Presentations in Advance of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America
Seminar
Housing, Marriage, and Childbearing Pathways in a Low-Fertility Setting Using a life course perspective, this study aims to identify the multi-trajectories of housing, marriage, and childbearing across adulthood in Taiwan and examine whether earlier life circumstances are associated with…
Conceptualizing Social Protection Interventions: Global and Transnational Perspectives
Seminar
Transnational Social Protection (TSP) focuses on the various individual and collective strategies for addressing the social risks faced by actors who cross national boundaries. In recent years, TSP has become a critical area of research due to the growing diversity of migration, increased global…
Bounded Utilities and Ex Ante Pareto - Petra Kosonen (UT Austin)
Seminar
Speaker: Petra Kosonen This talk shows that decision theories on which utilities are bounded, such as standard axiomatizations of Expected Utility Theory, violate Ex Ante Pareto if combined with an additive axiology, such as Total Utilitarianism. A series of impossibility theorems…