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The Department of Philosophy Colloquium Series will present the following:
Ideal Rationality + Ignorance = Omniscience
Guest Speaker: Gillman Payette
Friday, May 10 2019
2 p.m.
A580
Christensen (2007) argues that there is a tension between three properties of Ideally Rational Agents (IRAs), one of which is logical omniscience. Smithies (2015) offers an understanding of IRAs that he claims circumvents this tension. I will argue that we can work within a system that satisfies Smithies' requirements, but in fact supports a stronger claim than Christensen's. Namely, Ideal Rationality + Ignorance = Omniscience.
Everyone is welcome.
Contact:
Bev Garnett | bev.garnett@uleth.ca | (403) 380-1894
