Dmitri Gallow
@dmitrigallow.bsky.social
Philosopher @ USC https://jdmitrigallow.com
New publication, "Comparativism about Instrumental Value". I started this project back when I was living in Melbourne. V happy that it's finally found a home. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...
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The typeset version of my paper "Structured Deliberation" is now available online: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Structured Deliberation
Abstract. Rather than deciding between all of the options on a menu in one fell swoop, you could instead structure your deliberation by splitting it up int
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This semester, I taught an undergraduate course on Probability and Rational Choice for the first time. My lecture notes are here: jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/par...
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I have a new paper forthcoming at Mind, called "Structured Deliberation". It's about a certain way of deliberating about a complex decisions: split the large menu of options up into submenus, choose between submenus, and thereafter choose from the selected submenu... philpapers.org/go.pl?aid=GA...
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*Excellent* new paper from @bweatherson.bsky.social on deference. He shows, among other things, that Kevin Dorst's Total Trust principle comes apart from the Value of Information thesis in infinite probability frames. ojs.victoria.ac.nz/ajl/article/...
View of Deference and Infinite Frames
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Last semester, I taught a graduate seminar on Bayesian epistemology. Here are my lecture notes: jdmitrigallow.com/teaching/epist25/aitbe.pdf
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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...
Causation and Influence in Causal Influence Models
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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)
Causation and Influence in Causal Influence Models
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This paper, offering two game-theoretic arguments against Uniqueness in epistemology, is now forthcoming in Erkenntnis. #philsky brian.weatherson.org/quarto/posts...
Epistemic Permissiveness and Symmetric Games – Brian Weatherson
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Just submitted the completed manuscript of The Book of Infinity to MIT Press. Hoping for the best! #BookOfInfinity
Budget shortfalls are a real issue and they need to be addressed with cuts somewhere. I do hope my erstwhile colleague Ann Cudd considered taking a pay cut herself before hanging actual philosophers out to dry. www.portlandmercury.com/news/2024/12...
PSU Lays Off 17 Academic Faculty Members As Union Talks of Potential Strike
Amid an $18 million budget deficit, Portland State University is laying off 17 non-tenure track faculty, citing “changes in programmatic and curricular needs.” The university issued layoff notices on ...
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I really wish Americans could get as excited about improving our laws as they get about vigilante justice
Incredible video on rainbows from Veritasium www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Gf...
You're Probably Wrong About Rainbows
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My paper "instrumental divergence" is now available online: rdcu.be/dDXHR (If you want a typo-free version, you can go to philpapers.org/rec/GALIDB)
Instrumental divergence
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FEW 2024 is going to be held in Australia, at the ANU. Submit! sites.google.com/view/few-202...
FEW 2024
The 2024 Formal Epistemology Workshop will be hosted by the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University in Canberra, ACT, Australia. It will be held from 15th-17th July, 2024.
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