Anna Mahtani's guest appearances

Anna Mahtani

Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society

Portugal Street Philosophy Podcast

Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method

Alex Voorhoeve

David Papineau

James Wilson

Sean Carroll

Philip Goff

Elizabeth Barnes

Guy Longworth

Rae Langton

Katrin Flikschuh

Helen Beebee

Emma Borg

Emily Thomas

Jessica Moss

Melissa Lane

John Gardner

OwlTail

Welcome to the eighth episode of the Portugal Street Philosophy Podcast, the official podcast of the LSE Philosophy Society. In each episode, we take an important philosophical question and explore our best current attempts to answer it. For this episode, our question is “What are probabilities?” and our guide to the topic is Professor Anna Mahtani. In this episode we discuss:  Subjective and objective probabilities The Kolmogorov axioms Interpretations of probability Dutch Book arguments and rationality Subjective probabilities and epistemic states Epistemic states of real vs. ideal agents Open questions in bounded rationality: awareness growth, imprecise probabilism  About our guest: Anna Mahtani is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. She works on the philosophy of language, decision theory, formal epistemology, and welfare economics, as well as the relationship between these areas. She has published on a wide range of topics, including vagueness, imprecise probabilism, arguments for probabilism, and the ex-ante Pareto principle. She is currently writing a book called The Objects of Credence. Check out Anna's website here: https://personal.lse.ac.uk/mahtania/ About your host: Eric Chen is an undergraduate studying Philosophy and Economics at the London School of Economics.

Welcome to the eighth episode of the Portugal Street Philosophy Podcast, the official podcast of the LSE Philosophy Society. In each episode, we take an important philosophical question and explore our best current attempts to answer it. For this episode, our question is “What are probabilities?” and our guide to the topic is Professor Anna Mahtani. In this episode we discuss: <ul> <li>Subjective and objective probabilities</li> <li>The Kolmogorov axioms</li> <li>Interpretations of probability</li> <li>Dutch Book arguments and rationality</li> <li>Subjective probabilities and epistemic states</li> <li>Epistemic states of real vs. ideal agents</li> <li>Open questions in bounded rationality: awareness growth, imprecise probabilism</li> </ul> About our guest: Anna Mahtani is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics. She works on the philosophy of language, decision theory, formal epistemology, and welfare economics, as well as the relationship between these areas. She has published on a wide range of topics, including vagueness, imprecise probabilism, arguments for probabilism, and the ex-ante Pareto principle. She is currently writing a book called The Objects of Credence. Check out Anna's website here: <a href="https://personal.lse.ac.uk/mahtania/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://personal.lse.ac.uk/mahtania/</a> About your host: Eric Chen is an undergraduate studying Philosophy and Economics at the London School of Economics.

8. Anna Mahtani | What are probabilities?

Anna Mahtani is Associate Professor in philosophy at the London School of Economics. She did her PhD on vagueness at Sheffield, and then worked at Oxford and the Open University, before arriving at the LSE. She studies decision theory, formal epistemology, and the philosophy of language, and works at the intersection of these different disciplines. She is currently working on several projects: tracing the implications of Frege’s puzzle for various principles of welfare economics; analysing the phenomenon of ‘awareness growth’; and writing a book called The Objects of Credence. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Mahtani's talk - 'Dutch Book and Accuracy Theorems' - at the Aristotelian Society on 1 June 2020. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Anna Mahtani is Associate Professor in philosophy at the London School of Economics. She did her PhD on vagueness at Sheffield, and then worked at Oxford and the Open University, before arriving at the LSE. She studies decision theory, formal epistemology, and the philosophy of language, and works at the intersection of these different disciplines. She is currently working on several projects: tracing the implications of Frege’s puzzle for various principles of welfare economics; analysing the phenomenon of ‘awareness growth’; and writing a book called The Objects of Credence. This podcast is an audio recording of Dr. Mahtani's talk - 'Dutch Book and Accuracy Theorems' - at the Aristotelian Society on 1 June 2020. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

1/6/2020: Anna Mahtani on Dutch Book and Accuracy Theorems