Department of Mathematics
Title : Ceteris paribus reasoning and preferences
| Speaker: Patrick Girard Affiliation: The University of Auckland Time: 4:00 pm Monday, 30 April, 2012 Location: Room 6115, Owen Glenn Building |
Abstract
| Ceteris Paribus clauses in reasoning are used to allow for defeaters of norms, rules or laws, such as in von Wright's example "I prefer my raincoat over my umbrella, everything else being equal". I offer an analysis in which sets of formulas Γ, embedded in modal operators, provide necessary and sufficient conditions for things to be equal in ceteris paribus clauses. I'll talk about how ceteris paribus preferences can be formalised and discuss questions that arise with the formalisation, and propose some solutions. |
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Programmes and Centres
- New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (NZIMA)
- Community for Understanding and Learning in the Mathematical Sciences (CULMS)
- Centre for Mathematical Social Science (CMSS)
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Engineering Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Statistics
- Auckland Bioengineering Institute
