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All items | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioFrom probabilities to decisionsContributor(s): Professor Anna Mahtani | In deciding whether to carry out a particular healthcare policy for example, the process for reaching a decision will almost certainly involve a calculation of credences. Drawing from the Philosophy of Language, Anna Mahtani argues that objects of credence are "opaque". It matters then how the relevant object is described or designated.2024-03-251h 00All items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesFrom probabilities to decisionsContributor(s): Professor Anna Mahtani | In deciding whether to carry out a particular healthcare policy for example, the process for reaching a decision will almost certainly involve a calculation of credences. Drawing from the Philosophy of Language, Anna Mahtani argues that objects of credence are "opaque". It matters then how the relevant object is described or designated.2024-03-251h 00All items | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfFrom probabilities to decisionsContributor(s): Professor Anna Mahtani | In deciding whether to carry out a particular healthcare policy for example, the process for reaching a decision will almost certainly involve a calculation of credences. Drawing from the Philosophy of Language, Anna Mahtani argues that objects of credence are "opaque". It matters then how the relevant object is described or designated.2024-03-251h 00Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoFrom probabilities to decisionsContributor(s): Professor Anna Mahtani | In deciding whether to carry out a particular healthcare policy for example, the process for reaching a decision will almost certainly involve a calculation of credences. Drawing from the Philosophy of Language, Anna Mahtani argues that objects of credence are "opaque". It matters then how the relevant object is described or designated.2024-03-251h 00
University of CambridgeMoney and the Metaphors of Power – with Joe CribbWhen we say that money is power, what exactly do we mean?
Anna Mahtani talks to numismatist and former curator of coins at the British Museum Joe Cribb about the past and future of money. From ancient Chinese coins to cryptocurrencies, what does the study of money tell us about our world and who has power within it?
Music by Coby O'Brien
Produced by Rebekah King2023-04-1344 min
Say That Again Slowly - The Cambridge Festival Podcast!Money and the Metaphors of Power – with Joe CribbWhen we say that money is power, what exactly do we mean?
Anna Mahtani talks to numismatist and former curator of coins at the British Museum
Joe Cribb about the past and future of money. From ancient Chinese coins to
cryptocurrencies, what does the study of money tell us about our world and who
has power within it?
Music by Coby O'BrienProduced by Rebekah King 2023-03-2444 min
Say That Again Slowly - The Cambridge Festival Podcast!Money and the Metaphors of Power – with Joe CribbWhen we say that money is power, what exactly do we mean?
Anna Mahtani talks to numismatist and former curator of coins at the British Museum
Joe Cribb about the past and future of money. From ancient Chinese coins to
cryptocurrencies, what does the study of money tell us about our world and who
has power within it?
Music by Coby O'BrienProduced by Rebekah King
2023-03-2444 min
Portugal Street Philosophy Podcast8. Anna Mahtani | What are probabilities?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 prob...2021-06-2751 min
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society1/6/2020: Anna Mahtani on Dutch Book and Accuracy TheoremsAnna 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. Ma...2020-06-0546 min
MCMPHow (not) to make everyone better offAnna Mahtani (LSE) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (16 December, 2015) titled "How (not) to make everyone better off". Abstract: he concept of ‘pareto superiority’ plays a central role in welfare economics. Pareto superiority is sometimes taken as a relation between outcomes, and sometimes as a relation between actions – even where the outcome of the actions is uncertain. Whether one action is classed as (ex ante) pareto superior to another depends on the prospects under the actions for each person concerned. I argue that a person's prospects (in this context) can depend on how that person is designated. Without any constr...2018-03-1700 min
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method | VideoLSE Philosophy: Anna Mahtani [Video]Contributor(s): Dr Anna Mahtani | Dr Anna Mahtani, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE, discusses the philosophy of probability and the Dutch Book argument.2015-04-1506 minDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodLSE Philosophy: Anna Mahtani [Video]Contributor(s): Dr Anna Mahtani | Dr Anna Mahtani, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at LSE, discusses the philosophy of probability and the Dutch Book argument.2015-04-1506 min