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Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoVoter education: the challenge of the centuryContributor(s): Professor Eric Maskin, Professor Amartya Sen, Dr Suzanne Bloks, Professor Richard Bradley, Rudolf Fara | As authoritarianism and political violence threaten democracies throughout the world at levels not seen since the 1930s, attacks on free and fair elections are rife. Democracy is about choice, and achieving a legitimate democratic system of government relies on making representative social choices. Join us to find out about VoteDemocracy, which is a new global education initiative featuring a comprehensive course on the central role of voting in democracy.
In support of the new project, Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Eric Maskin address core...2024-10-0457 minAll items | LSE Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfVoter education: the challenge of the centuryContributor(s): Professor Eric Maskin, Professor Amartya Sen, Dr Suzanne Bloks, Professor Richard Bradley, Rudolf Fara | As authoritarianism and political violence threaten democracies throughout the world at levels not seen since the 1930s, attacks on free and fair elections are rife. Democracy is about choice, and achieving a legitimate democratic system of government relies on making representative social choices. Join us to find out about VoteDemocracy, which is a new global education initiative featuring a comprehensive course on the central role of voting in democracy.
In support of the new project, Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Eric Maskin address core...2024-10-0457 minAll items | LSE Public lectures and events | All media typesVoter education: the challenge of the centuryContributor(s): Professor Eric Maskin, Professor Amartya Sen, Dr Suzanne Bloks, Professor Richard Bradley, Rudolf Fara | As authoritarianism and political violence threaten democracies throughout the world at levels not seen since the 1930s, attacks on free and fair elections are rife. Democracy is about choice, and achieving a legitimate democratic system of government relies on making representative social choices. Join us to find out about VoteDemocracy, which is a new global education initiative featuring a comprehensive course on the central role of voting in democracy.
In support of the new project, Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Eric Maskin address core...2024-10-0457 minAll items | LSE Public lectures and events | AudioVoter education: the challenge of the centuryContributor(s): Professor Eric Maskin, Professor Amartya Sen, Dr Suzanne Bloks, Professor Richard Bradley, Rudolf Fara | As authoritarianism and political violence threaten democracies throughout the world at levels not seen since the 1930s, attacks on free and fair elections are rife. Democracy is about choice, and achieving a legitimate democratic system of government relies on making representative social choices. Join us to find out about VoteDemocracy, which is a new global education initiative featuring a comprehensive course on the central role of voting in democracy.
In support of the new project, Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Eric Maskin address core...2024-10-0457 minLatest 100 | LSE Public lectures and events | VideoVoter education: the challenge of the centuryContributor(s): Professor Eric Maskin, Professor Amartya Sen, Dr Suzanne Bloks, Professor Richard Bradley, Rudolf Fara | As authoritarianism and political violence threaten democracies throughout the world at levels not seen since the 1930s, attacks on free and fair elections are rife. Democracy is about choice, and achieving a legitimate democratic system of government relies on making representative social choices. Join us to find out about VoteDemocracy, which is a new global education initiative featuring a comprehensive course on the central role of voting in democracy.
In support of the new project, Nobel Laureates Amartya Sen and Eric Maskin address core...2024-10-0457 min
Portugal Street Philosophy Podcast7. Richard Bradley | How should we make decisions under uncertainty?Welcome to the seventh 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 “How should we make decisions under uncertainty?” and our guide to the topic is Professor Richard Bradley.
In this episode we discuss:
The relationship between descriptive and normative decision theory
Expected utility theory
Rationality constraints and representation theorems
vNM and Savage’s representation theorems
Foundationalism vs. reflective equilibrium
Idealizations within expected utility theory...2021-06-2759 min
MCMP – Mathematical Philosophy (Archive 2011/12)Conditionals and SuppositionsRichard Bradley (LSE) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium titled "Conditionals and Suppositions". Abstract:
Adams' Thesis - the claim that the probabilities of indicative conditionals equal the conditional probabilities of their consequents given their antecedents - has proven impossible to accommodate within orthodox possible worlds semantics. This paper considers the approaches to the problem taken by Jeffrey and Stalnaker (1994) and by McGee (1989), but rejects them on the grounds that they imply a false principle, namely that probability of a conditional is independent of any proposition inconsistent with its antecedent. Instead it is proposed that the semantic contents of conditionals...2019-04-201h 10Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | VideoCulture and IntelligenceContributor(s): Professor Richard Nisbett | Are humans getting smarter? Are some groups smarter than others? Are some groups getting smarter faster than others? What are the possibilities for increasing the rate of growth of human intelligence? Hint: Science, mathematics, logic and philosophy have generated concepts in the past 150 years of great power which have yet to escape into the reasoning toolkits of laypeople. Richard Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology and Co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking. "...2016-04-121h 30Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfCulture and IntelligenceContributor(s): Professor Richard Nisbett | Are humans getting smarter? Are some groups smarter than others? Are some groups getting smarter faster than others? What are the possibilities for increasing the rate of growth of human intelligence? Hint: Science, mathematics, logic and philosophy have generated concepts in the past 150 years of great power which have yet to escape into the reasoning toolkits of laypeople. Richard Nisbett is Theodore M. Newcomb Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology and Co-director of the Culture and Cognition program at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is the author of Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking. "...2016-04-121h 30Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfThe Moral Challenge of Robust Cultural PluralismContributor(s): Professor Richard A Shweder, Dr Bradley Franks, Professor Anne Phillips | Are there limits to liberal moral concepts for judging others? What does a highly developed social intelligence look like? Can there be cultural difference without economic inequality? Richard A Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and cultural psychologist and the Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Bradley Franks is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Social Psychology at LSE. He has interests in the intersections between culture, evolution and cognition, and has researched a variety...2015-05-141h 29Summer 2015 | Public lectures and events | VideoThe Moral Challenge of Robust Cultural PluralismContributor(s): Professor Richard A Shweder, Dr Bradley Franks, Professor Anne Phillips | Are there limits to liberal moral concepts for judging others? What does a highly developed social intelligence look like? Can there be cultural difference without economic inequality? Richard A Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and cultural psychologist and the Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Bradley Franks is Associate Professor of Psychology in the Department of Social Psychology at LSE. He has interests in the intersections between culture, evolution and cognition, and has researched a variety...2015-05-141h 29Autumn 2012 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfManaging UncertaintyContributor(s): Professor Richard Bradley | How should we manage the uncertainty that we face in our decision making? Can this uncertainty be measured and tamed? What are the limits of our techniques for doing so? Richard Bradley is professor of philosophy at LSE.2012-11-061h 27Autumn 2012 | Public lectures and events | VideoManaging UncertaintyContributor(s): Professor Richard Bradley | How should we manage the uncertainty that we face in our decision making? Can this uncertainty be measured and tamed? What are the limits of our techniques for doing so? Richard Bradley is professor of philosophy at LSE.2012-11-061h 27MCMP – Mathematical Philosophy (Archive 2011/12)Bayesian Conditioning RevisitedRichard Bradley (LSE) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (27 June, 2012) titled "Bayesian Conditioning Revisited". Abstract: Bayesian conditioning is widely regarded as the correct way to revise your degrees of belief in circumstances in which experience leads you to believe, with certainty, that some proposition is true. But different revision rules have been proposed for other types of experience: for example, Jeffrey conditioning when your degrees of belief for some set of propositions changes without your becoming certain of any of them; or Adams conditioning, when you conditional degrees of belief change. In this talk I will argue that these...2012-09-201h 11
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodProfile: Richard Bradley [Video]Contributor(s): Professor Richard Bradley | A profile of Richard Bradley, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.2011-10-1009 minDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method | VideoProfile: Richard Bradley [Video]Contributor(s): Professor Richard Bradley | A profile of Richard Bradley, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.2011-10-1009 minDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific MethodMSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences [Video]Contributor(s): Professor Richard Bradley | Richard Bradley outlines the Master's course in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at LSE.2011-08-0403 minDepartment of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method | VideoMSc Philosophy of the Social Sciences [Video]Contributor(s): Professor Richard Bradley | Richard Bradley outlines the Master's course in Philosophy of the Social Sciences at LSE.2011-08-0403 min
Philosophy BitesRichard Bradley on Understanding DecisionsWhat is involved in understanding a decision? Richard Bradley of the LSE addresses this question in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. As a decision theorist, he views decisions as gambles involving weightings of beliefs and desires. 2009-11-0813 min