Logic and Religion Webinar: Evolutionary Models and Relative Infinity in Pascal's Wager - Paul Bartha (This Thursday, Oct 24)

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Dear Colleague,

 

The next session of the Logic and Religion Webinar Series will be held on Oct 24 (THIS THURSDAY), 2024, at 4 pm CET with the topic:

 

EVOLUTIONARY MODELS AND RELATIVE INFINITY IN PASCAL’S WAGER

Speaker: Paul Bartha (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Chair: Marcin Trepczyński (University of Warsaw, Poland)

  

Time zones: 10:00 am in New York; 11:00 am in São Paulo; 4:00 pm in Paris; 5:00 pm in Jerusalem; and 7:30 pm in New Delhi.

 

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https://www.logicandreligion.com/webinars

 
Abstract: In a series of articles, I have explored how two devices may be used to answer some of the most notorious objections to Pascal’s Wager. Relative utilities, which provide a finite representation of infinite utility, give us a simple response to the mixed-strategies objection. The many-wagers model adds an evolutionary dynamics and a requirement of evolutionarily stable credences, which give us precise responses to versions of the many-gods objection. Oppy (2018) offers several interesting challenges to the idea that these two devices allow us to salvage Pascal’s argument. I shall show that the relative utilities/many-wagers model can answer Oppy’s challenges at least in part, and more importantly that it provides a fruitful framework for modeling and exploring “Pascalian” decision problems.

 

 

Join us 5 minutes prior to the beginning of the session!
 
With best wishes,

 

 

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Francisco de Assis Mariano,
The University of Missouri-Columbia (USA)
LARA Secretary
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