Crazy Dice, Chance, and Counting Causes by Roy Cook - October 29, 2025 at 4pm - LUW

[jean-yves beziau]

The next session of the Logica Universalis Webinar will be 

Wednesday October 29, 2025 at 4pm CET (Paris-Geneva-Rome)

Speaker: Roy T. Cook 

Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, USA

https://www.roycookparadox.com/

Title of the talk: Crazy Dice, Chance, and Counting Causes

Abstract: We develop a simple model of the underdetermination of theory by data using “crazy dice” – standardly shaped dice with non-standard labellings – and we use the model to illustrate a number of distinct ways that scientific data (the probability distributions of the dice) can underdetermine our theories of that data (claims about the shapes, labellings, number, and identity of the dice). We conclude by drawing some tentative conclusions regarding what this model has to teach us about the underdetermination of theory by data in general.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-025-00377-3

Associate organization:

Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science

https://cla.umn.edu/mcps

presented by its director Alan Love

https://twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/expert/alan-love

Chair: Jens Lemanski (Editorial Board LU)

https://www.uni-muenster.de/PhilSem/mitglieder/lemanski.html

Everybody is welcome to join, register here

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Jean-Yves Beziau

Organizer of LUW / Editor-in-Chief Logica Universalis

https://www.philpeople.org/profiles/jean-yves-beziau