Högre seminariet i filosofi bjuder in till ett seminarium med James Nguyen, Stockholm. Seminariet ges på engelska och har den engelska titeln "Philosophical Modelling: Ising the Web of Belief".
Abstract (på engelska)
If we think about philosophy as a modelling enterprise, we can utilise insights and practices from model-based science (and the philosophy of model-based science) in philosophical contexts. Two upshots of this are discussed: we should adopt a pluralist outlook, i.e. embrace the fact that we model systems from a variety of complementary perspectives, and an opportunistic attitude to philosophical modelling, i.e. adopt the practice of taking a model developed in one domain and repurposing it for our own devices. I illustrate the value of this way of thinking in philosophy by repurposing the Ising model of ferromagnetism in order to illuminate the connection between the internal coherence requirements on beliefs, and their relationship to incoming evidence and noise. In doing so I offer a novel understanding of epistemic crises.
