IUSS PHILOSOPHY SEMINARS: Epistemology and Mathematics Series
September 8, 2025 – 15-17 – Sala del Camino:
James Owen Weatherall (University of California, Irvine), “Multiple Mechanisms for Polarization“
Recent modeling work has uncovered a number of mechanisms that are sufficient to cause belief polarization in societies. This talk will present several models of polarization and discuss ways they might be useful in thinking about real world phenomena. It will also reflect on what it means that polarization can arise from so many different mechanics, and how that complicates policy proposals intended to reduce polarization.
- Spring 2025: Two talks in Mathematical Education
- Spring 2025: Philosophy of Mathematics
- Fall 2024
- Spring 2024
- Spring 2023
WORKSHOPS:
- June 11-13, 2025: Inference in Pavia
- April 10, 2025: Trust and AI
- October 8, 2024: Il Policy Advice tra filosofia e decisioni pubbliche
- May 21, 2024: Disagreement in the Exact Science
- July 7, 2023: Bounded Rationality, Imperfect Data, and Trust: Perspectives from Social and Formal Epistemology
CONFERENCES:
June 18-21, 2024: 7th International Meeting of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice (APMP)
VISITORS:
- Matteo De Ceglie (1 October 2024 – 30 June 2025)
- Javier Legris, University of Buenos Aires (1-30 June, 2024)
- Elijah Chudnoff, University of Miami (13-22 May, 2024)