Dear colleagues,
Benjamin Schnieder and I are organizing a summer school - please
forward to anyone who might be interested in participating:
The phlox research group is delighted to announce that the 2026
Hamburg/Vienna Summer School will be taught by Kit Fine (NYU). This
year’s topic will be *Decision Making under Parity*.
*Description*
How should we do decision theory without making the assumption that
preferences are linearly ordered? We shall first consider two standard
approaches to this question, one in terms of approximate value and the
other in terms of a range of precise values. We shall then develop our
own approach, which uses the notion of an approximate difference in
value between two items in place of the notion of the approximate
value of a single item. The course will cover a range of philosophical
and technical issues.
The event will take place from Monday, July 20th to Friday, July 24th
at the University of Vienna. For more information, please visit
https://hamburgersommerkurs.wordpress.com
*Call for attendance*
We very much welcome external participants to the Summer School,
though only a limited number of spaces are available. If you would
like to participate, please send a registration email, attaching (i) a
brief CV, and (ii) a short letter indicating how the course would
benefit your work, to
phlox-school (at) gmx (dot) de
Registration is open until April 30th; we will notify applicants by
the 10th of May.
Best wishes,
Yannic Kappes