{"id":12074,"date":"2019-04-17T05:58:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T09:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=12074"},"modified":"2019-04-15T15:43:20","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T19:43:20","slug":"mit-colloquium-4-19-dan-lassiter-stanford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2019\/04\/17\/mit-colloquium-4-19-dan-lassiter-stanford\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Colloquium 4\/19- Dan Lassiter (Stanford)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/web.stanford.edu\/~danlass\/\">Dan Lassiter<\/a> (Stanford University)<br><strong>Title:<\/strong>\u00a0Mathematical Counterfactuals<br><strong>Time and Place:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday, April 19, 3:30-5:00pm, room 32-141<br><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Counterfactual reasoning about mathematical truths (&#8220;If 7 + 5 were 11, I&#8217;d have gotten a perfect score on the math test&#8221;) presents an important challenge to standard accounts of the semantics of conditionals. I describe a semantics based on Pearl-style interventions on generative models and show that it provides a simple account of mathematical counterfactuals that also coheres well with research on mathematical cognition. The approach is related to the possible worlds theory in that the models are recipes for generating descriptions of possible worlds, but their procedural character is crucial in supporting interventions and the kind of partiality that I argue we need to render mathematical counterfactuals meaningful.<br>_______________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker:\u00a0Dan Lassiter (Stanford University)Title:\u00a0Mathematical CounterfactualsTime and Place:\u00a0Friday, April 19, 3:30-5:00pm, room 32-141Abstract: Counterfactual reasoning about mathematical truths (&#8220;If 7 + 5 were 11, I&#8217;d have gotten a perfect score on the math test&#8221;) presents an important challenge to standard accounts of the semantics of conditionals. I describe a semantics based on Pearl-style interventions on generative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12075,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions\/12075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}