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Thursday, November 05, 2020
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Warwick Festival of CareersRuns from Monday, September 28 to Friday, November 13. The Festival of Careers is a programme of online events created to connect students in all years of study with employers and help them to develop their skills and think about their future. The Festival is a packed schedule of webinars, workshops and interactive sessions. |
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Legal Cover LettersLearn how to put together a legal cover letter that has impact or to critically evaluate an existing one. The workshop will set out key requirements in creating a cover letter, look at tailoring your cover letter to employers’ requirements and how to showcase your motivation, skills and achievements. |
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Knowledge and Belief SeminarBy ZoomGuest Speaker: Paul Silva (University of Cologne) Title: 'Knowledge, Belief, and the Possession of Reasons' Abstract. Lottery cases, cases of naked statistical evidence, fine-tuning arguments, and profiling evidence can provide a thinker with evidence that ensures a high probability in some claim p. Yet it's widely believed that p's being very probable on one's evidence is insufficient for justified belief that p and therefore also insufficient for knowing that p. Accordingly, lottery cases (etc.) are cases where justified belief and knowledge are inaccessible. This lesson seems to naturally extend to fine-tuning arguments (for theism or a multiverse) as well as profiling cases. In this paper I provide cases where one's evidence is "statistical" in a way that parallels lottery cases (etc.) but, shockingly, our intuitions are reversed: these parallel cases are cases where high probability justifies belief and holds the promise of knowledge. Existing accounts of what goes wrong in cases of "merely statistical evidence" cannot explain the justificatory asymmetry between the parallel cases of statistical evidence. I examine two explanations. One builds on insights from Timothy Williamson. Another builds on insights from David Lewis. Lessons are drawn about the flaws and limitations of fine-tuning arguments as well as a certain class of arguments for the existence of moral encroachment on justification. |
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Art and Mind Reading GroupMS TeamsSubject: Music Please contact Giulia Lorenzi for further information. |
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Fire Garden by Walk the PlankArts CentreJoin us as dusk turns to darkness for this special installation which will transform the Arts Centre and its surroundings into a magical Fire Garden. |