BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:ILLC Website X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Amsterdam X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Amsterdam BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2008/newsitem/2322/18- April-2008-Logic-Tea-Michael-Morreau-University-of -Maryland DTSTAMP:20080417T000000 SUMMARY:Logic Tea, Michael Morreau, University of Maryland ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Michael Morreau, University of Maryland DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080418 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080418 LOCATION:Room P.017, Euclides Building, Plantage M uidergracht 24, Amsterdam DESCRIPTION:A comparative conception of similarity lies at the foundation of much philosophy. Which of several future persons is you? According to clo sest-continuer theory, whichever resembles you mor e closely, overall. Would the match have lit, if s truck? Possible-worlds theorists say this depends on what happened in those worlds in which the matc h was struck, but which are otherwise, overall, mo st like the actual world. I take up the question of how a relation of overall comparative similari ty might emerge from a multitude of similarities a nd differences in various respects. The surprising answer is that, basically, it cannot. Kenneth Arr ow's celebrated theorem of social choice shows tha t the only way to combine several dimensions of co mparative similarity into a single overall compari son is for one of the dimensions to be a dictator. This plays havoc with philosophy founded on compa rative similarity. The Logic Tea homepage can b e found at http://www.illc.uva.nl/logic_tea/ For m ore information, please contact Joel Uckelmann (ju ckelma at science.uva.nl) or Edgar Andrade (E.J.An dradeLotero at uva.nl X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n
\n A comparative conception of similarity lies at the foundation of much philosophy. Which of several f uture persons is you? According to closest-continu er theory, whichever resembles you more closely, o verall. Would the match have lit, if struck? Possi ble-worlds theorists say this depends on what happ ened in those worlds in which the match was struck , but which are otherwise, overall, most like the actual world.\n
\nI take up the question of how a relation of overall comparative similarity might emerge from a multitude of simila rities and differences in various respects. The su rprising answer is that, basically, it cannot. Ken neth Arrow's celebrated theorem of social choice s hows that the only way to combine several dimensio ns of comparative similarity into a single overall comparison is for one of the dimensions to be a d ictator. This plays havoc with philosophy founded on comparative similarity.\n
\n \n\n The Logic Tea homepage can be found at\n http://www.illc.uva.nl/log ic_tea/\n For more information, please contact\n Joel Uckelmann (juckelma at science.uva. nl)\n or Edgar Andrade (E.J.AndradeLotero at uv a.nl\n
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