tudfil eloadas

Kollegak, a tudomanyfilozofiai teazo kereteben marcius 21.-en, csutortokon 16 orakor (az eddig szokasos 17 ora helyett!) a Rakoczi u. 5., I. em. 105. teremben Jan Hendrik Schmidt Dept of Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University "A Physical Realization of Newcomb's Game" c. eloadasara kerul sor. Elnezest a kesoi tajekoztatasert, minket is varatlanul ert. Minden erdeklodot szeretettel varunk. Udvozlet kgy Eloadaskivonat: It is a common belief among philosophers that Newcomb's game ("Newcomb's paradox"), as proposed by Nozick in 1969, cannot be played in our world. Many have even claimed that there are philo- sophical reasons why it cannot be imagined at all and that there- fore, Newcomb's problem is ill-posed. In this lecture I propose a way of picturing Newcomb's game. I call it a "physical realization" because it is based on standard physics and thus can be imagined in a universe like ours. As far as I know, this is the first prposed realization which satisfies all of Nozick's original conditions. To support my proposal, I describe and explain the physical mechanisms that realize the game. Note that these mechanisms do not involve anything like ta- chyons, wormholes, or other relativistic or quantum mechanical constructs: Newtonian physics is entirely sufficient to put Newcomb's game into practice.