Cambridge Summer Program in Applied Rationality

Slides, reading lists and other resources for my sessions at CaSPAR 2019

Intro to Bayesian Stats

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1w0zqpJ0ue7OzJjNY35QMua9ZPSE9I-UvnevktYWgnaI/edit?usp=sharing

Practice questions:

http://www.alexandra-hill.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/bayesianpractical.pdf

Reading list:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/336/6080/493

http://willgervais.com/blog/2017/3/2/post-publication-peer-review

https://towardsdatascience.com/visualizing-beta-distribution-7391c18031f1

Quantifying Social Welfare

Reading list

Nussbaum, Martha. “Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and social justice.” Feminist economics 9.2-3 (2003): 33-59.

Nussbaum, Martha and Sen, Amartya, (eds).  The Quality of Life (Oxford, 1993; pubd online Nov. 2003)

Arrow, Kenneth J. “A Difficulty in the Concept of Social Welfare.” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 58, no. 4, 1950, pp. 328–346. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1828886.

Harsanyi, John C. “Can the Maximin Principle Serve as a Basis for Morality? A Critique of John Rawls’s Theory.” American Political Science Review, vol. 69, no. 2, 1975, pp. 594–606., doi:10.2307/1959090.

Brian Tomasik “Hedonistic vs Preference Utilitarianism”

Coast, Joanna; Kinghorn, Philip; Mitchell, Paul., “The development of capability measures in health economics: opportunities, challenges and progress” In: Patient. 2015 ; Vol. 8, No. 2. pp. 119-26.

Practical philosophy and CBT

Slides

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19JfdB0EHsh4W-YaAQOHtiwonW0jG3sA2abafeSzgUNc/edit?usp=sharing

Reading list

Epictetus The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life

Thich Nhat Hanh The Art of Living

David Burns Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

Burn’s 10 common cognitive distortions

Free online CBT worksheets

https://www.therapistaid.com/therapy-worksheets/cbt/none

https://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/freedownloads2.htm

Inductive Logic

Reading list

Jeff Paris The Uncertain Reasoner’s Companion: A Mathematical Perspective

Bertrand Russell The Philosophy Of Logical Atomism

Rudolf Carnap The Continuum of Inductive Methods

Jan Willem Romeijn Bayesian Inductive Logic