At the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen we will  be having a one week school in formal epistemology, taking place on 14-18  June 2010.

The goal of our school is to bring people up to speed on certain areas of  formal epistemology (listed below). We hope to bring those attending up to  the point where they have a sense of the cutting edge of the subjects being  covered, and understand outstanding issues and problems that researchers   hope to address in the future. Our target audience will be philosophers who  have a background in logic, but not necessarily in formal epistemology. We  particularly welcome the attendance of graduate students.

Here are our speakers, and the subjects they will cover:

Alexandru Baltag (Oxford) and Sonja Smets (Groningen), Belief revision  theory and dynamic epistemic logic [4 lectures].

Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg), Bayesian networks in epistemology and the  philosophy of science [3 lectures].

Hannes Leitgeb and Richard Pettigrew (Bristol), Non-pragmatic vindications  of probabilism and of diachronic norms [4 lectures].

Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto), Upper and lower probabilities, Dempster-
Shafer functions, John Pollock””s system for defeasible reasoning [3 lectures].

COST
Registration for the 5 day event will be 100 GBP for students, and 195 GBP for  non-students. That covers attendance in the school, as well as lunches and  morning tea and coffee. There will be one dinner, which costs an additional 30 GBP. We are attempting to secure discounted hotel rates for registered participants.

REGISTRATION
We want to maintain a small group, and so must limit the number of  attendees. As a result, we cannot guarantee that everyone who would like to  attend will be able to.

We ask that you submit a letter of interest to us by April 30. We ask that  graduate students also submit a letter of support from their supervisor or  someone in their home department. We will inform you of whether you will  be able to attend by May 15. Both letters should be e-mailed to  dylan.dodd@gmail.com.

Any questions you have should be directed to the two organizers, Dylan  Dodd (dylan.dodd@gmail.com) and Luca Moretti (l.moretti@abdn.ac.uk).