Post-doc on Causal Learning (Caltech)

Apr 30th, 2010 by Jonah Schupbach

Caltech has a two year postdoctoral fellowship funded through the McDonnell Collaborative on Causal Learning. Candidates should work in some area of philosophy or psychology that makes contact with the topic of causal learning. The terms of the fellowhsip are very generous. Details may be found here: <http://www.hss.caltech.edu/jobs/philpostdoc>

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Final Schedules for Synthese Conference and SIPTA Workshop

Apr 12th, 2010 by Jeffrey Helzner

Updated schedules for both events can be found here and here.

Note that the Synthese conference will take place in Faculty House, while the SIPTA workshop will take place in 716 Philosophy Hall.  If you are not familiar with Columbia campus, then you might want to consult the interactive map.

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Out and About

Mar 30th, 2010 by Gregory Wheeler

Here are some new papers that I will be peddling over the next few weeks. A lot of this is in preliminary form, so I am keen to have comments.

  • “Character Matching and the Envelope of Belief”, at the APA-Pacific [slides][paper].
  • “Robustness of Evidential Probability” (with Choh Man Teng), NYU Bioinformatics Group, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (April 6th), and then at LPAR-16, in Dakkar, Senegal (end of April).
  • “Belief revision in monotone modal logics“, LPAR-16, in Dakkar, Senegal.
  • “Tutorial on Probabilistic Logic”, Third World Congress on Universal Logic and School, Lisbon, Portugal (April 18-21).

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    NASSLLI 2010 is Open for Registration!

    Mar 22nd, 2010 by Jonah Schupbach

    Fourth North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information NASSLLI 2010

    June 20-26, 2010

    http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/

    The North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) is a summer school with classes in the interface between computer science, linguistics, and logic.
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    Center for Formal Epistemology@CMU

    Mar 11th, 2010 by Horacio Arló-Costa

    CENTER FOR FORMAL EPISTEMOLOGY

    OPENING CELEBRATION CONFERENCE

    June 26-27, 2010

    Department of Philosophy

    Carnegie Mellon University

    Everyone interested is welcome to attend!

    Confirmed speakers include:

    Johan van Benthem, Amsterdam and Stanford
    Paul Egre, Jean-Nicod Institute
    Branden Fitelson, Rutgers
    Stephan Hartmann, Tilburg
    James Joyce, Michigan
    Hans Kamp, Stuttgart
    Hannes Leitgeb, Bristol
    Rohit Parikh, CUNY
    Wilfried Sieg, Carnegie Mellon
    Brian Skyrms, UC Irvine
    Wolfgang Spohn, Konstanz
    James Woodward, Cal Tech

    For details regarding the Center for formal epistemology, the opening
    celebration conference, and local arrangements, please follow the
    relevant links here.

    We look forward to seeing you.

    Kevin T. Kelly, Director
    kk3n@andrew.cmu.edu
    Horacio Arlo-Costa, Associate Director
    hcosta@andrew.cmu.edu
    Center for Formal Epistemology
    Department of Philosophy
    Carnegie Mellon University
    5000 Forbes Avenue
    Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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    FEW 2010

    Mar 10th, 2010 by Franz Huber

    Call for Participation

    7th Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop

    FEW 2010, Konstanz, September 2-4, 2010

    http://www.fitelson.org/few/

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    CFP: Decision Games and Logic 2010

    Mar 8th, 2010 by Brian Hill

    Call for Papers

    DGL10: Fourth Workshop in Decisions, Games & Logic

    June 9 – June 11, 2009

    Paris, France


    Formal approaches to rational individual and interactive decision making is a dynamic and interdisciplinary field of research. The workshop series in Decisions, Games & Logic (DGL) started in 2007 aims at fostering interactions between graduate students, post-docs and senior researchers from economics, logic and philosophy. These year””s workshop will take place at the ENS in Paris and is supported by the Décision, Rationalité et Interaction Group at the Institut d””Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC Paris).

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    Formal epistemology school at the Northern Institute of Philosophy

    Mar 4th, 2010 by Jake Chandler

    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].

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