Seminars and Colloquia 2010 - 2011
Colloquia
September 14th
Reason-Based Rational Choice and the Rationalization of ‘Paradoxical’ Behaviour
Franz Dietrich, London School of Economics
September 22nd
The Independence Thesis: When Individual and Social Epistemology Diverge
Kevin Zollman, Carnegie Mellon University
November 24th
Laws, Dispositions and Spacetime
Andreas Bartels, University of Bonn
March 2nd
Recognizing Group Cognition
Colin Allen, Indiana University
May 25th
Common Knowledge, Collective Intentions, and Social Norms
Francesco Guala, University of Milan
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Seminars
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Winter Semester
September 7th
Collective Reasons via Judgment Aggregation
Fabrizio Cariani, Northwestern University & TiLPS
September 14th
Cross-Validation in Darwins Argument for Common Ancestry
Casey Helgeson, University of Wisconsin-Madison & TiLPS
October 19th
A Descriptive Theory of Knowledge (with Normative Implications)
Martin Peterson, Eindhoven University of Technology
November 9th
Reduction, Confirmation, and the Syntax-Semantics Interface
Kristina Liefke, TiLPS
November 15th-16th
Program Master Class
Robert Sugden, University of East Anglia
Logic and Language: Winter Semester
September 23rd
Vague Desire: the Sorites and Money Pump
David Etlin, University of Leuven
October 14th
The Barcan Formula and Completeness of First-Order Modal Logic
Eric Pacuit, TiLPS
October 28th
Agreeing to Disagree in Probabilistic Dynamic Epistemic Logic
Lorenz Demey, University of Leuven & ILLC
November 11th
Adjectives, Scales and Zeros
Galit Weidman Sassoon, ILLC
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December 9th
Sense and Circularity: Recursion in Higher Order Logic
Reinhard Muskens, TiLPS
Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Spring Semester
February 1st
Voting, Deliberation and Truth
Soroush Rafiee Rad, TiLPS
February 8th
Effective Explanation
James Overton, The University of Western Ontario
March 8th
Searle, Sacred Mountains and Witches
Filip Buekens, TiLPS
March 22nd
The Architecture of a Social Enterprise
Pieter Ruys, TiLPS
May 17th
Can Hypothesis Tests Provide Scientific Evidence? Reconciling
Karl Popper and Thomas Bayes
Jan Sprenger, TiLPS
May 24th
Conformorality: A Study on Conformity and Normative Judgement
Chiara Lisciandra, TiLPS
May 31st
Why Normal Distributions are Normal
Aidan Lyon, University of Maryland
May 31st
Mechanisms, Models and Coherence
Robert van Iersel, TiLPS
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Logic and Language: Spring Semester
March 10th
Epistemic Dynamics and Logical Omniscience
Lorenz Demey, University of Leuven
March 17th
Computing Textual Entailment Distances
Johan Bos, University of Groningen
April 14th
Semantic Complexity of Controlled Languages
Camilo Thorne, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
April 21st
A Couple of Arguments Against Ontic Vagueness
Silvia Gaio, ILLC
April 28th
Tutorial: Introduction to Forcing
Dominik Klein, TiLPS
May 12th
A Program for Natural Logic
Reinhard Muskens, TiLPS
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