Workshop
on
Social Norms and Epistemic Value
Tilburg, 22 October 2013
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Synopsis
Individuals’ decisions are driven by a multitude of factors that may pull in
different directions: economic incentives, social norms, values and roles. For
instance, gender bias can often deteriorate our judgments about other people’s
skills or attitudes; yet, awareness of such mechanisms enables us to find
strategies to counter these biases.
In this workshop, we discuss how social norms influence our decisions and
affect our reasoning about the course of actions we intend to take. More
specifically, we explore the mutual influence between social norms and
epistemic values: on the one hand, how social norms affect our judgments
about interactive choices; on the other hand, how the same reasoning tools are
used in the social world. That is, the workshop highlights the rational and
deliberative components involved in real-world decisions, and it proceeds
toward a better understanding of the social aspects of knowledge and belief.
Speakers
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Jason MacKenzie Alexander
Chiara Liscianda
Dominik Klein
Jan Sprenger
Jan-Willem Romeijn
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Program
9:30 - 10:10
Jason MacKenzie Alexander (LSE):
The Evolution of Social Norms
10:10 - 10:50
Chiara Lisciandra (Helsinki):
Why are there Descriptive Norms?
10:50 - 11:10
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:50
Dominik Klein and Jan Sprenger (TiLPS):
Modeling Individual Expertise in Group Judgements
11:50 - 12:30
Jan-Willem Romeijn (RU Groningen):
All Agreed. Aumann meets De Groot
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