Events
Fifth and Final Formal Epistemology Festival
Toronto, June 3-5, 2013
Organized by Rachael Briggs (ANU), Kenny Easwaran (USC), Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto), and Franz Huber (Konstanz/Toronto).
The conference will be held at the University of Toronto, Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 A/B, 170 St. George Street.
Sunday, June 2, 2013
7:00pm: Opening
7:30: Dinner at The Bedford Academy
Monday, June 3, 2013
10:00-10:30: Introduction
10:30-12:00: Lara Buchak (Berkeley): Risk and Inequality
12:00-1:30: Brian Hedden (MIT/Oxford): Time-Slice Rationality
1:30-3:00: Lunch
3:00-4.30: Rohan Sud (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): A Forward Looking Decision Rule for Imprecise Credences
4:30-6:00: Julia Staffel (USC): Should I Pretend I'm Perfect?
7:30: Dinner at Dynasty
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
10:30-12:00: Jennifer Nagel (Toronto): Variations in Evidence Collection
12:00-1.30: Hanti Lin (Carnegie Mellon University): Believing and Acting
1.30-3:00: Lunch
3:00-4:30: Jonah Schupbach (University of Utah): Inference to the Best Explanation, Cleaned Up and Made Respectable
4:30-6:00: Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford): Inference: Explanation and Justification
7:30: Dinner at The Host
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
10:30-12:00: Carolina Sartorio (Arizona): Causal Reasons-Sensitivity
12:00-1:30: Ronnie Hermens (Groningen): Placing Probabilities of Conditionals in Context
1:30-3:00: Lunch
3:00-4:30: Rachael Briggs (ANU): Are People Harmed by Risk of Harm
4:30-6:00: Kenny Easwaran (USC): Weak Expectations and Limits of Truncations
7:30: Dinner at John's Italian Cafe
LEMMing Graduate Conference
Cologne, November 29-December 1
Jointly organized by Understanding the A Priori (Cologne), Phlox (Hamburg),
Nomalizations (Hamburg) and Formal Epistemology (Konstanz).
The conference will feature three keynote lectures by
Tim Crane (University of Cambridge)
Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Anna-Sara Malmgren (Stanford University)
as well as nine contributed talks by graduate speakers.
For more information visite LEMMing.
Past Events
Monthly Monday Meetings 2012
Monday, June 18, 3-8pm, V 1001
15:00-16:00: Peter Fritz (Oxford): 'Metaphysical Necessity' as a Theoretical Term
16:15-17:15: Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell/Senior Fellow): Intransitivity and Vagueness
17:30-18:30: Thomas Kroedel (Berlin): Mental Causation for Dualists
18:45-19:45: Timothy Williamson (Oxford): Knowing the Real and Apparent Time
20:30: Dinner at Meating, Bodanplatz 12A
Fourth Formal Epistemology Festival
Konstanz, June 4-6, 2012
Kindly funded by the German Research Foundation and organized by Rachael Briggs (ANU), Kenny Easwaran (USC), Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto), Franz Huber (Konstanz).
Everybody is cordially invited to attend and there is no registration fee, but we ask participants to send an e-mail to Robert Lehnert (robert DOT lehnert AT uni-konstanz DOT de) indicating which dinners they attend.
Sunday, June 3, 2012:
20:00: Welcome Dinner at Brauhaus Joh. Albrecht, Konradigasse 2
Monday, June 4, 2012: Room V 1001, Chair: Branden Fitelson (Rutgers)
10:00-11:30: Rachael Briggs (ANU): The Future, and What Might Have Been
12:00-13:30: Alan Hájek (ANU): A Poisoned Dart for Conditionals
13:30-14:30: Lunch
14:30-16:00: Paul Egré (Paris) and Anouk Barberousse (Lille): Borel on the Heap
16:30-18:00: Franz Huber (Konstanz): What should I believe about what would have been the case?
20:00: Dinner at Hafenhalle, Hafenstraße 10
Tuesday, June 5, 2012: Room V 1001, Chair: Rachael Briggs (ANU)
10:00-11:30: Kenny Easwaran (USC): Dr. Truthlove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Bayesian Probability
12:00-13:30: Thomas Hofweber (UNC): In Defense of Infinitesimal Chances
13:30-14:30: Lunch
14:30-16:00: Richard Pettigrew (Bristol): Accuracy, Chance, and the Principle Principle
16:15-17:45: Yang Liu (Columbia): Information Model and Common Knowledge
18:00-19:30: Joseph Halpern (Cornell/Senior Fellow): Constructive Decision Theory
20:00: Dinner at Il Boccone, Bodanstr. 20-22
Wednesday, June 6, 2012: Room V 1001, Chair: Benjamin Bewersdorf (Konstanz)
10:00-11:30: Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto): The Argument from Divine Indifference
12:00-13:30: Dylan Dodd (Aberdeen): Belief and Certainty
13:30-14:30: Lunch
14:30-16:00: Seamus Bradley (LSE) and Katie Steele (LSE): Can Free Evidence Be Bad? Value of Information for the Imprecise Probabilist
16:30-18:00: Jeffrey Barrett (UCI/Senior Fellow): The Coevolution of Numbers and Basic Arithmetic Knowledge
20:00: Dinner at Deli, Bodanstraße 1-3
Workshops with Jeffrey A. Barrett
Monday, December 12, 2011, 3-8pm, V 1001
15:00-16:00: Jeff Barrett (UC Irvine/Senior Fellow): Pure Wave Mechanics and the Very Idea of Empirical Adequacy
16:15-17:15: Mathias Frisch (Maryland/Munich): Incantations of Causation and Other Philosophical Sins
17:30-18:30: Carl Hoefer (Barcelona): A Humean Looks at Quantum Probability
18:45-19:45: Charlotte Werndl (London School of Economics): Evidence in Climate Science and the Problem of Double-Counting and Future Uncertainty
Monday, March 19, 2012, 10am-7pm, V 1001
10:00-11:00: John Manchak (Washington): Time Machines: Some Recent Work
11:15-12:15: James Owen Weatherall (UC Irvine): Are Newtonian Gravitation and Geometrized Newtonian Gravitation Theoretically Equivalent?
12:30-13:30: Jeff Barrett (UC Irvine/Senior Fellow): Entanglement and Disentanglement in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
13:30-15:00: Lunch Break
15:00-16:00: Peter Brössel (Konstanz): The Problem of Measure Sensitivity and Beyond
16:15-17:15: Vincenzo Crupi (LMU Munich): Formal Epistemological Explication: News for the Bayesian Agenda
17:30-18:30: Paul Dicken (LMU Munich): From Logical Empiricism to Constructive Empiricism (and Back Again)
20:00: Dinner
Monday, April 30, 2012, 10am-8pm, V 1001
10:00-11:00: Mario Gomez-Torrente (UNAM Mexico-City): On Carrollian Arguments and Logical Consequence
11:15-12:15: Ole Hjortland (LMU Munich): Truth, Paracompleteness, and Substructural Logics
12:30-13:30: Alexandra Zinke (Konstanz): Formality, Modality, and Logical Consequence
13:30-15:00: Lunch Break
15:00-16:00: Christian Damböck (Vienna): Kuhn Formalized
16:15-17:15: Catarina Dutilh-Novaes (ILLC Amsterdam/Groningen): The 'Built-in Opponent' Conception of Logic and Proof-Theoretical vs. Model-Theoretical Accounts of Logical Consequence
17:15-17.45: Coffee Break
17:45-18:45: Jeff Barrett (UC Irvine/Senior Fellow): Modeling the Coevolution of Theory and Language
19:00-20:00: Corina Strößner (Konstanz): Descriptive Normality Statements
20:30: Dinner
Workshops with Joseph Y. Halpern
Wednesday, June 8, 2011, 4-8pm: Y 311
16:15-17:15: Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell/Senior Fellow): Causality, Responsibility, and Blame: A Structural-Model Approach
17:30-18:30: Florian Leitner-Fischer & Stefan Leue (Konstanz, Computer Science): From Probabilistic Counterexamples via Causality to Fault Trees
18:45-19:45: Michael Baumgartner (Konstanz, Philosophy): A Regularity-Theoretic Approach to Actual Causation
Friday, June 17, 2011, 3-8pm: F 425
15:15-16:25: Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell/Senior Fellow): Beyond Nash Equilibrium: Solution Concepts for the 21st Century
16:40-17:40: Carlos Alos-Ferrer (Konstanz, Economics): Stochastic Learning in Games and Networks
17:55-18:45: Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell/Senior Fellow): Awareness and Unawareness: From Logic to Games
19:00-20:00: Olivier Roy (LMU Munich, Philosophy): A Dynamic Analysis of Interactive Rationality
Friday, July 22, 2011, 3-8pm: M 628
15:15-16:15: Eleonora Cresto (UNTREF Buenos Aires): A Defense of Temperate Epistemic Transparency Slides
16:30-17:30: Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell/Senior Fellow): Plausibility Measures: A Uniform Approach to Counterfactual Reasoning, Default Reasoning, and Belief Change Slides
17:45-18:45: Hans Rott (Regensburg): A Strange Condition on Plausibility Measures - and how It Came about
Monthly Monday Meetings 2011
Monday, March 21, 2011, 4-8pm: Y 311
Jake Chandler (Leuven): Beliefs about EvidenceCommentary by Peter Fritz (Amsterdam)
James M. Joyce (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Ambiguity in Value and Imprecision in Belief
Commentary by Anna-Maria Eder (Konstanz)
Monday, May 30, 2011, 4-8pm: D 406
Michael Friedman (Stanford): A Post-Kuhnian Approach to the History and Philosophy of Science
Commentary by Gereon Wolters (Konstanz)
Jesús Zamora Bonilla (Madrid): Science: The Rules of the Game
Commentary by Amber Griffioen (Konstanz)
Causation, Coherence, and Concepts
Themes from the Philosophy of Wolfgang Spohn
Konstanz, November 11-13, 2010
Kindly funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz
Thursday, November 11, 2010: Room Y 311
18:15 – 18:30: Opening Speech by Marcel Weber (Konstanz)
18:30 – 19:00: Honorific Speech by Godehard Link (LMU Munich)
19:00 – 22:00: Reception & Dinner in room K 7
Friday, November 12, 2010: Room Y 311
10:00 – 11:00: Karel Lambert (UC Irvine): Speeking Freely
11:15 – 12:15: Martine Nida-Rümelin (Fribourg): Causality and Agency. What Happens When We Bring About What We Do?
LUNCH
14:00 – 15:00: Clark Glymour (Carngie Mellon University): When Are Best Explanations Possible?
15:15 – 16:15: Brian Skyrms (UC Irvine): Evolution and Signaling
16:30 – 17:30: Ede Zimmermann (Frankfurt): Interpreting Semantic Theories
19:30: Dinner at Arcadia Hotel Halm Konstanz (please register by October 31!)
Saturday, November 13, 2010: Room Y 311
09:30 – 10:30: Volker Halbach (Oxford): Necessities and Necessary Truths
10:45 – 11:45: Godehard Link (LMU Munich): The Concept of Function. A Russellian Archeology
12:00 – 13:00: Felix Mühlhölzer (Göttingen): On the Reference, Interpretation, and Application of Arithmetical Terms
LUNCH
14:30 – 15:30: Hans Rott (Regensburg): Conditionals and Coherentist Change
15:45 – 16:45: Julian Nida-Rümelin (LMU Munich): Consequentialism, Cooperation, and Coherence
17:00 – 18:00: Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz): From Nash to Dependency Equilibria
PICTURES by Maryia Ramanava and Robert Michels
Formal Epistemology Workshop 2010
7th Annual Formal Epistemology Workshop 2010
Konstanz, September 2-4, 2010
Monthly Monday Meetings 2010
The Monthly Monday Meetings are kindly funded by the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz.
Monday, January 18, 2010: 4-8pm, V 1001
Kyle Stanford (UC Irvine): Scientific Realism: When Should We Worry?
Commentary by Robert Michels (Konstanz)
Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford): The Structure of Justified Belief
Commentary by Daniel Dohrn (Konstanz)
Monday, March 15, 2010: 4-8pm, V 1001
Kenny Easwaran (University of Southern California): Conglomerability Minimizes Expected Epistemic Inaccuracy
Commentary by Anna-Maria Eder (Leuven)
Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto): Updating, Undermining, and Independence
Commentary by Luke Glynn (Konstanz)
Monday, April 26, 2010: 4-8pm, V 1001
Mauro Dorato (Rome): Time and Becoming in Special Relativity
Commentary by Matteo Morganti (Konstanz)
Michela Massimi (University College London): Carving Nature at Its Joints: Boyd on Kantian Kinds. Between Realism and Constructivism
Commentary by Samuel Schindler (Konstanz)
Monday, May 31, 2010: 4-8pm, Y 311
Benjamin Schnieder (HU Berlin): A Logic for 'Because'
Commentary by Brian Leahy (Konstanz)
Brian Weatherson (Rutgers): Do Judgments Screen Evidence?
Commentary by Wolfgang Freitag (Konstanz)
Third Formal Epistemology Festival
Learning From Experience and Defeasible Reasoning
Monthly Monday Meetings 2009
The Monthly Monday Meetings are kindly funded by the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz.
Monday, June 15, 2009: 4-8pm, IBZ
Luc Bovens (London School of Economics): Judy Benjamin is a Sleeping Beauty
Commentary by Christoph Schmidt-Petri (Regensburg)
Kai Wehmeier (UC Irvine and Archives Henri Poincaré, Université Nancy): Identity is not a Relation
Commentary by Tobias Rosefeldt (Konstanz)
Monday, July 6, 2009: 4-8pm, E 404
Christopher Hitchcock (California Institute of Technology): Cause and Chance
Commentary by Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz)
Samir Okasha (Bristol): Theory Choice and Social Choice: Kuhn versus Arrow
Commentary by Marcel Weber (Konstanz)
Monday, November 2, 2009: 4-8pm, V 1001
Karen Bennett (Cornell): Putting Things Together
Commentary by Thomas Krödel (Konstanz)
Branden Fitelson (UC Berkeley): What is the "Equal Weight View"?
Commentary by Peter Brössel (Konstanz)
Monday, December 7, 2009: 4-8pm, V 1001
Steve Awodey (Carnegie Mellon University): Explicating 'Analytic'
Commentary by Alexandra Zinke (Konstanz)
Jiji Zhang (Lingnan University): Intervention, Determinism, and the Causal Minimality Condition
Commentary by Michael Baumgartner (Konstanz)
Konstanz-Leuven Series in Formal Epistemology
The Konstanz-Leuven Series in Formal Epistemology 2009 is kindly funded by the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz.
Monday, April 6, 2009: 4-8pm, V 1001
Igor Douven (Leuven): Lotteries, Assertion, and the Pragmatics of Belief
Commentary by Alexandra Zinke (Konstanz)
Richard Dietz (Leuven): Ramsey's Test, Adams' Thesis, and Conditional Evidence
Commentary by Benjamin Hoffmann (Konstanz)
Thursday, January 28, 2010: 2-6pm
Peter Brössel & Anna-Maria Eder (Konstanz & Leuven): Stable Belief and Knowledge
Commentary by Jake Chandler (Leuven)
Benjamin Hoffmann (Konstanz): Belief Revision for Dynamic Reliability Ranks
Commentary by Karolina Krzyzanowska (Leuven)
Prague International Colloquium
Second Formal Epistemology Festival
Causal Decision Theory and Scoring Rules
First Formal Epistemology Festival
Conditionals and Ranking Functions
Konstanz, July 28-30, 2008
Kindly funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Society for Analytic Philosophy, and the German Research Foundation
This is the first of a series of small and thematically focused events in formal epistemology organized by Eric Swanson (Michigan), Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto), and Franz Huber (Konstanz).
The background for the first Formal Epistemology Festival is the 40th anniversary of Robert Stalnaker’s “A Theory of Conditionals” and the 20th anniversary of Wolfgang Spohn’s “Ordinal Conditional Functions. A Dynamic Theory of Epistemic States”.
The festivities of 2009 will take place in Ann Arbor, featuring Causal Decision Theory and Scoring Rules (this happens to be the 10th anniversary of James Joyce’s The Foundations of Causal Decision Theory). The festivities of 2010 will take place in Toronto and focus on Defeater/Default Logic and Perception (this happens to be the 30th anniversary of Ray Reiter’s “A Logic for Default Reasoning” and the 15th anniversary of John Pollock’s Cognitive Carpentry). Further details about these events will be announced in due time.
Registration is free, but participants are asked to let us know by sending an e-mail to Alexandra Zinke and Peter Brössel at {alexandra.zinke, peter.broessel}@uni-konstanz.de by May 31, 2008. The airport closest to Konstanz is Zurich airport, where trains go to Konstanz twice an hour. The train ride between Zurich airport and Konstanz takes about an hour. We strongly recommend booking rooms as early as possible, since Konstanz is very busy in the summer. For further questions please contact Alexandra Zinke and Peter Brössel at the above mentioned e-mail addresses.
Program (all talks take place in room V 1001):
Monday, July 28, 2008
11:15 -- 11:25: Welcome (Peter Brössel, Franz Huber, Eric Swanson, Jonathan Weisberg, Alexandra Zinke)
11:25 -- 12:35: Chair: Franz Huber
Robert Stalnaker (MIT): Nested Conditionals and Iterated Belief Revision
12:35 -- 14:30: Lunch
14:30 -- 15:40: Chair: Anna-Maria Eder
Igor Douven (Leuven): Classifying Inferential Conditionals
15:40 -- 15:55: Coffee Break
15:55 -- 17:05: Chair: Anna-Maria Eder
Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz): Objectivizing Ranking Functions
17:05 -- 17:20: Coffee Break
17:20 -- 18:30: Chair: Anna-Maria Eder
Franz Huber (Konstanz): Conditionals and Ranking Functions
20:00: Dinner
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
10:00 -- 11:10: Chair: Jonathan Weisberg
Anthony Gillies (Michigan): On Truth-Conditions for if (but not quite only if)
11:10 -- 11:25: Coffee Break
11:25 -- 12:35: Chair: Jonathan Weisberg
Sarah Moss (MIT): On the Pragmatics of Counterfactuals
12:35 -- 14:30: Lunch
14:30 -- 15:40 Uhr: Chair: Alexandra Zinke
Hans Rott (Regensburg): Indicative and Subjunctive Conditionals Revisited: Similarities
and Differences
15:40 -- 15:55: Coffee Break
15:55 -- 17:05: Chair: Alexandra Zinke
Timothy Williamson (Oxford): Conditionals and Actuality
17:05 -- 17:20: Coffee Break
17:20 -- 18:30: Chair: Alexandra Zinke
Eric Swanson (Michigan): Constraint Semantics and Its Application to Conditionals
20:00: Dinner
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
10:00 -- 11:10: Chair: Eric Swanson
Robert Williams (Leeds): Vagueness, Conditionals, and Probability
11:25 -- 12:35: Chair: Eric Swanson
David Etlin (MIT): Modus Ponens Revisited
12:35 -- 14:30: Lunch
14:30 -- 15:40: Chair: Peter Brössel
Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol): A Probabilistic Semantics for Counterfactuals
15:40 -- 15:55: Coffee Break
15:55 -- 17:05: Chair: Peter Brössel
Alan Hájek (ANU): Arrows and Haloes: Probabilities of Conditionals and Desire-as-Belief
17:05 -- 17:20: Coffee Break
17:20 -- 18:30: Chair: Peter Brössel
Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto): Embedding 'if and only if'
20:00: Dinner
PICTURES by Maryia Ramanava and Robert Michels