31 May - 2 Jun 2018
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Colloquium of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences on: REASONING IN SOCIAL CONTEXT 31 MAY - 2 JUNE, 2018 Trippenhuis Building, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam https://sites.google.com/site/reasoningcolloquium/home CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: We welcome submissions for short presentations on the theme of the colloquium. Submissions of 1 page abstracts (in pdf format) should be uploaded on the easychair submission webpage (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=reasoning2018), by May 1st 2018. Authors will be notified of acceptance by May 7th 2018. DEADLINE ABSTRACTS: May 1st, 2018. THEME: The central question that we address in this colloquium focusses on the models that can represent the first level and higher-level beliefs of agents, their knowledge as well as the changes of beliefs and knowledge in a community. We aim to understand the nature of the logic that can model how the beliefs of agents in a group are affected by the opinions and belief changes of others in a social network. The logical study of belief formation, belief revision and knowledge updates in a community is gaining importance as these logical methods can be applied to a number of real life scenarios in the social sciences. A number of logical systems are already available to deal with the complex multi-agent scenarios in which an individual, or groups of agents, update their knowledge and change their beliefs. An important player in this field is dynamic epistemic logic, which refers to a collection of logical systems that are united in their method to deal with information dynamics. Guided by the methodology of dynamic epistemic logic, we approach the questions at this colloquium from an interdisciplinary angle. As such we welcome any insights on the topic coming from areas such as Game Theory, Belief Revision Theory, Formal Epistemology, Social Science, Network Theory, Cognitive Science and AI (multi-agent systems). The overall focus includes (but is not restricted to) the following topics: _ formal representations of higher-order belief, knowledge and belief revision strategies _ epistemic and doxastic influence _ belief merge _ information flow in social networks _ evidential support of epistemic attitudes _ trust and trust revision The Following Key-note Speakers have confirmed their participation at the Academy Colloquium on Reasoning in Social Context in Amsterdam: Marta Bilkova, Charles University Prague and Czech Academy of Sciences Franz Berto, University of Amsterdam Adam Bjorndahl, Carnegie Mellon University Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark Jeroen Bruggeman, University of Amsterdam Branden Fitelson, Northeastern University Nina Gierasimczuk, Technical University of Denmark Valentin Goranko, Stockholm University Davide Grossi, University of Groningen Vincent Hendricks, University of Copenhagen Barteld Kooi, University of Groningen Christian List, London School of Economics Ondrej Majer, Charles University Prague and Czech Academy of Sciences Sara Negri, University of Helsinki Eric Pacuit, University of Maryland Jan-Willem Romeijn, University of Groningen Olivier Roy, University of Bayreuth Gabriel Sandu, University of Helsinki MASTER CLASS: In relation to the colloquium we also organize a Master Class on the same topic from 30 May till 15 June. Information about the Master Class is available at https://sites.google.com/site/reasoningcolloquium/ ORGANISATION: Sonja Smets and Alexandru Baltag, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation. University of Amsterdam. -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam