3 Oct 2023
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Call for Participants: 5th ENCODE workshop on Group Accuracy, Deliberation, and Social Influence<https://www.eur.nl/en/esphil/events/call-participants-5th-encode-workshop-group-accuracy-deliberation-and-social-influence-2023-10-03> @Erasmus University Rotterdam, October 3rd According to the celebrated Condorcet Jury Theorem, if we can dispose of a series of jurors who each have an independent, better than random accuracy regarding a binary issue, then the larger the group of jurors we take, the more accurate the group’s majority opinion on this issue will be. In the limit, the majority opinion will be fully reliable. This mathematical result has provided the starting point for a rich literature on the wisdom of crowds and democratic decision-making. In practice however, opinions are not independent. Decision-makers are typically connected through networks of social influence, and before casting their opinion, they may deliberate collectively. When doing so, the shape of the network, the order in which they exchange information, the levels of trustworthiness attributed to them, and strategic considerations are crucial for the eventual outcome of the process. The aim of this workshop is to cast light on the role of these and other parameters in group deliberation, and their implications for group accuracy and democracy. Preliminary Programme: * 9h45-10h00 Welcome * 10h00-11h00 Kai Spiekermann<https://www.kaispiekermann.net/>, London School of Economics * 11h15-12h00 Maaike Los, University of Groningen * 12h15-13h00 Hein Duijf<https://www.uu.nl/staff/HWADuijf>, Utrecht University * 13h00-14h30 lunch break * 14h30-15h15 Adrian Haret<https://staff.science.uva.nl/a.haret/>, University of Amsterdam * 15h15-16h00 Ines Lindner<https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/id-lindner>, Free University of Amsterdam * 16h15-17h15 Olivier Roy<https://www.phil.uni-bayreuth.de/en/people/roy/index.php>, University of Bayreuth * 18h00- Workshop Dinner Participation is free of charge, but the available spots are limited. Please notify us before September 19th via vandeputte@esphil.eur.nl<mailto:vandeputte@esphil.eur.nl> in case you would like to attend. Please put “participation: ENCODE workshop” in the subject of your email. A full programme, incl. abstracts and location will be announced in September. Funding & organization: The ENCODE workshops are organized bi-annually at the EIPE/ESPhil (Erasmus University of Rotterdam), as part of the NWO-funded ENCODE<https://www.eur.nl/en/esphil/encode> project (VI.Vidi.191.105). -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DLMPST) in cooperation with the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam