28-30 July 2008
Konstanz, Germany
Final Call for Papers First Formal Epistemology Festival Conditionals and Ranking Functions Konstanz, July 28-30, 2008 Kindly funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung 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 "Theory of Conditionals" and the 20th anniversary of Wolfgang Spohn's "Ordinal Conditional Functions. A Dynamic Theory of Epistemic States". Invited speakers include: Alan Hajek (ANU) Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol) Hans Rott (Regensburg) Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz) Robert Stalnaker (MIT) Timothy Williamson (Oxford) 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 "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. We are now inviting submissions of papers of at least 5000 words on the topic of Conditionals and Ranking Functions. Please send a pdf prepared for blind refereeing to: franz.huber@uni-konstanz.de Deadline for submissions: February 29, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: April 30, 2008