9-10 October 2008
Tilburg, Netherlands
Tilburg Workshop on FORMAL MODELING IN SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science 9-10 October 2008 http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/tilps/FMP2008/ INVITED SPEAKERS: Vincent Buskens (Utrecht) Igor Douven (Leuven) Rainer Hegselmann (Bayreuth) Christian List (LSE) Carl Wagner (Tennessee) Jess Zamora Bonilla (Madrid) ORGANIZERS: Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg) Carlo Martini (Tilburg) Jan Sprenger (Bonn/Tilburg) Social epistemology is a relatively new and booming field of research. It studies the social dimension of the pursuit of acquiring true beliefs and requires philosophical as well as sociological and economical expertise. The insights gained in social epistemology are not only of theoretical interest -- they also improve our understanding of social and political processes as the field includes the analysis of group deliberation and group decision making. Surprisingly, little work has yet been done on the epistemic properties of group deliberation, belief aggregation and decision-making procedures. This workshop aims at closing this gap with the help of formal models that ideally combine representational adequacy with instructive analytical results. To this end, we welcome contributions from all relevant fields of research. We invite submissions of extended abstracts of up to 1500 words through our automatic submission system by 1 August 2008. Decisions will be made by 15 August 2008. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - belief and judgment aggregation - behavioral and mathematical models for collective decision making - models for consensus and compromise in decision making - economic models of scientific knowledge - formal models of group dynamics - criteria of rationality in collective choice - emergence and evolution of social norms BEST GRADUATE PAPER AWARD: We offer an award of 250 Euro for the best submi tted paper by a graduate student. If you want to be considered for the award, pl ease submit a full paper (word limit: 6000 words) and a CV. PUBLICATION: We are planning to publish revised versions of selected papers in a special issue of a renowned philosophy journal. The deadline for submissi on is 1 January 2009. The word limit is 6000. The conference language is English.