7-9 Dec 2010
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Workshop From cognitive science and psychology to an empirically-informed philosophy of logic Amsterdam, December 7-9 2010 http://www.illc.uva.nl/peipl/ Registration fee: Student: EUR 35 Regular participant: EUR 70 (Includes coffee breaks, two lunches and welcome drinks. Conference dinner to be paid separately.) To register, go to http://www.illc.uva.nl/peipl/#URI=Registration The workshop will bring together logicians, philosophers, psychologists and cognitive scientists to discuss the interface between cognitive science and psychology, on the one hand, and the philosophy of logic on the other hand. More specifically, we wish to investigate the extent to which (if at all), and in what ways, experimental results from these fields may contribute to the formulation of an empirically-informed philosophy of logic, one that takes into account how human agents, logicians and non-logicians alike, in fact reason. The claim is not that all issues within philosophy of logic should be reduced to empirical issues, but rather that some of them are (quasi-)empirical to start with, and thus should be treated as such. Invited speakers and tentative titles: Johan van Benthem (logic – University of Amsterdam): Opening David Over (psychology – Durham): “New paradigm psychology of conditionals” Michiel van Lambalgen (logic and philosophy – University of Amsterdam): “Logical form in cognitive processes Helen de Cruz (philosophy – Leuven University): Animal logic, an evolutionary perspective on deductive reasoning Keith Stenning (psychology and computer science – University of Edinburgh): The emergence of classical logic in human reasoning as a case study of individual and societal origins of cognitive capacities Rafael Nuñez (cognitive science – UC San Diego): “Towards a cognitive science of proof” Francis Jeffrey Pelletier (cognitive science, philosophy, linguistics – Simon Fraser University): Reasoning with generic information Catarina Dutilh Novaes (philosophy – University of Amsterdam): “Formal languages and the extended/altered mind” Contributed talks: M.J. Frápolli & S. Assimakopoulos (University of Granada): “The inferential nature of logical constanthood: The case of conjunction” Shira Elqayam (De Montfort University, Leicester): “Normativism and descriptivism in psychology of reasoning: the role of formal systems” Andy Fugard (University of Salzburg): “Extralogical individual differences in amateur logicians: a way to match-make psychology and the philosophy of logic?” Ole Hjortland (Arché-St. Andrews): “Is logic empirical?” Ben Sheredos & Tyler Marghetis (University of California, San Diego): “Towards a new psychologistic logic; some anti-Fregean (and Fregean!) hypotheses” Fred Sommers (Brandeis University): “A Cognitive Logic” Adam Streed (University of California, San Diego): “Expressivism as a Reasonable Psychologism” Alexandra Varga (Central European University Budapest) & Michiel van Lambalgen (University of Amsterdam): “Infants’ closed-world reasoning about what to do, when, what for” Mark Zelcer & Leib Litman (Touro College) : “A cognitive neuroscience approach to the sorites paradox” For further information, please write to peipl2010 @ gmail.com (remove spaces)