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3rd Formal Epistemology Festival

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"Learning From Experience & Defeasible Reasoning" - May 11 to 13, 2010

What
  • Conference
When May 11, 2010 09:00 AM to
May 13, 2010 05:00 PM
Where JHB 418
Contact Name
Attendees Invited Speakers:
THONY GILLIES (Rutgers University)
JOHN HORTY (University of Maryland)
MOHAN MATTHEN (University of Toronto)
JIM PRYOR (New York University)
SUSANNA SIEGEL (Harvard University)
SCOTT STURGEON (Oxford University)
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3FEF:  3rd Formal Epistemology Festival

 

This is the third in a series of thematically focused events in formal epistemology, organized by Franz Huber (Konstanz), Eric Swanson (Michigan), and Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto). This year’s conference will be held at the University of Toronto, May 11-13, 2010.

The background for the 3rd Formal Epistemology Festival is the 30th anniversary of Ray Reiter’s “A Logic for Default Reasoning” and the 15th anniversary of John Pollock’s Cognitive Carpentry. The event is dedicated to the memory of John Pollock.

 

PROGRAM

 

Tuesday, May 11
Wednesday, May 12
Thursday, May 13
Breakfast and Introductions

Coffee

Coffee
Scott Sturgeon
(Oxford)
"Pollock & Defeasible Reasons"
Susanna Siegel
(Harvard)
Title TBA
Chris Hitchcock
(CalTech)
"Causation & Defaults"

Paul Thorn
(Düsseldorf)
"Two Problems of Direct Inference"

Jonathan Vogel
(UMass Amherst)
"Skepticism, Explanation, & Truth"

Jim Pryor
(NYU)
Title TBA
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch

Maria Lasonen-Aarnio
(Oxford)
"Is There a Viable Account of Well-founded Belief"

John Horty
(Maryland)
Title TBA

Franz Huber
(Konstanz)
Title TBA

Thony Gillies
(Rutgers)
Title TBA

Mohan Matthen
(Toronto)
"Sensory Exploration & Empirical Certainty"

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