October 25, 2008
I don’t often plug workshops or conferences but here is one that appeals to my interest in social epistemology and computational intelligence.
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Workshop on Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology, Leuven, October 30-31
Centre for Logic and Analytical Philosophy
The Workshop will be held in Seminar Room 2.41, Van Der Heuvelinstituut, 2nd floor (just to your left as you come up the main stairs). The Van Der Heuvelinstituut is located on the corner of Dekenstraat and Andreas Vesaliusstraat, southeast of the city centre.
Program
October 30
14.00 Welcome
14.15 Gerhard Schurz: Meta-induction: computer simulations of predication games
15.30 Jason McKenzie Alexander: TBA
16.45 Coffee break
17.15 Igor Douven: Simulating Peer Disagreements
18.30 Drinks
19.00 Dinner
October 31
12.00 Carlo Martini and Stephan Hartmann: Judgement aggregation in networked groups
13.15 Lunch
14.45 Kevin Zollman: A simulation study of journal publishing
16.00 Paul Humphreys: Computational epistemology: avoiding the anthropocentric gap
17.15 Closing
Contact Details
Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Formal Epistemology Project
Centre for Logic – Institute of Philosophy
University of Leuven
Belgium
Senior Research Associate – IEG
Computing Laboratory
University of Oxford
Research Member – GPI
University of Hertfordshire
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October 20, 2008
Yet another EPISTEME post.
Volume 3, Issue 3 “Epistemic Diversity and Dissent” is available for free download.
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October 17, 2008
I notice that the three very brief prefaces to the first issues comprising volume of EPISTEME has now been made available on the EUP website. They give a sense as to what was on Chris’ and my mind at the time. How quickly the time seems to have passed: the Journal is about to enter it’s 5th year and is going from strength to strength attracting the best names around.
Issue 1
Issue 2
Issue 3
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October 11, 2008
A very basic overview of embodied cognition in Science News. Why do so many researchers insist on cutifying or the Spielbergerization of robots?
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October 9, 2008
Good news. Andy Clark’s eagerly awaited book Supersizing the Mind is now available. I notice that Clark and Chalmers’ “The Extended Mind” is reprinted here as well. Groovy Dali-esque cover! (Now that I actually have the book in my hands, I see that it is a Dali painting).
Something to look forward to will be Rob Rupert’s review of Supersizing for the Journal of Mind and Behavior. Rob is one of the most formidable critics of the extended mind and like Andy, a superb writer. And if that’s not all, Rob’s own book Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind also from OUP, will be hitting the shelves before long. All in all, a flourish of fresh first-order philosophy of mind over the next year.
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October 5, 2008
The Michael Oakeshott Association website has been pretty much reconstituted after a technical hiccup. The domain is no longer .org; it is .com. Some wise guy has got the .org URL – THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL Oakeshott website. The MOA .com version is content-rich and has the backing of a whose who of Oakeshott scholars and friends.
If you have a link pointing to the .org URL, we’d appreciate you changing it to the .com version. That way we will get bumped up in Google.
By the way, we have no objections to enthusiasts’ sites such as the Face Book site. It doesn’t pretend to be anything official.
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October 1, 2008
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