Workshop: Philosophical Issues in Belief Revision, Conditional Logic and Possible World Semantics

Pictures from the workshop can be found here.

Date: September 21-22, 2012 

Workshop at  the GAP.8 (8th Meeting of the German Association for Analytic Philosophy), Konstanz

Place: Room C 421, Building C, 4th floor, University of Konstanz. (A room plan for the workshops at the GAP.8 is also available at the main entrance of the University of Konstanz buildings.)

Organizer: Matthias Unterhuber

Workshop language: English

Short link to this web page: https://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/belief-revision

Beschreibung des Workshops: Ziel des Workshops ist es, Philosophen aus der Umfeld der GAP zusammenzubringen, die in den Bereichen Glaubensrevision, Konditionallogik und Mögliche-Welten-Semantik arbeiten. Der Workshop soll als Forum für den Austausch von Ideen aus diesen verwandten Gebieten dienen.

Workshop description: The aim of the workshop is to bring together philosophers (related to the GAP, but not limited to it), who work in the area of belief revision, conditional logic and possible worlds semantics. The workshop shall serve as a platform for the exchange of ideas from these related areas.

The Speakers include: Holger Andreas (LMU Munich), Igor Douven (Groningen), André Fuhrmann (Frankfurt), Franz Huber (Konstanz), Manfred Kupffer (Frankfurt), Hannes Leitgeb (Munich), Hans Rott (Regensburg), Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf), Sonja Smets (Amsterdam), Matthias Unterhuber (Duesseldorf), and Heinrich Wansing (Bochum)

Abstracts: You can find the Abstracts of the talks here.

Schedule:

September 21, 2012 

• 9.15-9.20  Welcome

• 9.20-10.15  Igor Douven (Groningen) Scope Ambiguities and Conditionals

• 10.25-11.20 Franz Huber (Toronto) What Should I Believe About What Would Have Been the Case?

• 11.30-12.25 Matthias Unterhuber (Duesseldorf) Belief Revision from a Conditional Logic Perspective

• 13.30-14.25 Hannes Leitgeb (Munich) A New Lottery Paradox for Counterfactuals 

• 14.35-15.30 Manfred Kupffer (Frankfurt) Properties of Fat Men - Quantified Modal Logic without Possible Individuals

• 15.50-16.45 Holger Andreas (LMU Munich) Paraconsistent Concept Formation in a Belief Revision Framework

• 16.55-17.50 Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf) Reward and Risk in Reasoning with Uncertain Conditionals

September 22, 2012 

• 8.30-9.25  Heinrich Wansing (Bochum) Varieties of Implication

• 9.35-10.30  André Fuhrmann (Frankfurt) Possible Knowledge and Potential Knowledge: A New Look at Fitching Knowability

• 10.50-11.45  Sonja Smets (Univ. Amsterdam) Evidence-Based Belief Revision, a Logical Analysis

• 11.55-12.50  Hans Rott (Regensburg) Two Concepts of Plausibility in Default Reasoning

• 12.50-12.55 Farewell

Guests are welcome! 

We ask persons interested in attending the workshop to register by email, by contacting Matthias Unterhuber at unterhuberphil.uni-duesseldorfde. We also recommmend to book rooms early for the workshop, since during the time of the workshop there will be a second large conference.

The workshop is funded/supported by the chair of theoretical philosophy at the university of Duesseldorf (Gerhard Schurz).