| Organizer(s) | SSI, Coherence-based probability logic: Rationality under uncertainty (SPP 1516), SIGames, ProComPrag |
| Start of event | 25.05.2016, 13.00 o'clock |
| End of event | 27.05.2016, 15.00 o'clock |
| Venue | ZAS |
| Workshop website |
This international workshop brings together linguists, philosophers, and psychologists to study interactions among rationality frameworks, uncertainty, pragmatic phenomena, and cognition. The aim is to critically discuss how recent psychological and philosophical theories of rational reasoning and experimental pragmatics can benefit from each other. Specifically, the goals of the workshop include (but are not limited):
1) to identify and discuss phenomena of common interest such as conditional sentences
2) to identify common theoretical issues such as coherence, prior likelihoods in iterated models, or probabilistic explanations of pragmatic phenomena
3) to debate the advantages/disadvantages of different formal approaches used for both reasoning and pragmatics.
Wednesday, 25th
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 13:45 – 14:00 | WELCOME |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Michael Franke (Tübingen) Probabilistic pragmatics & rational analysis (slides) |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | Daniel Lassiter (Stanford) Bayes nets and the dynamics of probabilistic language (abstract) |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Niki Pfeifer (München) Probabilistic experimental pragmatics beyond Bayes’ theorem (slides) |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Michele Herbstritt & Michael Franke (Tübingen) Use and interpretation of probability expressions under high-order uncertainty (slides) |
| 18:30 | Dinner at Restaurant “Augustiner am Gendarmenmarkt” |
Thursday, 26th
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Guy Politzer (Paris) Rational and pragmatic assessment of uncertain deduction (slides) |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Anton Benz & Nicole Gotzner (Berlin) The best response: Speaker rationality in an interactive paradigm (slides) |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Ira Noveck (Lyon) Reconciling probabilistic approaches and experimental pragmatics: The case of the conditional(slides) |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | Grégoire Winterstein (Hong Kong) Probabilistic Discourse Markers – Abduction and Adversative Conjunction (slides) |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:16 – 17:15 | Mike Oaksford (London) Learning in Dynamic Conditional Inference (slides) |
| 17:15 – 18:00 | Chris Cummins (Edinburgh) The pragmatics of cognitive biases: going beyond the bounds (slides) |
Friday, 27th
| TIME | EVENT |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 11:00 | Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of The Negev) A Linguistic Approach to the Conjunction Fallacy(slides) |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Patricia Rich (Bristol) Axiomatic and Ecological Rationality: Choosing Costs and Benefits (slides) |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 12:15 – 13:00 | Maria Biezma and Arno Goebel (Konstanz) Perfecting Biscuits (abstract) |