Episteme 2011 Conference

June 24-26

Carnegie Mellon University

Local arrangements

June 24

• 8:30-9:00 Bagels and coffee and welcome.
• 9:00-9-15 Introductory remarks.
• 9:15-10:15 Kevin Zollman (CMU, Philosophy): Tutorial on Networks.
• 10:15-11 Conor Mayo-Wilson (CMU, Philosophy), Specialization in the Sciences and the Acquisition of Truth.
• 11-11:45 Marcus Pivato (Trent University, Philosophy), A statistical approach to epistemic democracy.
• 11:45-12:30 Matthew Kopec (University of Wisconsin, Madison, Philosophy), It¹s Good to Agree: A Problem with Goldman's Group Scoring Rule and an Odd Consequence of Fixing It.
• 12:30-200 LUNCH BREAK .
• 2:00-2:45 Brian Robert Hedden (MIT, Philosophy), Decision Theory and Dutch Books.
• 2:45-3:00 Paul Pedersen (CMU, Philosophy) Dutch Books for primitive conditional probability and lexicographic decision making.
• 3:00-4:00 Teddy Seidenfeld (CMU, Philosophy) Scoring Rules and Dutch Book.
• 4:00-4:30 Coffee break
• 4:30-5:15 Khalifa, Kareem (Middlebury College), Collective Epistemic Goals and Theoretical Unity.
• 5:15-6:00 Raphael Kunstler (University of Aix-Marseille) Aggregating collective judgment in scientific research.

June 25

• 8:30-9:00 Bagels and coffee. 9:00-10:00 Klaus Nehring (UC Davis, Economics), Aggregating Beliefs, Aggregating Values.
• 10:00-10-45 Patricia Rich (CMU, Philosophy), Common Belief, Revision, and Backward Induction.
  
• 10-45-11:45 Alexandru Baltag (Amsterdam, ILLC), TBA.
  
• 11:45-12:30 Eric Pacuit (Tilburg and Maryland, Philosophy) and Olivier Roy (Munich), Paradoxes of Interactive Rationality: A Unified View.
  
• 12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
• 2:00-3:00 Rohit Parikh (CUNY, Philosophy and Computer Science), Knowledge, Common Knowledge, and Games.
• 3:00-4:00 Marciano Siniscalchi (Northwestern, Economics), Epistemic foundations of game theory.
  
• 4:00-4:15 Emmanuel Genot (Lund, Philosophy) How can yes-no questions be informative? Strategic vs. semantic information in games with unaware players.
  
• 4:15-5:00 Horacio Arlo-Costa (CMU, Philosophy) and Patricia Rich (CMU), Fast and Frugal Heuristics for some two player extensive form games of perfect information.
  
• 5:00-6:00 Gerhard Schurz (Dusseldorf, Philosophy), Meta-induction and the social spread of reliable knowledge.

June 26

• 8:30-9:00 Bagels and coffee.
  
• 9:00-9:45 Rogier De Langhe (Ghent University, Belgium), Peer disagreement under multiple epistemic systems.
  
• 9:45-10:30 Maria Lasonen Aarnio (Michigan, Philosophy), Disagreement and Evidential Attenuation.
  
• 10:30-11:15 Stephan Hartmann Soroush Rafiee-Rad (Tilburg, Philosophy), Voting, Deliberation, and Truth.
  
• 11:15-12:00 Ville Aarnio (University of Helsinki), Credence Pooling via Geometric Aggregation of Betting Ratios.
  
• 12:00- 2:00 LUNCH BREAK
  
• 2:00-2:45 Hanti Lin and Kevin Kelly (CMU) Probabilistic acceptance rules.
  
• 2:45-3:45 Brian Skyrms (UCI) Learning to Signal with Two Kinds of Trial and Error.
  
• 3:45-4:30 Elliott Wagner, (UCI), Chaos and Signaling.
  
• 4:30-5:15 Simon M. Huttegger and Brian Skyrms (UCI), Low-Rationality learning for networks.
  
• 5:15-5:30 Final remarks.