Workshop on Computer Simulations in Social Epistemology

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Date: 
30 Oct, 2008 - 31 Oct, 2008

Speakers

Jason Alexander (LSE)
Igor Douven (Leuven)
Stephan Hartmann (TiLPS)
Paul Humphreys (Virginia)
Carlo Martini (TiLPS)
Gerhard Schurz (Duesseldorf)
Kevin Zollman (Carnegie Mellon)

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Program

October 30

14.00 Welcome
14.15 Gerhard Schurz: Meta-induction: computer simulations of prediction games
15.30 Jason McKenzie Alexander: Social Deliberation: Nash, Bayes, and the vindication of a 19th century French Sociologist
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