Social Epistemology

Social epistemology is a relatively new and booming field of research. It
studies the social dimension of the pursuit of acquiring true beliefs and
requires philosophical as well as sociological and economical expertise. The
insights gained in social epistemology are not only of theoretical interest
– they also improve our understanding of social and political processes as
the field includes the analysis of group deliberation and group decision
making. Surprisingly, little work has yet been done on the epistemic
properties of group deliberation, belief aggregation and decision-making
procedures. This workshop aims at closing this gap with the help of formal
models that ideally combine representational adequacy with instructive
analytical results. To this end, we welcome contributions from all relevant
fields of research.


Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science iS organising a Workshop on

FORMAL MODELING IN SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGY

during

9-10 October 2008

For details contact:

http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/tilps/FMP2008/

INVITED SPEAKERS: Vincent Buskens (Utrecht), Igor Douven (Leuven), Rainer
Hegselmann (Bayreuth), Christian List (LSE), Carl Wagner (Tennessee), Jesús
Zamora Bonilla (Madrid)

ORGANIZERS: Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg), Carlo Martini (Tilburg), Jan
Sprenger (Bonn/Tilburg)