Progic 2017: The 8th Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (29-31 March 2017)
Idea and Motivation
The Eighth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (Progic 2017) continues the progic workshop series. Progic 2017 takes place on March 29 to 31, 2017 at the LMU Munich. The workshop is financially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.
Program
Day 1 (29 March 2017)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Opening |
| 09:30 - 10:45 | Richard Bradley: Three Grades of Uncertainty: Decisions and Revisions |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Jon Williamson: Expansion and Revision in Objective Bayesian Inductive Logic |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | H. Orri Stefánsson & Katie Steele: Belief Revision for Growing Awareness |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Eric Raidl: Ranked Severe Uncertainty and its Revision |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Gustavo Cevolani: A New Way Out of the Lottery Paradox |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | John R. Welch: Degrees of Credence without Bayes' Theorem |
Day 2 (30 March 2017)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:30 - 10:45 | Gert DeCooman: Predictive Inference and Desirability |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Alessio Benavoli, Almundena Colacito, Alessandro Facchini & Marco Zaffalon: Accepting and Rejecting Gambles: A Logical Point of View |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Jason Konek: On the Alethic Foundations of Imprecise Bayesianism: A Defense of IP Scoring Rules |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Fabio Cozman: The Finite Model Theory of Bayesian Networks |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Christoph Jansen & Georg Schollmeyer: Concepts for Decision Making With Partial Cardinal and Partial Ordinal Preferences |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Jan-Willem Romeijn: Stein's Paradox and Group Rationality |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner (Osterwaldgarten) |
Day 3 (31 March 2017)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 09:30 - 10:45 | Gregory Wheeler: Mispriced Gambles: What Peers Learn when they Disagree |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Niki Pfeifer & Giuseppe Sanfilippo: Coherent Nested Conditional Syllogisms Under Uncertainty |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Matthias Unterhuber: Convergence Results for Probabilistic Logics and Connexive Principles |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Christian Wallmann: Bad News: Bayes' Theorem and Chance-Credence Norms are Incompatible |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Rafal Urbaniak: Probabilistic Explication of the Notion of Narration as Used in Judiciary Contexts |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Coffee Break |
Acknowledgement:
The workshop is supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
Photo Credits
Header background: Josef F. Stuefer, "map of life". Some right reserved (desaturated from original). Source: www.piqs.de.