It seems to be season to announce conferences. As well as “BSPC”:http://www.ac.wwu.edu/%7Earistos/BSPC6/BSPC6.html, I just got the announcement for the “2005 Formal Epistemology Workshop”:http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Efitelson/few/.
bq.. We are in the process of organizing the second annual formal epistemology workshop. The purpose of these workshops will be to bring together individuals, both faculty and graduate students, using mathematical methods in epistemology in small focused meetings. Topics treated will include but are not limited to:
* Ampliative inference (including inductive logic);
* Game theory and decision theory;
* Formal learning theory;
* Formal theories of coherence:
* Foundations of probability and statistics;
* Formal approaches to paradoxes of belief and/or action.
Besides papers with respondents, each workshop will typically include short introductory tutorials (three or four topically related presentations) on formal methods. These tutorials will be oriented particularly to graduate students.
The second workshop is scheduled for 26-29 May 2005 and will be held at University of Texas at Austin.
Those interested in participating, either by presenting papers, responding, or providing tutorials, or in helping with organization, should contact one of the organizers listed below. The deadline for submissions is February 28. We plan to have the final “schedule”:http://socrates.berkeley.edu/%7Efitelson/few/schedule.html set sometime in March.
p. Formal epistemology is one of those areas of philosophy (philosophy of language is the most prominent) where even the casual observer can detect sustained progress over the last five-ten years. Last year’s first annual FEW was I thought a great success, and I’d encourage anyone working in this area, or (perhaps especially) epistemologists with only a passing familiarity with what is happening in formal epistemology, to go along. I’ve never been to Texas, so I can’t vouch for the quality of the location, but I keep hearing good things about Austin, so maybe this conference also passes the aesthetic test. (Last year’s workshop was in Berkeley which is off the charts by this measure.)