Fourth Annual Formal Epistemology Workshops, FEW 2007

We are in the process of organizing the fourth 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;
* Belief revision;
* Causal discovery.

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 fourth workshop is scheduled for 31 May – 3 June 2007 and will be held at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

FEW 2007 SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
– Paper submissions (at least a 1/2 page abstract): By Monday, Feb. 26th.
– Notification: By Monday, March 30th.

Please send submissions by email to Branden Fitelson <branden@fitelson.org>.

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. Limited funds are available for graduate student travel. (A workshop web-site will shortly be set up. It will appear at the usual location: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~fitelson/few/.)

Richard Scheines <scheines@andrew.cmu.edu> CMU

Sahotra Sarkar <sarkar@mail.utexas.edu> UT-Austin

Branden Fitelson <branden@fitelson.org> UC-Berkeley