March 2013 - SIPTA News - lists.sipta.org

[SIPTA] BFAS Spring School on Belief Functions Theory and Applications
by Arnaud Martin March 31, 2013

March 31, 2013

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[SIPTA] Mini-Symposium `Imprecise Probability in Reliability' at ICVRAM 2014
by Frank Coolen March 27, 2013

March 27, 2013

Dear fellow Imprecisionists, We are organising a mini-symposium on `Imprecise Probability in Reliability' at the joint meeting: Second International Conference on Vulnerability and Risk Analysis and Management (ICVRAM2014) & Sixth International Symposium on Uncertainty Modelling and Analysis (ISUMA2014) at Liverpool University, on 13-16 July 2014. General details of the meeting are at: http://www.icvram2014.org/index.php Details of the mini-symposium are available at: http://www.icvram2014.org/MS-21-Coolen-Ferson-Oberguggenberger-Troffaes-Utk… There will probably be several other mini-symposia of explicit interest to you, see: http://www.icvram2014.org/mini-symposia.php We welcome contributions! Please follow the guidlines on the conference webpage, note that the deadline for abstracts is 30 April 2013. If you will submit an abstract and wish it to be within our mini-symposium, then it would be great if you can, in addition to the formal submission process, also send your abstract to me (frank.coolen(a)durham.ac.uk). You can of course, contact any of us in case you wish to discuss a possible contribution (contact details on the above webpage). We look forward to hear from many of you! Frank Coolen Scott Ferson Michael Oberguggenberger Matthias Troffaes Lev Utkin ps We have initial plans to arrange a further workshop-style meeting on this topic, at Durham, immediately following the Liverpool conference; these plans will be worked out in more detail over the coming months, but you may wish to keep it in mind; all would be welcome, of course, and we expect to run it at low (ideally zero) fees.

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[SIPTA] 3nd CFP: Progic 2013 "Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems", Munich, 17-18 Sept. 2013
by Niki Pfeifer March 18, 2013

March 18, 2013

3rd Call for papers ------------------- Progic 2013: The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic "Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems" Workshop website: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/ Introduction ------------ The Sixth Workshop on Combining Probability and Logic (progic 2013) continues the progic workshop series (www.kent.ac.uk/secl/philosophy/jw/progic.htm) Progic 2013 takes place on September 17 and 18, 2013. The workshop location is the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, which is located at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich. The workshop is financially supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and hosted by the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy. Progic 2013 focuses on "Combining probability and logic to solve philosophical problems". Topics include but are not restricted to -) acceptability -) argument strength -) belief revision -) conditionals -) conditionalization -) counterfactuals -) information -) probability logic Scholars who combine probability and logic to elaborate new solutions to philosophical problems are invited to submit an extended abstract (two pages, prepared for blind review) for presentation at the workshop (40 min. talk, 10 min. discussion). Contributors should indicate if they are prepared to submit a paper to the progic 2013 special issue in the Journal of Applied Logic. Invited speakers are Igor Douven (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Groningen), Alan Hájek (School of Philosophy, Australian National University), Kevin T. Kelly (Center for Formal Epistemology, Carnegie Mellon University), Hannes Leitgeb (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich), and Peter Milne (Department of Philosophy, University of Stirling). Invited talks ------------- -) Igor Douven: Conditionals and closure. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#douven -) Alan Hájek: Probabilities of counterfactuals and counterfactual probabilities. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#hajek -) Kevin T. Kelly and Hanti Lin: Qualitative reasoning that tracks Jeffrey conditioning. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#kelly -) Hannes Leitgeb Belief: and stable probability. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#leitgeb -) Peter Milne: Information, confirmation, and conditionals. Abstract: www.pfeifer-research.de/progic/abstracts.html#milne Important dates --------------- Deadline for extended abstracts: April 15, 2013 Notification of acceptance of extended abstracts: May 1, 2013 Deadline for full papers: September 1, 2013 Workshop dates: September 17-18, 2013 Notification of acceptance of full papers: November 15, 2013 Deadline for final versions of full papers: December 15, 2013 The extended abstracts (max. two pages) should be sent in PDF format to niki(dot)pfeifer(at)lrz(dot)uni-muenchen(dot)de Local organizer --------------- Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) Steering committee ----------------- Jeff Helzner (Department Philosophy, Columbia University) Niki Pfeifer (Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) Jan-Willem Romeijn (Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen) Gregory Wheeler (Centre for Research in Artificial Intelligence, New University of Lisbon) Jon Williamson (Department of Philosophy & Centre for Reasoning, University of Kent) -- Dr.Dr. Niki Pfeifer www.pfeifer-research.de Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)

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