Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) & Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) Barcelona, 21-23 September, 2020 The Making of the Humanities conferences bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the […]

In addition to the general themes of the DEON conferences, DEON 2020 will encourage a special focus on the topic: Norms in Social Perspective (cf. infra). Keynote speakers will be announced shortly. Important Dates: Abstract Submission Deadline:  March 8th, 2020  Paper Submission Deadline:  March 15th, 2020 Notification:   May 29th, 2020  Camera Ready: June 28th, 2020 […]

Time: 2019 Nov 1, 13:30-16:00Venue: 蒙民伟科技大楼南楼S527, Tsinghua Univ. Speaker:  Dr Yang Liu (University of Cambridge) Abstract:  In this talk I will discuss some surprises and puzzles in epistemic models. First, I will show a generalisation of Aumann’s surprising impossibility result in the context of rational decision making. I will then move, in the second part, to […]

Time: 2019 Oct 25, 13:30-16:00 Venue: 新斋324, Tsinghua Univ. Speaker:  Kevin Kelly (Carnegie Mellon University) Abstract: Inductive knowledge is knowledge that goes beyond the information available. Inductive skeptics think there isn’t any such thing. Maybe they are right—standard modal theories of knowledge (tracking, safety) are too strict to allow for even banal inductive inferences. But maybe they are […]

Time: 2019 Oct 16, 16:30-18:00 Venue: 新斋105, Tsinghua Univ. Speaker:  Declan Thompson (Stanford University) Abstract: The comparative expressive power between two logics is generally measured with respect to the existence of a translation from one to the other. A common technique for showing two logics to have different strengths is by demonstration a pair of models […]