Important Dates
Foundations of epistemic deliberation and analysis and prevention of deliberation pitfalls
March 22-23, 2018
Bamberg, Germany
This is a two day workshop on sub-project of the ColAForm project focused on the foundations of epistemic deliberation and the study of deliberation pitfalls.
Keynote Speakers:
Bernhard Kittel (Vienna)
Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund)
For workshop program and practical information in pdf please see here.
Schedule
Thursday, March 22:
13:00 - 13:50 Olivier Roy & Soroush Rafiee Rad: Deliberation, Anchoring, Single-Peakedness
14:00 - 15:15 Bernhard Kittel: Deliberation in Laboratory Experimental Chats
15:45 - 16:15 Seamus Bradley: Revision and aggregation for sets of probabilities
16:25 - 17:15 Simon Scheller: Fear Appeals in Political Communication - A Strategic Perspective
17:25 - 18:00 Discussion Session I (Moderators: Olivier Roy, Mikaël Cozic) …
Possibly beer garden and then…
20:00 - … Dinner: Hofbräu, Karolinenstraße 7
Friday, March 23:
9:30 - 10:45 Wlodek Rabinowicz: Aggregation of Value Judgments Differs From Aggregation of Preferences
11:00 - 11: 50 Denis Bonnay: Consensus and Online Deliberation
11:55 - 12:30 Discussion Session Session II: Moderators: Olivier Roy, Mikaël Cozic
13:20 - 14:10 Johannes Marx & Dominik Klein: Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Informational Cascades and the Emergence of Mass Movements
14:20 - 15:10 Lasse Gerrits & Peter Marks: Adventures in iterative modeling: the case of converting fitness landscape models from biology for collective decision making processes
Points of Interest:
Workshop venue: M1 Markusstraße 8 Room 02.08
Workshop Dinner: Hofbräu, Karolinenstraße 7
Hotels: Hotel wohnbar, Stangstraße 3 and Hotel Andres, Heiliggeiststraße 1
Lunch, Breweries… Ask us!
Directions and Transit:
Getting from Station/Hotel Andres to Marcushaus/Hotel wohnbar:
- Walking: Around 1.4km.
- Bus: Take Any inbound bus to ZOB. From there change to 904 (direction Dörfleins) s or 906, 916 or 940 (any direction) and get of at Markusplatz.
This is a three day workshop focused on Social Interactions in Epistemology and in Economics, held in collaboration with Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) in Copenhagen.
Programme (pdf)
Wednesday, May 29 th
09: 00-09: 30 Welcome and Coffee
09: 30-09: 45 Introductory remarks by Vincent F. Hendricks, University of Copenhagen
09: 45-10: 45 Keynote by Professor Åsa Wikforss, University of Stockholm: "The Philosophy and Psychology of Knowledge Resistance"
10: 45-11: 25 Robin Engelhardt, University of Copenhagen: "The Wisdom of Threads"
11: 25-11: 40 Break
11: 40-12: 20 Paolo Galeazzi, University of Copenhagen: "Strategic Reasoning Online: Experiments on the Beauty Contest"
12: 20-13: 00 Jean Baccelli, Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy: "Support for Geometric Pooling" (joint work with Rush Stewart)
13: 00-14: 00 Lunch
14: 00-14: 40 Peter Norman Sørensen, University of Copenhagen "Rational Social Learning with Random Sampling" (joint work with Lones Smith (University of Wisconsin)
14: 40-15: 20 Dominik Klein, University of Bayreuth, and Johannes Marx, University of Bamberg: "Selfish beliefs: On the epistemic quality of collective decision mechanisms"
15: 20-15: 40 Break
15: 40-16: 20 Jan-Willem Romeijn, University of Groningen: "Epistemic Diversity and Editor Decisions" (with Remco Heesen)
Thursday, May 30 th
09: 00-09: 15 Coffee
09: 15-10: 15 Keynote by Professor Pierpaolo Battigalli, Bocconi University: "Beliefs, Plans, and Perceived Intentions in Dynamic Games"
10: 15-10: 55 Denis Bonnay, University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense: "Predicting new trends: we need more than what bots can scrap?" Joint work with Quoc-Trieu LE (Paris Dauphine University)
10: 55-11: 15 Break
11:15-11:55 Huihui Ding, Université de Cergy-Pontoise: "Does deliberation improve the reliability of epistemic democracy?"
11:55-12:35 Rasmus Kræmmer Rendsvig, University of Copenhagen: “If everybody shares it, it must be true! Using social network diffusion for post quality evaluation”
12:35-13:35 Lunch
13:35-14:15 Hanna van Lee, University of Copenhagen: “Greater fools reasoning and overpricing”
14:15-14:55 Thomas Bolander, Technical University of Denmark: “Dynamics of greater fools reasoning and overpricing”
14:55-15:15 Break
15:15-17:15 ColaForm Yearly Meeting
Friday, May 31st