Seminars
The 2025 LUCI logic seminar series.
20 Jun 2025 · Seminar
Explanations that uncover why a conclusion holds—those that provide its reasons—are central across disciplines, from philosophy and logic to artificial intelligence. There exists a rich philosophical tradition, stretching from Aristotle to Frege and…
21 May 2025 · Seminar
Infodemics are the plague of online information. Yet, disinformation is not a new phenomenon. What has changed with with the advent of digital technologies and generative AI? In this talk, building on earlier work in the philosophy of techno-science, and…
14 May 2025 · Seminar
Much of the work in social epistemology is based on the assumption that inquisitive or zetetic norms (guiding one’s inquiry) are reducible to epistemic ones (guiding one’s beliefs). Sometimes zetetic norms are even considered irrelevant for the study of…
7 May 2025 · Seminar
The popularity of an opinion in one’s direct circles is not necessarily a good indicator of its popularity in one’s entire community. For instance, when confronted with a majority of opposing opinions in one’s circles, one might get the impression that one…
9 Apr 2025 · Seminar
In applied areas of science such as education research or medicine, researchers often report the effect sizes of tested interventions to inform people aiming to decide between these interventions. For continuous outcome variables (such as depression or…
2 Apr 2025 · Seminar
While the paradigmatic dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) allows us to reason about agents receiving information from an external source (Public Announcement Logic as well as the Action Models framework), communication within groups of agents has lately become…
26 Mar 2025 · Seminar
How much evidence do the data give us about one hypothesis versus another? The standard way to measure evidence is still the p-value, despite a myriad of problems surrounding it. In this talk I will provide a gentle introduction to the e-value (wikipedia)…
12 Mar 2025 · Seminar
This paper argues that Bayesian conditionalisation should not be viewed as a universal norm of updating, but rather as a heuristic principle that is helpful in some circumstances but fails in others. I go on to show that the heuristic use of…
5 Mar 2025 · Seminar
Conditional logics, as introduced by David Lewis in 1973, enrich the language of classical propositional logic with a two-places modal operator, the conditional, suitable to represent fine-grained notions of conditionality. After introducing conditional…
12 Feb 2025 · Seminar
In science, policy, and everyday life it is often advantageous to ask for a second expert’s opinion. Intuitively, it seems beneficial to provide the second expert with some background information, including the fact that there was an earlier assessment and…