Progic2005: second workshop on Combining Probability and Logic special focus: Objective Bayesianism
Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, London School of Economics, 6th-8th July 2005 http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11/progic2005/ You are invited to submit a paper for presentation at the workshop and publication in a special issue of the Journal of Logic, Language and Computation. There is a clear connection between probability and logic: both appear to tell us how we should reason. But how, exactly, are the two concepts related? Objective Bayesianism offers one answer to this question. According to objective Bayesianism, probability generalises deductive logic: deductive logic tells us which conclusions are certain, given a set of premises, while probability tells us the extent to which one should believe a conclusion, given the premises (certain conclusions being awarded full degree of belief). According to objective Bayesianism, the premises objectively (i.e. uniquely) determine the degree to which one should believe a conclusion. The aim of this workshop is to explore the connections between probability and logic, and in particular to evaluate aspects of the connection forged by objective Bayesianism. The workshop is intended to be interdisciplinary: the themes of the workshop are relevant to mathematicians, logicians, philosophers, computer scientists, psychologists and engineers, for example. Further details: http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11/progic2005/ -------------- Jon Williamson Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK http://personal.lse.ac.uk/willia11
