Fourth Workshop on the Philosophy of Information

Boardroom, McClaurin Building, University of Hertfordshire

Thursday 10 May 2012

9:00| 9:30| Welcome, Tea, Coffee
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9:30| 10:00| GREGORY WHEELER, Keynote Speaker
Is there a logic of information?
10:00| 10:30| PATRICK ALLO
Tentative inference, open worlds and the informational conception of logic
10:30| 11:00| Coffee Break
11:00| 11:30| SIMON D’ALFONSO
The Logic of Knowledge and the Flow of Information
11:30| 12:00| SONJA SMETS
Playing for Knowledge
12:00| 12:30| ORLIN VAKARELOV
From Interface to Correspondence: How to recover classical representations in a pragmatic theory of semantic information.
12:30| 13:30| Lunch Break
13:30| 14:00| ANTHONY BEAVERS
Transcendental Philosophy in the Age of Information: Floridi’s Neo-Kantian Epistemology
14:00| 14:30| BERT BAUMGAERTNER
A Defence of Modeling Vagueness with Discrete Degrees
14:30| 15:00| NIR FRESCO & PHILLIP STAINES
A Revised Attack on Digital Ontology
15:00| 15:30| PHYLLIS ILLARI
Information and causal inference: in defence of generality
15:30| 16:00| MARK JAGO
Bounded Rationality and Epistemic Blindspots
16:00| 16:30| Tea Break
16:30| 17:00| ERIC KERR
An informational approach to epistemic agency
17:00| 17:30| LUCIANO FLORIDI
A Plea for Antinaturalism
17:30| 18:00| Final discussion and end of first day
19:00| 21:00| Workshop Dinner

**Friday 11 May 2012
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9:00| 9:30| Welcome, Tea, Coffee
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9:30| 10:00| STEPHEN HARTMANN, Keynote Speaker
Updating on Conditionals = Kullback-Leibler + Causal Structure
10:00| 10:30| SEBASTIAN SEQUOIAH-GRAYSON
Epistemic Operations
10:30| 11:00| Coffee Break
11:00| 11:30| GUSTAVO CEVOLANI
Truthlikeness, partial truth, and (strongly) semantic information
11:30| 12:00| GIUSEPPE PRIMIERO
Towards a taxonomy of errors for information systems
12:00| 12:30| Final discussion and end of workshop
13:00| 14:00| Informal lunch and Meeting of the PI