Language, Communication and Rational Agency
    

Tentative Schedule



Saturday, May 30 2009

 9:00 - 9:20:  Coffee  
 9:20-9:30:  Opening  
  Morning session: Agency and Logic  
       9:30 - 10:10        Thomas Icard (with Eric Pacuit and Yoav Shoham)
A Dynamic Logic of Intention and Belief
[Abstract]
       10:10 - 10:50        Eric Pacuit
Reasoning with protocols
[Abstract]
       11:10 - 11:50        Bill MacCartney
An extended model of natural logic
[Abstract]
       11:50 - 12:30        Lucas Champollion
Davidsonian events and thematic roles -- are they necessary? A reply to Kratzer and Schein
[Abstract]
  Lunch (12:30 - 2:00)  
  Afternoon Session: Formal Epistemology  
       14:00 - 14:40        Krista Lawlor
Scoreboard Semantics for Knowledge Claims
[Abstract]
       14:40 - 15:30        Sheri Rousch
TBA
[Abstract]
       15:50 - 16:50        Kevin Kelly
A Learning Semantics for Epistemic Modal Logic
[Abstract]
       16:50 - 17:20        Discussion
Drinks & Reception at CSLI (starting at 17:30) including live music by the Philosophy Deparment's own Tal Glezer (banjo), Thomas Icard (guitar), and Alistair Isaac (fiddle).


Sunday, May 31, 2009

 9:15 - 9:30:  Coffee  
  Morning session 1: Logic and Games 
       9:30 - 10:20        Giacomo Bonanno
Revealed preference, iterated belief revision and dynamic games
[Abstract]
       10:20 - 11:00        Yossi Feinberg
Games with Unawarenes
[Abstract]
  Morning session 2: Information Dynamics  
       11:10 - 11:50        Johan van Benthem
Logics of Information Change
       11:50 - 12:30        Brian Skyrms

  Lunch (12:30 - 2:00)  
  Afternoon Session: Language and Cognition  
       2:00 - 2:40        Adrian Brasoveanu
Exceptional Scope as Scopal Independence
[Abstract]
       2:50 - 3:50        Jeroen Groenendijk
Inquisitive Semantics
  Closing