Something very odd about this kind of inquiry. If Kant was right about the principle of the "spontaneity of reason" as a necessary presupposition of all inquiry and argumentation - i.e., our intellectual and moral capacities must be free from external determination for inquiry or argument to be possible - then isn't the kind of "modeling of belief and action" being pursued in the studies below doomed to failure? Also, if such models ARE valid in some sense, then wouldn't they also include in their scope the activities of modeling itself? And if so, doesn't this reflexivity serve to impugn the truth or accuracy or validity of these models' results? ("It has been shown that 74.6753% of all statistical findings are either wrong or misleading or damn lies or at least 2 or all 3 of the above.") Important questions about the meaning of "cognitive change" both philosophically and educationally, I believe. Walter C. Okshevsky Chair, Department of Probabilistic Morality and Human Agency Odessa Institute of Human Engineering Odessa, Russia ----- Forwarded message from Franz Huber <Franz.Huber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ----- Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 22:35:25 +0200 From: Franz Huber <Franz.Huber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: Franz Huber <Franz.Huber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Prague colloquium 08 To: philosop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEADLINE EXTENSION (15 May 2008) Logic of change, change of logic Villa Lanna, Prague, 10-14 September 2008. Tools from logic and mathematics have played a central role in models of human beliefs, of human desires and preferences and indeed the actions which are based on them. However, beliefs, preferences and perhaps even desires change. Thus the development, which has been greatly accelerated in recent times, of extensions of the logical and mathematical techniques to account for the problems of change. However, as different paradigms (AGM theory and dynamic logic in the 'logic' camp, Bayesian update and Jeffrey conditionalisation in the probability camp, to take just a few examples of theories of belief change) jostle to impose themselves, it is perhaps the moment to take a step back and ask: what do we want from a theory of change? This question.as philosophical and methodological as it is technical.is at the heart of this colloquium / workshop. The aim is to bring together specialists working on the problem of attitude change, from a wide range of paradigms, to present and discuss their views on the objectives of theories of change. The ambition is to identify the main issues for theories of change, and clarify the major positions one could hold concerning the project of understanding or modelling attitude change. Philosophical and methodological contributions, and technical contributions with methodological or philosophical reflections are welcome. Authors of selected papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit to a special issue of the journal Knowledge, Rationality, and Action (Synthese). Invited speakers (list to be finalised): Alexandru Baltag (University of Oxford, UK) Richard Bradley (LSE, UK) Sven Ove Hanssen (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) David Makinson (LSE, UK) Hans Rott (Universität Regensburg, Germany) Johan van Benthem (University of Amsterdam, Holland & Stanford University, USA) Hans van Ditmarsch (University of Otago, New Zealand & IRIT, France) Submission information: NEW DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15 May 2008 Submissions of abstracts of not more than 1000 words should be made online, in PDF format, at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=loccol08 Please, note that you have to create an easychair-account before submitting your paper. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, and thus should be prepared for blind review. For further information: The conference website: www.flu.cas.cz/colloquium The conference mail: colloquium@xxxxxxxxxx Programme committee: Alexandru Baltag, Richard Bradley, Sven Ove Hanssen, Brian Hill, David Makinson, Ondrej Majer, Hans van Ditmarsch Organising committee: Brian Hill, Ondrej Majer, Michal Peli¹ -- Franz Huber www.uni-konstanz.de/philosophie/huber ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html