well, and to keep supposing, if the argument were to turn out to be reductio and Kant turns out to be wrong? On Wed, 7 May 2008 wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote: > 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 > box 90743, Durham, NC 27708 home ph#: [1] 9196881856 cellph#: [1[] 9195997065 (voicemail is available on said numbers) email palma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html