Fwd: 2nd Call for Abstracts: The 8th Workshop on Combining Logic and Probability (POGIC 2017), March 29-31, 2017 at LMU Munich

[Joao Marcos]

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The Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy invites abstracts for the following event:

The 8th Workshop on Combining Logic and Probability (PROGIC 2017)

MCMP, LMU Munich

March 29-31, 2017

http://www.progic2017.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
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Progic 2017 is the 8th Workshop in the series of workshops focusing on the combination of logic and probability. Progic 2017 will focus on sever uncertainity.
Scholars who combine probability and logic to elaborate new solutions to problems involving severe uncertainty are invited to submit an extended abstract (~1000 words) for presentation at the workshop. Topics include but are not restricted to

• ambiguity aversion
• argument strength
• belief revision
• causal modeling
• conditional judgments
• conditionalization
• decision making under severe uncertainty
• descriptive modeling of severe uncertainty
• desirability (sets of desirable gambles)
• group decision making & pooling
• independence concepts
• elicitation and scoring
• formal epistemology & severe uncertainty
• lexicographic probabilities
• probability logic
• machine learning and severe uncertainty
• Markov series & severe uncertainty

Easychair Submission Instructions

Please submit a short abstract (max. 100 words) and an extended abstract (max. 1000 words) through the easychair automatic submission system by 20th of December, 2016. Prepare both of your abstracts for blind review and save your extended abstract as a PDF file. Then follow the link to our easychair site. If you have never used easychair before you will need to create an account. When logged in, go to the new submission page. Include your 100 word abstract and upload the PDF file of your extended abstract.

Consult the call for papers for further details: http://www.progic2017.philosophie.uni-muenchen.de/call_for_papers/index.html

Program Chair

• Gregory Wheeler (LMU Munich/MCMP)

PROGIC Steering Committee

• Niki Pfeifer (LMU Munich/MCMP)
• Jan-Willem Romeijn  (University of Groningen)
• Gregory Wheeler (LMU Munich/MCMP)
• Jon Williamson (University of Kent)