[PHILOS-L] PhiLang seminar with Franz Berto & Aybüke Özgün, April 15th
Piotr Stalmaszczyk
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Wednesday, 15th April, 18.00 CEST
Franz Berto (University of St. Andrews) &
Aybüke Özgün (ILLC, University of Amsterdam)
‘I wasn’t thinking about that!’
Abstract
Framing effects occur when someone believes only one of two necessarily equivalent propositions, P and Q. Framing is well known and widely studied in economics, the social sciences, cognitive psychology, etc. We want a logic of framing.
Of course, we often find ourselves framed because of the guise under which propositional contents are presented to us. But if one has a hyperintensional conception of propositions—one according to which P can sometimes differ from Q even if they are true in the same possible worlds—then one can think that sometimes we are framed because of a difference in content.
In this paper we argue that this kind of framing is structural and pervasive. It depends on the distinction between working memory and long-term memory—a structural one, accepted in psychology for decades. The basic idea: sometimes we believe P without believing a necessarily equivalent Q because, whereas P concerns a topic we have activated in working memory, Q concerns something else: a topic that we have left dormant in long-term memory.
We then introduce a simple propositional modal language with belief operators, a class of possible-worlds models supplemented with topics, and a sound and complete axiomatization with respect to this class, in order to represent reasoners who can be framed in the way described above.
The PhiLang Seminars series, from the University of Lodz, provides a unique opportunity to listen to leading figures in Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, and Argumentation present their research. Join the debate by registering here. You need only register once for the entire series.
Piotr Stalmaszczyk & Martin Hinton
https://www.filolog.uni.lodz.pl/philang
Department of Linguistics and Communication
Faculty of Philology
University of Lodz
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