Philosophy of Information at Hertfordshire University

FOURTH WORKSHOP ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION

Boardroom, McClaurin Building, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

Thursday 10 May 2012

9.00 Welcome, Tea, Coffee

9.30 GREGORY WHEELER (Keynote Speaker)


Is there a logic of information?

10.00 PATRICK ALLO


Tentative inference, open worlds and the informational conception of logic

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 SIMON D’ALFONSO


The logic of knowledge and the flow of information

11.30 SONJA SMETS


Playing for knowledge

12.00 ORLIN VAKARELOV


From interface to correspondence: How to recover classical representations in a pragmatic theory of semantic information

12.30 – 13.30 Lunch Break

13.30 ANTHONY BEAVERS


Transcendental philosophy in the age of information: Floridi’s Neo-Kantian epistemology

14.00 BERT BAUMGÄRTNER


Defence of modeling vagueness with discrete degrees

14.30 NIR FRESCO & PHILLIP STAINES


A revised attack on digital ontology

15.00 PHYLLIS ILLARI


Information and causal inference: in defence of generality

15.30 MARK JAGO


Bounded rationality and epistemic blindspots

16.00 – 16.30 Tea Break

16.30 ERIC KERR


An informational approach to epistemic agency

17.00 LUCIANO FLORIDI


A plea for antinaturalism

17.30 – 18.00 Final discussion and end of first day

19.00 Workshop Dinner

Friday 11 May 2012

9.00 Welcome, Tea, Coffee

9.30 STEPHEN HARTMANN (Keynote Speaker
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Updating on conditionals = Kullback-Leibler + causal structure

10.00 SEBASTIAN SEQUOIAH-GRAYSON


Epistemic operations

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 GUSTAVO CEVOLANI


Truthlikeness, partial truth, and (strongly) semantic information

11.30 GIUSEPPE PRIMIERO


Towards a taxonomy of errors for information systems

12.00 HILMI DEMIR


Taking stock: Arguments for the veridicality thesis

12.30 – 13.30 Final discussion and end of workshop