Causal and probabilistic reasoning conference at MCMP

Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning
18-20 June, 2015

Idea and Motivation

2015 marks the 15th anniversary of the publications of Judea Pearl’s Causality and the second edition of Peter Spirtes, Clark Glymour, and Richard Scheines’ Causality, Prediction, and Search, which together are the foundations for the mathematical theory of causal modeling. During this period, the theory of causal Bayesian networks has been applied to a variety of topics in the special sciences, including the brain and cognitive sciences. This conference will focus on the applications of probabilistic and causal modeling in cognitive science, with an emphasis on assessing both the power and limitations of these tools in our understanding of cognition.

Topics of the conference will include, but are not be limited to:

• Causal reasoning
• Probabilistic reasoning
• Models of bounded rationality
• Probabilistic causal models in cognitive psychology
• Models of Judgment and Decision Making
• Learning and Decision Making
• Group Decision Making
• Social Norms and Networks
• Foundations of Causal Bayesian Networks

Call for Abstracts

We invite submissions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and computer scientists of both a short abstract (max. 100 words) and an extended abstract (of no more than 1500 words) through our automatic submission system by 1 February, 2015. To submit, please prepare your abstracts for blind review, and save your extended abstract as a PDF file. Then follow the link to our Conference System.

When logged in, go to the new submission page. Include your 100 words abstract and upload the PDF file of your extended abstract. You will be able to revise your submission any number of times before the deadline. Please feel free to contact the organizers with any questions you may have.

The conference language is English.

Dates and Deadlines:

• Deadline for submission: February 1, 2015
• Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2015
• Registration deadline: June 1, 2015
• Conference: June 18-20, 2015

Steering Committee:

• Stephan Hartmann (MCMP/LMU)
• Karolina Krzyżanowska (MCMP/LMU)
• Michael Waldmann (Göttingen)
• Gregory Wheeler (MCMP/LMU)

Program Committee:

• Isabelle Drouet (Paris-Sorbonne)
• Vincenzo Crupi (Turin/MCMP)
• David Danks (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Frederick Eberhardt (Caltech)
• Gabriele Kern-Isberner (Dortmund)
• Marcus Knauff (Gießen)
• Laura Martignon (Ludwigsburg)
• Björn Meder (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
• Ralf Mayrhofer (Göttingen)
• Arthur Paul Pedersen (Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
• Mike Oaksford (Birkbeck College London)
• Katya Tentori (Trento)
• Jiji Zhang (Lingnan)