Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning

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 have 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

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Ulrike Hahn (London & MCMP)
Ralph Hertwig (Max Planck Institute)
Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz)

IMPORTANT DATES:

Registration deadline: June 1, 2015
Conference: June 18-20, 2015


STEERING COMMITTEE:

Stephan Hartmann
Karolina Krzy?anowska
Michael Waldmann
Gregory Wheeler


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Isabelle Drouet
Vincenzo Crupi
David Danks
Frederick Eberhardt
Gabriele Kern-Isberner
Marcus Knauff
Laura Martignon
Björn Meder
Ralf Mayrhofer
Arthur Paul Pedersen
Mike Oaksford
Katya Tentori
Jiji Zhang