Reasoning about other minds: Logical and cognitive perspectives

August 4, 2014 - August 5, 2014
University of Groningen

Groningen
Netherlands

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The workshop "Reasoning about other minds: Logical and cognitive perspectives" will take place on Monday, August 4 and Tuesday morning, August 5, in the Senaatszaal in the Academy Building in Groningen.
This workshop aims to shed light on models of social reasoning that take into account realistic resource bounds. People reason about other people's mental states in order to understand and predict the others'  behavior. This capability to reason about others' knowledge, beliefs and intentions is often referred to as 'theory of mind'.  Idealized rational agents are capable of recursion in their social reasoning, and can reason about phenomena like common knowledge. Such idealized social reasoning has been modeled by modal logics such as epistemic logic and BDI (belief, goal, intention) logics. However, in real-world situations, many people seem to lose track of such recursive social reasoning after only a few levels.  Cognitive scientists build computational models of social reasoning, for example, recently an "inverse planning" model based on Bayesian inference frameworks has proven successful in modeling human inferences about the goals and beliefs underlying other people's observed behavior. The workshop provides a forum for researchers who attempt to analyze, understand and model how resource-bounded agents reason about other minds. 
There will be two keynote lectures: Liesbeth Sterck: "Primate social cognition: Constructing the evolution of Theory of Mind" Lisette van der Meer: "Knowing me, knowing you. The emotional self in schizophrenia."
Contributed talks on Monday range from theory of mind in ancient China to strategic reasoning in games. They are presented by Burcu Arslan,  Peter van Emde Boas,  Michael Franke, Mathias Madsen,  Christian Nauerz,  Eric Pacuit, Andrés Perea, Harmen de Weerd, and Stefan Wierda.  
The program on Tuesday is shared with "Advances in Modal Logic" and focuses on the logical perspective on reasoning about others. After an invited lecture by Joe Halpern, "Reasoning about knowledge of awareness revisited", contributed talks are presented by Sara Uckelman, Yanjing Wang,  Francois Schwarzentruber and Ivano Ciardelli.
Here's the full program of the workshop: http://www.ai.rug.nl/conf/reasoningminds2/program.html

You are very welcome to attend. If you register for the conference "Advances in Modal Logic", then "Reasoning About Other Minds" is included for free and you can attend the whole conference week 4-8 August, including coffee, tea, and lunch. Costs for the full week: 175,- for MSc and PhD students; 275,- for others.

You can also register for only "Reasoning about other minds (RAOM)". Then you can attend on Monday 4 August the whole day (RAOM proper) and on Tuesday morning August 5, until and including lunch. Costs: 75,- for students; 90,- for others.

Please register by this Thursday at: http://www.eventure-online.com/eventure/welcome.do?type=participant&congress=15_AIML&page=index

The workshop is sponsored by NWO Vici project "Cognitive systems in interaction: Logical and computational models of higher-order social cognition", awarded to Rineke Verbrugge.
Looking forward to meeting you at the workshop.
Best wishes,  Jakub Szymanik and Rineke Verbrugge (program chairs)

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