5th Copenhagen Lund Workshop on Social Epistemology

The topic of this workshop is Social Epistemology (i.e., both formal and informal work). The past four workshops have primarily dealt with formal models of belief polarization, information cascades, echo chambers, and pluralistic ignorance.

Speakers

• Avizier Tucker (University of Austin, Texas): Modeling the Generation of Knowledge
• Bert Baumgärtner (UC Davis): An Agent-Based Model of Millian Mingling
• Carlo Proietti & Erik J. Olsson (Lund University): Pluralistic ignorance, informational cascades and higher order beliefs
• Chris J. Thompson (Cambridge University): An epistemic case for deliberative democracy
• Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern University):  Why deliberate?
• George Masterton (Lund University): Does Laputa solve Goldman's problem?
• Gustavo Cevolani (University of Bologna): Belief merging and truth approximation
• Peter Brössel (University of Bochum): To be announced
• Raphael Künstler (University of Provence): Information cascade and the division of cognitive labor
• Rasmus K. Rendsvig (Copenhagen University): Dynamics of the Bystander Effect

Principal investigators

Erik J. Olsson (Lund) & Vincent F. Hendricks (Copenhagen)

Organizers
Frank Zenker & Carlo Proietti