ILLC-LIRa October 2023

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Final CfP (Deadline Extended)] Special Issue on Logics of Communicative Interaction
by LIRa Seminar 29 Oct '23

29 Oct '23

Dear all, We would like to call to your attention the following LIRa-related Call for papers. Due to some request, the submission deadline is extended to 15th November, 2023. ************************************************************ Special Issue of RAP (Review of Analytic Philosophy) on Logics of Communicative Interaction ************************************************************ We invite submissions to a Special Issue on `Logics of Communicative Interaction'. This special issue will appear in the peer-reviewed international journal called the `Review of Analytic Philosophy', which was first launched in 2021 as a new Open Access journal in analytic philosophy. This special issue welcomes new work on the logical study of dynamic changes that take place in scenarios of communicative interaction. Complex forms of change in cognitive states of agents and their social relations can occur in the process of communicative interaction, which calls for a detailed logical analysis. A central topic in such an analysis is the triggers of such changes and their effects during the process of communication. The triggers can include a variety of possible speech acts while an analysis of their effect will typically zoom-in on the formal representations of agent's doxastic and epistemic attitudes as well as the deontic status of action types available to them. The study of such logics for communicative interaction can be approached from different disciplines, including logic, epistemology, argumentation theory, social choice theory, AI, Computer Science, and Philosophy. More specifically, this special issue welcomes work on the following topics: - Dynamic Logics of Communication - Logics of Speech Acts - Logics for Belief Change and Knowledge Updates - Dynamic Epistemic Logics - Logical analysis of Communication in Social Networks - Dynamic Deontic Logic All papers will be peer reviewed according to the standards of the Journal. Authors are advised to read the CFP of the journal downloadable from the following page: https://rap-journal.net/call-for-papers/ All the conditions specified in the CFP of the journal apply except the condition on the publication fee: papers accepted for publication in this special issue will be published free of charge. Submission details: Manuscripts should be between 8000 and 10000 words and submitted as a double-spaced Word document or PDF file with an abstract of around 150 words. They should be fully anonymized to ensure double-blind reviewing. Manuscripts are submitted under the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere, either in whole or in part, and are not currently under review elsewhere. Submissions can be made via the online submission form at https://rap-journal.net/submit-for-authors/ or by email attachments (rap(a)myukk.org). If the authors intend to use LaTeX for preparing the manuscript, please use the standard article class and submit the manuscript in the form of a PDF file (neither the source files nor the dvi file). Submission Deadline: 15th November 2023 (Extended) All inquiries should be sent to rap(a)myukk.org . Guest co-editors of the special issue: Sonja Smets Tomoyuki Yamada

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LIRa session: Fausto Barbero (tomorrow, Thursday, 26 October 16:30)
by LIRa Seminar 25 Oct '23

25 Oct '23

Dear all, We will have our next LIRa session tomorrow, on Thursday, 26 October 16:30. This will be a hybrid session. If you want to attend online, please use our recurring zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/89230639823?pwd=YWJuSnJmTDhXcWhmd1ZkeG5zb0o5UT09 (Meeting ID: 892 3063 9823, Passcode: 421723) You can find the details of the talk below. Speaker: Fausto Barbero (University of Helsinki) Date and Time: Thursday, October 26th 2023, 16:30-18:00 Venue: ILLC seminar room F1.15 in Science Park 107 and online Title: Generalizations of causal models Abstract. A popular approach to the study of causation in the sciences and in philosophy makes use of structural equation models to encode causal assumptions. Such models can be used to assign a meaning to interventionist counterfactuals, which are expressions of the form "If variables X1 ... Xn were set to values x1 ... xn, then phi would hold" to which many notions of causation can be reduced. After presenting the basic ideas of this framework, I will consider some of the directions in which it can be generalized, in particular by developing connections with ideas from team semantics. These generalizations involve the interaction of causation with other concepts such as uncertainty, learning, and dependence; but also natural extensions of the notion of causation, such as indeterministic causal laws and indeterminate interventions. Along the way, I will present the results obtained (with various coauthors) and ongoing work about generalized logics of interventionist counterfactuals, in the contexts of deterministic, probabilistic and qualitatively indeterministic causation. Hope to see you there! The LIRa team

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LIRa session: Fausto Barbero (Thursday, 26 October 16:30)
by LIRa Seminar 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Dear all, We will have our next LIRa session on Thursday, 26 October 16:30. This will be a hybrid session. If you want to attend online, please use our recurring zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/89230639823?pwd=YWJuSnJmTDhXcWhmd1ZkeG5zb0o5UT09 (Meeting ID: 892 3063 9823, Passcode: 421723) You can find the details of the talk below. Speaker: Fausto Barbero (University of Helsinki) Date and Time: Thursday, October 26th 2023, 16:30-18:00 Venue: ILLC seminar room F1.15 in Science Park 107 and online Title: Generalizations of causal models Abstract. A popular approach to the study of causation in the sciences and in philosophy makes use of structural equation models to encode causal assumptions. Such models can be used to assign a meaning to interventionist counterfactuals, which are expressions of the form "If variables X1 ... Xn were set to values x1 ... xn, then phi would hold" to which many notions of causation can be reduced. After presenting the basic ideas of this framework, I will consider some of the directions in which it can be generalized, in particular by developing connections with ideas from team semantics. These generalizations involve the interaction of causation with other concepts such as uncertainty, learning, and dependence; but also natural extensions of the notion of causation, such as indeterministic causal laws and indeterminate interventions. Along the way, I will present the results obtained (with various coauthors) and ongoing work about generalized logics of interventionist counterfactuals, in the contexts of deterministic, probabilistic and qualitatively indeterministic causation. Hope to see you there! The LIRa team

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LIRa session: Alexandru Baltag (tomorrow, Thursday, 12 October 16:30)
by LIRa Seminar 11 Oct '23

11 Oct '23

Dear all, We will have our next LIRa session tomorrow, on Thursday, 12 October 16:30. This will be a hybrid session. If you want to attend online, please use our recurring zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/89230639823?pwd=YWJuSnJmTDhXcWhmd1ZkeG5zb0o5UT09 (Meeting ID: 892 3063 9823, Passcode: 421723) You can find the details of the talk below. Speaker: Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Date and Time: Thursday, October 12th 2023, 16:30-18:00 Venue: ILLC seminar room F1.15 in Science Park 107 and online Title: The Dynamic Logic of Causality: from counterfactual dependence to causal interventions Abstract. Pearl's causal models have become the standard/dominant approach to representing and reasoning about causality. The setting is based on the static notion of causal graphs, but it also makes an essential use of the dynamic notion of causal interventions. In particular, Halpern and Pearl used this setting to define and investigate various notions of actual causality. As noted by many, causal interventions have an obvious counterfactual flavour. But... their relationship with the counterfactual conditionals (a la Lewis-Stalnaker) has remained murky! A lot of confusion surrounds this topic. The purpose of this talk is threefold: 1. understand interventions as dynamic modalities (rather than conditionals); 2. elucidate the relationship between intervention modalities and counterfactual conditionals; 3. formalize and completely axiomatize a Causal Intervention Calculus (CIC), that is general enough to allow us to capture both interventions and causal conditionals, but also expressive enough to capture the various notions of actual causality proposed in the literature. Hope to see you there! The LIRa team

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LIRa session: Alexandru Baltag (Thursday, 12 October 16:30)
by LIRa Seminar 06 Oct '23

06 Oct '23

Dear all, We will have our next LIRa session on Thursday, 12 October 16:30. This will be a hybrid session. If you want to attend online, please use our recurring zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/89230639823?pwd=YWJuSnJmTDhXcWhmd1ZkeG5zb0o5UT09 (Meeting ID: 892 3063 9823, Passcode: 421723) You can find the details of the talk below. Speaker: Alexandru Baltag (ILLC, University of Amsterdam) Date and Time: Thursday, October 12th 2023, 16:30-18:00 Venue: ILLC seminar room F1.15 in Science Park 107 and online Title: The Dynamic Logic of Causality: from counterfactual dependence to causal interventions Abstract. Pearl's causal models have become the standard/dominant approach to representing and reasoning about causality. The setting is based on the static notion of causal graphs, but it also makes an essential use of the dynamic notion of causal interventions. In particular, Halpern and Pearl used this setting to define and investigate various notions of actual causality. As noted by many, causal interventions have an obvious counterfactual flavour. But... their relationship with the counterfactual conditionals (a la Lewis-Stalnaker) has remained murky! A lot of confusion surrounds this topic. The purpose of this talk is threefold: 1. understand interventions as dynamic modalities (rather than conditionals); 2. elucidate the relationship between intervention modalities and counterfactual conditionals; 3. formalize and completely axiomatize a Causal Intervention Calculus (CIC), that is general enough to allow us to capture both interventions and causal conditionals, but also expressive enough to capture the various notions of actual causality proposed in the literature. Hope to see you there! The LIRa team

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