Formal Models of Scientific Inquiry
Date
Jan 29, 2025 2:00 PM — Jan 31, 2025 4:50 PM
Event
Workshop
Location
4th floor (room 4/20), Wasserstraße 221, 44799 Bochum
The program and abstracts can be downloaded as a pdf via the button at the top of the page.
Keynote Speakers:
- Lorenzo Casini (University of Bologna)
- Finnur Dellsén (University of Iceland)
- Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck University of London)
- Toby Handfield (Monash University)
Dinner: There will be a dinner on Thursday at 19:30 in the restaurant Yammas, Massenbergstraße 1, 44787 Bochum
Organizing Committe
- Berger, Tom-Felix
- Dahl, Christiane
- Krumhus, Jessica
- Šešelja, Dunja
Program:
Wednesday, January 29th
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:00 | Registration and Welcome | |
| 14:30 | Keynote: Lorenzo Casini | Meta-Analyses and Conflict of Interest: A Bayesian Perspective |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | Kevin Zollman | Authorship Norms and Epistemic Public Goods |
| 16:35 | Christoph Merdes | Gaming Testimony. An Exploration of Interest-Driven Opinion Dynamics |
| 17:10 | Matteo Michelini | Fast, Frugal, and Effective: How Biased and Lazy Deliberation Fosters Epistemic Success |
| 17:45 | End |
Thursday, January 30th
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Keynote: Ulrike Hahn | Arguement in Agent-Based Models |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 | Martin Justin and Borut Trpin | Coherence as a Filter for Misleading Information - an Agent-Based Exploration |
| 12:05 | Edoardo Baccini (joint work with Zoé Christoff, Ludi van Leeuwen, and Rineke Verbrugge) | Learning the Truth by Selecting Good Data: Coherence Measures and Data Collection |
| 12:40 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:30 | Keynote: Finnur Dellsén (joint work with Borut Trpin) | Testing IBE from Uncertain Evidence |
| 15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:00 | Bele Wollesen and Shira Ahissar | Mistrust of Scientific Evidence Within Marginalized Groups |
| 16:35 | Leon Assaad | Multi-Option Polarization: Modeling and Measurements |
| 17:10 | Lilian von Bressensdorf | Evidence Amalgamation: Which Aggregation Methods are Most Accurate, and When? |
| 17:45 | End | |
| 19:30 | Dinner at Yammas |
Friday, January 31st
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | Keynote: Toby Handfield | Strategic Dilemmas in Collective Inquiry: When Truth-Seeking Conflicts with Belief Revision |
| 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 | Rafael Fuchs | The Zetetic Foundations of Objective Bayesianism - Efficient Inquiry and Probabilism |
| 12:05 | Klee Schöppl | Industry actors influencing science: A NormAN model |
| 12:40 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:30 | Max Noichl | Towards Empirical Robustness in Network Epistemology |
| 15:05 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:40 | Dominik Klein | Who Gets It Right? – On the Epistemic Performance of Democratic and Autocratic Decision-Making Procedures |
| 16:15 | Hein Duijf | Diversity and expertise in binary decision problems |
| 16:50 | End |