Blog of Reasoning, Rationality and Science

In the meanwhile there are a few new papers on nonmonotonic logic have been accepted, including papers on deontic logic, dialogue models and first-order nonmonotonic logic.

Dunja and Christian started collaborating with Daniel Eisenhardt, Christian Meske and Johannes Schneider on Mitigating Bias in Academic Publishing: Towards Responsible AI-Augmentation in Peer-Rewiew Processes. A first paper will be presented at MCIS/CAPSI 2024.

Eliot’s paper on Reasons for Non-Agents has been accepted in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.

Minkyung has some new works out on how beliefs relate to credences.

Eliot Watkins joined our research group to work on the LoDEx project (Logical Methods for Deontic Explanations).

Ofer Arieli (the Academic College of Tel-Aviv) visited our group for one month.

On June 5 2024, Jacob Stegenga (University of Cambridge) visited our group and gave a talk at the Colloquium of the Institute for Philosophy II, RUB on the topic " Judging Science”.

Kees van Berkel, Christian Straßer and Zheng Zhou have a new paper out in COMMA 2024 on an argumentative unification of default reasoning.

The paper “The Goal after Tomorrow: Offline Goal Reasoning with Norms” by Pere Pardo and Christian Straßer has been accepted for publication in JAIR.

New members joined our team: Luca Redondi (phd) and Minkyung Wank (postdoc).

There are some new publications of our group in JASSS, IJCAI, AAAI and JURIX :-).

Christian and Minkyung gave some talks on recent results.

We had research visits by Stipe Pandzic (Utrecht) and Nora Hangel (Hannover).

Guests in WS-23-24

Dunja published her entry on “Agent-Based Modeling in the Philosophy of Science” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Kees van Berkel, Tim Lyon and Matteo Pascucci have a new paper out on Logical Analysis of Instrumentality Judgments: Means-End Relations in the Context of Experience and Expectations (JLP).

We are offering a postdoc position for 3 years with a specialization into deontic logic and/or argumentation theory.

Christian revieved the “Quality Champion Award” for his reviewing efforts in ECAI 2023.

Kees and Christian gave a tutorial on “Proof-Theoretic Approaches in Logical Argumentation” for the reasoning web summer school in Oslo.

We are offering a postdoc position for 2 years with a specialization into one of the following: deontic logic, nonmonotonic logic, argumentation theory, or similar.

We are organizing a workshop on December 6-8 (2023) funded by the DFG research network “Simulations of Scientific Inquiry”.

Currently Ofer Arieli is visiting our group to collaborate on topics in logical argumentation.

The joint application for a WEAVE project on “Logical Methods for Deontic Explanations” (LoDEx) with partners in Luxembourg, Vienna and Bochum got funded.

The paper “Scientific Disagreements, Fast Science and Higher-Order Evidence” by Daniel Cserhalmi Friedman and Dunja has just been accepted for publication in the Philosophy of Science.

The paper on A Postulate-Driven Study of Logical Argumentation by AnneMarie, Ofer and Christian got accepted for publication in the Artificial Intelligence Journal.

Dunja’s SEP entry on Agent-based Modeling in the Philosophy of Science got accepted for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Two papers got accepted to IJCAI 2023 (15% acceptance rate): “A Comparative Study of Ranking Formulas based on Consistency” by Said, Badran and Christian and Said Jabbour, as well as “Ranking-based Argumentation Semantics applied to Logical Argumentation” by Jesse, Badran and Christian.

Christian joined the program committees of CAKR23 and ArgXAI-23.

Our paper “Scientific disagreements and the diagnosticity of evidence: how too much data may lead to polarization” (Michelini, Osorio, Houkes, Šešelja, and Straßer) has been accepted for publication in JASSS.

Christian currently participates at the Dagstuhl seminar on Normative Reasoning in AI.

Dunja gave several talks on fact checking of scientific claims, joint work with Will Fleisher (Georgetown) and Daniel Friedman (Stanford).

The paper “Evaluating and Selecting Arguments in the Context of Higher Order Uncertainty” by Christian and Lisa has been accepted for publication in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

Christian, Dunja and Kees spent a few days in Luxembourg for a research stay.

Christian joined several program committees, such as IJCAI 2023, KR 2023 (senior PC), ECAI 2023, CLAR 2023, DEON 2023 (chair)

We invite applications for a new PhD position in our newly formed research group “Reasoning, Rationality and Science” which will be coordinated by Dunja Šešelja and Christian Straßer. The call is for all interested in researching the emergence and dynamics of social reasoning processes. The deadline is on 31th of August 2022.