Marc Maudinet joins in

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAMarc Maudinet,  Director of the Executive Master Management and disability policies in the  Institute of political studies in Paris,  honored us by joining our team as an associate member. His research interests include disability policies and the understanding of the situations of disability.

 

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2nd International Seminar “Paradigms in the social sciences – present and future” Kielce, Poland, between 1st and 2nd December 2015

Kielce 1 2 december 2015

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The 9th London Reasoning Workshop Wednesday 5th of August 2015

The London Reasoning Workshop provides a regular focus for discussion of research in the Psychology of Reasoning in the UK and in the World.

Program: LRW2015 Programme
Abstract: London Reasoning Workshop 2015 abstracts

Web Site: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psychology/our-research/londonreasoningworkshop/9th-london-reasoning-workshop

Venue

Location:
Birkbeck College, University of London
Malet Street, Bloomsbury
London WC1E 7HX
Location: Room B33 (Coffee: B04)

 Symposium Organizers

Professor Valerie Thompson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)
Ms Naomi Adams, (Birkbeck College, University of London)
(n.adams@bbk.ac.uk)

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International Conference on Thinking: August 4-6, 2016 Brown University

Welcome to ICT16  see http://sites.clps.brown.edu/ict2016/

ICT 2016

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Éric Laurent joins in

EricLaurent-120We are proudly happy to welcome Éric Laurent as new associate member.

Éric Laurent is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France. He is interested in complexity and specialized in embodiment, mood, and eye movement.

More information about Éric can be found on  http://laurent-lab.com

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Thursday, June 25, Séminaires Modèles de la rationalité, bâtiment de France, 10h (room 114): Professor Steven Sloman

In the field of the conferences: “Modèles de la rationalité” organized by CHArt (Paris reasoning).

– 10H-11h30 Steven Sloman. Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown University (USA), associate member to Paris reasoning.

Title: Ignorance and the Community of Knowledge

Abstract: People typically know less about causal systems than they think they do. I report studies showing this illusion of explanatory depth holds in politics and that shattering the illusion leads to political moderation. This occurs only for consequentialist issues, not those governed by sacred values. The illusion is not present in those who tend to be more reflective. The more reflective prefer more detailed causal explanation and are more sensitive to what they don’t know. I provide evidence that the illusion of explanatory depth arises because we live in a community of knowledge: People fail to distinguish the knowledge inside their heads from the knowledge that resides in other people’s heads.

Bâtiment le France / Salle 114 de 10h à 11h30; 90 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris
(Métro : Quai de la Gare)

 

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Valerie Thomson joins in

ValerieThomson-120Valerie Thompson, Professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, honored us by joining our team as an associate member. Her research interests include intuitive judgments, thinking and decision-making, and metacognition (that is, how we evaluate the accuracy of our thought processes).

More information about Valerie can be found on her personal page http://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/VThompson

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Shira Elgayam joins in

Shira ElqayamThe PARIS-team is happy and proud to welcome Pr. Shira Elgayam, Reader in Cognitive Science, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, who kindly agreed to become an associate member.

Shira’ s research interests are : reasoning, decision making and rationality, with a special focus on normative thinking and is-ought inference.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shira_Elqayam.

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Slides and papers of conference of 5 March

On Thursday the 15 of March, Nicole Cruz made a presentation in Paris  “Modèles de la Rationalité”, at EPHE (CHArt).

You will find below:

The slides of her presentation Measuring coherence

A link to a recent related paper: Bayesian reasoning with ifs and ands and ors

A link to Guy Politzer’s paper Plausible deductive reasoning using a water tank analogy

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March 5: Séminaires Modèles de la rationalité, bâtiment de France, 11h (salle 116)

In the field of the conferences: Modèles de la rationalité,  PARIS reasoning organises three talks on the New Paradigm of reasoning.

– 11H-12h30 Jing Shao (PARIS, CHArt, EPHE) & Jean Baratgin (PARIS, CHArt, Université Paris 8 & EPHE)

TitleUne étude sur le conditionnel suffisant et le conditionnel nécessaire en chinois

Abstract: Nous présentons une étude sur le conditionnel suffisant et le conditionnel nécessaire avec les sujets chinois. L’approche de cohérence de Finetti est utilisée dans notre recherche. Nous étudions le raisonnement conditionnel sous l’incertitude dans le cadre du nouveau paradigme. Nous examinons le taux des réponses cohérentes en fonction de la probabilité de conditionnel et celle de la seconde prémisse, dans le cas du conditionnel suffisant et celui du conditionnel nécessaire.

– 14h-15h30  Guy Politzer (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS & PARIS, CHArt, EPHE),.

Title: Conditional reasoning and de Finetti’s probability theory.

Abstract: The “new paradigm” in the psychology of reasoning assumes that individuals reason from premises that are often uncertain. I will first present experimental data showing that among various tri-valued logics, de Finetti’s logic offers the best description of people’s understanding of natural language connectives, including the conditional. Then, I will show how the theoretical framework of de Finetti’s “logic of the probable” (together with the notion of conditional event) enlightens the interplay between semantic and pragmatic processes at work in the interpretation of conditionals and conditional reasoning. To do so, I will present an analogical (physical) implementation of the logic of the probable which allows the representation, and yields the probabilistic solution, of the basic conditional reasoning arguments studied by psychologists, as well as that of other inference schemas considered as benchmark arguments in philosophical logic.

– 15h 30 -16h 30 Nicole Cruz (Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London, UK & PARIS, CHArt, EPHE, France)

Title: Measuring coherence in reasoning under uncertainty

Abstract: The probabilistic approach to the psychology of reasoning assumes that when people reason both in everyday contexts and in science, they usually part from premises of which they are uncertain. To study reasoning from uncertain premises, it is necessary to have criteria for the correctness of an inference that also take account of uncertainty. The probabilistic approach provides such criteria by generalising binary logic, extending the binary concept of consistency to that of coherence. This talk will present a series of experiments that measure the coherence of people’s uncertain inferences, using slightly different methodologies. And it will outline the usefulness of measuring coherence not only to assess its descriptive adequacy as criterion of inference correctness, but also to investigate further people’s interpretation of conditional statements.

Bâtiment le France ; 90 Avenue de France, 75013 Paris
(Métro : Quai de la Gare)

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