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A one day conference to coincide with Professor Ken Manktelow’s retirement. The theme of the conference reflects Ken’s research interests in the psychology of thinking, however there will also be innovative talks in other areas of psychology. We would like to welcome Ken’s colleagues, friends and students to attend. The event should be an intimate and fun occasion. Many of Ken’s collaborators, colleagues and friends from around the UK and from across the world are attending, meaning that there will be some truly excellent speakers on show.

Program: Ken Manktelow’s Retirement Conference – Programme 3

Venue
MC Building
City Campus
University Of Wolverhampton

For details, contact Dr Niall Galbraith e: n.galbraith@wlv.ac.uk T: 01902 321362/01902 321379. Or Dr Erica Lucas e: e.lucas@staffs.ac.uk

RATIONALITY MODELS AND THE ECONOMIC CRISIS

Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde at the Jean Nicod Institute and the University Paris 2 (Lemma) and Jean Baratgin at CHArt (PARIS), University Paris 8 & EPHE organize this event as the first of a series that aims to reflect on the psychological grounds for the economic crisis. The focus is particularly made in this first case, on the contrast between explanations based on an accumulation of individual biases, supported in terms of an irrationality inherited as a sum of individual irrationalities systems, and explanations underlining the independence between emerging and complex phenomena of crisis and individual behaviours. The epistemological question is that of the right level of explanation of crises.

Salle Dussane, ENS, 45 rue d’ULM

Program : Rationality

The PARIS-team is happy and proud to welcome Pr. Angelo Gilio, from Sapienzza Roma University, who kindly agreed to become an associate member.

Angelo Gilio is a specialist of Subjective probability and probability logic. He works on the notion of coherent probability and especially on the algorithms for coherence checking and propagation of conditional probability bounds.

We are proudly happy to welcome Hugo Mercier as a new associate member. After a postdoc in the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program at the University of Pennsylvania, and another one at the University of Neuchâtel, Hugo Mercier is  now on leave from the CNRS (L2C2) to do some research at the Cognitive Science Center from the University of Neuchâtel, as an Ambizione fellow.

Most of his work has focused on the function and workings of reasoning. According to the argumentative theory of reasoning, the function of reasoning is argumentative: to find and evaluate arguments so as to convince others and only be convinced when it is appropriate. Accordingly, reasoning works well as an argumentative device, but quite poorly otherwise. We are now testing some predictions of the theory and more generally investigating the links between reasoning and argumentation.

More information about Hugo can be found on his Google page.

PARIS Reasoning is very pleased to welcome Professor Masasi Hattori and his wife Ikuko Hattori (Lecturer) of Department of Psychology, Ritsumeikan University (Japan) from 10 April to 01 Sptember 2014.

Masasi is interested in reasoning, probability judgment, problem
solving, and creativity. He is a member o the  editorial board of Japanese Cognitive Science Society, The Japanese Psychological Association

Ikuko  Hattori, Lecturer at Ritsumeikan University (Japan).
Causal reasoning, conditional reasoning, and syllogistic reasoning.
One of her interests is the heuristic and analytic processes of thinking.
Ikuko is also interested in difference and commonality in thinking among cultures.

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Mike Oaksford, leading psychologist in the new paradigm field, honored us by joining our team as an associate member.

Mike Oaksford did a lot to show, through a bayesian approach, how informal reasoning fallacies could be seen as partly rationally based, considering a probabilistic account. He also investigated the link between reasoning and emotions.

More information about Mike can be found on his ResearchGate page.