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FYI: see below. I just came across this recently,
i.e., the class in Formal Epistemology at the ESSLLI summer school this past
July. Was mentioned in the Reasoner. You might also want to check out the
Reasoner.
Thanks,
Leo
FYI. Off of this issue is a
link to the recent 5 day course on
Introduction to Formal
Epistemology
at the
Dublin, Ireland
It's pretty formal. Includes
lecture slides and text. Interesting section on Knowledge and Social
Networks.
Course Information
Intstructor: Eric Pacuit (ILLC,
University of Amsterdam) and Rohit Parikh (GC and Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Prerequisites: The goal of this
course is to introduce students to the field of formal epistemology. Although
formal methods will be used, the focus of the course is not technical but
rather on intuitions and the main conceptual issues (such as the logical
omniscience problem). As such, there are no prerequisites for this course
except some mathematical maturity.
Content: Formal models of
knowledge and belief have been used by a wide range of communities including
computer scientists, economists and philosophers. One important challenge is
to determine to what extent these formal models represent the social
situations that they are intended to model. With this challenge in mind, we
will survey the main approaches to formalizing social interactive situations
from the computer science, game-theoretic and philosophical literature. This
includes both probabilistic models (such as Harsanyi type spaces) and
non-probabilistic models (such as Kripke structures and Aumann structures). We
will then discuss some of the key theorems (such as Aumann's agreement theorem
and related results) and conceptual puzzles. An important part of the course
will be a thorough presentation of common knowledge and related concepts as
well as a discussion of applications in game theory
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