Models-RUB23: Computational Models in Social Epistemology Wasserstraße 221 Bochum, Germany, December 6-8, 2023

Call for Abstracts:

Over the last decade computational models have become increasingly popular across philosophical disciplines: from ethics and political philosophy to philosophy of science and social epistemology. They have been used to investigate and support philosophical arguments, such as the evolution of social norms, emergence of cooperation, efficiency of scientific inquiry, etc. Within social epistemology and philosophy of science, computational models have contributed to the rapid growth of the field to tackle topics such as opinion dynamics in collective research, division of cognitive labor, social bubbles and networks of epistemic trust, argumentation strategies, etc. 

This workshop aims to provide a forum for discussing frontier of research on computational models in philosophy, with the special focus on models of epistemic communities. 

Submission Guidelines

We invite abstracts of up to 500 words, excluding footnotes and bibliography. Please format the abstract for anonymous review, excluding any personal and institutional information. If your abstract is selected for the conference, we will not be requiring you to submit a full paper. 

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2023

How to submit: Please submit your abstracts as a .pdf file on EasyChair. 

There will be no registration fee.

List of Topics

• Models of deliberation
• Models for social, cognitive and theoretical diversity
• Models of disagreement, dissent and polarization
• Models of scientific inquiry
• Computational accounts of ‘wisdom of the crowds’, groupthink and expertise
• Modeling bias and ignorance in groups
• Modeling propaganda, misinformation, and fake news
• Epistemology of models and simulations
• New computational methods

Committees

Program Committee

• Dominik Klein (Utrecht University)
• Carlo Martini (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele / University of Helsinki)
• Christoph Merdes (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen)
• Aydin Mohseni (University of Pennsylvania)
• Hannah Rubin (University of Missouri)
• Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics)

Organizing committee

• Matteo Michelini
• Dunja Šešelja
• Soong Yoo 

Keynote Speakers

• Gregor Betz (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Patrick Grim (University of Michigan, Stony Brook University)
• Samuli Reijula (University of Helsinki)
• Vlasta Sikimić (University of Tübingen)

Contact

All questions about submissions or any further questions should be emailed to compmodelsrub@gmail.com.

Sponsors

The event is organized by research group on Reasoning, Rationality and Science and funded by the DFG Research Network "Simulations of Scientific Inquiry"