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Center for Formal Epistemology
Center for Formal Epistemology
In October 2009, the Center for Formal Epistemology was founded to promote research and educational exchanges in Formal Epistemology worldwide. The Center adopts a broad perspective on Formal Epistemology, including philosophically and formally informed, interdisciplinary work in the following areas:
- Bayesian epistemology
- belief revision
- causation
- decision and game theory
- philosophical logic (conditional, epistemic, erotetic, dynamic, etc.)
- formal learning theory
- formal approaches in cognitive science
- formal theories in the philosophy of science
- history of formal epistemology
- implicature and pragmatics
- philosophy of mathematics
- philosophy of statistics
- social epistemology
Center activities include:
- a Visiting Fellows program
- a graduate exchange program
- a Summer School in Logic and Formal Epistemology for prospective graduate students
- an annual, Focused Workshop in Formal Epistemology that rotates in topic
- an annual Colloquium Series in Formal Epistemology