Workshop on

Formal Modeling in Social Epistemology
9 - 10 October 2008

Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Social epistemology is a relatively new and booming field of research. It studies the social dimension of the pursuit of acquiring true beliefs and requires philosophical as well as sociological and economical expertise. The insights gained in social epistemology are not only of theoretical interest -- they also improve our understanding of social and political processes as the field includes the analysis of group deliberation and group decision making. Surprisingly, little work has yet been done on the epistemic properties of group deliberation, belief aggregation and decision-making procedures. This workshop aims at closing this gap with the help of formal models that ideally combine representational adequacy with instructive analytical results. To this end, we welcome contributions from all relevant fields of research.

This workshop is kindly supported by the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP) and the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW).