Ljubljana, Slovenia

Probability Logic, Language, and Cognition

when 31 July 2023 - 11 August 2023
language English
duration 2 weeks
fee EUR 490

Uncertainty is ubiquitous in everyday life communication and reasoning. In this course, we will learn methods and tools to understand language and cognition under uncertainty. We will get interdisciplinary perspectives by combining formal-philosophical and experimental-psychological approaches. In particular, we will understand why coherence-based probability logic offers a unified rationality framework for studying diverse phenomena including conditionals, counterfactuals, connexivity, quantification, reasoning, and argumentation on the normative level. Moreover, on the descriptive level, we will become familiar with recent experimental-psychological results on linguistic phenomena, cognition, and reasoning under uncertainty. Specifically, we will learn about formal and experimental work on nonmonotonic reasoning, conditionals, counterfactuals, quantification, connexivity, and argumentation. Finally, we will achieve a deeper understanding of what it means to be rational under incomplete knowledge and uncertainty.

Course leader

Niki Pfeifer

Target group

Students

Fee info

EUR 490: Early student registration
EUR 690: Early non-academic registration

Scholarships

There are several scholarship options which you can read about on our website.