11 August 2023
Probability Logic, Language, and Cognition
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.