GAMES, GAME THEORY AND GAME SEMANTICS: PHILOSOPHICAL AND SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES

18-20 May 2012,
University of Latvia,
Riga, Latvia

INVITED ORGANIZERS:

    Prof. Mathieu Marion (UQAM, Canada) and
    Prof. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)

INVITED SPEAKERS include:

    Prof. Samson Abramsky, FRS (University of Oxford, UK)
    Dr. Alexandru Baltag (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
    Prof. Robin Clark (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
    Prof. Boudewijn de Bruin (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
    Prof. Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University, USA)
    Prof. Giorgi Japaridze (Villanova University, USA)
    Prof. Alain Lecomte (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France)
    Prof. Shahid Rahman (Université Lille 3, France)
    Dr. Helge Rückert (University of Mannheim, Germany)
    Prof. Gabriel Sandu (University of Helsinki, Finland)
    Prof. John Woods (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Fundamental results in the mathematical theory of games were obtained early on in the 20th century by Zermelo, Borel, and von Neumann; after the publication of von Neumann and Morgenstern’s Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in1944, it quickly became of fundamental importance to economic theory, being applied later on to other fields such as biology, while in philosophy David Lewis’ Convention was an important early application. Games also played a significant role within mathematics, especially in model theory with, e.g., the back-and-forth games, and with the work of Lorenzen in the 1950s and Hintikka in the 1960s, game semantics emerged, again leading to important developments in philosophy, including its interaction with epistemic logic, among others. Showing again the extraordinary fruitfulness and interdisciplinary nature of the concept of game, game semantics has become since a paradigm in logic and in computer science where it have been used inter alia to model interactive computation and multi-agents systems, as well as in linguistics and argumentation theory. The consequences on philosophy of these numerous developments need to be explored. In an interdisciplinary spirit, this conference will bring together a number of key contributors to and welcomes papers on the concept of games, game theory and game semantics, with applications in economics, logic, computer science, linguistics, argumentation theory, and philosophy.

The symposium is co-hosted by the Center for Cognitive Sciences and Semantics of the University of Latvia and the Department of Philosophy at McMaster University.

Programme

FRIDAY
May 18

9.15-10.00
Registration

10.00-10.15
Opening (Small Aula)

10.15-11.45
Public Opening Keynote Lecture (Small Aula)
Gabriel Sandu, University of Helsinki, Finland
Games and signalling in IF logic

11.45-12.30
Lunch

12.30-14.30
SESSIONS of Contributed Papers (Small Aula)
Chair: Mathieu Marion

Virginie Fiutek & Sonja Smets, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Towards a Game Semantics for Defeasible Knowledge

Guglielmo Feis, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy
Umberto Sconfienza, London School of Economics, London, UK
Structuring constitutive rules: a parametric shift

Daniele Porello, ILLC, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Game Semantics for Pragmatism

14.30-15.00
Coffee Break

15.00-17.00
SESSIONS of Contributed Papers (Small Aula)
Chair: Alexandru Baltag

Ivan Mosca, University of Turin, Italy
Game Theory Games as Fiction Games

Pierre Cardascia, University of Lille, France
The translation dialogue/trace of program and its philosophical consequences

Christophe Fouqueré, Université Paris-13, France
Myriam Quatrini, Université Aix-Marseille, France
Argumentation modeling in Ludics

17.00-17.30
Coffee Break

17.30 -19.00
SESSIONS of Contributed Papers (Small Aula)
Chair: Giorgi Japaridze

Karine Fradet, Université de Montréal, Canada
Cooperation in the iterated prisoner's dilemma

SATURDAY
May 19

All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building

10.00-12.00
Chair: Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

10.00-11.00
John Woods, University of British Columbia, Canada & King's College London, UK
Ancestor Worship in the Logic of Games: How Foundational were Aristotle’s Contributions?

11.00-12.00
Giorgi Japaridze, Villanova University, USA
“Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar”

12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-15.00
Chair: Alain Lecomte

13.00-14.00
Robin Clark, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Language Games in Populations.  The Dynamics of Reputation

14.00-15.00
Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, University of Oxford, UK
Monoidal and Compact Interaction Diagrams in Reasoning about Natural Language

15.00-15.30
Coffee Break

15.30-17.30
Chair: Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh

15.30-16.30
Alexandru Baltag, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Playing with Knowledges: Connections between Game Theory and ``Soft" Formal Epistemology

16.30-17.30
Helge Rückert, University of Mannheim, Germany
Dialogues for Donkey Sentences

20.00
Conference dinner

SUNDAY
May 20

All sessions to take place in the Small Aula of the Main Building     

10.00-12.00
SYMPOSIUM: Game semantics and fuzzy logic
Chair: Ondrej Majer

Christian Fermüller, TU Wien, Austria
Randomizing Gile’s Game for Fuzzy Quantification

Petr Cintula &Ondrej Majer, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Two kinds of game semantics for fuzzy logics

Tomáš Kroupa, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic
Coalition Games and Lukaciewicz Calculus

12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.00-15.00
Chair: Helge Rückert

13.00-14.00
Alain Lecomte, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France
Ludics, dialogue and inferentialism

14.00-14.30
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Some pragmatic aspects of logic games

14 30-15 00
Mathieu Marion, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Game semantics and the history of logic: the case of Greek dialectics

Programme in pdf.

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