Computational Social Philosophy Seminars (CSPS) is a regular international online seminar series, focusing on research that uses or engages with the use of computational tools to address questions in social philosophy.
All seminars are on Mondays at 8:30am PT / 11:30am ET / 4:30pm London / 5:30pm Berlin.
Date: October 27, 2025
Speaker: Ulrike Hahn
Title: A closer look at scientific norms of assertion
Abstract: The talk describes recent work probing both descriptive and normative considerations about norms of assertion in science conducted with a rational agent-based model of argument exchange, NormAN. The talk highlights current conceptual gaps between the literature on scientific norms of assertion and scientific practice and describes sample simulations that show how the NormAN framework can shed new light on these issues.
For a complete list of past and upcoming seminar presentations see the Talks page.
The seminars are held on Zoom and last 60 minutes. Our seminars will typically have one of the following formats
Format 1: 30 min presentation + 30 min discussion
Format 2: two flash talks, 15 min presentation + 15 min discussion each
Sina Fazelpour (Northeastern), Sahar Heydari Fard (Ohio State University), Hannah Rubin (University of Missouri), Dunja Šešelja (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Rory Smead (Northeastern), Jingyi Wu (London School of Economics)
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