Workshop
The wisdom and madness of crowds: argumentation, information exchange and social interaction
Institute for Logic Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, 31 March - 1 April, 2020
Workshop
The wisdom and madness of crowds: argumentation, information exchange and social interaction
Institute for Logic Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, 31 March - 1 April, 2020
Important: Due to the spreading of COVID-19, this workshop will be held online as a video-conference-only. Everyone who wants to attend this event is welcome, but is asked to register by March 30. Please find the registration form by following the link (top right).
Argumentation and exchange of information help groups to coordinate, deliberate and decide. On the other hand, debates often generate detrimental large-scale phenomena such as polarization, informational cascades and echo-chambers, where the behavior of entire groups shifts in seemingly irrational ways.
Understanding the deep mechanisms of informational and social influence that underlie these phenomena in the age of social media is a challenge that engages methods from different disciplines, including philosophy, artificial intelligence, computer and social sciences and psychology. Formal methods from argumentation theory, logic and Bayesian epistemology provide prominent tools to explore this area and to ground data analysis, experimental work and multi-agent social simulations.
This workshop brings together scholars with different theoretical approaches. Its broader aim is to foster an interdisciplinary understanding of the mechanisms that determine the behavior of individuals in a social context from multiple perspectives. The workshop will last two days.
The workshop is promoted by the project EDAPOL - The Epistemic and Dynamic Aspects of Polarization, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (H2020-MSCA-IF-2016, nr. 748421) funded by the European Commission.
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Submissions are invited on the general field of argumentation theory, logic and formal epistemology, including, but not restricted to
Submissions:
Extended abstracts up to 2 pages. Submit anonimously via the EasyChair link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arginfoexchange2020
Accepted papers:
If you have any questions, you can contact: c [dot] proietti [at] uva [dot] nl
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Online on zoom.us
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