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Tsinghua University

Seminar on Latest Development in Logic

Tsinghua University via XuetangX

Overview

The course consists of eight talks, covering a wide range of topics. The following is the titles and speakers of the first five talks. 

The first talk 

Title: On the Logic of Vector Space Models

Speaker: Hannes Leitgeb is Chair of Logic and Philosophy of Language at LMU Munich, where he also co-directs the Munich Center of Mathematical Philosophy.

The second talk

Title: Rethinking Epistemic Logic with Belief Bases

Speaker:  Emiliano Lorini is a senior researcher ("directeur de recherche") at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), co-head of the LiLaC team (Logic, interaction, language and computation) at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT).

The third talk

Title: Counterfactuals in stit with action types

Speaker: Eric Pacuit is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. 

The fourth talk

Title: Reasoning and Completeness in Hybrid Logic

Speaker:Patrick Blackburn is a professor of philosophy at Roskilde University (RUC) in Denmark. 

The fifth talk

Title: On Game Logics

Speaker:Sujata Ghosh is an Associate Professor at the Computer Science Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai (ISI, Chennai). 




Syllabus

  • On the Logic of Vector Space Models
    • Rethinking Epistemic Logic with Belief Bases
      • Counterfactuals in STIT with Action Types
        • Reasoning and Completeness in Hybrid Logic
          • Half Truth and the Liar
            • Logics for Inductive Learning
              • The Hard Problem of Theory Choice -- A Case Study of Causal Inference

                Taught by

                Fenrong Liu

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