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Cowles Foundation for
Research in Economics
WORKSHOP ON CASES, RULES, AND PROBABILITIES
September 28–30, 2007
| Organizer: Itzhak Gilboa | List of
Attendees | |
| FRIDAY |
9:00–9:30 |
Breakfast |
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9:30–10:15 |
Terrance Fine, "Robust Agnostic
Comparative Induction" |
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10:15–11:00 |
Ken Forbus, "Is Probability Rooted in
Similarity?" |
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30–12:15 |
Gabrielle Gayer, "Case-Based vs. Rule-Based Reasoning in Real Estate Pricing" |
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12:15–1:45 |
Lunch |
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1:45–2:30 |
Marcin Peski, "Prior Symmetry, Categorization, and Similarity–based Reasoning" |
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2:30–3:00 |
Coffee Break |
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3:00–3:45 |
Joshua Tenenbaum, "The Place of
Similarity and Rules in a Probabilistic Approach to Induction" Background reading:
"Theory–based Bayesian Models of
Inductive Reasoning" and "Rules and
Similarity in Concept Learning" |
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3:45–4:30 |
Tom Griffith, "Priors and Predictions:
Investigating Inductive Biases" Background reading: "Optimal Predictions in Everyday Cognition"and "Iterated Learning: Intergenerational Knowledge
Transmission Reveals Inductive Biases" |
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4:30–5:00 |
Coffee Break |
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5:00–5:45 |
Ani Guerdjikova, "Multiple Priors as Similarity-weighted Frequencies" |
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7:00 |
Dinner |
| SATURDAY |
9:00–9:30 |
Breakfast |
|
9:30–10:15 |
John Hartigan, "Probability and
Possibility" |
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10:15–11:00 |
Offer Lieberman, "Asymptotic Theory for Empirical Similarity Models" |
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11:00–11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30–12:15 |
Brad Love, "The Concrete Substrates of
Abstract Rule Use" Background papers: "Gounding
Relational Learning in Concrete Examples" and "Enhanced Oddball Memory Through Differentiation, Not Isolation" |
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12:15–1:45 |
Lunch |
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1:45–2:30 |
Gary Marcus, "Evolution, Optimality,
and the Clumsiness of Human Cognition" |
|
2:30–3:00 |
Coffee Break |
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3:00–3:45 |
John Mikhail, "Universal Moral Grammar: The Mind’s Hidden Rules of Moral Judgment" |
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3:45–4:30 |
Daniel Osherson, "Similarity and
Induction" |
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4:30–5:00 |
Coffee Break |
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5:00–5:45 |
Dedre Gentner, "Learning Abstractions
from Experience" |
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7:00 |
Dinner |
| SUNDAY |
9:00–9:30 |
Breakfast |
|
9:30–10:15 |
David Schmeidler, "Objective Probability and Empirical Similarity" |
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10:15–11:00 |
Teddy Seidenfeld, "Concepts of
Independence for Sets of Full Conditional Probability Measures" Background reading:
"Coherent Choice Functions under
Uncertainty" and "Independence for
Full Conditional Measures, Graphoids and Bayesian Networks" |
|
11:00–11:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:30–12:15 |
Steven Sloman, "Causal Reasoning about
Our Own Choices" |
|
12:15–1:00 |
Itzhak Gilboa, "Simplicity and Likelihood: An Axiomatic Approach" |
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1:00–2:30 |
Lunch |