In a 'credit where credit is due' spirit, I'd like to bring people's attention to this upcoming workshop on logic and methodology, to take place at Stanford in a few weeks. The description of the workshop goes:
The goal of the L&M Workshop is to bring together senior and up-and-coming researchers in logic, epistemology, and philosophy of science to explore the interactions between these disciplines. Topics from formal epistemology will include dynamic epistemic logic,learning theory, and probabilistic methods, plus the relation of these approaches to science and cognition.
The program of the workshop is remarkably diverse with respect to the different areas represented; I'm particularly pleased to see Tania Lombrozo, a rising star in cognitive psychology, among the speakers. And besides the diversity in approaches, the program has a 50%-50% gender distribution of invited speakers (excluding the three tutorials, to be given by the organizers of the workshop: Johan van Benthem, Bas van Fraassen and Kevin Kelly). A gender-balanced workshop may not have been a specific concern of the organizers, but the outcome is clear: the message being sent is that women are an integral part of the academic community even in such 'techy' areas.
Too bad Stanford is so far away from my corner of the world; it looks like it will be a terrific event!
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