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UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2011/newsitem/4109/4-5
 -November-2011-Workshop-Ceteris-Paribus-Laws-and-R
 easoning-Lund-Sweden
DTSTAMP:20110930T000000
SUMMARY:Workshop "Ceteris Paribus Laws and Reasoni
 ng", Lund, Sweden
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20111104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20111105
LOCATION:Lund, Sweden
DESCRIPTION:In Economics, as in many other discipl
 ines, we find a multitude of general laws such as 
 "an increase in the demand of a good leads to an i
 ncrease of its price" which are supposed to hold o
 nly under the proviso that some possibly influenci
 ng factors are kept constant (ceteris paribus), ab
 sent ("uceteris absentibus") or irrelevant ("ceter
 is neglectibus"). Although being non-strict, since
  they allow for exceptions, these generalizations 
 play a vital role in science as well as in everyda
 y reasoning (e.g about preferences).   Recent work
  in modal logic witnesses an increasing activity i
 n formal modeling and applications on this side. T
 his workshop is meant to contribute from different
  sides to the debate around the status and the str
 ucture of ceteris paribus laws and reasoning and b
 rings together researchers working in different ar
 eas of Philosophy of Science and Logics.   For mor
 e information, see http://www.fil.lu.se/conference
 s/conference.asp?id=48 or contact Carlo.Proietti a
 t fil.lu.se.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n      <p>In Economi
 cs, as in many other disciplines, we find a\n     
  multitude of general laws such as &quot;an increa
 se in the\n      demand of a good leads to an incr
 ease of its price&quot; which\n      are supposed 
 to hold only under the proviso that some possibly\
 n      influencing factors are kept constant (cete
 ris paribus), absent\n      (&quot;uceteris absent
 ibus&quot;) or irrelevant (&quot;ceteris\n      ne
 glectibus&quot;).  Although being non-strict, sinc
 e they allow\n      for exceptions, these generali
 zations play a vital role in\n      science as wel
 l as in everyday reasoning (e.g about\n      prefe
 rences).\n      </p>\n      <p>Recent work in moda
 l logic witnesses an increasing activity\n      in
  formal modeling and applications on this side. Th
 is workshop\n      is meant to contribute from dif
 ferent sides to the debate around\n      the statu
 s and the structure of ceteris paribus laws and\n 
      reasoning and brings together researchers wor
 king in different\n      areas of Philosophy of Sc
 ience and Logics.\n      </p>\n    \n      <p>For 
 more information, see\n        <a target="_blank" 
 href="http://www.fil.lu.se/conferences/conference.
 asp?id=48">http://www.fil.lu.se/conferences/confer
 ence.asp?id=48</a>\n        or contact <a class="e
 mail">Carlo.Proietti <span class="at">at</span> fi
 l.lu.se</a>.\n      </p>\n    
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