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UID:/NewsandEvents/Archives/2014/newsitem/6005/12-
 November-2014-Public-Lecture-Logics-for-Social-Beh
 aviour-Alessandra-Palmigiano
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture "Logics for Social Behaviou
 r", Alessandra Palmigiano
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Speaker:Alessandra Palmigiano
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20141112T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20141112T180000
LOCATION:Museum Boerhaave, Lange St Agnietenstraat
  10, Leiden
DESCRIPTION:If humans are social animals, are they
  also logical animals?  Perhaps it is not by chanc
 e that the same Aristotle who recognized the socia
 l nature of human beings as their defining trait i
 s also the father of logic.  Classical logic - the
  logic of Aristotle's syllogisms - is wonderfully 
 clear but it also offers a limited perspective for
  the study of social behaviour. Humans speak langu
 ages which abound in vague concepts, interact with
  one another in open-ended forms of cooperation an
 d coordination, can take decisions in groups on th
 e basis of what group members consider to be half-
 truths, can form opinions on the basis of what the
 y have understood of the opinions of others. Class
 ical logic is not the right tool for all these phe
 nomena.  To deal with them, new, nonclassical logi
 cs have been developed. This public lecture will f
 ocus on how nonclassical logics can help to descri
 be and understand social behaviour, focusing on mu
 lti-player games, decision making in the face of u
 ncertainty, and aggregation of information, prefer
 ences, and opinions.  For more information, see ht
 tp://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2014/650/info.php
 3?wsid=650.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n        <p>If human
 s are social animals, are they also logical animal
 s?</p>\n        <p>Perhaps it is not by chance tha
 t the same Aristotle who recognized the social nat
 ure of human beings as their defining trait is als
 o the father of logic.</p>\n        <p>Classical l
 ogic - the logic of Aristotle's syllogisms - is wo
 nderfully clear but it also offers a limited persp
 ective for the study of social behaviour. Humans s
 peak languages which abound in vague concepts, int
 eract with one another in open-ended forms of coop
 eration and coordination, can take decisions in gr
 oups on the basis of what group members consider t
 o be half-truths, can form opinions on the basis o
 f what they have understood of the opinions of oth
 ers. Classical logic is not the right tool for all
  these phenomena.</p>\n        <p>To deal with the
 m, new, <i>nonclassical</i> logics have been devel
 oped. This public lecture will focus on how noncla
 ssical logics can help to describe and understand 
 social behaviour, focusing on multi-player games, 
 decision making in the face of uncertainty, and ag
 gregation of information, preferences, and opinion
 s.</p>\n    \n        <p>For more information, see
  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lorentzcenter
 .nl/lc/web/2014/650/info.php3?wsid=650">http://www
 .lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2014/650/info.php3?wsid=6
 50</a>.</p>\n    
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