This workshop explores the philosophy of understanding, especially in the light of complex scientific phenomena, technological innovations such as quantum and AI, and science communication. It will address the nature and scope of both expert and public understanding of science and technology.

This is a hybrid talk. Please contact the organizer for a link.

In recent years, digital democracy has become a subject of academic research and is being put into practice around the world. However, the scientific investigations and practices of digital democracy are currently still living mostly in separate universes. The aim of this conference is to further advance digital democracy, by bringing together academics and practitioners actively working on or with digital democracy. This way we want to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange.

As you may have already heard, the research master Brain and Cognitive Sciences (MBCS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary on April 9, from 13:00 - 17:30 in Pakhuis de Zwijger. As many of ILLC members have been instrumental in making the programme a success, you are of course also very welcome to join us in the festivities. If you are interested, please sign up before 1 april 2024.

In recent years, digital democracy has become a subject of academic research and is being put into practice around the world. However, the scientific investigations and practices of digital democracy are currently still living mostly in separate universes. The aim of this conference is to further advance digital democracy, by bringing together academics and practitioners actively working on or with digital democracy. This way we want to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange.

In April 2024 the MoL students planning to graduate this summer will present their ongoing thesis projects to the ILLC community. This session will include our students in Logic and Computation.

Speakers: Daan Schoneveld, Hannah Van Santvliet, Wietse Bosman, Xiaoshuang Yang, Wouter Smit, Yilun Wang, Michael Mueller, Raufs Dunamalijevs and Amity Aharoni.

In recent years, digital democracy has become a subject of academic research and is being put into practice around the world. However, the scientific investigations and practices of digital democracy are currently still living mostly in separate universes. The aim of this conference is to further advance digital democracy, by bringing together academics and practitioners actively working on or with digital democracy. This way we want to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange.

The last decade has seen a steady increase in work on question meaning, in particular polar question meaning, with relatively new notions like bias becoming front and center. At the same time, the empirical field has widened to include some understanding of various forms fulfilling the polar question function. Spanning not only interrogatives but also declaratives, tags, and alternatives, these forms raise important questions for the relationship between form and meaning. This workshop brings together work that continues this line of research. Topics range from fromal accounts of aspects of polar(-like) question forms across languages to manifestations of meaning in pragmatic and social levels that connect to formal grammatical events such as clausal structure, negation, focus and intonation.

Invited speakers: Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota), Regine Eckardt (Konstanz University), Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) and Deniz Rudin (University of Southern California).

On the 11th of April at 15:00, Eugenio Petrovich & Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg University) will be presenting their dataset 'EDHIPHY' in Concepts in Motion's DaDriH Seminar Series. EDHIPHY is a relational database that facilitates studying the history of 20th century Anglo-American philosophy and contains data of ca. 23.000 journal articles, enriched using mention extraction, a technique that extracts mention of philosophers from full text. The talk will cover the technique of mention extraction, as well as a case study on the impact of the migration of European intellectuals on US philosophy between 1930 and 1960. Please register here.

The Inclusive AI community is excited to invite you to a thought-provoking panel discussion about Diversity and Inclusion, and Artificial Intelligence. Organized by our community, this event promises to create a safe environment where we can bring our authentic selves and talk about sensitive topics like diversity and inclusion.

We delve into two pivotal questions:
· Why should we prioritize diversity and inclusion?
· How can AI be harnessed for societal benefit?

The last decade has seen a steady increase in work on question meaning, in particular polar question meaning, with relatively new notions like bias becoming front and center. At the same time, the empirical field has widened to include some understanding of various forms fulfilling the polar question function. Spanning not only interrogatives but also declaratives, tags, and alternatives, these forms raise important questions for the relationship between form and meaning. This workshop brings together work that continues this line of research. Topics range from fromal accounts of aspects of polar(-like) question forms across languages to manifestations of meaning in pragmatic and social levels that connect to formal grammatical events such as clausal structure, negation, focus and intonation.

Invited speakers: Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota), Regine Eckardt (Konstanz University), Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) and Deniz Rudin (University of Southern California).

The last decade has seen a steady increase in work on question meaning, in particular polar question meaning, with relatively new notions like bias becoming front and center. At the same time, the empirical field has widened to include some understanding of various forms fulfilling the polar question function. Spanning not only interrogatives but also declaratives, tags, and alternatives, these forms raise important questions for the relationship between form and meaning. This workshop brings together work that continues this line of research. Topics range from fromal accounts of aspects of polar(-like) question forms across languages to manifestations of meaning in pragmatic and social levels that connect to formal grammatical events such as clausal structure, negation, focus and intonation.

Invited speakers: Diti Bhadra (University of Minnesota), Regine Eckardt (Konstanz University), Lisa Matthewson (University of British Columbia) and Deniz Rudin (University of Southern California).

The EDEV Online Seminars are part of the PRO3 project "Understanding Public Data: Experts, Decisions, Epistemic Values" promoted by SNS Pisa, IMT Lucca and IUSS Pavia. The project aims to explore the scaffoldings of the epistemological framework, which underlies public decision-making when confronted with complex scientific data. The methodological assumption underlying the project is that the tools provided by logic, epistemology, philosophy of science, and critical reasoning can make a substantial contribution to a number of pressing issues.

Op 19 april organiseert het Signlab weer een open avond. Kom je ook?
Aanmelden is verplicht en kan uiterlijk tot 12 april.

Het programma is als volgt:
18.15 Inloop
18.30-20.30 Lezingen en demo's
20.30-22.00 Borrel!

Er zijn de hele avond tolken NGT-NL aanwezig. Vragen of opmerkingen? Mail ons gerust op signlab.amsterdam at gmail.com. Ook vragen we je om ons te mailen als je je hebt aangemeld, maar toch niet meer kan komen. Misschien is er dan nog plek voor iemand anders.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from different research communities (such as proof theory, model theory, proof complexity, verification, database theory, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, automata theory, philosophy, linguistics) in order to discuss and disseminate recent and ongoing research pertaining to Craig interpolation and Beth definability.

Invited speakers: Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, tbc), Raheleh Jalali (Czech Academy of Sciences), Jean Christoph Jung (TU Dortmund University), George Metcalfe (University of Bern), Thomas Place (LaBRI Bordeaux) and Philipp Ruemmer (University of Regensburg).

The aim of this workshop is to bring together experts from different research communities (such as proof theory, model theory, proof complexity, verification, database theory, knowledge representation, automated reasoning, automata theory, philosophy, linguistics) in order to discuss and disseminate recent and ongoing research pertaining to Craig interpolation and Beth definability.

Invited speakers: Michael Benedikt (University of Oxford, tbc), Raheleh Jalali (Czech Academy of Sciences), Jean Christoph Jung (TU Dortmund University), George Metcalfe (University of Bern), Thomas Place (LaBRI Bordeaux) and Philipp Ruemmer (University of Regensburg).

In April 2024 the MoL students planning to graduate this summer will present their ongoing thesis projects to the ILLC community. This session will include our students in Logic, Language and Philosophy.

Speakers: Flip Lijnzaad, Teodor-Ștefan Zotescu, Alex Stan, Paul Talma, Ruiting Hu, Urtė Jakubauskaitė, Frank Goossens, Arunavo Ganguly and Radu Ghita.