[PlanetKR] Call for applications: International Rationality Summer Institute 2016―40 full stipends

Marco Ragni ragni at informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Tue Mar 1 19:46:45 EST 2016


*Call for applications: International Rationality Summer Institute 
2016―40 full stipends*

We invite applications for the first International Rationality Summer 
Institute (IRSI), which will take place from September 04 – 16, 2016, in 
Aurich, Germany. The topic of the Summer Institute is human rationality 
from a psychological, philosophical, and cognitive (neuro) science 
perspective.

Topics of the courses are: Rationality and Normativity, Norms vs. 
Evidence in Reasoning Research, Rational Belief Change, Inductive 
Reasoning, Causal Cognition, Probabilistic Reasoning and Argumentation, 
Language and Reasoning, Mental Models and Rationality, Probabilities and 
Conditionals, Bounded Rationality, Neural Basis of Reasoning, 
Development of Reasoning, Logical and Probabilistic Approaches to 
Rationality, Intuition and Analytic Thinking, Scientific Objectivity and 
Inductive Inference.

Faculty members are: John Broome, Vincenzo Crupi, Igor Douven, Aidan 
Feeney, York Hagmayer, Stephan Hartmann, Konstantinos Katsikopoulos, 
Martin Monti, David Over, Arthur Paul Pedersen, Jérôme Prado, Eva 
Rafetseder, Marco Ragni, Hans Rott, Jan Sprenger, Jakub Szymanik, and 
Valerie Thompson. In addition to the courses, we will have two keynote 
speakers: Gerd Gigerenzer and Johan van Benthem.

We invite applications by doctoral students and early-stage postdocs 
interested in human rationality and with a background in psychology, 
philosophy, cognitive (neuro)science, or related fields. Advanced 
Master’s students with a Bachelor’s degree in one of the disciplines and 
with an outstanding interest in the topic are also encouraged to apply.

The IRSI is generously funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. Successful 
applicants will get a full stipend that covers the participation fee, 
board and lodging, and the reimbursement of traveling costs.

+++++Applications close on April 15, 2016+++++

The IRSI is organized by Markus Knauff, Patricia Garrido-Vásquez, and 
Marco Ragni (Giessen).

Advisory board: Ralph Hertwig (Berlin), Gabriele Kern-Isberner 
(Dortmund), Gerhard Schurz (Düsseldorf), Wolfgang Spohn (Konstanz), and 
Michael Waldmann (Göttingen).

Please find more information on the Summer Institute and on how to apply 
at _http://www.irsi2016.de_. For inquiries, please send an e-mail to 
<mailto:info at irsi2016.de>_info at irsi2016.de_.

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