CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Second Workshop on
PRACTICAL REASONING AND RATIONALITY
April 7-8, 1997
University of Manchester, England
A comprehensive logical
theory of practical reasoning and rationality will include theoretical reasoning
(reasoning about what is the case, involving informational attitudes such as
beliefs and knowledge), practical reasoning (reasoning about what to do,
involving motivational attitudes such as desires, goals, intentions, and
obligations), and reasoning about actions and their effects.
Current work has tended to focus on particular aspects of the problem;
including nonmonotonic logics, belief revision, probabilistic logics,
argumentation, logics for belief, action, obligation, and preference, and logics
for reasoning about action and change. This workshop aims to promote the
integration of this work.
Programme
The programme consists
of talks by invited speakers, paper presentations and panel discussions.
Invited Speakers:
Bob Kowalski (Imperial College, Univ. of London),
John-Jules Meyer (Univ. of Utrecht),
Ray Reiter (University of Toronto),
Marek Sergot (Imperial College, Univ. of London),
Murray Shanahan (Queen Mary, Univ. of London).
Programme Committee:
John Bell (Queen Mary), Wilfrid Hodges (Queen
Mary), Zhisheng Huang (Queen Mary), Tony Hunter (University College, Univ. of
London), Simon Parsons (Queen Mary) Mark Ryan (Univ. of Birmingham), Murray
Shanahan (Queen Mary).
Related Events
This workshop forms part of the AISB 97 Workshop Series which is to
be followed by the Second European
Conference on Cognitive Science , on April 9-11, 1997 at the University of
Manchester. The first workshop
in this series was held in Windsor in January 1996.
Venue, Travel Details and Accommodation
The workshop will be held at Ashburne Hall which
is situated on the University of Manchester's Fallowfield Campus on the
outskirts of Manchester. Site plan and approach
routes.
Accommodation is provided on campus at Woolton Hall.
Alternatively, you may wish to use one of the local hotels.
Registration
To register, please notify John Bell and complete the registration
form.
Organisers
John Bell, Simon Parsons
http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~jb/prr97