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


    Held in conjunction with the
    AISB'97 Workshop Series


    Sponsored by the
    Department of Computer Science


    http://www.dcs.qmw.ac.uk/~jb/prr97