Winter Workshop 2008 on Games, Experiments and Philosophy

Strategic Interaction Group, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Venue: Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena (Tuesday, Wednesday morning and Thursday)
and Rosensäle, University of Jena, Fürstengraben 26 (Wednesday afternoon)

Dates: 8 - 10 January 2008

Tuesday, January 8

9:00 - 10:30
Edouard Machery (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh)
An introduction to Experimental philosophy
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Joshua Knobe (Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
The pervasive impact of moral judgment
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Shaun Nichols (Department of Philosophy, University of Arizona)
Intuitions and individuals differences: The Knobe effect revisited
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:30
Tiziana Zalla (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS, Paris)
Regret: conceptual and experimental issues
18:00 - 20:00
Dinner (MPI Cafeteria)

Wednesday, January 9

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9:00 - 10:30
Willibald Ruch (University Zurich)
Character strengths, orientation to happiness as predictors of satisfaction
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Ruut Veenhoven (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Greater happiness for a greater number. How is this possible?
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:15 - 15:45 (Rosensäle)
Herbert Dawid (University of Bielfeld)
On the relationship between skill-dynamics and innovation: An agent-based analysis
16:15 - 17:45 (Rosensäle)
Simon Gächter (University of Nottingham)
Understanding social interaction effects in the workplace - An experimental approach
19:00 - 21:00
Dinner (outside MPI)

Thursday, January 10

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9:00 - 10:30
Paul Dekker (Institute of Logic Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam)
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30
Gerhard Jäger (Department of Linguistics and Literature, University of Bielefeld)
The evolution of convex categories
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Anton Benz (ZAS, Berlin)
Implicatures and preferred games
15:30 - 17:00
Ahti-Veikko J. Pietarinen (Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki)
Game-theoretic models of linguistic contexts
17:00 - 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 - 19:00
Daniel L. Chen (Harvard Law School, Harvard University)
Does science progress? A statistical approach to postmodern theories of knowledge
19:00 - 21:00
Dinner (MPI Cafeteria)

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