International Conference on Thinking

Members of the lab gave talks at the International Conference on Thinking at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in August.

Shane Timmons gave a talk (Timmons & Byrne) on ‘Cognitive fatigue and moral reasoning’.

Sabrina Haimovici gave a talk (Haimovici & Byrne) on ‘What type of evidence counts for dual process theories of conditional reasoning?’.

Ruth Byrne gave a talk (Byrne & Almeida) on ‘Counterfactuals, Semi-factuals, and Judgments about Morally Good Acts’ as part of a symposium on ‘Counterfactual thoughts about alternatives to reality’ organised by Ruth Byrne.

Raluca Briazu gave a talk (Briazu, Deeprose, Ganis, & Walsh) on ‘Thinking counterfactually, acting immorally – the link between counterfactual thought and lies’ also as part of the symposium on ‘Counterfactual thoughts about alternatives to reality’.

Ruth Byrne gave a talk (Byrne & Espino) on ‘Counterfactual conditionals and embodied simulations’ as part of the symposium on ‘Mental models and reasoning’ organised by Ruth Byrne.

The full program with abstracts is available at:
http://easychair.org/smart-program/ICT2016/2016-08-04.html

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Poznan reasoning week, Poland

Two conferences organised by Mariusz Urbanski on ‘Logic and Cognition’ and ‘Formal models of reasoning and argumentation’ in Poznan, Poland featured keynote addresses by Ruth Byrne:

Counterfactual conditionals and the mental representation of possibilities at ‘2nd Logic and Cognition’

and

Counterfactual thoughts and the controllability of events at ’14th ArgDiap: Formal models of reasoning and argumentation’

The full program is available at here