LINGUIST List 17.1498

Tue May 16 2006

FYI: Winter Workshop on Economics & Philosophy

Editor for this issue: Svetlana Aksenova <svetlanalinguistlist.org>

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Directory         1.    Jesus Zamora Bonilla, Winter Workshop on Economics & Philosophy

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Message 1: Winter Workshop on Economics & Philosophy
Date: 16-May-2006
From: Jesus Zamora Bonilla <jpzbfsof.uned.es>
Subject: Winter Workshop on Economics & Philosophy


WINTER WORKSHOP ON ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY (WWEP 2006)

MADRID, Spain 15-Jun-2006 - 17-Jun-2006

ECONOMICS AND LANGUAGE

Applications of economic concepts, particularly from game theory, to the understanding of linguistic phenomena.

Thursday, June 15th, 2006. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales. UNED. Salón de Actos. Senda del Rey, 11.

10:00. Registration. 10:15. Oppening. Juan Gimeno. Rector of UNED 10:30. Bruce Chapman (Toronto), "Leading You Down the Choice Path: Towards an Economics of Rational Persuasion" 11:15. Discussion

11:30. Coffee break.

12:00. Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv), "On the Pragmatics of Persuasion: A Game Theoretical Approach" 12:45. Discussion

13:00. Short presentations: Raúl López-Pérez: "Honesty Norms, Emotions and Games" Christina Pawlowitsch: "Why evolution does not always lead to an optimal proto-language: an approach based on the replicator dynamics" 14:00. Lunch.

16:00. Short presentations: Andrew Jorgensen: "Semantic Value and Monetary Value" Asunción Álvarez: "In What Sense?"

17:00. Fabián Muniesa (París), "The performativity of economics" 17:45. Discussion. 18:00. End of session

Friday, June 16th, 2006 Edificio de Humanidades. UNED. Sala A. Senda del Rey, 7

10:00. Short presentations: Manuel Bagues: The Economics of Babel María Jiménez Buedo: Class parties, trade-offs and rhetoric: A spatial competition model Morgane Tanvé: Dynamical Persuasion with a constraint number of arguments in a one-dimensional space David Austen-Smith and Timothy J. Feddersen: Deliberation, Preference Uncertainty and Voting Rules 12:00. Coffee break 12:30. Francisco Álvarez (Madrid), 13:15. Discussion 13:30. Lunch.

16:00. Short presentations: Nils Goldschmidt and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi: "What do economists talk about? A linguistic analysis of published writing in economic journals" Timo Honkela, Ville Könönen, Tiina Lindh-Knuutila and Mari-Sanna Paukkeri: "Simulating processes of language emergence and communication" Angel Alonso-Cortés: "From signal to symbols. Grounding language origins in communication games"

17:30. Andreas Blume (Pittsburgh), "Noisy Talk" 18:15. Discussion. 18:30. End of session.

Saturday, June 17th, 2006 Edificio de Humanidades. UNED. Sala A. Senda del Rey, 7

10:00. Short presentations: Miguel Santa Olalla: "Economics and language: three classical contributions from philosophy" Anton Benz: "Natural Meaning and Conversational Implicatures" Kris de Jaegher: "Evolution of horn strategies" 11:30. Coffee break

12:00. Gerhard Jäger (Bielefeld), "Evolutionary Game Theory as a framework for modeling language evolution" 12:45. Discussion.

13:00. Robert van Rooij (Amsterdam), "Robustness in natural language, next to efficiency and simplicity" 13:45. Discussion. 14:00. End of the workshop.

For more information go to: http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/WinterWorkshop/2006.html

or contact Jesus Zamora at jpzbfsof.uned.es



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories Philosophy of Language Pragmatics Sociolinguistics