Program on Monday, July 11, 2011


Location: the Geertsemazaal room of the University's main academic building

8.00-9.00 Registration, putting up posters

9.00-9.10 Welcome to the workshop

9.10-10.10 Invited talk
petra hendriks
Petra Hendriks: Bounded reasoning about others in language: Evidence from language acquisition

10.10-11.00 Contributed talks: Influencing the knowledge of others

  • Krzysztof Apt and Floor Sietsma. Common knowledge in email exchanges
  • Rohit Parikh, Cagil Tasdemir and Andreas Witzel. The power of knowledge in games

11.00-11.30 Coffee break

11.30-12.45 Contributed talks: Children and adults trying to apply theory of mind

* Unfortunately, Maartje Raijmakers' talk has been cancelled

  • Sujata Ghosh and Ben Meijering. On combining cognitive and formal modeling: a case study involving strategic reasoning
  • Maartje Raijmakers, Sara van Es and Marian Counihan. Children’s strategy use in playing strategic games (slides)
  • Bart Hollebrandse, Angeliek van Hout and Petra Hendriks. First and second-order false-belief reasoning: Does language support reasoning about the beliefs of others?

12.45-14.15 Lunch

14.15-15.15 Poster session:

  • Tarek R. Besold, Helmar Gust, Ulf Krumnack, Ahmed Abdel-Fattah, Martin Schmidt and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger. An argument for an analogical perspective on rationality and decision-making
  • Leon de Bruin and Albert Newen. The developmental paradox of false belief understanding: An analysis of the role of offline processing
  • Hans van Ditmarsch. The Ditmarsch Tale of Wonders — Dynamics of lying
  • Eric Pacuit and Olivier Roy. A dynamic analysis of interactive rationality

* Unfortunately, Barbara Dunin-Kęplicz's talk has been cancelled. *
barbara dunin-keplicz
Barbara Dunin-Kęplicz: Calibrating the expressiveness of collective notions (slides)

15.15-16.05 Contributed talks: Is reasoning about other minds feasible?

  • Cédric Dégremont, Lena Kurzen and Jakub Szymanik. On the tractability of comparing informational structures
  • Harmen De Weerd and Bart Verheij. The advantage of higher-order theory of mind in the game of limited bidding

16.05-16.40 Tea break

16.40-17.40 Invited talk
chris baker
Chris Baker: Modeling human reasoning about beliefs, desires, goals and social relations

18.00-19.00 Drinks at the Provinciehuis