CALL FOR APPLICATION: How do we make decisions? Perspectives from philosophy and science Perspectives from philosophy and science
Dates: 09/24/2012
07/31/2012
September 24th to 27th, 2012
The Tübingen International Summer School 2012 is a joint venture of the FORUM SCIENTIARUM and the Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN).
Deadline: July 31st, 2012
Topic
This year's summer school will focus on different approaches to understanding decision-making. Decision-making is currently investigated across neurobiology, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy, but what is treated as a decision, and which methods and modeling techniques are used to investigate it, are often very different. Given an introduction to state of the art research in decision-making, our central question is if, and how, we can integrate research across these fields.
Areas include: neurobiology and Bayesian models of sensori-motor decision making, neuroscience and modeling of risky decision making processes, cortical network dynamics of decision making, 'Fast and Frugal' heuristics, machine learning models of decision making, social decision making and models of reasoning, philosophy and methodology of neuroeconomics.
Faculty
• Daniel Braun, MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen
• Roberto Fumigalli, Bayreuth University
• Stephan Hartmann, Tilburg Center for Logic and Philosophy of Science
• Kerstin Preuschoff, EPFL, Lausanne
• Lael Schooler, MPI for Human Development, Berlin
• Markus Siegel, CIN, Tübingen
• Liz Irvine, CIN, Tübingen
• Axel Lindner, Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Tübingen
• Kirsten Volz, CIN, Tübingen
• Hong Yu Wong, CIN, Tübingen
Programme
The summer school is aimed at advanced undergraduate students and graduate students working in neurobiology, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and other relevant disciplines.
The summer school will take place from the 24th to the 27th of September in the beautiful Kloster Heiligkreuztal close to Tübingen (http://www.kloster-heiligkreuztal.de).
Application
Participants should submit a motivational letter, in English, outlining their interests in decision-making, how this relates to their current work, and what they hope to achieve from attending the summer school (500-1000 words).
An additional application form is downloadable from our website (www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de/summerschool) and has to be submitted with the essay. The final deadline is July 31st, but applications are considered on a rolling basis, and early applications are strongly recommended as space is limited.
Applications should be sent to info@fsci.uni-tuebingen.de or to our postal address: FORUM SCIENTIARUM, Doblerstr. 33, 72074 Tübingen, Germany.
Further information:
www.forum-scientiarum.uni-tuebingen.de/summerschool