Workshop: Self-Assembling Games
Registration is open. RSVP here by January 20, 2025.
Date: January 24-25, 2025
Location: Social and Behavior Sciences Gateway, 1321 (campus map)
Time: 9:30am - 5:30pm, with refreshments from 9am.
Logistics: Paid parking available in Social Science Parking Structure
Précis: The theory of self-assembling games is an extension of evolutionary game theory that studies how games may emerge from more basic interactions and how simple games may become more complex as they are played. The workshop considers such phenomena as the emergence of meaningful language use, inferential and learning capacities, and the social structures that constitute shared inquiry.
Schedule
Friday 24 January 2025
9am Coffee and light breakfast
9:20am Welcome, Jeff Barrett (UC Irvine)
9:30am Rory Smead (Philosophy, Northeastern University) “Signaling and Group Formation in Dynamic Networks”
10:45am Jack VanDrunen and Daniel Herrmann (Westminster and University of Groningen) “Pragmatics, Empiricism, and Self-Assembling Games”
12pm Catered Lunch
1:30pm Klaus Zuberbuehler (Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Saint Andrews) “The Primate Roots of Human Language”
2:45pm Coffee Break
3pm Hannah Rubin (Philosophy, University of Missouri) “Epistemic Monocultures and the Effect of AI Personalization” (with Joe O'Brien, Sina Fazelpour, and Kekoa Wong.)
4:15pm Christian Torsell (Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine) “Task-Switching and the Self-Assembly of Learning”
Saturday 25 January 2025
9am Coffee and light breakfast
9:30am Cailin O’Connor (Logic and Philosophy of Science, UC Irvine) “The Credit Incentive to Reinvent the Wheel”
10:45am Robert Hawkins (Psychology, University of Wisconsin) “Navigating the Landscape of Latent Social Groups through Adaptive Code-Switching”
12pm Catered Lunch
1:30pm Shane Steinert-Threlkeld (Linguistics, University of Washington) “Anti-Babel: Three Degrees of Interspecies Comprehension”
2:45pm Coffee Break
3pm Alice Huang (Harvard University) “Compete to Collaborate”
4:15pm Aaron Bornstein (Cognitive Sciences, UC Irvine) “How Decisions Adapt to Learned Representations of Experience and Environment”
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