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NEWS

A very warm welcome to our two new Centre for Reasoning Research Fellows:

• Federica Alberti, to work on the project reasoning in coordination games with Edward Cartwright (Economics)
• Alberto Moraglio, to work on the project reasoning about evolving computer programs with Colin Johnson (Computing)

These 2-year fellowships are funded by the University's strategic research fund. Federica and Alberto will be talking about their projects next term - see below.

A warm welcome too to:

• George Darby, a philosopher of science who joins the Philosophy department as a lecturer for the coming teaching year.
• Federica Russo who returns to Kent to work on the BA-funded project causality across the levels: biomedical mechanisms and public health policies with Jon Williamson (Philosophy).

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Causal reasoning:

• Causality across the levels:biomedical mechanisms and public health policies (BA 2009-11)
• Mechanisms and causality (Leverhulme 2007-10)
• The levels of causality (BA 2008)
• Causality and the interpretation of probability in the social and health sciences (BA 2006-7)

Classification and data mining:

• Bio-inspired Classification and Data Mining Algorithms for Bioinformatics (EU)
• A Synergistic Integration of Natural and Artificial Immunology for the Prediction of Hierarchical Protein Functions (EPSRC)

Contextual reasoning: Exploitation of context in communication (Leverhulme 2008-)

Game-theoretic reasoning: Reasoning in coordination games (Centre for Reasoning 2009-11)

Logical reasoning:

• Reasoning about evolving computer programs (Centre for Reasoning 2009-11)
• progicnet: Probabilistic logic and probabilistic networks (Leverhulme 2006-8)

Mathematical reasoning: A dialogue on infinity (Templeton Foundation 2008-)

Methodology:

• Coalition Governance in Germany: Strategic Behaviour in a Multi-Level Setting
• Evaluation of researcher support programmes (2008-2010)

Probabilistic reasoning:

• In defence of objective Bayesianism (Leverhulme 2007-9)
• progicnet: Probabilistic logic and probabilistic networks (Leverhulme 2006-8)
• Stochastic models for yeast prions (BBSRC 2006-)
• Tiger conservation
• caOBNET: Objective Bayesian nets for integrating cancer knowledge (2006-)

MEMBERS

Members of University staff in the Centre for Reasoning include:

Archaeology

• Evangelos Kyriakidis (Mycenaean Administration, Minoan Religion and Iconography, ritual theory)

Architecture

• Gordana Fontana-Giusti (arts in architecture and urban design)

Business

• John Mingers (methodology)
• Tuan Yu (organisational management, e-commerce)

Computing

• Howard Bowman (human reasoning, connectionist and symbolic modelling)
• Olaf Chitil (logics for programming)
• Dominique Chu (bio-inspired intelligence)
• Aliy Fowler (computer-aided language learning)
• Alex Freitas (knowledge discovery, bio-inspired intelligence)
• Colin Johnson (computational intelligence)
• Stefan Kahrs (logics for programming)
• Peter Kenny (bio-inspired and scientific computing)
• Andy King (logic programming)
• Alberto Moraglio (genetic programming)
• Peter Rodgers (diagrammatic reasoning)
• Simon Thompson (logics for programming, diagrammatic reasoning)

Economics

• Federica Alberti (game theory)
• Edward Cartwright (game theory, social learning)
• Rob Fraser (agricultural policy economics)

Electronics

• Farzin Deravi (shape and texture recognition)
• Konstantinos Sirlantzis (pattern recognition, classification, AI)

Film

• Murray Smith (connections between sciences & humanities)

Law

• Robin Mackenzie (medical law and ethics)
• Sebastian Payne (philosophy of law, philosophy and psychology of decision making)
• Stephen Pethick (philosophy of law, legal reasoning)
• Geoffrey Samuel (legal reasoning, legal epistemology)
• Sally Sheldon (health care law and ethics)
• Steve Uglow (law of evidence)
  

Learning & Teaching

• Martin Gough (philosophy of technology, post-compulsory education, wisdom of practice and professional judgement)

Philosophy

• David Corfield (reasoning in mathematics, medicine and machine learning)
• George Darby (metaphysics, logic, philosophy of science / physics)
• Laurence Goldstein (philosophy of logic and language)
• Simon Kirchin (moral reasoning)
• Phyllis McKay (causal reasoning)
• Federica Russo (causal reasoning, reasoning in the social and health sciences)
• Robin Taylor (inductive reasoning, epistemology)
• Kenneth R. Westphal (justificatory reasoning in cognition and in morals, esp. Modern philosophy and science)
• Jon Williamson (causal and probabilistic reasoning and its automation)

Physics

• John Dore (water, scientific method)

Psychology

• Nicolas Dumay (cognitive psychology)
• Dirk Janssen (psychology of language and communication)
• Bob Johnston (recognition)

Social Policy, Sociology, Social Research

• Peter Taylor-Gooby (risk and social policy)

Statistics

• Eryl Bassett (theory of inference)
• Philip Brown (multivariate analysis, medical statistics, Bayesian methods)
• Alfred Kume (shape analysis, directional statistics)
• Owen Lyne (applied probability, simulation, statistical inference)
• Byron Morgan (biometry, cluster analysis, psychological applications)
• Martin Ridout (discrete data in biology, generalized linear models)

VISITORS

• Jan Lemeire (Electronics and Informatics, Brussels) February to April 2010
• Jan-Willem Romeijn (Philosophy, Groningen) 2008

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