RESEARCH
Research projects 
- Members of the centre and their research interests
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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