Directions in Sociolinguistics: Report on an Interdisciplinary Seminar

Sociolinguistics and Sociology: Current Directions, Future Partnerships

In this article, I discuss the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary scholarship between sociolinguists and sociologists. After detailing some of the broader history of collaboration between sociolinguists and sociologists, I examine two sub-areas of scholarship: the variationist tradition from sociolinguistics and the social stratification tradition from sociology. I contend that, giv...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics

Computational Creativity: an interdisciplinary approach: Seminar Programme and Speakers

From 13th to 17th July 2009, the Dagstuhl Seminar 09291 Computational Creativity : An Interdisciplinary Approach was held in Schloss Dagstuhl Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results a...

The Second Interdisciplinary Seminar on Brain and Cognition, Shiraz, Iran

Recent global strategic initiatives on human brain have prompted policy makers to develop medium to long-term views and an analysis of future research developments with the aim of defining research agendas in neuroscience and cognitive science. With all ongoing efforts from Iranian neuroscientists, this has recently been the case in our community as well. As with all strategic activities, the I...

Report on Dagstuhl Seminar 10232

We analyze the Brandenburger-Keisler paradox in epistemic game theory, which is a ‘two-person version of Russell’s paradox’. Our aim is to understand how it relates to standard one-person arguments, and why the ‘believes-assumes’ modality used in the argument arises. We recast it as a fixpoint result, which can be carried out in any regular category, and show how it can be reduced to a relation...