BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18169-62b024adc4e68d96a6a4a3343fc90bf8@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260307T150311Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260130T160000 SUMMARY:“Cognitive Rhetoric: Models, Probability, Metaphor” DESCRIPTION:\nDecision Theory and Behavioral Science continue to war ove r what counts as human rationality. This talk revisits the "representati veness controversy\," finding that our addiction to prediction today ste ms from a rhetorical—even postmodern—turn in psychology.\n\nLeif Weather by\, founding director of the digital theory lab and associate professor \, studies systems of representation\, especially computational and lang uage\, focusing on their cultural aspects.\n\n \;\n\nFor more detail s: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/cognitive-rhetoric-models-probability -metaphor/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Decision Theory and Behavioral Science continue to war over what counts as human ration ality. This talk revisits the "representativeness controversy," finding that our addiction to prediction today stems from a rhetorical—even post modern—turn in psychology.

Leif Weatherby, founding director of th e digital theory lab and associate professor, studies systems of represe ntation, especially computational and language, focusing on their cultur al aspects.

For more details: https ://events.la.psu.edu/event/cognitive-rhetoric-models-probability-metapho r/

URL:https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/leif-allison-reid-weatherby.html LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR