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The Human and Artificial Rationalities (HAR) conference series is focused on comparing human and artificial rationalities, investigating how they interact together in a practical sense, but also on the theoretical and ethical aspects behind rationality from three main perspectives: Philosophy, Psychology, and Computer Sciences. HAR aims at building bridges between these three fields of research …

Philosophy of human or artificial reasoning

Artificial agents and morality
Artificial extension of human cognitive capacities
Artificial intelligence and epistemology
Consciousness in artificial intelligence
Epistemic virtues: emotions and rationality
Epistemological status of reasoned beliefs
Ethical and legal challenges of conversational robots
Intelligence and rationality: distinction and intricacy
Robot law and ethics on artificial reasoning
Strong artificial intelligence: criticism and criticism of criticism

Psychology of human reasoning

Belief revision
Conceptual thinking
Decision-making
Influence of language and culture on thought
Judgments of probabilities and other quantities
Neuropsychology of reasoning
Pragmatics
Reasoning, either deductive, inductive, abductive, causal, moral, …
Theory of Mind
Thinking and disabilities
Animal and human reasoning

Human-Machine Interaction (HRI, HCI, ….)

Acceptance and Trust in artificial agents
Anthropomorphism
Artificial agents for inclusion
Best practices and overlapping lessons learned from deploying conversational agents
Design of conversational agents such as coaching chatbots
Evaluation of artificial agents
Explainability of artificial agents
Lifespan approaches of using digital devices in psychology (education, remediation, special needs)
Psychologically based models of artificial intelligence
Sociocultural aspects of the use of artificial agents

Linden Ball

Laura Macchi

Wim de Neys

A venir

Jean Baratgin (Université Paris 8, France)
Emmanuel Brochier (Facultés Libres de Philosophie et de Psychologie, France)
Julien Bugmann (Haute École Pédagogique du Canton de Vaud, Switzerland)
Charles El-Nouty (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
Patrice Godin (Université de Nouvelle Calédonie, France)
Hirofumi Hashimoto (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)
Baptiste Jacquet (Université Paris 8, France)
Frank Jamet (CY Cergy Paris Université, France)
Vassilis Komis (University of Patras, Greece)
Daniel Lassiter (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Laura Martignon (Paedagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Germany)
Bernard N’Kaoua (Université de Bordeaux, France)
David Over (Durham University, United Kingdom)
Davide Petturiti (Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy)
Hiroshi Yama (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan)

5th International Conference on Human and Artificial Rationalities

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May – Paper Submission

July – Camera Ready Paper

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