ESSLLI 2022: Defeasible Logics with Applications

Day 1 — Basic system

• Recommended reading: (Horty 2012, Ch. 1)
• Lecture notes / slides
• Problem set 1
• (you can email me for solutions)

Day 2 — Formal argumentation theory

• Recommended reading: (Prakken & Horty, 2012)
• Lecture notes / slides
• Problem set 2 (updated on 8/31)
• (you can email me for solutions)

Day 3 — Argumentation c’d / application in epistemology

• Recommended reading: (Knoks, 2022)
• Recommended video (introducing the peer disagreement debate)
• Lecture notes / slides
• (There’s no problem set)

Day 4 — Application in epistemology c’d / ethics

• Recommended reading: (Knoks, 2021)
• Lecture notes / slides
• (There’s no problem set)

Day 5 — Applications in ethics c’d

• Recommended reading: (Horty, 2012, Ch. 2)
• Lecture notes / slides
• (There’s no problem set, but you should try proving Fact 4.8 and verifying principles from the slides)

Course Syllabus

Syllabus-v8-5

Course Materials

Lecture slides — Monday

Lecture slides — Tuesday

Lecture slides — Wednesday

Lecture slides — Thursday

Lecture slides — Friday

Problem set 1: Default logic

Problem set 2: Argumentation theory