With Kai Epstude from Groningen, Ruth Byrne co-organised a symposium at the conference on “Everyday applications of counterfactual thinking”. It included talks by Patrizia Catellani and Mauro Bertolotti on pre-bunking fake news;   Kai Epstude, Daniel Effron, and Neal Roese on partisanship; Rachel Smallman and Sherecce Fields on health decisions; and Paul Henne on causation. Ruth gave a talk in the symposium on “Counterfactual explanations for human and AI risky decisions”, co-authored with Xinyue Dai, Laurence Shalloo, Elodie Ruelle, Mark Keane.

With Sunny Khemlani from Washington, Ruth also co-organised a symposium at the conference on “What are explanations for?”. It included talks by Jeff Zemla and Daniel Corral on mechanistic thinking; Laura Kelly and Sunny on temporal explanations; and Emily Liquin, Frederick Callaway and Tania Lombrozo on curiosity.  Ruth gave a talk in the symposium on “Preferences for simple explanations in diagnosis and prediction” co-authored with Greta Warren and Mark Keane.

Sunny also gave a talk a the conference titled “Human verifications: Computable with truth values outside logic” co-authored with Phil Johnson-Laird and Ruth Byrne.

The title of their work was “Counterfactual explanations for misclassified images”.

Her talk was on “How people reason with counterfactual explanations for AI decisions”.

Mark’s talk, with Molly Quinn, was on “Thinking about the unexpected: is it familiar or unfamiliar?”

Ruth’s talk was on “Are counterfactual explanations similar to causal explanations”

A recording of Phil’s talk is here.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13421-023-01407-5