Formal Approaches to Rationality and Meaning (FARM) 2

October 10-11, 2026
NYU Department of Philosophy, Room 101
5 Washington Place, New York, NY


Organized by Harvey Lederman and Matt Mandelkern (local), and Paolo Santorio, Julia Staffel, and Snow Zhang, with the generous support of NYU and the New York Institute of Philosophy

FARM is a conference that aims to bring together researchers studying meaning, reasoning and rational norms. This is the second iteration of the conference; information about last year's can be found here.

  Saturday, October 10 Sunday, October 11
9:00–10:00 Keynote: Logic, probability, and causal inference
Thomas Icard
The structure of multidimensional concepts
Ilaria Canavotto, Fabrizio Cariani, and Eric Pacuit
Comments: Brian Hedden
10:20–11:20 Answering together
Tomasz Zyglewicz and Xander MacSwan
Comments: Dilip Ninan
Conversational trust
Justin D'Ambrosio
Comments: Melissa Fusco
11:40–12:40 Orthogonal knowledge
Joshua Pearson, Ginger Schultheis, and Richard Roth
Comments: Brian Weatherson
Relevant alternatives in guessing
Leo Yang
Comments: Ben Holguín
Lunch (catered in the 6th floor lounge)
2:00–3:00 Knowledge and chance
Jeremy Goodman
Comments: Dmitri Gallow
Coordination without role neutrality
Giulia Grazzini
Comments: Alejandro Pérez Carballo
3:30–4:30 How to be a Leibnizian
Lingzhi Shi
Comments: Jeffrey Russell
Rational inquiry amidst uncertain priors
Yasha Sapir
Comments: Adam Elga
5:00–6:00 Correlation aversion
Weng Kin San
Comments: Sven Neth
Keynote: Be My Guess!
Sophie Horowitz
Comments: Miriam Schoenfield
6:30 Dinner The end


Logistics:
Registration is now closed. You will be required to show a government ID to enter the building. Please arrive early to allow time for check-in. We will provide lunch and coffee for everyone on both days.