Please relay --------------------------- Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications (CMSRA-IV) Lisbon, 21-23 September 2005 http://centria.di.fct.unl.pt/~greg/conf/CMSRA-IV.html Program Invited speakers: Teddy Seidenfeld H. A. Simon Professor of Philosophy and Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Wiebe van der Hoek Professor of Computer Science, Head of the (Agent ART) Group University of Liverpool, UK Accepted papers: The Mathematics of Family Resemblance R. Jennings and D. Nicholson Nonmonotonic Conditionals that Behave Like Conditional Probabilities Above a Threshold J. Hawthorne An Adaptive Logic for Compassionate Relevantism H. Lycke Preferential Theory Revision P. Dell'Acqua and L.M. Pereira Defeasible Reasoning Partial Models: a Formal Framework for the Methodology of Research Programs F. Tohmé, C. Delrieux and O. Bueno Some Comments on History Based Structures E. Pacuit Types of Coherence and Coherence among Types P. Bandyopadhyay Conditionals and Consequences H. E. Kyburg, C. M. Teng and G. Wheeler Confirmation Theory and the Logic of Inductive Implication R. Silvestre, H. Tarcisio and C. Pequeno A Mathematical Comment on the Fundamental Difference between Legal Theory Formation and Scientific Theory Formation R. Loui