Center for Information and Bubble Studies

The Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) is an interdisciplinary research center directed by Prof. Vincent F. Hendricks and situated at the University of Copenhagen.
Background
CIBS was established in February 2015 by Prof. Vincent F. Hendricks when The Carlsberg Foundation awarded him a five-year grant of 1.92 million euros.
Research Area
CIBS combines philosophy, economics, logic, social psychology, information theory, behavioural science, and computer science to research on bubble-phenomena, which are usually associated with finance and real estate markets. Generally, a bubble has developed when assets trade at prices far exceeding the estimated fundamental value. The guiding research principle of CIBS is that bubbles arise when beliefs, preferences and actions have been aggregated in an irrational way among deliberating agents in bubble-hospitable environments.
Projects
In March 2017, the Danish foundation TrygFonden funded a CIBS-based digital education project called "Digital (Ud)Dannelse - D.U.D.E" with 6.1 million Danish kroner. The project's aim is to enable children and teenagers to get an insight into and ability to act in the digital world, as well as give them the courage to participate in digital communities without the risk of being mocked and demolished.
Publications
Books
* Fake News - Når virkeligheden taber, Vincent F. Hendricks, Mads Vestergaard
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 148 pages, , August 2017
* Spræng boblen - Sådan bevarer du fornuften i en ufornuftig verden, Vincent F. Hendricks,
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 184 pages , May 2016
* Infostorms - Why do we “like?” Explaining individual behavior on the social net 2nd revised and Extended Edition, Vincent F. Hendricks, Pelle G. Hansen
New York: Copernicus Books / Springer Nature, 290 pages Autum 2016
* Readings in formal epistemology Edited by Horacio Arló-Costa, Vincent F. Hendricks, Johan van Benthem Assistant Editors: Henrik Boensvang & Rasmus K. Rendsvig
Dordrecht: Springer XII, 872 pages, 77 illustrations Spring 2016
* Infostorms: How to take information punches and save democracy Vincent F. Hendricks, Pelle G. Hansen
New York: Copernicus Books / Springer, February 28, 2014
* Nedtur! Finanskrisen forstået filosofisk Vincent F. Hendricks, Jan Lundorff Rasmussen
Copenhagen: Gyldendal Business, May 2012
* Oplysningens blinde vinkler, Pelle G. Hansen, Vincent F. Hendricks
Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur / August 2011
Articles
* “VERLORENE WIRKLICHKEIT? An der Schwelle zur postfaktischen Demokratie”, Mads Vestergaard and Vincent F. Hendricks, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 13/2017: 4-10.
* “Informational Pathologies and Interest Bubbles: Exploring the Structural Mobilization of Knowledge, Ignorance and Slack”, Joachim Wiewiura and Vincent F. Hendricks, New Media & Society, vol. 1, 2017 / Online First Published 10 Jan 2017: 1-16
* "The Philosophy of Distributed Information (social information, announcements, testimony)" Vincent Hendricks and Rasmus Rendsvig, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, pp 120-137, Routledge, 2016
* "Tillid i en digital virkelighed", Vincent F. Hendricks in Når forbrydelser bliver digitale: En antologi om IT-kriminalitet og adfærd på internettet. Henrik Korf; Anna Vibe Onsberg Hansen; Anders Young Rasmussen; Merete Arentoft. (Red.)København: Det Kriminalpræventive Råd, 2016. s. 74-77.
* “Knowledge and Belief in Flux”, Rasmus K. Rendsvig and Vincent F. Hendricks, forthcoming in Outstanding Contributions to Logic - Jaakko Hintikka, Vol. 7. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016
* "Model Transformers for Dynamical Systems of Dynamic Epistemic Logic", Rasmus K. Rendsvig, in Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, Volume 9394 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 316-327, Springer, 2015
* “Bubbles Studies: The Brass Tacks”, Vincent F. Hendricks, forthcoming in Leading Frontier Research in the Humanities, ed. Emmeche, C., and Budtz, D. London: Bloomsbury (submitted, accepted). Penultimate version for download in PDF, 2016
* “Agents and Interactions”, Jeffrey Helzner and Vincent F. Hendricks forthcoming in A Formal Epistemology Reader, H. Arló-Costa, J. van Benthem and Vincent F.
Hendricks (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer (submitted, accepted) 2016
* “Social Proof in Extensive Games”, Rasmus K. Rendsvig and Vincent F. Hendricks, Jaakko Hintikka: Outstanding Contributions to Logic, van Ditmarsch, H. and Sandu, G. (editors), Dordrect: Springer, 2015
* “Logic and Learning”, Vincent F. Hendricks, Nina Gierasimczuk and Dick de Jong, in Johan van Benthem on Logic and Information Dynamics, Baltag, Alexandru, Smets, Sonja (Eds.). Outstanding Contributions to Logic, Vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06025-5_10 / , 2015
* “Humanioras rolle i boblestudier”, Kampen om disciplinerne, Vincent F. Hendricks
Simo Køppe, David Budtz Pedersen og Frederik Stjernfelt (red.). København: Reitzels Forlag: 275-294, 2015
* “The Philosophy of Distributed Information”, Vincent F. Hendricks, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, ed. Luciano Floridi, London: Routledge, 2015 (submitted, accepted)
* “Science Bubbles”, with David Budtz Pedersen, Philosophy and Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s13347-013-0142-7. Online first, November 15, 2013. Printed in Philosophy & Technology: Volume 27, Issue 4 (2014), Page 503-518, 2013
* “Bubbles”, in Johan van Benthem and Fenrong Liu, eds, Logic Across the University: Foundations and Application—Proceedings of the Tsinghua Logic Conference, Beijing, 14-16 October 2013. Volume 47: Studies in Logic. London: College Publications: 509-513, 2013
* “Infostorms”, Pelle G. Hansen, Vincent F. Hendricks, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 44, No. 3, April: 301-326, 2013.Publications

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