CFP: 2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh

A quick reminder about the 2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh. The conference topic is 'Cognitive Ecology: The Role of the Concept of Knowledge in our Social Cognitive Ecology', and if you haven't the foggiest idea what we have in mind by this take a look at the conference webpage where there is a detailed description of the conference topic.

Speakers include Martin Kusch, Lorraine Code, Sandy Goldberg, Hilary Kornblith and Ram Neta. There are also a bunch of very interesting invited discussants.

Finally, there are some open sessions too, which means there is also a call for papers, deadline January 1st 2010. For more details about this, see the conference webpage.

Workshop: The Normativity of Belief

UNAM is hosting a workshop on 'The Normativity of Belief' next month, with some very good international participants, including Ralph Wedgwood, Nishi Shah and Asbjorn Seglich-Peterson, and many more. Here's the link.

HT: Miguel Fernandez

Copenhagen Social Epistemology Conference

The Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) at the University of Copenhagen is hosting a one-day epistemology workshop on Thursday September 17th. The workshop is part of a series of workshops and conferences to be held in connection with the research project The Epistemology of Liberal Democracy, funded by the Velux Foundation.

Venue: Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (Amager), Room 14.2.50

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee and tea

10.30 – 12.00 Nikolaj Nottelmann (University of Southern Denmark): A Defense of modest a priori infallibilism

12.00 – 13.15 Lunch

13.15 – 14.45 Klemens Kappel (SERG, University of Copenhagen): The truth-conduciveness of free speech: How should we assess the arguments?

14.45 – 15.00 Break

15.00 – 16.30 Chris Kelp (K. U. Leuven): On the possibility of reasonable disagreement: a virtue-theoretic approach

16.30 – 16.45 Break

16.45 – 18.15 Patrick Greenough (University of St. Andrews): What is disagreement?

Registration and enquiries: There is no registration fee. However, if you would like to attend the workshop—or have any enquiries concerning the event—please contact Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen (nikolaj@ucla.edu).

SERG webpage: http://epistemology.ku.dk

Epistemic Normativity Workshop: Fordham University, April 2010

Fordham University will be hosting a two-day workshop on Epistemic Normativity, on April 16th-17th, 2010. The keynote speakers will be John Greco, Tom Kelly, and Linda Martin-Alcoff, and the workshop will be held at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan. Here is a full list of speakers and chairs:

Speakers:

Jeremy Fantl (Calgary) & Matt McGrath (Missouri)
Richard Foley (NYU)
John Greco (St. Louis)
Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
Michael Lynch (Connecticut)
Linda Martin-Alcoff (CUNY)
Wayne Riggs (Oklahoma)
Dennis Whitcomb (Western Washington)

Chairs:

Joe Cruz (Williams)
Michael DePaul (Notre Dame)
Catherine Elgin (Harvard)
Miguel Angel Fernandez (UNAM)
Nishi Shah (Amherst)
Declan Smithies (Ohio State)
Asbjørn Steglich-Peterson (Aarhus)
Matt Weiner (Vermont)

Visitors to the workshop are welcome, and attendance is free. If you are interested in attending, please contact Stephen Grimm at sgrimm@fordham.edu. The website for the conference can be found here.

CFP: 2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh

I'm pleased to announce that the Edinburgh Epistemology research group will be hosting the 2010 Episteme conference, on the topic: 'Cognitive Ecology: The Role of the Concept of Knowledge in our Social Cognitive Ecology'. So far, confirmed speakers include Martin Kusch (Cambridge/Vienna) and Ram Neta (UNC, Chapel Hill), with more speakers to be confirmed soon. A rough conference webpage is available here.

There is also a call for papers for this conference, with more details posted on the conference webpage.

CFP: Experimental Philosophy

The deadline for submissions to the Experimental Philosophy Graduate Conference at Buffalo University is coming up on August 15, 2009. The conference's focus on experimental epistemology and submissions in this area is especially encouraged. Following the conference will be a Experimental Epistemology Workshop (with James Beebe, Michael Bishop Ram Neta, Shaun Nichols and Jonathan Weinberg) and all speakers are invited to attend.

More details can be found here (pdf).

2009 Nature of Knowledge Lecture & Virtue Epistemology Workshop

Ernie Sosa will be visiting Edinburgh again next week. As part of his visit he'll be delivering the 2009 Nature of Knowledge lecture on Wednesday (22nd), on the topic of 'Knowledge and Wisdom'. If you're in the Edinburgh area and fancy coming along, then more details are available here. This is a free event, with no registration.

Also, prior to the lecture we're hosting an informal workshop on virtue epistemology, with more details posted here. Again, this is free and there's no registration fee.

Epistemic Goodness Conference: New Webpage

This is just to let everyone know that the webpage for the Epistemic Goodness conference has moved. For the new webpage, click here.

Epistemic Goodness Conference: Abstracts Posted

The abstracts for all the papers for the Epistemic Goodness conference have now been posted here.

Conference on The Aim of Belief (Oslo)

Timothy Chan has brought to my attention a fantastic looking conference on The Aim of Belief which is being held at CSMN in Olso in May. Speakers include Pascal Engel (Geneva), Paul Horwich (NYU), David Papineau (King’s College, London), Nishi Shah (Amherst), Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (Aarhus), Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford) and Timothy Williamson (Oxford). For more details, click here.

CFP: Amsterdam Conference on Disagreement

Responsible Belief in the Face of Disagreement

August 18–20, 2009
VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands
http://www.knowledgebeliefnormativity.org

Keynote Speakers
Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
Richard Feldman (University of Rochester)
Bruce Russell (Wayne State University)

Note that there is a call for papers, with a deadline of March 15th, so get your skates on!

Value of Knowledge Chapters

Here is the latest version of my contribution to the Value of Knowledge book that I'm writing with Alan Millar and Adrian Haddock:

Analytical Table of Contents (pdf)
Chapter One: The Value Problem for Knowledge (pdf)
Chapter Two: Knowledge and Final Value (pdf)
Chapter Three: Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology (pdf)
Chapter Four: Understanding (pdf)
Bibliography (pdf)

NEH Summer Institute On Experimental Philosophy

I've been alerted to this announcement by Josh Knobe:

NEH Summer Institute: Experimental Philosophy

Experimental Philosophy is a new movement that uses experiments to address traditional philosophical questions. Although the movement is only a few years old, it has attracted prolific practitioners as well as ardent critics. (For more about Experimental Philosophy, see the recent article in the New York Times or the ongoing discussion at the Experimental Philosophy Blog.)

This summer, the NEH is sponsoring an Institute on Experimental Philosophy. The Institute will bring in over a dozen distinguished guest faculty, who will present their latest research across a wide range of issues and perspectives. The Institute will also provide participants with the opportunity to learn experimental methods that are used in Experimental Philosophy. The Institute will also provide participants with the opportunity to learn experimental methods that are used in Experimental Philosophy.

The Institute will take place in SLC from June 22-July 17 2009. Eligible participants must have a teaching position at a U.S. college or university. The deadline for application is March 2. More information about the Institute, as well as application materials, are available here.

Reminder: 2009 Episteme Conference CFP

This is just a reminder that the deadline for the 2009 Episteme conference on Disagreement is January 15th. For more details about this event, click here.

CFP: Formal Perspectives on the Epistemology of Religion (Leuven, June 2009)

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*FORMAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF RELIGION*

June 10-12 2009 @ KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium)

Co-organized by the Formal Epistemology Project, KU Leuven
and the Center for Philosophy and Religion, University of Glasgow

Conference website: http://formalphilosophy.org/fmer

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The organizers of the conference invite contributions bringing
formal methodology -- decision theory, statistics, epistemic logic,
game theory, etc. -- to bear on issues in the epistemology of religion.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

- Pascalian arguments

- Cosmic and organic design arguments

- Arguments from miracles

- Problems of evil

- Religious pluralism and disagreement

Authors are invited to submit a 400-600 word abstract for a paper of
30-40 minutes reading time. The abstracts are to be submitted by e-mail,
as an attachment in a common format (preferably pdf, doc or rtf).

The submission deadline is Monday 16th of February 2009, with decisions
expected to be reached by Monday 30th of March 2009.

The language of the conference is English.

In addition to contributed papers, the program will also include the
following invited speakers:

- Paul Bartha (British Columbia)

- Branden Fitelson (Berkeley)

- Alan Hajek (ANU)

- Tim & Lydia McGrew (Western Michigan)

- Graham Oppy (Monash)

- Richard Swinburne (Oxford)

- Michael Tooley (Boulder)

Further details regarding the event will be posted in due course on the
conference website.

Please send abstracts and requests for further information to

jacob.chandler@hiw.kuleuven.be.

and cc. to

v.harrison@philosophy.arts.gla.ac.uk

New Society and Blog

The International Society for the Study of Scepticism has just been founded, and this organisation also now has its own blog. Check it out!

Value of Knowledge Book Update

I've just updated the draft chapters for the book on the value of knowledge that I'm writing with Alan Millar and Adrian Haddock, and which I recently posted here. Here are the new draft chapters:

Chapter One: The Value Problem for Knowledge (pdf)
Chapter Two: Knowledge and Final Value (pdf)
Chapter Three: Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology (pdf)
Chapter Four: Understanding (pdf)
Bibliography (pdf)

Many thanks to all of you who sent comments!

Epistemic Goodness Conference and Call for Papers

This is a reminder that the deadline for submitting an abstract for the Epistemic Goodness conference is November 1st. Abstracts should be submitted directly to me at duncan.pritchard@ed.ac.uk. For more details about the conference, click here.

Epistemology@Edinburgh Blog

Well, it's still pretty basic, but I think it's fair to say that the Epistemology@Edinburgh blog is now live. Check it out here.

Epistemology @ Edinburgh

There's a lot going to be happening here in Epistemology over the coming years. I lack specific details for most of these events, but I thought it worth flagging what's planned anyway, even though there are a few gaps. Here are the main events planned:

Ernest Sosa will be here next year to give the 2009 Nature of Knowledge lecture, and we're planning to host a workshop to coincide with his visit, probably on virtue epistemology (for obvious reasons).

We will be hosting the 2010 Episteme conference, and the conference theme will be 'Cognitive Ecology: The Role of the Concept of Knowledge in our Social Cognitive Ecology'. Confirmed speakers so far include Martin Kusch and Ram Neta, with more to follow (including a call for papers).

We're planning a conference on ancient epistemology, probably for 2011.

We're planning a conference on the epistemological ramifications of embodied cognition, probably for 2011 or 2012.

In addition, the Epistemology Research Seminar begins here next week, with a talk from Julien Dutant (Geneva). In addition, we're just about the launch the Epistemology @ Edinburgh blog. So it's all happening here in Edinburgh!