New Paper on Scepticism and Epistemic Value

I've just finished a first draft of my paper, 'Scepticism, Epistemic Luck and Epistemic Value', a version of which I'll be presenting at next year's Joint Session of the Mind and Aristotelian Society (Martijn Blaauw will be be my commentator). If you're interested in looking at this, then it's available here. As always, comments welcome!

Amsterdam & Stirling Conferences

I'm off to Amsterdam for the Value of Knowledge Conference next week, which is organised by the Knowledge, Belief and Normativity Project. The speakers will be Sosa, Goldman, Kvanvig and yours truly, plus a great list of speakers in the open sessions. In case anyone's interested, my paper is available here.

After that, there is the Social Epistemology conference that I'm organsiing at Stirling, with talks by Sosa, Goldman, Kvanvig, both of the Frickers, Lackey, Graham, Lipton, Goldberg and Millar. Drafts of most of the papers are now available on the conference webpage here, and I'm hoping that they all will be pretty soon.

Epistemology @ Edinburgh

We finally have a webpage up detailing epistemology-related activity at Edinburgh. This is under construction and so will be added to over the next few weeks, but the bare essentials are all there. Click here.

SEP Value of Knowledge Entry

My entry on the value of knowledge for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is now available here.

Graduate Conference in Epistemology at Edinburgh

Greetings! I am helping to organize--along with Duncan Pritchard--a graduate conference in epistemology at the University of Edinburgh, scheduled for 13 November, 2007. The title of the conference is "Knowledge and Understanding," and we are excited that Ernest Sosa of Rutgers University will be the keynote speaker, with Duncan Pritchard as the respondent.

Call for papers: Please send an abstract of approx. 500 words to:

Edinburghgradconference@gmail.com by 20 October.

If you have any questions, please e-mail:

J. Adam Carter: s0787306@sms.ed.ac.uk
Duncan Pritchard: duncan.pritchard@ed.ac.uk

Cheers, Adam

Sosa @ Edinburgh

Ernie Sosa will be visiting Edinburgh's Department of Philosophy this November. As part of his visit, we're hosting a postgraduate conference on Knowledge and Understanding on Tuesday November 13th. Sosa will be the keynote speaker, and I'll be responding to him. The rest of the papers will be PG papers. There is a call for papers on this score. For more information, contact the conference organiser Adam Carter.

If you're in the Edinburgh area, there will also be a reading group on Sosa's forthcoming book organised in preparation for his visit. Just drop me a line if you're interested in coming along to this.

Once I've settled in here, there will be a proper Edinburgh webpage detailing all the forthcoming epistemology-related events that we've got planned.

SCP at the ACPA: Virtue and Value

John Greco (now at SLU don't forget) is currently putting together a session for the Society of Christian Philosophers at the American Catholic Philosophical Association meeting. Jason Baehr will give a paper on open mindedness as an intellectual virtue and Stephen Grimm will give a paper on epistemic value. Daniel Breyer (Fordham) will comment on Jason's paper and I'll be commenting on Stephen's paper.

Call for Papers