Epistemic Value

CFP: EEN Annual Conference

2012-01-16T10:07:00.002Z

The European Epistemology Network is hosting its annual at the Universities of Bologna and Modena and Reggio Emilia this year, and there's a call for papers too. Here is the advert.

2012 Episteme Conference

2011-12-10T20:42:00.002Z

The 2012 Episteme Conference will be on the topic of 'Epistemological Problems of Privacy and Secrecy', and will be hosted by the Delft University of Technology. There's a conference webpage here. The conference speakers are:

John Hardwig (University of Tennessee)
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers University)
Klemens Kappel (University of Copenhagen)
Peter Ludlow (Northwestern University)
Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh)
Martijn Blaauw (Delft University of Technology)

And there is also a conference commentator-at-large:

Brian Leiter (University of Chicago)

CFP: Aims of Inquiry and Cognition

2011-12-03T19:12:00.004Z

A reminder of the conference that Edinburgh's Epistemology Research Cluster is hosting in May 2012. The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition is sponsored by the Scots Philosophical Association and the Mind Association. Invited speakers include Ted Sider, Carolyn Price, Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen, Stephen Grimm, and Kristoffer Ahlstrom.

There's also a call for papers, with a deadline of 1st January 2012. See the conference webpage for more details. Any questions, drop Allan Hazlett a line here.

IJSS: Second Issue Out!

2011-12-01T15:51:00.004Z

The second issue of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out (electronically anyway), and available here. Among other things, it features a symposium on Ernie Sosa's work featuring articles by John Greco, Richard Fumerton, and Michael Williams, to which Sosa responds.

Axtell-on-Dougherty

2011-10-09T19:53:00.002+01:00

I haven't read this paper by Guy Axtell yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so:

Axtell ('Recovering Responsibility,' 2011, Logos and Episteme),

http://logos-and-episteme.proiectsbc.ro/sites/default/files/RECOVERING%20RESPONSIBILITY%20.pdf

And here's the very interesting paper by Trent Dougherty which it responds to:

Dougherty ('Reducing Responsibility: An Evidentialist Account of Epistemic Blame,'

2011, European Journal of Philosophy),

http://baylor.academia.edu/TrentDougherty/Papers/217565/Reducing_Responsibilitiy_An_Evidentialist_Account_of_Epistemic_Blame

Epistemology @ Edinburgh: Current and Upcoming Events

2011-10-05T08:24:00.008+01:00

A summary of what the Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group is currently up to and has planned for the near future:

Regular Seminars/Groups

For these seminars/groups, all are welcome and there is no need to register.

Events

Epistemic Expressivism Conference--October 15th-16th, 2011.
The Nature of Knowledge Lecture--December 14th, 2011.
The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition Conference--May 25th-26th, 2012.
2nd Annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference--June 8th-9th, 2012.

Note that of these events both the Nature of Knowledge Lecture and The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition Conference are free to everyone and there's no need to register (the other two events require registration). In addition, we will as usual have a Christmas Graduate Epist-Fest Workshop, which will be open to everyone (this year it will be on Friday December 9th), and we'll also be hosting another graduate workshop in the spring (Thursday May 24th). Looking ahead, we're planning a major conference in 2013 to celebrate 50 years since Gettier's article.

Edinburgh Epistemic Expressivism Conference

2011-09-26T12:09:00.003+01:00

There will be a conference on Epistemic Expressivism held in Edinburgh this October (15th-16th), with talks from Allan Gibbard, Mike Lynch and Klemens Kappel, amongst others. A provisional programme is available here. Inquiries about this event should be directed to Mike Ridge. This event is jointly hosted by Edinburgh's Epistemology Research Group and its Ethics Research Group.

Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group

2011-09-26T10:08:00.002+01:00

This semester's seminar programme for the Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group is now available here (we kicked-off last week with Heather Logue from Leeds). As usual, everyone is welcome so if you're in the Edinburgh area then do feel free to come along.

CFP: Edinburgh Grad Epistemology Conference

2011-09-12T10:24:00.003+01:00

The 2nd annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology conference is being held on June 8th-9th 2012. The keynote speakers will be John Greco and Crispin Wright. There is also a call for papers. For more details, see the website here.

New Book Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy

2011-08-08T14:24:00.003+01:00

Vincent Hendricks and myself are launching a new monograph series, which will be a kind of accompaniment to the New Waves in Philosophy volume series that we edit. It's called Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy. You can find out more details on the series webpage (which is under construction) here. If you're interested in submitting a book proposal, then do feel free to drop either myself or Vincent a line.

New Journal: American Dialectic

2011-07-17T20:13:00.002+01:00

It's been brought to my attention that there's a new journal on the scene, one that is structured in a very different way to most journals. It's called American Dialectic, and they're looking for new submissions.

CFP: Edinburgh 'Aims of Inquiry and Cognition' Conference

2011-07-06T16:37:00.003+01:00

The Epistemology Research Group here in Edinburgh will be hosting a conference next May on 'The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition'.

Invited speakers include Ted Sider (Cornell), Carolyn Price (Open University), Asbjørn Steglich-Pedersen (Aarhus), Stephen Grimm (Fordham) & Kristoffer Ahlstrom (Copenhagen).

There's a call for papers here. There's also a rudimentary conference webpage here, on which further details about the conference will be posted in due course.

CFP: Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

2011-06-26T19:41:00.002+01:00

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

Guest Editors: Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh) and Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2011

Invited Contributors: Fred Adams (University of Delaware) & Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana), Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota), Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University), Richard Menary (University of Wollongong) and Kim Sterelny (Australian National University and Victoria University).

Background and Aim
According to the thesis of extended cognition, cognitive processes do not need to be located inside the skin of the cognizing agent. Humans routinely engage their wider artifactual environment to extend the capacities of their naked brain. They often rely so much on external aids (notebooks, watches, smartphones) that the latter become a proper part of a hybrid (human-artifact) cognitive system.

The thesis of extended cognition has been influential in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, linguistics, informatics, and ethics, but, surprisingly, not in epistemology. The discipline concerned with one of the most remarkable products of human cognition, viz. knowledge, has largely ignored the suggestion that her main object of study might be produced by processes outside the human skin.

In this special issue of Philosophical Explorations we therefore are looking for papers that explore the ramifications of the thesis of extended cognition for contemporary epistemology in general, and for conceptualizations of epistemic action in particular. The special issue will include five invited papers (by Fred Adams & Kenneth Aizawa, Ronald Giere, Sanford Goldberg, Richard Menary and Kim Sterelny), plus two contributions selected from the papers submitted in response to this open call for papers.

We expect contributions discussing the impact of extended cognition on issues as: epistemic agency and responsibility, cognitive ability, ownership of belief, the distribution of epistemic credit, the sources of belief, artifactual testimony, the growth of knowledge, non-propositional knowledge, the evolution and reliability of extended cognitive processes, the varieties of extended epistemic action.

Submission Details
Please send a pdf-version of your paper (max. 8000 words) to Krist Vaesen, (k.vaesen@tue.nl). Contributions that do not make it to the special issue may be considered for publication in one of the regular issues of Philosophical Explorations.

Further Inquiries
Please direct any inquiries about this call for papers to Krist Vaesen, (k.vaesen@tue.nl).

Axtell @ JanusBlog

2011-06-25T18:54:00.001+01:00

Interesting post--a kind of epistemic manifesto--at JanusBlog from Guy Axtell.

Edinburgh Epistemology Workshop

2011-06-02T11:14:00.004+01:00

UPDATE: Nick Treanor (Cambridge) has now joined the programme for this event. See the workshop webpage for more details.

The Epistemology Research Group here in Edinburgh is hosting a small workshop on Friday June 24th. The speakers will be Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern), Baron Reed (Northwestern) and Asbjorn Steglich-Petersen (Aarhus). Attendance is free, there's no registration, and all are welcome. The workshop webpage (which we're currently updating with paper titles and abstracts), is here.

Fordham Epistemology & Ethics Workshops

2011-05-25T20:47:00.001+01:00

This just in from Stephen Grimm at Fordham:

Fordham Epistemology & Ethics Workshops

Starting next year, Fordham will be hosting a series of epistemology and ethics workshops at its Lincoln Center Campus in Manhattan.

For the 2011-2012 academic year, speakers will include: Macalester Bell (Columbia), Lara Buchak (Berkeley), Ruth Chang (Rutgers), Trent Dougherty (Baylor), Bennett Foddy (Oxford), Allan Hazlett (Edinburgh), Stephen Hetherington (New South Wales), Thomas Kelly (Princeton), Ram Neta (North Carolina), Japa Pallikkathayil (NYU), Michael Smith (Princeton), Ernest Sosa (Rutgers), and Sharon Street (NYU).

For information about location and dates, please click here.

If you are interested in attending, please contact Stephen Grimm at: sgrimm@fordham.edu

IJSS: First Issue Out!

2011-05-15T19:24:00.002+01:00

I'm delighted to say that the first issue of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out! Check it out here.

X-Phi @ Yale

2011-05-07T11:41:00.003+01:00

Mark Phelan, who is involved in the Yale X-Phi project, has asked me to post something about their activities. Check out their webpage here. The project hosts 17 different experimental philosophy studies designed by 29 philosophers, each working on illuminating a different philosophical question. So why not take a moment to help these philosophers out, either by stopping by the Experiment Month website to fill out a brief questionnaire or by spreading the word about these new studies? (By the way, the experiment month initiative is run by Yale Cognitive Science with a grant from the American Philosophical Association.)

Episteme: New Beginnings

2011-05-01T19:48:00.002+01:00

Alvin Goldman has sent me the following announcement about Episteme:

THE JOURNAL EPISTEME: A MOVE AND REINCARNATION

The journal EPISTEME announces an impending move and transformation. With the first issue of 2012 we begin publication with Cambridge University Press and expand our scope from social epistemology specifically to all of epistemology. Our new title will be: Episteme, A Journal of Individual and Social Epistemology. EPISTEME has published since 2004 with Edinburgh University Press. With Cambridge we shall publish four issues per year, approximately 500 pages per volume. Cambridge will include EPISTEME in a bundle of journals to which 1,500 institutions already subscribe.

Scope and Mission Statement. EPISTEME is a general journal of epistemology in the analytic tradition that invites both informal and formal approaches. Among its primary “traditional” topics are knowledge, justification, evidence, reasons, rationality, skepticism, truth, probability, epistemic norms and values, and methodology. The journal devotes special attention to topics in social epistemology, including testimony, trust, disagreement, relativism, diversity and expertise, collective judgment, and the epistemic assessment of social institutions (e.g., science, law, democracy, and the media). The journal welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to epistemology that borrow methods from allied disciplines such as experimental psychology, linguistics, economics, game theory, evolutionary theory, and computer simulation studies. We do not publish purely historical work or case studies.

Editorial Team

Editor
Alvin Goldman (Rutgers)

Associate Editors
Jessica Brown (St. Andrews)
Igor Douven (Groningen)
Don Fallis (Arizona)
Branden Fitelson (Rutgers)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern)
Christian List (London School of Economics)
Jack Lyons (Arkansas)
Matthew McGrath (Missouri)
Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers)
Frederick Schmitt (Indiana)
Jonathan Weinberg (Arizona)
Michael Weisberg (University of Pennsylvania)

The first issue of 2012, guest-edited by Jennifer Lackey, will include the following contents:
(1) A symposium on pragmatic encroachment, with papers by Jessica Brown, Jeremy Fantl & Matthew McGrath, and Jason Stanley;
(2) A paper on the epistemic case for multiple-vote majority rule, by Richard Bradley and Christopher Thompson; and
(3) A critical notice of Sanford Goldberg,'s Relying on Others, by Mikkel Gerken.

Previous Contributors. In our eight years of publication with Edinburgh (when we specialized in social epistemology exclusively), our pages have featured work by the following authors, among others: Jonathan Adler, Elizabeth Anderson, Michael Bergmann, Paul Boghossian, Albert Casullo, David Christensen, Earl Conee, Igor Douven, David Estlund, Richard Feldman, Branden Fitelson, Richard Foley, Miranda Fricker, Margaret Gilbert, Sanford Goldberg, John Greco, Susan Haack, Christopher Hookway, Philip Kitcher, Hilary Kornblith, Jennifer Lackey, Larry Laudan, Peter Lipton, Christian List, Helen Longino, Ram Neta, Philip Pettit, Nicholas Rescher, Gideon Rosen, Sherrilyn Roush, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Michael Strevens, Jonathan Weinberg, Roger White, Michael Williams, and Linda Zagzebski.

The journal welcomes submissions for publication in 2012 and thereafter. Manuscripts should be directed to: episteme@philosophy.rutgers.edu. Manuscripts should be anonymized, and should be accompanied by a separate file containing an abstract, author identification (including institution), and contact information.

CFP: Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

2011-03-25T11:28:00.002Z

CALL FOR PAPERS
Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

Guest Editors: Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2011

Invited Contributors: Fred Adams (University of Delaware) & Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana), Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota), Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University), Richard Menary (University of Wollongong) and Kim Sterelny (Australian National University and Victoria University).

Background and Aim
According to the thesis of extended cognition, cognitive processes do not need to be located inside the skin of the cognizing agent. Humans routinely engage their wider artifactual environment to extend the capacities of their naked brain. They often rely so much on external aids (notebooks, watches, smartphones) that the latter become a proper part of a hybrid (human-artifact) cognitive system.

The thesis of extended cognition has been influential in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, linguistics, informatics, and ethics, but, surprisingly, not in epistemology. The discipline concerned with one of the most remarkable products of human cognition, viz. knowledge, has largely ignored the suggestion that her main object of study might be produced by processes outside the human skin.

In this special issue of *Philosophical Explorations* we therefore are looking for papers that explore the ramifications of the thesis of extended cognition for contemporary epistemology in general, and for conceptualizations of epistemic action in particular. The special issue will include five invited papers (by Fred Adams & Kenneth Aizawa, Ronald Giere, Sanford Goldberg, Richard Menary and Kim Sterelny), plus two contributions selected from the papers submitted in response to this open call for papers.

We expect contributions discussing the impact of extended cognition on issues as: epistemic agency and responsibility, cognitive ability, ownership of belief, the distribution of epistemic credit, the sources of belief, artifactual testimony, the growth of knowledge, non-propositional knowledge, the evolution and reliability of extended cognitive processes, the varieties of extended epistemic action.

Submission Details
Please send a pdf-version of your paper (max. 8000 words) to Krist Vaesen, (k.vaesen@tue.nl). Contributions that do not make it to the special issue may be considered for publication in one of the regular issues of Philosophical Explorations.

Further Inquiries
Please direct any inquiries about this call for papers to Krist Vaesen, (k.vaesen@tue.nl).

CFP: The Problem of the Criterion

2011-03-13T18:56:00.000Z

Final Call for Papers: "The Problem of the Criterion"

Special Issue of Philosophical Papers
Guest Editor: Mark Nelson (Westmont College)

[Expected contributors include Ernest Sosa (Brown), Michael DePaul (Notre Dame), Carrie Jenkins (Nottingham), and Anne Meylan (Geneva)]

The problem of the criterion is one of the most ancient and enduring questions of philosophical methodology. Attributed to Agrippa, the dialellus or ‘wheel’ became a staple of skeptical arguments from Sextus to Montaigne, but it was perhaps given its best-known formulation by R.M. Chisholm:

To know whether things really are as they seem to be, we must have a procedure for distinguishing appearances that are true from appearances that are false. But to know whether our procedure is a good procedure, we have to know whether it really succeeds in distinguishing appearances that are true from appearances that are false. And we cannot know whether it does really succeed unless we already know which appearances are true and which ones are false. And so we are caught in a circle. [‘The Problem of the Criterion’, 1982]

This problem admits of several interpretations, resists easy solution, and lurks at the bottom of philosophical reflection on knowledge and method in any topic, yet it has received only one book-length treatment in Anglophone philosophy in the last fifty years, Robert Amico’s The Problem of the Criterion (1993).

Possible topics for discussion include:
- The problem of the criterion in ancient, modern (Montaigne, Hume, Reid, Hegel), or 20th C epistemology (Moore, Wittgenstein)
- The problem of the criterion as an interpretation or form of skepticism
- The relevance of the problem of the criterion to various kinds of knowledge, e.g., moral, religious, aesthetic, of other minds
- Substantive and methodological commitments in philosophy
- Basic knowledge and the problem of the criterion
- Intuitionism and the problem of the criterion
- Philosophical disagreement and the problem of the criterion
- The problem of the criterion and the method of reflective equilibrium
- The problem of the criterion and the foundationalism/coherentism dichotomy

The deadline for receipt of submission is 30 June 2011. This special edition of Philosophical Papers, which will contain both invited and submitted papers, will appear in November of 2011.
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically, prepared as a PDF or Word document attachment, and emailed to . Authors should include their full name, affiliation, and address for email correspondence with their submission. Further enquiries can be addressed to Mark Nelson (manelson@westmont.edu) or Ward Jones, Editor,Philosophical Papers(w.jones@ru.ac.za).

CONF: Epistemic Norms and Values

2011-02-09T19:56:00.001Z

Just been sent this by EJ Coffman--looks like a great event:

Epistemic Norms & Values Symposium

The University of Tennessee – Knoxville

March 25^th-26^th, 2011

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Tennessee (with generous support from the Humanities Initiative within the UTK Office of Research) is pleased to announce the upcoming Epistemic Norms & Values Symposium, which will take place on Friday and Saturday, March 25^th-26^th, 2011. The speakers will be Robert Audi (Notre Dame), EJ Coffman (Tennessee), Thomas Kelly (Princeton), Jonathan Kvanvig (Baylor), and Linda Zagzebski (Oklahoma).

Visitors to the symposium are welcome, and attendance is free. If you are interested in attending or have any questions about the symposium, please contact EJ Coffman at ecoffma1@utk.edu.

Edinburgh Epistemology Group & Upcoming Events

2011-01-12T16:59:00.004Z

I've now started posting the programme for the Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group for 2011 here. I'll update this as I get more information about the talks. If you're in the Edinburgh area and you fancy coming to any one of these talks then please do so; all are welcome.

Two other upcoming events in Edinburgh are also worthy of note. First, later this month the Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group are hosting a workshop which is supported in part by the Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group. For more details, click here. Second, in March there will be an Epistemology Graduate Conference, with talks by Ernest Sosa and Richard Swinburne. For more details, click here.

CFP: Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

2011-01-12T16:42:00.001Z

Call for Papers

Special Issue of *Philosophical Explorations* on

"Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

Guest Editors: Andy Clark (University of Edinburgh), Duncan Pritchard (University of Edinburgh), Krist Vaesen (Eindhoven University of Technology)

Submission Deadline: September 15, 2011

Invited Contributors: Fred Adams (University of Delaware) & Ken Aizawa (Centenary College of Louisiana), Ronald Giere (University of Minnesota), Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University), Richard Menary (University of Wollongong) and Kim Sterelny (Australian National University and Victoria University).

Background and Aim

According to the thesis of extended cognition, cognitive processes do not need to be located inside the skin of the cognizing agent. Humans routinely engage their wider artifactual environment to extend the capacities of their naked brain. They often rely so much on external aids (notebooks, watches, smartphones) that the latter become a proper part of a hybrid (human-artifact) cognitive system.

The thesis of extended cognition has been influential in the philosophy of mind, cognitive science, linguistics, informatics, and ethics, but, surprisingly, not in epistemology. The discipline concerned with one of the most remarkable products of human cognition, viz. knowledge, has largely ignored the suggestion that her main object of study might be produced by processes outside the human skin.

In this special issue of *Philosophical Explorations* we therefore are looking for papers that explore the ramifications of the thesis of extended cognition for contemporary epistemology in general, and for conceptualizations of epistemic action in particular. The special issue will include five invited papers (by Fred Adams & Kenneth Aizawa, Ronald Giere, Sanford Goldberg, Richard Menary and Kim Sterelny), plus two contributions selected from the papers submitted in response to this open call for papers.

We expect contributions discussing the impact of extended cognition on issues as: epistemic agency and responsibility, cognitive ability, ownership of belief, the distribution of epistemic credit, the sources of belief, artifactual testimony, the growth of knowledge, non-propositional knowledge, the evolution and reliability of extended cognitive processes, the varieties of extended epistemic action.

Submission Details

Please send a pdf-version of your paper (max. 8000 words) to Krist Vaesen. Contributions that do not make it to the special issue may be considered for publication in one of the regular issues of *Philosophical Explorations*.

Further Inquiries

Please direct any inquiries about this call for papers to Krist Vaesen.

Epistemology & Extended Cognition Workshop

2010-11-08T14:38:00.002Z

If you're in the Edinburgh area on November 24th, then you might be interested in this workshop. As usual for our epistemology events, all are welcome (and attendance is free too).

CFP: Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference

2010-10-26T10:24:00.003+01:00

The Scepsis group of PhD students here in Edinburgh are hosting a graduate conference next March, with keynote talks from Ernie Sosa and Richard Swinburne. More details, including a call for papers, are available here.

Epistemology PhD at Geneva

2010-10-08T10:33:00.003+01:00

Just got the heads-up on this new epistemology PhD post from Anne Meylan in Geneva:

The Episteme Research Group at the University of Geneva http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/episteme/ anticipates the opening of a 3-year PhD position in analytic epistemology (pending confirmation of funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation).

Starting date: March 1^st, 2011.

Candidates intending to write a PhD under the supervision of Pascal Engel on one of the following topics:

-evidence and justification;

-bayesianism;

-probabilistic and formal epistemology;

-epistemic norms and epistemic values:

-knowledge, action and assertion.

are invited to send a CV, a research project of about 5000 words and a writing sample (chapter or paper length) to:

Anne Meylan

Department of Philosophy

2, rue de Candolle

1205 Geneva

Switzerland

Deadline for application: December 31^st, 2010

The Philosophy Department at the University of Geneva http://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/#presentation is one of the most active in continental Europe and has secured competitive funding for a number of research programs in recent years. The successful candidate will join the Episteme research group, one of the most dynamic research groups on analytic epistemology in Europe, and the "Pro*Doc: Mind and Reality", a postgraduate program in philosophy, taught in English and organized in collaboration with the Universities of Lausanne and Fribourg. http://www.philosophie.ch/prodoc-romand/pr_home.php

The salary will range from 40,000 CHF (first year) to 46,000 CHF (third year).

Fluency in French is not a requirement.

If you have any further query, do not hesitate to write to anne.meylan@unige.ch.

Epistemology at the Central States Meeting

2010-09-09T10:03:00.004+01:00

Brit Brogaard has very usefully posted the programme for the 2010 Central States Philosophical Association meeting here. As you can see, there is lots of epistemology taking place (from a quick glance, there are talks by John Turri, Pete Murphy, Ted Poston, Bruce Russell and Jim Pryor, amongst others).

Epistemology in Edinburgh

2010-09-06T10:04:00.003+01:00

There are a bunch of epistemology events planned in Edinburgh over the coming months. The schedule for our Epistemology Research Group is starting to shape-up, with Michael Lynch kicking us off on October 6th. We've also a workshop on Epistemology and Extended Cognition taking place in November, and we'll be doing another Xmas Epistemology-Fest in December. For all these events, all are welcome and there's no registration fee, so if you're in the Edinburgh area do come along.

Hazlett to Edinburgh

2010-08-23T14:55:00.002+01:00

I'm delighted to announce that Allan Hazlett, currently at Fordham, will be joining us later this year to take up our new Lectureship in Epistemology. That's a fantastic hire for us I think, and it will be great to have Allan as a colleague.

Episteme 2010 Photos

2010-07-30T12:23:00.003+01:00

The photos taken at the recent Episteme conference in Edinburgh are now posted on the conference webpage, here. (NB. I'm not responsible for the taglines).

New Journal Devoted to Skepticism

2010-07-22T13:59:00.004+01:00

I'm delighted to announce that Diego Machuca and myself are going to be launching a new journal devoted exclusively to the discussion of skepticism. It will be called International Journal for the Study of Skepticism, and it will be published by Brill from next year. Diego and myself will edit it, and Baron Reed has agreed to be the reviews editor. All philosophical topics related to the issue of skepticism will be covered, including its history and its application to particular fields (e.g., ethical skepticism, etc.). More details to follow once we have them.

Edinburgh Epistemology Workshop + 2010 Nature of Knowledge Lecture

2010-06-17T11:09:00.003+01:00

I'm organising an informal epistemology workshop to coincide with Robert Audi's visit to the Edinburgh philosophy department next month as the 2010 Scots Philosophical Club Centennial Fellow and to deliver the 2010 Nature of Knowledge lecture. The workshop will take place on Wednesday July 7th prior to the Nature of Knowledge lecture, and confirmed speakers so far include Al Casullo and Audi himself. More details about the workshop are available here, and more details about the Nature of Knowledge lecture are available here. All are welcome to both events and there is no registration fee. Any questions, just let me know.

Epistemology Post at Edinburgh: DEADLINE JUNE 21st

2010-06-11T16:11:00.002+01:00

Just a quick reminder that the deadline for the new epistemology post at Edinburgh is now quite close--Monday June 21st. Accordingly, if you're going to apply then you need to get your skates on! As I said before, please do feel free to contact me with any informal inquiries you might have about this post.

Experiment Month

2010-06-03T08:49:00.002+01:00

Tamar Szabo Gendler has been in touch to let me know about this great new initiative they're running--Experiment Month:

The Experiment Month initiative is a program designed to help philosophers conduct experimental studies. If you are interested in running a study, you can send your study proposal to the Experiment Month staff. Then, if your proposal is selected for inclusion, we will conduct the study online, send you the results and help out with any statistical analysis you may need. All proposals are due Sept. 1.

For further information, go to Experiment Month.

OBO is GO!!

2010-05-28T21:24:00.003+01:00

As mentioned in a previous blog post, I'm the editor-in-chief of a new research resource from OUP called Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy, which as I noted in that post has a bunch of entries in the launch edition which will be of interest to epistemologists. I've just realised that it has now properly launched. Although inevitably there are some teething problems (such as that co-authors are not presently listed for some reason, which is something we're working to rectify), on the whole it is looking great, so do check it out when you get the chance.

New Epistemology Post at Edinburgh: UPDATE

2010-05-24T19:32:00.004+01:00

As noted a short while ago: we're going to be appointing a permanent lectureship in epistemology here in Edinburgh this summer (where 'epistemology' is broadly construed, such that it covers such topics as, e.g., epistemic logic). The further particulars are now available here. Please do feel free to contact me if you're interested in this post and would like an informal, and completely confidential, chat about it. Aside from epistemology, Edinburgh has particular research strengths in the following areas: mind & cognition, ethics, ancient & early modern philosophy, and logic & language. Accordingly, anyone who has additional research interests in these areas might find this post particularly attractive. Note too that Edinburgh has a world-class reputation for interdisciplinary research in cognitive science, particularly in terms of the interdisciplinary work that goes on between our School (the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) and the School of Informatics (which is next door). Hence, if you're an epistemologist who is interested in cog sci issues then this post might be particularly attractive to you too. Note that the closing date for applications is 21st June, so if you're going to apply you'll need to get your skates on!

2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh: Registrations Close May 11th

2010-05-07T11:02:00.002+01:00

A quick reminder that registrations for the 2010 Episteme conference which we're hosting here in Edinburgh this June (2nd-4th) will close on May 11th 2010, so if you plan to come then do make sure you register asap. The theme of the conference is 'Cognitive Ecology' (you can find a more detailed description of the conference topic on the conference webpage here). Here's the link for on-line registrations.

We have a pretty fantastic line-up for this conference. Here is the list of plenary speakers:

Lorraine Code (York)
Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern)
Peter Graham (UC, Riverside)
David Henderson (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Hilary Kornblith (UMass)
Martin Kusch (Vienna)
Alan Millar (Stirling)
Ram Neta (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Finn Spicer (Bristol)

We also have an impressive cast of folk speaking in the open sessions. You can see a provisional programme on the conference webpage here. If you've any questions about this event, then just let me know.

New Epistemology Post at Edinburgh

2010-05-06T12:48:00.000+01:00

A quick 'heads-up': we're going to be advertising a permanent lectureship in epistemology here in Edinburgh very soon. I'll post a link to the further particulars once they're finalised, but in the meantime do feel free to contact me if you'd like more info. Aside from epistemology, Edinburgh has particular research strengths in the following areas: mind & cognition, ethics, ancient & early modern philosophy, and logic & language. Accordingly, anyone who has additional research interests in these areas might find this post particularly attractive. Note too that Edinburgh has a world-class reputation for interdisciplinary research in cognitive science, particularly in terms of the interdisciplinary work that goes on between our School (the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences) and the School of Informatics (which is next door). Hence, if you're an epistemologist who is interested in cog sci issues then this post might be particularly attractive to you too.

OBO Philosophy: Resources for Epistemologists

2010-05-04T10:54:00.003+01:00

The Oxford Bibliographies Online: Philosophy resource will be launching soon. This publishes highly selective literature lists on topics within philosophy, written by experts in the field. As part of the launch edition there are a number of entries that will be of interest to epistemologists, including the following:

'Belief', by Pascal Engel
'Coherentism', by Jon Kvanvig
'Disjunctivism', by Brit Brogaard
'Epistemology', by Jermey Fantl, Matt McGrath & Ernest Sosa
'Evidence', by Trent Dougherty
'Intutions', by Jonathan Ichikawa & Ernest Sosa
'Memory', by Sven Bernecker & Aaron Bogart
'Religious Belief, Epistemology of', by Duncan Pritchard (penultimate version available here)
'Rule-Following', by Martin Kusch
'Self-Knowledge', by Quassim Cassam
'Semantic Externalism', by Sandy Goldberg
'Skepticism, Contemporary', by Duncan Pritchard (penultimate version available here)
'Testimony, Epistemology of', by J. A. Carter & Duncan Pritchard (penultimate version available here)
'Understanding', by Stephen Grimm
'Virtue Epistemology', by Ernest Sosa & John Turri
'Wisdom', by Denis Whitcomb
'Wittgenstein: Later Works', by Annalisa Coliva

The launch edition will be updated soon with lots more entries, including many on epistemological topics. (By the way, it's of course far from ideal that there are just two female authors on the launch list of epistemology entries, but this doesn't reflect the composition of the entries more generally, much less the epistemology entries once we get past the launch edition. For example, we have forthcoming entries on epistemology-related topics by, amongst others, Jennifer Lackey, Alessandra Tanesini, Anita Avrimades, Clare Batty, and Delia Graff Fara).

2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh: Registrations Open

2010-04-28T13:54:00.001+01:00

A quick reminder that registrations are now open for the 2010 Episteme conference which we're hosting here in Edinburgh this June (2nd-4th). The theme of the conference is 'Cognitive Ecology' (you can find a more detailed description of the conference topic on the conference webpage here). Here's the link for on-line registrations, which will remain open until May 11th 2010 (so note that time is now running out if you want to register).

Though I say so myself, we have a pretty fantastic line-up for this conference. Here is the list of plenary speakers:

Lorraine Code (York)
Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern)
Peter Graham (UC, Irvine)
David Henderson (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Hilary Kornblith (UMass)
Martin Kusch (Vienna)
Alan Millar (Stirling)
Ram Neta (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Finn Spicer (Bristol)

We also have an impressive cast of folk speaking in the open sessions. You can see a provisional programme on the conference webpage here. If you've any questions about this event, then just let me know.

Fordham Epistemic Normativity Workshop

2010-04-12T09:47:00.000+01:00

Fordham will be hosting a workshop on epistemic normativity at their Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan, on April 16th and 17th, 2010. 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 workshop can be found here.

UPDATE: Epistemology Conference in Brazil

2010-04-11T20:36:00.001+01:00

Recently (see here), I posted a notice for Epistemology: The Third Brazil Conference, to be held in early June at PUCRS in Porto Alegre, Brazil. This new notice is an update, to let you know of two additional speakers for the conference - Fred Adams (Delaware) and Tom Kelly (Princeton).

2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh: Registrations Open

2010-04-01T16:27:00.001+01:00

A quick reminder that registrations are now open for the 2010 Episteme conference which we're hosting here in Edinburgh this June (2nd-4th). The theme of the conference is 'Cognitive Ecology' (you can find a more detailed description of the conference topic on the conference webpage here). Here's the link for on-line registrations, which will remain open until May 7th 2010.

Though I say so myself, we have a pretty fantastic line-up for this conference. Here is the list of plenary speakers:

Lorraine Code (York)
Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern)
Peter Graham (UC, Irvine)
David Henderson (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Hilary Kornblith (UMass)
Martin Kusch (Vienna)
Alan Millar (Stirling)
Ram Neta (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Finn Spicer (Bristol)

We also have an impressive cast of folk speaking in the open sessions. You can see a provisional programme on the conference webpage here. If you've any questions about this event, then just let me know.

CFP: The Problem of the Criterion

2010-03-22T14:59:00.000Z

Call for Papers: ‘The Problem of the Criterion’
Special Issue of Philosophical Papers
Guest Editor: Mark Nelson (Westmont College)

The problem of the criterion is one of the most ancient and enduring questions of philosophical methodology. Attributed to Agrippa, the dialellus or ‘wheel’ became a staple of skeptical arguments from Sextus to Montaigne, but it was perhaps given its best-known formulation by R.M. Chisholm:

To know whether things really are as they seem to be, we must have a procedure for distinguishing appearances that are true from appearances that are false. But to know whether our procedure is a good procedure, we have to know whether it really succeeds in distinguishing appearances that are true from appearances that are false. And we cannot know whether it does really succeed unless we already know which appearances are true and which ones are false. And so we are caught in a circle. [‘The Problem of the Criterion’, 1982]

This problem admits of several interpretations, resists easy solution, and lurks at the bottom of philosophical reflection on knowledge and method in any topic, yet it has received only one book-length treatment in Anglophone philosophy in the last fifty years, Robert Amico’s The Problem of the Criterion (1993).

Possible topics for discussion include:
- The problem of the criterion in ancient, modern (Montaigne, Hume, Reid, Hegel), or 20th C epistemology (Moore, Wittgenstein)
- The problem of the criterion as an interpretation or form of skepticism
- The relevance of the problem of the criterion to various kinds of knowledge, e.g., moral, religious, aesthetic, of other minds
- Substantive and methodological commitments in philosophy
- Basic knowledge and the problem of the criterion
- Intuitionism and the problem of the criterion
- Philosophical disagreement and the problem of the criterion
- The problem of the criterion and the method of reflective equilibrium
- The problem of the criterion and the foundationalism/coherentism dichotomy

The deadline for receipt of submission is 30 June 2011. This special edition of Philosophical Papers, which will contain both invited and submitted papers, will appear in November of 2011. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically, prepared as a PDF or Word document attachment, and emailed to philosophical.papers@ru.ac.za. Authors should include their full name, affiliation, and address for email correspondence with their submission. Further enquiries can be addressed to Mark Nelson (manelson@westmont.edu) or Ward Jones, Editor, Philosophical Papers (w.jones@ru.ac.za).

Epistemology Conference in Brazil

2010-03-09T11:28:00.003Z

I've just received this from Stephen Hetherington:

Brazil in June will host some marvellous epistemology. Epistemology: The Third Brazil Conference will be in Porto Alegre, at PUCRS, from the 9th to the 11th of June. Claudio de Almeida (PUCRS) and I are the conference's co-organisers. And we are honoured to announce that at present these are the conference's speakers:

Jonathan Adler (Brooklyn College, CUNY)

Heather Battaly (CSU, Fullerton)

Anthony Brueckner (UCSB)

David Christensen (Brown)

Stewart Cohen (Arizona)

Claudio de Almeida (PUCRS)

Paulo Faria (UFRGS)

Richard Fumerton (Iowa)

Alvin Goldman (Rutgers)

Vincent Hendricks (Copenhagen)

Stephen Hetherington (UNSW)

Peter Klein (Rutgers)

Saul Kripke (CUNY)

Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern)

William Lycan (UNC, Chapel Hill)

Baron Reed (Northwestern)

Ernest Sosa (Rutgers)

For more details on the conference, please feel free to contact the conference manager, Rogel de Oliveira at epistemology2010@yahoo.com.br.

If you are thinking of attending, note that you'll probably need a visa. Consult the website of your closest Brazilian embassy or consulate.

2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh: Registrations Open

2010-02-11T10:09:00.004Z

I'm delighted to announce that we can finally open registrations for the 2010 Episteme conference which we're hosting here in Edinburgh this June (2nd-4th). The theme of the conference is 'Cognitive Ecology' (you can find a more detailed description of the conference topic on the conference webpage here). Here's the link for on-line registrations.

Though I say so myself, we have a pretty fantastic line-up for this conference. Here is the list of plenary speakers:

Lorraine Code (York)
Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern)
Peter Graham (UC, Irvine)
David Henderson (Nebraska-Lincoln)
Hilary Kornblith (UMass)
Martin Kusch (Vienna)
Alan Millar (Stirling)
Ram Neta (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Finn Spicer (Bristol)

We also have an impressive cast of folk speaking in the open sessions. You can see a provisional programme here. If you've any questions about this event, then just let me know.

Book Cover

2010-01-14T10:48:00.001Z

Behold, the cover of my new book with OUP. Rather nifty, don't you think?

Experimental Philosophy Post

2010-01-13T20:00:00.002Z

There's a very interesting discussion going on at the Experimental Philosophy blog, here.

CFP: The Epistemology of Liberal Democracy

2010-01-13T19:49:00.003Z

2ND COPENHAGEN CONFERENCE IN EPISTEMOLOGY:
THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
AUGUST 19-20, 2010

We tend to think of liberal democracy as providing the most ethically defensible way to set up a modern society. A separate yet highly relevant issue is whether liberal democracies also are preferable from an epistemological perspective, i.e., from the point of view of promoting true over false belief, knowledge over ignorance, and so on. The purpose of this conference-and of the research project that it is part of-is to investigate the norms, practices, and institutions that determine how belief and
knowledge is acquired and transmitted in liberal democracies. Questions to be addressed include but are not limited to the following:

- Under what conditions is free speech a truth-conducive social arrangement?
- When can we trust each others’ testimony?
- What is the proper response to disagreement, including disagreements among experts?
- What is the proper role of scientific expertise in democratic decision making?
- How is the need for expertise to be balanced against the desire for adequate representation?
- What are the epistemological properties of social deliberation?

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
Speakers include David Christensen (Brown), Jerry Gaus (Arizona), Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg), Rainer Hegselmann (Bayreuth), Vincent Hendricks (Copenhagen), Michael Lynch (UConn), Erik J. Olsson (Lund), and Duncan Pritchard (Edinburgh).

CALL FOR PAPERS
We cordially invite you to submit a 500 word abstract on any topic relevant to the conference theme. Please prepare your abstract for anonymous review. Abstracts should be submitted (as a plain text, MS Word, or PDF file) to cph.epistemology@gmail.com no later than April 1, 2010. Decisions regarding acceptance will be made within two weeks.

REGISTRATION
To register, please e-mail kappel@hum.ku.dk with your name and affiliation. There will be a registration fee of 200 DKK ($40, or €25) for faculty, and 100 DKK ($20, or €12) for students. There will also be an option to attend the conference dinner on the evening of August 19 at a cost of 400 DKK ($80, or €50). Please indicate in your registration if you wish to attend. All fees are due in full on the first day of the conference.

ORGANIZERS
The conference is organized by the Social Epistemology Research Group (SERG) at the University of Copenhagen as part of the research project, the Epistemology of Liberal Democracy: Truth, Free Speech and Disagreement, conducted with generous support from the Velux Foundation.

WEBPAGE
http://epistemology.ku.dk/

CFP: De Se Attitudes + Self-Knowledge & Rational Agency, Oslo

2010-01-11T18:41:00.002Z

CONF: De se attitudes + Self-Knowledge & Rational Agency, Oslo, June 2010

Arché (St Andrews) and CSMN (Oslo) are pleased to announce two major events on first-person thoughts to be held in Oslo from 6th to 11th June, 2010.

(1) Arché/CSMN Mini-course & Workshop: De se attitudes
Sunday June 6, 2010 - Wednesday June 9, 2010
Confirmed speakers:
• Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz)
• Andy Egan (Rutgers/Arché)
• James Higginbotham (USC)
• Daniel Morgan (Oxford)
• Dilip Ninan (Arché)
• François Recanati (Institute Jean-Nicod (CNRS)/Arché)
• Seth Yalcin (Berkeley)
Website: http://www.csmn.uio.no/events/2010/De-Se

(2) Conference: Self-Knowledge and Rational Agency
Wednesday June 9, 2010 - Friday June 11, 2010
Confirmed Speakers:
• Quassim Cassam (Warwick)
• Fred Dretske (Duke)
• Adrian Haddock (Stirling)
• Pamela Heironymi (UCLA)
• Jennifer Hornsby (Birkbeck/CSMN)
• Richard Moran (Harvard)
• Robert Stalnaker (MIT)
• Crispin Wright (NYU/Aberdeen)
Website: http://www.csmn.uio.no/events/2010/self-knowledge.xml

Call for participants / respondents:
We invite postgraduate students and junior researchers (within 5 years of completing Ph.D.) to come as participants to the De Se Mini-course, and as respondents to one of the plenary speakers at the Self-Knowledge conference.

(1) Mini-course & Workshop on de se attitudes
The Workshop and Mini-Course is intended for graduate students and younger researchers (postdocs and junior faculty) working on related topics. Participants from outside St Andrews and Oslo need to apply; see details below.

(2) Conference on Self-Knowledge & Rational Agency
Invited respondents will present brief replies (c. 10 minutes) to one of the plenary talks, to open the question and discussion sessions. Accommodation in Oslo and travel expenses within Europe (or a subsidy of similar amount for invitees outside Europe) of respondents will be paid for by CSMN.

To apply for either event (or both), please send by email:
- Your name and institutional affiliation;
- A brief CV, inc. year of your Ph.D. (if any, 2007 or after);
- Name of a referee;
- A brief statement of up to 200 words for *each* of the event(s) you are applying for (so 2 x 200 words if you are applying for both), explaining the relevance of the themes of the workshop/conference to your research.
- For the Self-Knowledge conference only, names of up to 3 speakers, in order of preference, you would like to respond to. (Please base your choice on the speakers’ relevant published works, as the talks are not yet available at this stage.)

Email your application to:
(1) For De Se Mini-course: dilip.ninan@st-andrews.ac.uk
(2) For Self-Knowledge conference: t.h.w.chan@ifikk.uio.no
and to both of us if you are applying for both events.

Deadline for application: *1st April, 2010*
Notifications of acceptance: By 27th April, 2010

Registration:
In addition, the conference on Self-Knowledge & Rational Agency is open to all interested philosophy students and researchers (at any career stage) from around the world as (non-speaker) participants. Registration is FREE. Please fill in the online registration form at the conference website http://www.csmn.uio.no/events/2010/self-knowledge.xml by *15th May, 2010*.

For more information please contact:
Dilip Ninan (dilip.ninan@st-andrews.ac.uk ) for the De Se event; and
Timothy Chan (t.h.w.chan@ifikk.uio.no ) for the Self-Knowledge event.

CFP: Geneva Justification Conference

2009-12-14T09:26:00.001Z

First call for papers:
"Justification Revisited"
March 25–27, 2010
University of Geneva,Switzerland

Organisation
Episteme, the Epistemology Research Group at the University of Geneva

Conference Theme
Post Gettier epistemology and the difficulty of analysing knowledge have often led to scepticism about the notion of justification. It has suggested that one should either move beyond justification or simply get rid of this notion within epistemology. But is the notion of justification useless ? The aim of this conference is to try to reformulate these questions and to try to assess the credentials and the chances of a theory of justification for contemporary epistemology
Some of the key questions and issues to be considered in this area include:
- Is there room for the notion of justification if knowledge turns out to be unalysable ?
- What are the relationships between epistemic justification and other kinds of justification (in particular in the ethical case)?
- Is the notion of justification hopelessly subjective?
- What are the relationships between evidence and justification ?
- How can we draw the line between internalist and externalist conceptions of justification?
-To what extent should the traditional debate between foundationalists and coherentists be thought of as standing at an impasse?

Keynote Speakers
Jessica Brown (University of St Andrews),
Richard Fumerton (University of Iowa),
Adam Leite (Indiana University)
Matthias Steup (Purdue University)
Jonathan Sutton (Auburn University)

Submission
We cordially invite you to submit a 500 word abstract on any topic relevant to the conference theme. Please prepare your abstract for anonymous review. Abstracts may be submitted (as plain text, MS Word, Pages, or pdf files) to the following e-mail address: justificationrevisited@gmail.com

CFP: 2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh

2009-11-06T16:25:00.003Z

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

2009-09-11T13:46:00.002+01:00

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

2009-08-27T15:16:00.001+01:00

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

2009-08-04T17:03:00.001+01:00

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

2009-07-14T15:45:00.005+01:00

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

2009-06-30T19:08:00.003+01:00

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

2009-04-16T11:04:00.003+01:00

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

2009-02-26T16:18:00.002Z

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

2009-02-18T16:39:00.004Z

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

Conference on The Aim of Belief (Oslo)

2009-02-11T19:59:00.002Z

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

2009-02-03T21:49:00.001Z

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

2009-01-13T11:23:00.002Z

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

2009-01-13T11:20:00.001Z

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

2009-01-07T15:15:00.001Z

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)

2008-12-23T13:01:00.002Z

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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

========================================================================

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

2008-11-12T12:04:00.001Z

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

2008-10-14T16:13:00.000+01:00

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

2008-10-13T12:33:00.000+01:00

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

2008-10-10T19:38:00.000+01:00

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

2008-10-01T22:04:00.001+01:00

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!

Crispin Wright @ Edinburgh

2008-09-27T20:29:00.001+01:00

I'm very pleased to say that Crispin Wright (NYU/Arche) has been appointed an Honorary Professorial Fellow in our Department. While this is clearly generally a good thing, it is particularly good news for our growing Epistemology @ Edinburgh research cluster (which will soon have its own blog, by the way, so watch this space!).

Wisdom Conference

2008-09-10T17:22:00.000+01:00

Allan Hazlett is organising a conference on Wisdom in April '09 at Fordham University, with talks from, amongst others, John Greco and Ernie Sosa. For more details, click here.

Epistemology: 5 Questions

2008-09-08T13:21:00.000+01:00

I don't normally plug my own books on this blog, but I think I'll make an exception in this case. Vincent Hendricks and myself have collected together a bunch of interviews with some of the world's leading epistemologists, such as Fred Dretske, Tim Williamson, Ernie Sosa and Alvin Goldman. It's called Epistemology: 5 Questions, and it's now available on Amazon.

Value of Knowledge Book

2008-08-15T11:38:00.002+01:00

I'm currently working on a book on the value of knowledge, which will be co-authored with Alan Millar and Adrian Haddock. I've just finished drafting my contribution, which I've posted on my homepage. In case you're interested, here are the links:

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)

Basically, the first chapter sets up the issues and argues that a complete positive response to the value problem for knowledge requires one to show that knowledge has final value. The second chapter considers the best defence of the final value of knowledge--due to what I call 'robust virtue epistemology--and argues that it fails. The third chapter argues for a new account of knowledge that I call anti-luck virtue epistemology, and looks at how this proposal would deal with the value problem for knowledge, given that it cannot offer a complete positive response to that problem. Finally, the last chapter locates understanding in this debate.

I'm hoping to present this material during my visit to UNAM next month, and no doubt I'll make changes in the light of the feedback I get there. I'm also due to present this at an informal workshop in October in Stirling, at which Wayne Riggs will be commentating (and Ernie Sosa, amongst others, will be in attendance). Accordingly, expect this material to change a lot over the coming months (I'll post alerts if I make any changes).

As always, comments welcome!

Epistemic Goodness Conference and Call for Papers

2008-07-24T13:39:00.001+01:00

University of Oklahoma
March 12th-14th 2009

Keynote Speakers
John Greco (St. Louis University)
Christopher Hookway (University of Sheffield)

Conference Overview
While there has been a vast philosophical literature devoted to the issue of moral goodness, far less attention has been paid to the related question of epistemic goodness. And yet epistemic goodness appears as central to our epistemic lives and evaluations as moral goodness is to our moral lives and evaluations. Indeed, moral and epistemic goodness seem deeply intertwined, as our moral evaluations often seem to depend upon correlative epistemic evaluations. There is thus a strong motivation to understand what epistemic goodness amounts to.

The goal of this conference is to draw together philosophers who are working to advance this goal. The topic of the conference is “epistemic goodness,” where this is construed broadly to include all work in epistemology that focuses on or explores the kind of value or normativity that is assumed to be distinctive of epistemology and epistemic evaluations. We welcome submissions addressing any such value-oriented aspects of epistemology.

Call for Abstracts
Extended abstracts of no more than 1500 words should be sent to Duncan Pritchard (duncan.pritchard@ed.ac.uk) by November 1st. The abstracts must be prepared for blind review. Acceptance will be notified by November 15th. Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts and special sessions will be set aside for graduate presentations (please highlight that you are graduate student on your abstract).

Some possible topics for submitted papers could include (but are not limited to):

• What is the nature and/or ground of epistemic goodness?
• What are the prospects for a naturalistic account of epistemic goodness?
• Is there any such thing as a distinctively epistemic goodness?
• If so, what is the relationship between epistemic goodness and other types of goodness?
• What role do our emotions play in the awareness, recognition, or achievement of epistemic goodness?
• How is epistemic goodness related to rational inquiry?
• What is the proper role of epistemic goodness within particular epistemological proposals (e.g., virtue epistemology)?
• Instrumental versus non-instrumental conceptions of epistemic goodness.
• Are there distinctive epistemic goods or values? If so, what are they? How are they related to the more general notion of epistemic goodness?
• How is epistemic goodness reflected in, exhibited by or produced by excellent intellectual character?
• Is the epistemic goodness of doxastic or character states context-dependent?

Registration
A downloadable registration form will soon be available on the conference website, which is not currently live (www.ou.edu/spring08conf/index.html). Registration is $60 for faculty and the general public, $40 for graduate and undergraduate students. Registration includes admittance to all papers, as well as conference lunches on Friday and Saturday. Please send your registration form and payment by March 1st to:

Wayne Riggs
Philosophy Department
455 W. Lindsey, Room 605
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019

Contact
Any questions about this conference should be directed to the conference organisers, Wayne Riggs (wriggs@ou.edu) and Duncan Pritchard (duncan.pritchard@ed.ac.uk). A provisional conference webpage is available here.

Episteme: Free Access

2008-07-07T15:51:00.001+01:00

Issue 4.3 of Episteme - a themed issue on Testimony - will be freely available for download for 14 days only from July 7 - July 21. Go to:

http://www.eupjournals.com/toc/epi/4/3

Conference Announcement: The Place of Epistemic Agents

2008-07-06T17:04:00.000+01:00

http://www.elcaleidoscopio.com/crep/epistemicagents.html

Confirmed Speakers: Ernest Sosa, Pascal Engel, Jennifer Lackey, Baron Reed, Klemens Kappell,

Axtell and Carter on Thick Evaluative Concepts in Epistemology

2008-07-03T09:09:00.000+01:00

Guy Axtell and I have recently finished a draft of our paper "Just the Right Thickness," which discusses (among other things) recent work in epistemic virtues and epistemic value. Comments are of course warmly welcome! Below are a link to the paper and the abstract.

http://janusblog.squarespace.com/janusbloglibraryofpapersd/

Abstract. Do the central aims of epistemology, like those of moral philosophy, require that we designate some important place for those concepts located between the thin-normative and the non-normative? Put another way, does epistemology need ‘thick’ evaluative concepts? There is an inveterate tradition within which three particular dogmas would lead us to give this question a negative verdict. In this essay, we challenge these dogmas, and in doing so, align ourselves with what has come to be known as the “Value Turn” in epistemology, a movement characterized by the thought that epistemology is a normative domain of inquiry, and one in which central tasks are framed by considerations of epistemic value. From this perspective, we argue that the epistemological projects best suited to meet the requirements implied by the Value Turn will be those projects pursued by “second-wave” virtue epistemologists. These are projects that give thick evaluative concepts an indispensible place in epistemology, and in doing so, serve to expand epistemology in a way that brings into unison what epistemological tradition has left disconnected: that which stands central to epistemology’s focus, and that which is epistemically important.

New Closure Principle

2008-05-26T19:45:00.000+01:00

We're in marking season at the moment, that most glorious time of year. The gloom is punctured from time to time by really awful exam scripts that make daft assertions. My colleague Jesper Kallestrup was marking a bunch the other day and came across this gem that I thought I'd share with you:

"According to Duncan Pritchard, Closure is the principle that if P knows Q, and Q entials R, then R knows P too."

It looks as if I've somehow single-handedly invented a new closure principle!

Scepticism @ Edinburgh

2008-05-19T19:54:00.000+01:00

For those of you coming to the conference/pre-conference workshop on Scepticism in Edinburgh at the end of this month, I've now posted a very provisional programme for each event on the relevant webpages here and here.

The speakers at the conference are: Michael Williams, Barry Stroud, Quassim Cassam, Marie McGinn, Ralph Wedgwood, Jim Conant and Bob Stern.

The speakers at the pre-conference workshop are: Crispin Wright, Brian Weatherson and Ram Neta.

Registration is now closed for the conference, but if you really really wanted to come, then I guess I could find a way to squeeze you in. There's no registration for the pre-conference workshop (and no charge either)--you just need to let me know you're coming. The pre-conference workshop is meant to feed-in to the Arche Basic Knowledge project.

By the way, there will be lots and lots of epistemology happening in Edinburgh over the next few years. We have plans for workshops and conferences in every year up to 2012. I'll post details about this soon, but in the meantime, a taster: Ernie Sosa has agreed to give the 2009 Nature of Knowledge lecture.

Midwest Epistemology Conference

2008-05-11T13:37:00.000+01:00

The 2nd annual Midwest Epistemology Conference is being held at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in October, with an excellent list of speakers. Click here for more details.

Wittgenstein Conference

2008-05-07T12:18:00.000+01:00

This is very late notice I know, but the Universities of Bologna and of Modena & Reggio Emilia are hosting a conference on Wittgenstein's On Certainty later this week, with talks by, amongst others, Hans-Johan Glock, Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Analisa Coliva and myself. More details can be found here.

2009 Episteme Conference: Call for Papers

2008-05-03T12:31:00.001+01:00

CALL FOR PAPERS

*Updated June 17th*

EPISTEME: A Journal of Social Epistemology
http://www.episteme.us.com

2009 CONFERENCE: DISAGREEMENT

Episteme will hold its sixth annual conference at Northwestern
University on June 26-27, 2009. The 2009 meeting will focus on the
epistemological significance of disagreement.

Confirmed participants include: Michael Bergmann (Purdue), Stewart Cohen
(Arizona State), Richard Feldman (Rochester), Sherrilyn Roush (Berkeley) and Roger White (MIT).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Papers should be no more than 5,000 words,
including notes and references, and should be prepared for blind review.
Electronic submissions should be sent to David.Christensen(at)Brown.edu
by January 15, 2009. Approximately four papers will be selected from
the submissions for presentation at the conference. The selected papers
will also be published, along with the papers of the confirmed
participants above, in a special issue of Episteme, with David
Christensen as the Guest Editor.

Conference organizers are: Alvin Goldman (Rutgers), Jennifer Lackey
(Northwestern) and David Christensen (Brown).

Conference at Cal State Fullerton

2008-04-29T10:54:00.000+01:00

VIRTUE & VICE: MORAL & INTELLECTUAL, Thurs June 26-Fri June 27, 2008
Website: http://hss.fullerton.edu/philosophy/fipc.htm

Conference Schedule:
June 26 AM: Jason Baehr “Epistemic Malevolence”; Heather Battaly “Epistemic Self-Indulgence”; Guy Axtell “Intersections: Character-trait Ascriptions in Ethics and Epistemology”

June 26 PM: Roger Crisp (keynote) “Virtue Ethics and Virtue Epistemology”; Wayne Riggs “Insight & Open-Mindedness”; Miranda Fricker “Institutional Virtue?”

June 27 AM: Amy Coplan “Why I Am Not An Intellectualist”; Michael Brady “Virtue and Attention”; Thomas Hurka “Right Act, Virtuous Motive”

June 27 PM: Linda Zagzebski (keynote) “Exemplarist Virtue Theory”; Nomy Arpaly “Open-Mindedness”; Christine Swanton “A Challenge to Intellectual Virtue from Moral Virtue: The Case of Universal Love”

New Issue of Episteme

2008-04-23T14:32:00.000+01:00

The new issue of the excellent Episteme is out. Click here for more details. Click here for details about how to subscribe.

Rochester Epistemology Conference

2008-04-15T16:32:00.000+01:00

I'm happy to announce the 5th Biennial University of Rochester Graduate Epistemology Conference.

It will be held Friday-Saturday, October 10th-11th on the beautiful campus of the University of Rochester, hosted by the Philosophy Department.

The main speaker is Alvin Goldman and Richard Feldman will be commenting.

The call for paper is here.

Epistemology at the Central APA

2008-04-15T11:58:00.000+01:00

I'll be heading off to Chicago soon for the Central APA. There's a fair amount of epistemology taking place, much of which is usefully listed here by Jon on Certain Doubts. Here are a couple of other sessions of possible interest to readers of this blog:

Thursday

GII-9. Hume Society
5:15-7:15 p.m.
Topic: Hume on Skepticism and Moral Distinctions
Chair: Karánn Durland (Austin College)
Speaker: Brian Ribeiro (University of Tennessee–Chattanooga)
“Hume’s Changing Views on the ‘Durability’ of Skepticism”
“Hume on the ‘Reality’ of Moral Distinctions”

Friday

II-G. Colloquium: Ancient Philosophy: Epistemology and Metaphysics
9:00 a.m.-Noon
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Chair: Martin Henn (University of Wisconsin–Whitewater)
Speaker: Russell Jones (University of Oklahoma)
“Bivalence and Contradictory Pairs in Aristotle’s De Interpretatione 9”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Dean A. Kowalski (University of Wisconsin–Waukesha)
10:00-11:00 a.m.
Chair: Alan Kim (Hamilton College)
Speaker: Naomi Reshotko (University of Denver)
“Is There an Intermediate Position between Knowing and Not Knowing? The Wax Block in Plato’s Theaetetus”
Commentator: Yancy Hughes Dominick (Seattle University)
11:00 a.m.-Noon
Chair: Elizabeth A. Hoppe (Lewis University)
Speaker: David Bronstein (Oxford University/University of Toronto)
“Understanding Meno’s Paradox in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics I.1”
**Graduate Student Travel Stipend Winner**
Commentator: Owen Goldin (Marquette University)

I hope to see some of you in Chicago!

Open Society Workshop Update

2008-04-07T15:40:00.000+01:00

For those of you who are coming to our workshop on Epistemological Conceptions of the Open Society tomorrow, the papers by Kappel and Faulkner are now posted here.

Epistemic Autonomy Conference

2008-04-07T15:32:00.000+01:00

Jennifer Lackey has sent me the following conference announcement. This looks like a great event.

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

CALL FOR PAPERS

The place of epistemic agents
Autonomy and dependence in epistemology

University Carlos III, Madrid (UC3M) -Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM)
October 2-3, 2008

Among the intellectual ideals inherited from the Enlightenment, autonomy is considered the
most valuable and essential in the pursuit of a rich intellectual life. But this ideal contrasts with the
reality of our permanent dependence in epistemic matters. We constantly rely on others and need to
place our trust in them in order to epistemically secure most of our more cherished beliefs.
Some recent versions in virtue epistemology emphasize the role of the agent in the acquisition of
epistemically valuable beliefs. No doubt, the cognitive character of epistemic subjects and how they
are involved in the task of knowing are crucial in our understanding of the very value of knowledge.
Moreover, a reflective turn suggested by certain foundationalist trends in epistemology has shaped
under a new light the question of the normativity of our epistemic agency, specially in cases of
judging and other active epistemic tasks performed by the subject. What is then the place we have
to give to agents in epistemology?

The aim of this conference is to discuss both the role of the autonomous epistemic agent in the
acquisition of knowledge and the role that the dependence on others (and also on artifacts) has in
our epistemic endeavors. The following topics are of interest for the conference:

- What do we understand by epistemic autonomy?
- Is epistemic autonomy truly an individualist ideal?
- Is autonomy equivalent to epistemic self-sufficiency?
- What is it to be an epistemic agent?
- How is the character of the agents involved in the acquisition of knowledge?
- How to conceive of the cognitive integration of an epistemic subject?
- How to characterize agent-centered epistemologies in terms of autonomy of the knowers?
- How to tackle questions about epistemic responsibility and subjective justification?
- How does autonomy matter to the issue of epistemic normativity and agency?
- What do we understand by epistemic dependence?
- Is testimonial knowledge a sort of dependent knowledge?
- Is testimony in conflict with the autonomy of the knower?
- Is dependence on representational artifacts of any epistemic significance?

Confirmed speakers
Baron Reed (Northwestern University)
Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
Klemens Kappel (University of Copenhague)
Pascal Engel (Université de Genève)

Call for papers.
Papers are invited on any of the topics of the conference. Extended abstracts of no more than 1500
words should be sent to Jesús Vega (jesus.vega@uam.es) before July 31st, 2008. The abstracts must
be prepared for blind review. Acceptance will be notified before September 5th. Papers accepted
will have 35 minutes for presentation.
For further information, please contact Jesús Vega (jesus.vega@uam.es) and Fernando Broncano
(fernando.broncano@hum.uc3m.es).

Organizing Committee:
Fernando Broncano (UC3M)
Carlos Thiebaut (UC3M)
Jesús Vega (UAM)
Alberto Rubio (UAM)
Guillermo de Eugenio (UC3M)
Mario Santos (UAM)
Scientific Committee
Carlos Thiebaut (UC3M, Madrid)
Ernest Sosa (Rutgers)
Fernando Broncano (UC3M, Madrid)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
Jesús Vega (UAM)
Jesús Zamora Bonilla (UNED, Madrid)
Klemens Kappel (Copenhague)

The conference is organised in the framework of a project on “Epistemology of agency and
epistemic practices” and of a network of researchers in Madrid under the heading Cultures,
Representations, Spaces and Practices (CREP).

Copenhagen Conference

2008-03-07T11:30:00.000Z

Check out this conference on The Epistemology of Liberal Democracy that's being held in Copenhagen later this year. This is part of a pan-European project on this general theme that I'm also involved in. See, for example, the pilot workshop on Epistemological Conceptions of the Open Society that we're holding here in Edinburgh next month.

Epistemic Agency Conference in Geneva

2008-02-26T15:06:00.000Z

There's a great conference happening in Geneva in April on Epistemic Agency. More details are available here.

(Yet) More Plaudits for Hendricks

2008-01-28T16:25:00.000Z

If I announced every achievement of my old pal Vincent Hendricks, then this blog would be a choc-a-block. Still, this one deserves a special mention. Check out the photo here.

(HT: Lemmings).

Two More Conferences on Scepticism

2008-01-13T18:56:00.000Z

There's news of two more conferences on scepticism over at Aporia, one hosted by NYU (but held in Italy) and one in Argentina.

Conference on Scepticism

2008-01-08T14:38:00.000Z

There will be a conference on Scepticism held in Edinburgh on May 31st-June 1st this year. Speakers include James Conant, Barry Stroud, Michael Williams, Chris Hookway and Bob Stern. More details here.

There will also a be one-day workshop on May 30th on Scepticism and Basic Knowledge. So far, the only confirmed speaker is Crispin Wright, but I'll be posting more details about this event once I have them. A provisional webpage can be found here.

UPDATE 110108: Weatherson and Neta have now also agreed to give papers at the workshop.

New Blog On Scepticism

2008-01-07T16:03:00.000Z

I've just been alerted to a new blog devoted to scepticism, Aporia. Click here for more details.

By the way, Happy New Year to one and all!

Reason and Value Conference

2008-01-05T14:43:00.000Z

There's a great-looking conference on Reason and Value being held at UC Santa Barbara next month. The speakers include Joseph Raz, Peter Railton, John Broome, David Velleman, R. Jay Wallace and Ralph Wedgwood. Click here for more details.

New Issue of Episteme

2007-12-28T14:45:00.000Z

The new issue of Episteme is out. It's a special issue on conspiracy theories, which I think is a great topic for social epistemology. Here are the details:

===========================
Volume 4, issue 2, a special issue of EPISTEME: Journal of Social Epistemology is now available.

Guest Editor: David Coady

Contents and Abstracts available at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/episteme/toc/epi4.2.html

Journal website: http://www.episteme.us.com
===========================

New Paper on the Swamping Problem

2007-12-19T17:12:00.000Z

I've just posted a draft of a new paper on the swamping problem here. Essentially, I argue that the swamping problem is best understood as an inconsistent triad composed of (i) a general claim about value, (ii) a specific claim about epistemic value, and (iii) a version of epistemic value monism. As ever, comments welcome!

Epistemic Value

CFP: EEN Annual Conference

2012 Episteme Conference

CFP: Aims of Inquiry and Cognition

IJSS: Second Issue Out!

Axtell-on-Dougherty

Epistemology @ Edinburgh: Current and Upcoming Events

Edinburgh Epistemic Expressivism Conference

Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group

CFP: Edinburgh Grad Epistemology Conference

New Book Series: Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy

New Journal: American Dialectic

CFP: Edinburgh 'Aims of Inquiry and Cognition' Conference

CFP: Special Issue of *Philosophical Explorations* on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

Axtell @ JanusBlog

Edinburgh Epistemology Workshop

Fordham Epistemology & Ethics Workshops

This just in from Stephen Grimm at Fordham:

Fordham Epistemology & Ethics Workshops

IJSS: First Issue Out!

X-Phi @ Yale

Episteme: New Beginnings

CFP: Special Issue of *Philosophical Explorations* on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

CFP: The Problem of the Criterion

CONF: Epistemic Norms and Values

Edinburgh Epistemology Group & Upcoming Events

CFP: Special Issue of *Philosophical Explorations* on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

Epistemology & Extended Cognition Workshop

CFP: Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference

Epistemology PhD at Geneva

Epistemology at the Central States Meeting

Epistemology in Edinburgh

Hazlett to Edinburgh

Episteme 2010 Photos

New Journal Devoted to Skepticism

Edinburgh Epistemology Workshop + 2010 Nature of Knowledge Lecture

Epistemology Post at Edinburgh: DEADLINE JUNE 21st

Experiment Month

OBO is GO!!

New Epistemology Post at Edinburgh: UPDATE

2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh: Registrations Close May 11th

New Epistemology Post at Edinburgh

OBO Philosophy: Resources for Epistemologists

2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh: Registrations Open

Fordham Epistemic Normativity Workshop

UPDATE: Epistemology Conference in Brazil

2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh: Registrations Open

CFP: The Problem of the Criterion

Epistemology Conference in Brazil

2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh: Registrations Open

Book Cover

Experimental Philosophy Post

CFP: The Epistemology of Liberal Democracy

CFP: De Se Attitudes + Self-Knowledge & Rational Agency, Oslo

CFP: Geneva Justification Conference

CFP: 2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh

Workshop: The Normativity of Belief

Copenhagen Social Epistemology Conference

Epistemic Normativity Workshop: Fordham University, April 2010

CFP: 2010 Episteme Conference in Edinburgh

CFP: Experimental Philosophy

2009 Nature of Knowledge Lecture & Virtue Epistemology Workshop

Epistemic Goodness Conference: New Webpage

Epistemic Goodness Conference: Abstracts Posted

Conference on The Aim of Belief (Oslo)

CFP: Amsterdam Conference on Disagreement

Value of Knowledge Chapters

NEH Summer Institute On Experimental Philosophy

Reminder: 2009 Episteme Conference CFP

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

New Society and Blog

Value of Knowledge Book Update

Epistemic Goodness Conference and Call for Papers

Epistemology@Edinburgh Blog

Epistemology @ Edinburgh

Crispin Wright @ Edinburgh

Wisdom Conference

Epistemology: 5 Questions

Value of Knowledge Book

Epistemic Goodness Conference and Call for Papers

CFP: Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

CFP: Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"

CFP: Special Issue of Philosophical Explorations on "Extended Cognition and Epistemic Action"