sábado, 5 de maio de 2012

University of Edinburgh 2nd Annual Epistemology Conference


Registration for the University of Edinburgh 2nd Annual Epistemology Conference is now open.  The registration cost is £5.  The conference dinner is on Friday 8th and will cost £20.  If you want to attend the dinner, choose that option when registering. 

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This conference is sponsored by the Scots Philosophical Association, the Mind Association and the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences at the University of Edinburgh (other sponsors TBA).

*Provisional Conference Programme*
Friday June 8th
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee and Registration
10:30 – 11:30 First Postgraduate Presentation
Joe Cunningham (UCL)
“Perceptual Knowledge: Access Without Evidence”
11:30 – 12:30 Second Postgraduate Presentation
Josh Thorpe (St Andrews)
“Discontent and the Vat Argument’
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 Third Postgraduate Presentation
Spyros-Orestis Palermos (Edinburgh)
“Could Reliability Imply Safety?”
2:30 – 3:30 Fourth Postgraduate Presentation
Alex Worsnip (Yale)
“Two Kinds of Stakes”
3.30 – 3.45 Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:15 Keynote Address
Crispin Wright (NYU/Northern Institute of Philosophy)
5:30 Drinks and Dinner

Saturday June 9th
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee and Registration
10:30 – 11:30 First Postgraduate Presentation
Jeremy Goodman (Oxford)
“Introspection and Inference”
11:30 – 12:30 Second Postgraduate Presentation
Fatema Amijee (UT Austin)
“Understanding-Assent Links”
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 Third Postgraduate Presentation
Stephanie Leary (Rutgers)
“A Role for Reasons in Epistemology”
2:30 – 3:30 Fourth Postgraduate Presentation
Sander Verhaegh (Groningen)
“Holism and the Epistemology of Disagreement”
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee Break
4:00 – 5.15 Keynote Address
John Greco (Saint Louis)
5.30 Drinks and (unofficial) Dinner