Graduate Epistemology Conference
When
8 – 9 Jun 2012
Start time
10:00
Where
Rooms 3.10/3.11, Dugald Stewart Building, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD
Type of event
Conference
Description
2nd Annual Graduate Epistemology Conference
Keynote Speakers:
- Prof John Greco (Saint Louis University)
- Prof Crispin Wright (New York University/Northern Institute of Philosophy)
A distinguishing feature of this graduate conference is that all graduate presentations will have respondents from the faculty at Edinburgh and other neighbouring universities.
Provisional programme
| Friday, 8th June | |
|---|---|
| 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 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Third Postgraduate Presentation Alex Worsnip (Yale) "Two Kinds of Stakes" |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Fourth Postgraduate Presentation Stephanie Leary (Rutgers) "A Role for Reasons in Epistemology" |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 – 17:15 | Keynote Address Crispin Wright (NYU/Northern Institute of Philosophy) |
| 17:30 | Drinks and Dinner |
| Saturday, 9th June | |
|---|---|
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee and Registration |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | First Postgraduate Presentation Spyros-Orestis Palermos (Edinburgh) "Could Reliability Imply Safety?" |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Second Postgraduate Presentation Fatema Amijee (UT Austin) "Understanding-Assent Links" |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Third Postgraduate Presentation Jeremy Goodman (Oxford) "Introspection and Inference" |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Fourth Postgraduate Presentation Sander Verhaegh (Groningen) "Holism and the Epistemology of Disagreement" |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45 – 17:15 | Keynote Address John Greco (Saint Louis) |
| 17:30 | Drinks and (unofficial) Dinner |
This conference is sponsored by the Scots Philosophical Association, the Mind Association and the School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences (PPLS) at the University of Edinburgh (other sponsors TBA).
Contact Details
Email
Phone
0131 650 3654
Further Information
Further Information
You must register for this event.
For further information, please visit our conference page or email Robin McKenna.
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