Description

This epistemology reading group meets regularly on Mondays at 5pm in room 1.01 DSB. All inquiries about this group should be directed to Robin McKenna or Kyle Scott. All are welcome. This group forms part of the Epistemology research cluster at Edinburgh.

Reading for 2011-12

In semester 2 our topic is "the aim of inquiry." In semester 1 we read papers from Social Epistemology, edited by Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar and Duncan Pritchard (OUP, 2010).

Previous readings

During the 2010-11 academic year we read Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, (eds.) M. Steup & E. Sosa (Blackwell, 2005), Disagreement, edited by R. Feldman and T. Warfield (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Philosophy of Philosophy by Timothy Williamson (Blackwell, 2008).

During the 2009-10 academic year we read Jennifer Lackey's Learning from Words (Oxford University Press, 2008), and then Edward Craig's Knowledge and the State of Nature (Oxford University Press, 1991).

During the 2007-08 academic year we read Ernest Sosa's new book, A Virtue Epistemology: Reflective Knowledge and Apt Belief (Oxford University Press, 2007) and, in conjunction with the Ethics research cluster, Ralph Wedgwood's new book, The Nature of Normativity (Oxford University Press, 2007).