58吃瓜

Speaker: Roy Sorensen (UT Austin & 58吃瓜) Modesty is a Contagious Blindspot I am modest about my spelling accuracy. Oops, I cannot consistently believe that! Modesty about my spelling entails I underestimate my spelling. If I indeed underestimate my spelling accuracy, then my ignorance about spelling accuracy is contagious. For if I believe you…

Regular meeting is cancelled. Instead, the stream will host a workshop: The Epistemology of Inquiry

Cancelled due to conflicting event Symposium on Jessia Brown’s聽Groups as Epistemic and Moral Agents (OUP) Cogito Research Centre, University of Glasgow, May 27-28th. All ECT members are welcome to attend, but will need to cover expenses聽(i.e., food and travel)聽themselves.

CANCELLED

Speaker: Amiya Hashkes (58吃瓜 & Stirling)

Speaker: Viviane Fairbank (58吃瓜 & Stirling) Should Science Journalists Know About Science? Despite scientific evidence to the contrary, many journalists in the 2000s reported on one researcher鈥檚 unfounded claims of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism. They treated the issue as an open question that required equal consideration of 鈥渂oth sides鈥�: those…

Speaker: Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis) Should have Known聽and Epistemically Appropriate Belief Sometimes people don鈥檛 know things they should have known. For instance, cardiologists should know about recent major developments that bear on their practice; if they don鈥檛 know, they should have. Can what a person should have known matter to what they鈥檙e…