• ECT Seminar

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad
  • ECT Seminar: Adam Carter (Glasgow). Good moves. A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Title: Good Moves: A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How Abstract: I defend a new account of telic know-how, what I call the Good Moves (GM) account. To know how to complete a telic task T is to possess a stable, trainable disposition to select and sequence good moves across T’s state space, where a move…

  • ECT Seminar

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad
  • ECT Seminar

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad
  • ECT Seminar: Aidan McGlynn Epistemic injustice

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Delineating Epistemic Injustice The notion of epistemic injustice wasn’t originally intended to be a catch-all term for harms generated by or within our epistemic practices (such as our practice of testimony). Fricker’s project was one of delineation; she wanted to ‘delineate a distinctive class of wrongs, namely those in which someone is ingenuously downgraded and/or disadvantaged…

  • ECT Seminar

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad
  • ECT Seminar: Justin Snedegar “Minding Our Epistemic Business”

    Edgecliffe G03 The Scores, St Salvator's Quad

    Minding Our Epistemic Business Recently, there has been a lot of theorizing about distinctively epistemic blame. This raises a question: why are the purely epistemic failings of others our business, such that we have standing to blame them? Cameron Boult provides an answer: given how thoroughly epistemically interdependent we are, our epistemic failures let others…