• Epistemology Seminar: Lara Jost “Knowledge: Emotions, Perception and Rational Agents”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Abstract: In contemporary analytic epistemology, emotions are usually not considered to be a good justification for an agent’s belief, in the same way perception, memory, reasoning or testimony are, due to emotions facing issues when it comes to being reliable and sensitive to defeaters. In this talk, I argue that this problem can be overcome…

  • Breaking Down the Barriers: Applied Conceptual Engineering (ACE)

    A virtual Conference – by Zoom

      DESCRIPTION Conceptual engineering focuses on how best to assess and improve our conceptual apparatuses. In less than half a decade, it has become a central topic of contemporary analytic philosophy. Current work in conceptual engineering goes in two main directions. Case study research, on the one hand, which focuses on specific concepts and then…

  • Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Emmalon Davis (UMich) “Challenging the Pursuit of Novelty”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Abstract: Novelty—understood as the value of saying something new—appears to be a good-making feature of a philosophical contribution. Beyond this, however, novelty functions as a marker of philosophical success: contributions that say something new are considered successful, while contributions that do not say something new are considered unsuccessful. When novelty serves as a marker and metric…

  • Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Rima Basu (CMC) “Normative Expectations”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Abstract: In supplementing the familiar ways that our interpersonal relationships are morally fraught, recent work in epistemology on doxastic wronging has highlighted how these relationships can be epistemically fraught as well. However, in focusing predominantly on beliefs— mental states that arguably constitute a small fraction of our mental lives—these theories have their own theoretical blindspots.…

  • Epistemology Seminar (joint with CEPPA and FPST): Renee Bolinger (Princeton) “Are We Entitled to Be Believed?”

    A virtual seminar by Zoom The University, 58³Ô¹Ï, United Kingdom

    Abstract: Discussions in a variety of contexts (including at least epistemic injustice, moral encroachment, epistemic obligations of friendship) sometimes assume that speakers have a right or moral entitlement to be believed when they assert or testify that p: that they are wronged if their audience fails to believe them. It is controversial whether rights of…