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Faculty of Philosophy

 

Future Directions in Epistemology: Formal, Informal, Applied

BARSEA Conference in Epistemology

Cambridge

 

The conference organizer is , please email him for further details or to register.

Recordings of talks given at the conference are available here.

 

PROGRAMME

Saturday 25th February

13:30 - 14:00 Coffee and Registration
14:00 - 15:00 Orri Stefansson A Challenge for Comparativism  Thomas Raleigh Agnosticism Requires Belief  
15:00 - 16:00 Verena Wagner Against Doxastic Freedom       
Jie Gao & Davide Fassio The Rational Threshold View and The Problem of Statistical Evidence 

16:00 - 18:00

Keynote Address    Timothy Williamson Evidence about One's Own Evidence

 18:30         Drinks Reception followed  by Conference Dinner

Sunday 26th February

9:30   - 10:00    Coffee   
10:00 - 11:00 Johanna Schnurr Doxastic Normativism: The Argument from Dispositions to Believe
11:00 - 12:00 Alexander Dinges Anti-Itellectualism, Egocentricism, and Bank Case Intuitions Natalia Waights Hickman Novelty, Skill, and Knowledge How   

12:00- 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:00 Alex Jackson Useful Knowledge Ascriptions David Thorstad Permissivism, evidentialism, and precision
15:00 - 16:00 Bernhard Salow Evidence of Evidence Mihaela Popa-Wyatt How Words Cause Harm
16:00 - 18:00

Keynote Address    Rae Langton Informative Presupposition as Back-door Testimony

  18:30         Dinner

 

This conference has been generously supported by the British Academy with a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award (BARSEA).

 

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Date: 
Saturday, 25 February, 2017 - 13:30 to Sunday, 26 February, 2017 - 18:00