Schedule for 2016 Midwest Epistemology Workshop

(Abstracts, papers and handouts Here)

 

Thursday, September 29th

5-7pm

Public lecture by Paul Boghossian, “Should We Be Moral Relativists?” (Handout)

Pyle Center, Room 313

Friday, September 30th

6191 Helen C. White Hall

8:45am  Registration table opens

9:00-9:15  Coffee, bagels, fruit

9:15-10:45  David Sosa (UT-Austin), “Standard Bearers”(Handout)

11:15-12:45  Brian Kim (Oklahoma State), “Decision Theory, Pragmatic Encroachment, and Gettier Cases” (Handout)

12:45-2:15  lunch

2:15-3:45  Dana Tulodziecki (Purdue), “Going Beyond Truth and Empirical Adequacy: Expanding the Notion of Epistemic Success in Philosophy of Science”

4:15-5:30  Panel on Epistemology and its History

Carrie Swanson (Iowa), “Ancient Epistemology: Nothing New Under the Sun?” (Handout)

Margaret Atherton (UW-Milwaukee), “A Place for History and Everything in its Place”

Saturday, October 1

6191 Helen C. White Hall

9:00-9:15  Coffee, bagels, fruit

9:15-10:45  Imogen Dickie (Toronto), “Epistemology and the Theory of Reference” (Handout)

11:15-12:45  Billy Dunaway (UMSL), “Realism, Meta-Semantics, and Risk” (Handout)

12:45-2:15  lunch

2:15-3:45  Avery Archer (George Washington), “Do or Do Not, There is No Withholding: An Argument Against the Existence of Practical Withholding” (Handout)

4:15-6:15  Keynote Address

Paul Boghossian, “Reasoning and Reasons” (Handout)

 

Conference banquet
Participants-at-Large:
  • David Alexander (Iowa State)
  • Julianne Chung (Louisville)
  • Sinan Dogramici (UT-Austin)
  • Sophie Horowitz (Rice)
  • Dan Korman (Illinois-UC)
  • Jack Lyons (Arkansas)
  • Steven Nadler (UW-Madison)
  • Declan Smithies (Ohio State)
  • Tomas Bogardus (Pepperdine)