The latest issue of International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out. It includes articles by John Turri, Jill Rusin and J. Adam Carter, a discussion piece from Tony Brueckner, and reviews by Carlos Levy and Jeremy Fantl.
On behalf of the Midwest Epistemology Workshop (MEW), I am pleased to announce that the 7th annual MEW will be held on the campus of Notre Dame, November 7-9, 2013. Details here.
Alvin Goldman will be the keynote speaker. Other invited speakers are EJ Coffman (University of Tennessee), Jim Joyce (University of Michigan), Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University), Kirk Ludwig (Indiana University, Bloomington), Jennifer Nagel (University of Toronto), Tom Senor (University of Arkansas), and Fritz Warfield (University of Notre Dame).
Mike DePaul and Robert Audi are the local coordinators.
MEW7 is being generously supported by Notre Dame’s Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, Henkels Lecture Series.
The Philosophy Graduate Students’ Association of the University of Calgary is pleased to announce that they will be hosting the 2nd Annual University of Calgary Graduate Philosophy Conference to be held at in the University of Calgary Philosophy Department throughout the day on March 9th, 2013.
This year’s theme: Knowledge and Action.
Keynote Speakers: Ram Neta (UNC Chapel Hill) and Jeremy Fantl (University of Calgary)
The conference will take place on Saturday, March 9th, running approximately from 8:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. Lunch and refreshments will be served for all accepted speakers. Roughly five papers will be accepted, so opportunities for presentation are limited. We welcome all scholarly work that is related to the conference theme. Some topics may include:
This conference, which will be held at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles on June 21-22, 2013, is part of the Intellectual Virtues and Education Project, which is devoted to developing and implementing an approach to education that is aimed at fostering growth in intellectual character virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, attentiveness, intellectual courage, and intellectual rigor. At the most general level, this is a project in “applied virtue epistemology.”
The conference will bring together top scholars from philosophy, education, and psychology to give papers on the importance of intellectual virtues to educational theory and practice. You can learn more about the conference here.
Keynote speakers are Linda Zagzebski (Oklahoma), Harvey Siegel (Miami), Shari Tishman (Harvard), and Marvin Berkowitz (Missouri, St. Louis).
Deadline for submissions (full papers or longish abstracts) is February 15, 2013. Papers should be submitted to jbaehr@lmu.edu.
If you’re interested in what it might look like to educate for intellectual virtues or in the importance of intellectual virtues to the proper aims of education, I hope you’ll consider submitting a paper or attending. And if you have colleagues in other departments (e.g. education or psychology) who might have an interest in the conference, please spread the word!
The conference, and the broader project of which it is a part, are sponsored by a generous grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
Oxford University 13 &14 March 2013
The New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology project at Oxford University invites the submission of papers related to the application of contextualism and pragmatic encroachment to any question in the philosophy of religion or analytic theology.
Papers should be suitable for blind review and be no longer than 3000 words in length. Submissions should be accompanied by a cover letter including the name, affiliation, and contact details of the author.
Papers should be submitted to giorgia.carta@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.
Submission deadline is January 15, 2013.
Further details of the New Insights project can be found at www.newinsights.ox.ac.uk
Synopsis: I wonder why, in light of some solid cases of lottery knowledge, people still doubt lottery knowledge. I also suggest an X-phi research project that thought would boom after 2004 but didn’t.
General motivational prolegomena: So I made it until 4:02 Central Daylight Time before obtaining testimony that Obama was re-elected. FBF’s Jason Rogers and Jeremy Fantl deftly crushed my blissful ignorance. Not caring about politics much more than knowledge, I had isolated myself from any and all reports about the election from the time polls opened until late this afternoon. I made a public display of my ignorance on Facebook about this matter (as is my wont, true) and I assumed that many people were saying to themselves “He knows darn good and well Obama has been re-elected, he’s just being provocative!” I thought this because I thought that there was so much hatred of Romney that he didn’t have a serious chance. It turns out that was an artifact of my having such a high proportion of friends in Academia (it looks like he got 51-ish% of the popular vote.)
But assume that things were as I took them to be.
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I’m pleased to announce the forthcoming edited collection Seemings and Justification: New Essays on Dogmatism and Phenomenal Conservatism (OUP). All the essays are finalized (or in penultimate form), but the book won’t be out until late 2013 or early 2014. The exact timeline is largely out of my hands at this point. Below the fold, I’ve included the table of contents and links to the introduction and to the few papers I have permission to link here. Several other papers are available on the website of the relevant author. In the comments of this post, I’m happy to respond to questions about the book or to objections to my introduction.
Before listing the contents of the book, I thought I’d point out a few features of the book. In no particular order:
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Eidyn is now on facebook and twitter!
The University of Edinburgh
3rd Annual Graduate Epistemology Conference
31st May-1st June 2013
We invite submissions of high quality papers from graduate students to the 3rd Annual Edinburgh Graduate Epistemology Conference, which will take place from the 31st May-1st June 2013. Essays within any area of epistemology (broadly construed) are welcome. Essays should be approximately 4000 words. The submission deadline for the conference is 1 March 2013.
Keynote Speakers
Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)
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A reminder that Eidyn: The Edinburgh Centre for Epistemology, Mind and Normativity is looking to hire two new postdoctoral fellows (the deadline for the third Eidyn post-doc that was recently advertised has now passed).
These post-docs are part of a major AHRC-funded research project on the topic of ‘Extended Knowledge’. They are both three-year positions, starting January 1st 2013. Further details about these positions, including how to apply, can be found here. For more details about this research project, click here. Informal inquiries about these posts, and this research project, should be directed to Prof. Duncan Pritchard.
Please note that the deadline for applications is 12th October.