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Epistemology Reading Group
Group URL
www.ppls.ed.ac.uk/philosophy/groups/epistemology-edinburgh
Description
This epistemology reading group meets regularly on Mondays at 4.10pm in room S38 in 7 George Square. All inquiries about this group should be directed to Kevin Wallbridge. All are welcome. This group forms part of the Epistemology research cluster at Edinburgh.
Reading for 2014-15
The group is currently very pleased to be reading the manuscript for Mikkel Gerken's forthcoming book 'On Folk Epistemology' and discussing it with Mikkel himself.
Previous readings
During the 2013-2014 academic year in semester 1 we read stand-alone papers suggested by members of the group. In semester 2 we have read the manuscript of Epistemic Angst by Duncan Pritchard, and we're reading John Gibbon's book 'The Norm of Belief' (OUP, 2013).
During the 2012-2013 academic year we read the manuscript of A Luxury of the Understanding by Allan Hazlett (OUP, 2013), and then Knowledge and its Limits by Timothy Williamson (OUP, 2000).
During the 2011-2012 academic year we read Social Epistemology, edited by Adrian Haddock, Alan Millar and Duncan Pritchard (OUP, 2010), and a selection of papers on "the aim of inquiry," in advance of the conference on The Aims of Inquiry and Cognition.
During the 2010-2011 academic year we read Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, (eds.) M. Steup & E. Sosa (Blackwell, 2005), Disagreement, edited by R. Feldman and T. Warfield (Oxford University Press, 2010) and The Philosophy of Philosophy by Timothy Williamson (Blackwell, 2008).
During the 2009-2010 academic year we read Jennifer Lackey's Learning from Words (Oxford University Press, 2008), and then Edward Craig's Knowledge and the State of Nature (Oxford University Press, 1991).
During the 2007-2008 academic year we read Ernest Sosa's new book, A Virtue Epistemology: Reflective Knowledge and Apt Belief (Oxford University Press, 2007) and, in conjunction with the Ethics research cluster, Ralph Wedgwood's new book, The Nature of Normativity (Oxford University Press, 2007).