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Conference Videos: BLED – Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom

Christopher Cloos — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:49:35 +0000

Videos from the BLED conference on “Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom” are now online. Click HERE to access the videos. In side-by-side format you can view both the video of the talk and the presentation slides from the talk. This avoids awkward transitions when one window pane tries to show both the video lecture and the accompanying slides.

It looks like the website videolectures.net provides a great venue for posting recorded talks. Hopefully, feasibility sensitive, using this site to post conference videos becomes a profession-wide standard.

Filed under: Conferences, Epistemology, Videos

Workshop: Logic and Methodology

Christopher Cloos — Tue, 10 May 2011 02:52:39 +0000

There’s a great workshop at Stanford this weekend on logic, epistemology and science. This workshop features tutorials and talks at the intersection of those domains. In addition, the tutorials and talks draw on a number of formal methods (e.g., dynamic epistemic logic, learning theory and probability). Click here for more details on the workshop.

Filed under: Conferences, Epistemology, Methodology, Philosophy of Science

Workshop: Knowing How

Christopher Cloos — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 22:10:47 +0000

There’s a workshop on “knowing how” at the University of St Andrews on July 2-3, 2011. Below is a blurb about the workshop and a link to the workshop’s website.

What is the nature of the knowledge one has when one knows how to do something? Gilbert Ryle (1949) famously claimed that “knowing how” could not be analysed in terms of “knowing that”. Recently, however, there has been a resurgence of support for “intellectualist” views according to which knowledge-how is a kind of knowledge-that. This intellectualist revival has been strongly opposed by some philosophers and the ensuing debates have stimulated a great deal of new research on knowledge-how. This joint Arché/Rutgers workshop will bring together leading researchers in the field to explore questions about the nature of knowledge-how and its relationship to knowledge-that.

Click here to access the workshop’s website.

Filed under: Conferences, Epistemology, Knowledge

CONF: Ordinary Language, Linguistics and Philosophy

Christopher Cloos — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 04:29:55 +0000

Arché Research Center at the University of St. Andrews is hosting an upcoming conference on philosophical methodology. The conference is June 23-25, 2011. Below is a description of the conference and a link to the conference website.

It has become increasingly popular to claim that the subject matter of philosophy is neither linguistic nor conceptual. In this sense, it has been suggested that the so-called “linguistic turn” was a mistake and the target of philosophy properly conceived is nonconceptual and nonlinguistic (e.g., Williamson, The Philosophy of Philosophy). Despite this, philosophers still routinely appeal to ordinary linguistic use and linguistic theory in constructing and criticising philosophical theories. The contrast between the alleged target of philosophy and continued reliance on linguistic information in solving philosophical questions raises a number of issues which are the focus of this conference.

Link: Conference Website

Filed under: Conferences, Methodology

Conferences: Inference, Formal, Exact and Ordinary

Christopher Cloos — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 04:32:12 +0000

Here are links to excellent upcoming conferences.

The Epistemology of Inference @ Brown University, March 12-13, 2011
Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW) @ USC, May 19-21, 2011
Society for Exact Philosophy (SEP) @ University of Manitoba, May 26-28, 2011
Ordinary Language, Linguistics, and Philosophy Conference @ Arché Research Centre, University of St Andrews, June 23-25, 2011

Filed under: CFP, Conferences, Formal Epistemology

Workshops: Metaethics & Epistemology

Christopher Cloos — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 16:26:29 +0000

Here are links to two workshops of note.

Metaethics Workshop @ Madison, WI (Keynote: C. Korsgaard)
Midwest Epistemology Workshop @ Northwestern (Keynote: R. Foley )

Filed under: Conferences, Epistemology, Metaethics

Workshop: Feldmania!

Christopher Cloos — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 23:29:29 +0000

Over at Think Tonk Clayton Littlejohn just announced this year’s Brackenridge workshop. It features talks on the work of Richard Feldman. The preliminary schedule looks outstanding. If you can make it to UT San Antonio February 18th and 19th, I definitely recommend attending this workshop. Access the preliminary schedule here.

Filed under: Conferences, Epistemology, Evidentialism

CFPs: Reasons, Gauthier, SLACRR

Christopher Cloos — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 01:28:52 +0000

Recently, there have been some outstanding call for papers (CFPs) announced. These opportunities are as follows:

Reasons of Love: This conference is in Leuven (Belgium) from May 30 - June 1, 2011. The deadline for submission is December 1, 2010. Click here for more details.
- Some Conference Questions: Do ‘the reasons of love’ constitute a
  genuine, distinctive category of reasons? Are different kinds of love related to different kinds of reasons? What are the requirements of love, as opposed to the requirements of duty? Are love’s reasons rational or non-rational?
Gauthier Conference: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Morals by Agreement a conference will be held May 13-15, 2011. The deadline to submit your abstract is January 15, 2011. You can submit an abstract on anything related to rational choice contractarianism. Click here for more details, including a list of participants.
SLACRR: The St. Louis Annual Conference on Reasons and Rationality (SLACRR) is May 22-24, 2011. Your abstract is due December 31, 2010 . Jamie Dreier is the keynote speaker. Click here to access the conference website.

Filed under: CFP, Conferences, Epistemology, Normative Ethics

2011 Purdue Summer Seminar – Skepticism

Christopher Cloos — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 21:31:45 +0000

Purdue is offering a summer seminar on perceptual, moral, and religious skepticism. This seminar is directed by Michael Bergmann. Click here for more information about this opportunity.

Filed under: Conferences, Skepticism

Links: Workshop, Society, Project, Journal

Christopher Cloos — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:50:54 +0000

Below are some great developments and opportunities in the world of philosophy.

2011 Normative Ethics Workshop
- This conference will be held at the University of Arizona, January 6-8 2011. The program looks very interesting. It includes keynote talks by Robert Audi, Julia Driver, and Thomas Hurka.
North Carolina Philosophical Society 2011 Meeting
- I attended this conference last year. I recommend it because it is well-organized and features a number of interesting tracks and papers. This society and its South Carolina counterpart are model philosophical societies that foster lively research and opportunities for feedback. The keynote speaker is Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
The Character Project
- Much congratulations to Christian Miller and all involved in securing this grant. This project will look at issues related to the study of character from three domains of inquiry: psychology, theology, and philosophy.
New Skepticism Journal
- Duncan Pritchard has announced the launch of a new journal. This journal is called the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism. Further details are forthcoming.

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