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Philosophy TV: Partial Belief vs. Full Belief

Christopher Cloos — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:26:34 +0000

Over at the Philosophy TV website there’s a good discussion of the notion of belief. Jonathan Weisberg and Kenny Easwaran discuss partial belief versus full belief. The discussion provides a solid overview of the different positions one could take on the interplay between probabilistic belief and full belief.

Filed under: Belief, Formal Epistemology, Probability, Videos

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

Social Epistemology @ Philosophy TV

Christopher Cloos — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:33:51 +0000

There’s a good discussion of social epistemology at the Philosophy TV website. Alvin Goldman and Jennifer Lackey provide a primer on this growing subfield.

Filed under: Social Epistemology, Testimony, 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

Index of Posts on the Factivity Debate

Christopher Cloos — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:53:07 +0000

For ease of reference, below is an index of my posts on the factivity debate. I commented and analyzed each major paper in the debate.

Post 1: Baumann’s Solution to the Factivity Problem

Post 2: Brueckner and Buford’s Solution to the Factivity Problem

Post 3: Baumann Argues the Factivity Problem is Real

Post 4: The Factivity Problem Remains Dissolved

Filed under: Factivity, Index of Posts

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

CFP: Naturalisms in Ethics

Christopher Cloos — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 23:41:46 +0000

There’s a call for papers for a conference focused on ethical naturalism. It addresses the multiplicity of ethical theories that fall under the label ‘naturalism’–hence the conference title ‘naturalisms’. The organizers are encouraging people to submit abstracts in any way related to the topic. Conference details are as follows:

When: Thursday July 14th- Friday July 15th, 2011
Where: University of Auckland
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 1st, 2011

For more details, consult the Pea Soup post or the conference website. Note: This conference occurs right before the APRA conference.

Filed under: CFP, Normative Ethics