Events

Epistemology Reading Seminar

James Beebe on the Explanationist Presuppositions of Scepticism

Venue: Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, 3rd floor.

Time: 9.30 a.m.

Readings:

J.R. Beebe, ‘Does Skepticism Presuppose Explanationism?’, in K. McCain & T. Poston (eds.), Best Explanations, OUP 2018, 173-187.

Discussion leader: Giorgio Volpe

Research Seminar.

Elena Tassoni. On the Normativity and Plurality of Logical Consequence. Some Reflections on the Role of Logic in our Epistemic system

Venue: Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, 3rd floor.

Time: 10.30 a.m.

Venue: University of Bologna, Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies, Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, 40122 Bologna.

9.30-10.30 Sebastiano Moruzzi (Unibo) "Diaphonic Pluralism - How to Be Pluralist About Disagreement"

10.30-11.30 Filippo Ferrari (Bonn University) "Disagreement and Suspended Judgement"

11:30-11:45 Coffee break

11:45-12:45 Elena Tassoni (Unibo) "On the normativity and plurality of logical consequence"

12:45-13:45 Lunch break (buffet)

Epistemology Reading Seminar

Kevin McCain on Predictivism and Explanationism

Venue: Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, 3rd floor.

Time: 9.30 a.m.

Readings:

K. McCain, ‘A Predictivist Argument against Scepticism’, Analysis 72, 2012, 660-665.

K. McCain, ‘In Defense of the Explanationist Response to Skepticism’, Journal for the Study of Skepticism, 9, 2019, 38-50.

Discussion leader: Francesco Zaccarini