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Epistemology
The project in Epistemology will focus on the notion of immediate justification.
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[ISA Talks] A. Kenny "The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? " part 2
SA Talks
Speaker: Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Title: The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? part 2
Venue: tba
Time: 16
[ISA Talks] A. Kenny "The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? " part 1
ISA Talks
Speaker: Sir Anthony Kenny (Oxford)
Title: The human mind: an understandable machinery, an unsolvable mistery or.... whatever works? part 1
Venue: tba
Time: tba
COGITO DAY V
COGITO DAY V
Venue: Dipartimento di Discipline della Comunicazione, Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
10.45-12.15 Carla Bagnoli (Modena & University Wisconsin-Milwaukee) "The claim of objectivity and the misrepresentation of moral experience"
12.15-13.15 Delia Belleri (Bologna & COGITO) "What is semantic under-determinacy?".
15.00-16.30 Annalisa Coliva (Modena & COGITO) "One Variety of Self-Knowledge: Constitutivism as Constructivism"
Engel: "Scepticism, assent and acceptance"
We will discuss Pascal Engel's paper for the conference "Scepticism and Justification".
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della Comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23
Discussant: Delia Belleri
Sosa: "Armchair Philosophy, with Moore and Wittgenstein"
Professor Ernest Sosa (Rutgers) will present the paper "Armchair Philosophy, with Moore and Wittgenstein"
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23
Discussant: Annalisa Coliva
Soldati: "On the justification of demonstrative judgments"
We will discuss the draft of Gianfranco Soldati's paper for the conference "Scepticism and Justification".
Discussion leader: Clotilde Calabi
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino
NB The following two papers by Jim Pryor and Susanna Siegel are relevant to Soldati's.
Pryor "Problems for credulism"
We will discuss the draft of Jim Pryor's paper for the conference "Skepticism and justification"
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino 23
Discussion leader: Eugenio Orlandelli
NBB: hand-made drawings of Pryor's pictures can be found at
http://www.jimpryor.net/research/papers/Credulism-pictures.pdf
Millar "Scepticism and doxastic responsability"
Sosa "How Competence Matters in Epistemology (and Elsewhere)"
Lalumera "Understanding-based immediate justification"
We will discuss the draft of Elisabetta Lalumera's paper for the conference "Skepticism and justification"
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino
Discussion leader: Elisabetta Lalumera
Coliva: Varieties of failure (of warrant transmission--what else?!)
We will discuss the draft of Annalisa Coliva's paper for the conference "Skepticism and justification"
Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, Via Azzo Gardino
Discussion leader: Annalisa Coliva
NB: The handout has been added. Please print out your own copy.
Wedgwood "A priori bootstrapping"
We will discuss the draft of Ralph Wedgwood's paper for the conference "Skepticism and Justification" Venue: Sala Rossa, Discipline della comunicazione, V. Azzo Gardino Discussion leader: Giorgio Volpe Text available at: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert1230/bootstrapping.a4.pdf
Scepticism and Justification Conference
Scepticism and Justification
Scuola Superiore Studi Umanistici
COGITO Research Centre in Philosophy
under the auspices of the Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA)
Bologna December 17-18 2010
Scuola Superiore Studi Umanistici
Via Marsala 26
Philosophy of Language Research Seminar: Luca Moretti on Scepticism, metaphysical possibilities and fuzzy probabilities
prof. Luca Moretti (Aberdeen University - NIP) will give a talk.
- Speaker: Luca Moretti
- Venue: Sala rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna
- Title:Scepticism, metaphysical possibilities and fuzzy probabilities
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Abstract
COGITO DAY IV
COGITO DAY IV--Epistemology
Venue: Dipartimento Discipline della comunicazione, Sala rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
Programme
9.30-11.00 Walter Cavini: "Sogno e Aporia
L'Argomento Scettico del Sogno da Platone a Wittgenstein"
11.15-12.15 Sara Neva: "Giustificazione e testimonianza"
12.15-13.15 Michele Palmira: "Disagreement: the case of epistemic peers"
Lunch
15.30-16.30 Alessia Pasquali: "Conoscere la mente: osservazioni sullo sviluppo della psicologia ingenua"
17.00-18.30 Clotilde Calabi: "Cats! Michotte’s new enigma of perception"
Epistemology--Bootstrapping II
Bootstrapping II: Ernest Sosa "Philosophical Scepticism and Epistemic Circularity"
Venue: DSC, Sala Rossa, III piano, V. Azzo Gardino 23
Discussion leader: Giorgio Volpe (& Annalisa Coliva)
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For those who are interested, I'm attaching the reply to Sosa by Barry Stroud "Scepticism, 'externalism', and the goal of epistemology"
Philosophy of Language - Reading Seminar - Recanati on relativism
- Reading: 'Moderate Relativism' by François Recanati, in (eds.) M. Garcia-Carpintero, M. Koelbel: Relative Truth, Oxford: OUP, 2008, pp. 41-62
- Discussion leader: Delia Belleri
- Venue: Sala Rossa, II floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna
Reading material attached below
Further optional readings:
Epistemology--Bootstrapping
Session on bootstrapping arguments: Wedgwood (cf. "A priori bootstrapping", reading 12/2/2010) and Cohen
Discussion leaders: Elisabetta Lalumera & Giorgio Volpe
Venue: Sala Rossa, III piano, DSC V. A. Gardino 23
Research Seminar - Sara Neva on "Una tesi antiriduzionista sulla testimonianza"
Sara Neva will present her research paper.
Title: "una tesi antiriduzionista sulla testimonianza"
Venue: Aula Roveri, via Zamboni 38,ground floor.
Time: 15.15-18.15
Abstract:
Epistemology Guest Seminar: Zardini on Luminosity and Vagueness
Speaker: Elia Zardini (University of St Andrews/Aberdeen)
Title: Luminosity and Vagueness
Venue: Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.
A *draft* of the paper, for circulation within COGITO only has been posted.