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
In recent years the traditional issue of external world scepticism has regained center stage in contemporary debates in philosophy. This new interest has been fostered mostly by the realisation that the way we think of our perceptual experiences and of their justificatory relation with respect to our beliefs about objects in our surroundings has an important bearing on our understanding of scepticism and on how best to respond to it. The conference will, accordingly, focus on the nature of empirical justification, external world scepticism and their interrelation.
Speakers
- Annalisa Coliva (Modena&Reggio Emilia)
- Pascal Engel (Geneve)
- Alan Millar (Stirling)
- Jim Pryor (NYU)
- Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg)
- Ernest Sosa (Rutgers)
- Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford)
Conference Schedule
Registration
Attendance: free, but please register here
Venue
Scuola Superiore degli Studi Umanistici (University of Bologna), via Marsala 26, Bologna
Accomodation
Invited speakers are hosted in the Bologna University guesthouse "Collegio Erasmus" in via de' Chiari, 8 (see map )
Attendees can either ask for accomodation in the University Guesthouse (single room 45 euros per night, see below under "Contact") or try some accomodation in the historical centre nearby the conference venue (for a list see here).
Contact
sebastiano.moruzzi at unibo.it
Aknowledgments
Organisational support of the conference is provided by Scuola Superiore Studi Umanistici. The event is part of a research project that has funded research fellowship with a grant of Scuola Superiore Studi Umanistici and Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane di Firenze.
Skepticism and Justification Conference
Skepticism and Justification 2010 - Conference Sign in
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Registration is free.
Skepticism and Justification Schedule
Skepticism and Justification Schedule
Friday December 17 2010
9.30-11.00 Ernest Sosa (Rutgers) "Why competence matters in epistemology (and elsewhere)"
Discussant Andrea Sereni (San Raffaele)
11.30-13.00 Alan Millar (Stirling) "Scepticism and doxastic responsability"
Discussant Sara Neva (Bologna) & Wolfgang Huemer (Parma)
Lunch
15.00-16.30 Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg) "On the justification of demonstrative judgments"
Discussant Clotilde Calabi (Milan)
17.00-18.30 Ralph Wedgwood (Oxford) "A priori bootstrapping"
Discussant Giorgio Volpe (Bologna)
Dinner at 20.00
Saturday December 18 2010
9.30-11.00 Pascal Engel (Geneve) "Scepticism, assent and acceptance"
Discussant Delia Belleri (Bologna)
11.30-13.00 Annalisa Coliva (Modena& Reggio Emilia) "Varieties of failure (of warrant transmission--what else?!)
Discussant Filippo Ferrari (Aberdeen)
Lunch
15.00-17.00 Jim Pryor (NYU) "Problems for credulism"
Discussant Eugenio Orlandelli (Bologna)
Dinner at 20.00