Events

Ralph Wedgwood, 2010 "Primitively Rational Belief-Forming Practices" & "A Priori Bootstrapping"

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert1230/papers.htm

Discussion leader: Elisabetta Lalumera
Venue: Sala Rossa III piano, DSC V. A. Gardino 23

• Reading: Chapter 5  of Correspondence and Disquotation: An Essay on the nature of Truth ,by Marian David, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
• Discussion leader: Paolo Leonardi
• Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

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

First reading session on Horwich's Truth

Dr. Francesco Berto (Aberdeen, NIP) will deliver a talk on impossible worlds and propositions.

• Speaker: Francesco Berto (Aberdeen, NIP)
• Title: "Impossible worlds and propositions"
• Venue: aula Mondolfo, III floor, via Zamboni 38, Bologna.

Dinner with Berto:

• Time: Wednseday February 24th, 7.30pm
• Place: Cucchiaio D'oro, via Petroni 6a, Bologna

Please sign up, if you are interested.

Prof. Francesco Orilia (Macerata) will deliver a talk on relational properties.

• Speaker: Francesco Orilia (Macerata)
• Title: "Il problema dell'ordine relazionale"
• Venue: sala rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.

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"

Second reading session on Horwich's Truth

• Reading: Truth (2nd ed.): Chapter 6 and the Generalisation Objection
• Discussion leader: Paolo Leonardi & Sebastiano Moruzzi
• Venue: Sala Rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

Optional readings: futher papers on the the Generalisation Objection and other problems for minimalism [attached below].

•  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:

Andrea Marino will deliver a talk related to "Referential Uses", his PhD project.

• Speaker: Andrea Marino
• Venue: sala rossa, III floor, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna

Speaker: Franco Lo Piparo (University of Palermo)

Title: "Nomi e numeri"

Venue: Sala Rossa, via Azzo Gardino 23, Bologna.

il seminario di venerdì 12 è rimandato in data da fissare

* Millar, Alan (2008). Perceptual-recognitional abilities and perceptual
knowledge. In Adrian Haddock & Fiona Macpherson (eds.), *Disjunctivism:
Perception, Action, Knowledge*. Oxford University Press.

* Millar, Alan (2009). What is it that cognitive abilities are abilities
to do? Acta Analytica 24 (4).

http://philpapers.org/autosense.pl?searchStr=Alan%20Millar

Discussion leader: Elisabetta Lalumera
Venue: Sala Rossa, III piano, V. Azzo Gardino 23