Schedule
Friday, April 16th, Kresge Hall 1-375
08:30-09:00 Registration and Coffee
09:00-10:00am
Speaker: Adam Green (SLU) The Value Problem for Knowledge: A Relational Solution
Commenter: Georgi Gardiner (Edinburgh)
10:00-11:00am
Speaker: Jonathan Matheson (Rochester) Equal Weight Views and Higher-Order Evidence
Commenter: Derek Green (Northwestern)
11:00-12:00pm
Speaker: Kenneth Boyd (Toronto) Epistemologists Acting Inappropriately: Demarcating the Knowledge Norm of Practical Reasoning
Commenter: Daniel Immerman (Notre Dame)
12:00-01:30pm Lunch
01:30-02:30pm
Speaker: Ian Evans (Arizona) The Problem of the Basing Relation
Commenter: Alex Arnold (Notre Dame)
02:30-03:30pm
Speaker: Matthew Benton (Rutgers) Knowledge, Norms, and Action
Commenter: Sharifa Mohamed (Notre Dame)
04:00-06:00pm
Keynote: Hilary Kornblith The Myth of Epistemic Agency
06:00pm Department Reception
07:00pm Conference Dinner (Gio)
Saturday, April 17th, University Hall 102
08:30-09:00 Registration and Coffee
09:00-10:00am
Speaker: Kevin Connolly (Toronto) Do Perceptions Outstrip Concepts in Fineness of Grain?
Commenter: Jeffery Snapper (Notre Dame)
10:00-11:00am
Speaker: Jeff Dunn (UMASS) Dutch Books and The Assumption Problem
Commenter: Carl Ehrett (Northwestern)
11:00-12:00pm
Speaker: Lauren Leydon-Hardy (Brandeis) Context Sensitive Semantics & Testimony
Commenter: Ben Rohrs (NIU)
12:00-01:30pm Lunch (Celtic Knot Public House)
01:30-02:30pm
Speaker: Philip Atkins (UCSB) Two Varieties of Conservatism
Commenter: Amy Seymour (Notre Dame)
02:30-03:30pm
Speaker: Daniel Singer (Michigan) Epistemic Conservatism for Imprecise Partial Belief
Commenter: Jason Winning (NIU)
03:30-04:30pm
Speaker: Jeremy Goodman (Brown) Dogmatism and Closure
Commenter: Ezra Cook (Northwestern)
Recent Updates
- The Winter M&E Reading group has selected Epistemic Modality, Eds. Andy Egan & Brian Weatherson - 23 January, 2012
- Photos from the fifth annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop are now available. - 7 Nov. 2011
- Indiana University, Bloomington will be hosting the sixth annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop. -31 Oct. 2011
- Speakers for the Pre-APA Philosophy of Language Workshop have been announced. - 3 Oct. 2011
- The Fall M&E Reading group has selected Lexical Meaning in Context, by Nicholas Asher. - 28 Sept. 2011
- CFP: 3rd Annual Northwestern/Notre Dame Epistemology Conference. - 8 Aug. 2011
- Summer M&E Reading Group has selected papers from the forthcoming volume on Disagreement edited by Jennifer Lackey and David Christensen. - 8 Aug 2011
- The Northwestern Philosophy Department will host a one day workshop on the epistemology of groups Monday, August 1st, 2011. - 10 Jun. 2011
- A schedule of events has been posted for the upcoming visit of Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford). - 17 Mar. 2011
