Schedule
All talks will be held in Room 101 (the Wildcat Room) of the Norris Center on Northwestern's Evanston campus.
Friday, June 26th
9:00 – 9:10 Welcome
9:10 – 10:30
Roger White (MIT), "On Treating Oneself and Others as Thermometers"
Chair: Nathan Ballantyne (Arizona)
10:30 – 10:50 Break
10:50 – 12:10
Sherrilyn Roush (Berkeley), "Second-Guessing: A Self-Help Guide"
Chair: Matthew Mullins (Northwestern)
12:10 – 1:30 Lunch
1:30 – 2:50
Jonathan Matheson (Rochester), "Conciliatory Views of Disagreement and Higher-Order Evidence"
Chair: Bryan Frances (Fordham)
2:50 – 3:10 Break
3:10 – 4:30
Branden Fitelson (Berkeley) (co-author: David Jehle), "What is the Equal-Weight View?"
Chair: Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern)
4:30 – 4:50 Break
4:50 – 6:10
Richard Feldman (Rochester), "Evidentialism, Higher-Order Evidence, and Disagreement"
Chair: Blake Roeber (Rutgers)
6:45 Conference Dinner at Gio
Saturday, June 27th
9:30 – 10:50
Earl Conee (Rochester), "Peerage"
Chair: Barry Lam (Vassar)
10:50 – 11:10 Break
11:10 – 12:30
Stewart Cohen (Arizona), "Ideal Rationality, Ordinary Rationality, and Disagreement"
Chair: Baron Reed (Northwestern)
12:45 Lunch at Thai Sookdee
2:00 – 3:20
Tomas Bogardus (Texas, Austin), "A Vindication of the Equal-Weight View"
Chair: Nathan King (Notre Dame)
3:20 – 3:40 Break
3:40 – 5:00
Michael Bergmann (Purdue), "Rational Disagreement after Full Disclosure"
Chair: Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern)
Recent Updates
- Northwestern Philosophy will host a Pre-Central APA Epistemology Conference focusing on the Epistemology of Testimony. - 14 Nov. 09
- CFP: First Annual Northwestern/Notre Dame Epistemology Conference. - 14 Oct. 09
- Fall reading group has selected Metametaphysics, eds. Chalmers, Manley, and Wasserman. - 23 Sept. 09
- New Epistemology Brown Bag series begins October 7, 2009. - 15 Sept. 09
- We welcome Notre Dame professor Robert Audi, who will be visiting for the 2009-2010 academic year. - 15 Sept. 09
- Northwestern Philosophy has an open senior M&E position. - 15 Sept. 09
- Summer reading group has selected Sandy Goldberg's "Our Epistemic Reliance on Others" - 14 Jun 09
- Nathalie Monot (EHESS) and Carl Messenger (Edinburgh) will be Visiting Doctoral Fellows next year - 14 jun 09

