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
- 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

