2nd Annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop
Friday, Oct. 17th—Saturday, 18th, 2008
Keynote Speaker: Tyler Burge, UCLA
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln will be hosting the second annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop. The workshop is an annual event where epistemologists present and discuss recently completed work or work in progress that is close to completion.
The second workshop consists of eight nonconcurrent sessions, each involving a presentation of approximately 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes of discussion. Workshop papers were made available to participants in advance of the workshop. This year's presenters included Mike Bergmann (Purdue), Andy Egan (Michigan), Adam Leite (Indiana), Tyler Burge (UCLA), Peter Markie (Missouri), Brit Brogaard (Missouri-St. Louis), Jonathan Weinberg (Indiana), Juan Comesaña (Wisconsin).
MEW2 is supported by the Chambers Research Fund, the UNL College of Arts and Sciences, the UNL Philosophy Department, and the Cedric Evans Memorial Lecture Fund.
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
