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
- Summer reading group has selected Sandy Goldberg's "Socializing Reliability" - 14 Jun 09
- Nathalie Monot (EHESS) and Carl Messenger (Edinburgh) will be Visiting Doctoral Fellows next year - 14 jun 09
- The 6th Annual Episteme conference starts in two weeks - 12 Jun 09
- Matthew Mullins will be a visiting scholar as part of the Edinburgh Exchange - 26 May 09
- Chris Kennedy (Chicago) presents "On Averaging" for the PhLing Workgroup - 10 May 09
- Peter Graham (UC - Riverside) presents on "Epistemic Entitlement" for the Philosophy Colloquium Series - 24 Apr 09
- The Philosophy Department is pleased to welcome Fabrizio Cariani (PhD, Berkeley) to our faculty. - 16 Mar 09
- Spring reading group has selected Keith DeRose's "The Case for Contextualism: Knowledge, Skepticism, and Context" - 25 Feb 09
