This meeting will discuss some recent developments in epistemology. \;Many different topics from many different philosophical perspectives \;will be addressed in connection to the relationship between knowledge \;and agency. The participants will discuss\, among others\, the following \;topics: knowledge as an epistemic achievement\, epistemic authority\, \;epistemological constraints on agency\, the nature of knowing-how\, different aspects of our perceptual consciousness of the world and \;self-knowledge from the point of view of agency.
The workshop is organized by Jesú\;s Vega-Encabo (Universidad Autó\;noma \;de Madrid\, Spain) and Fernando Broncano (Universidad Carlos III de \;Madrid\, Spain)
Programme:
Wednesday\, May 16th\, 2012
11:00 Linda Zagzebski (University of Oklahoma\, USA): A Defense of \;Epistemic Authority
15:00 Diego Lawler (CONICET-SADAF\, Argentina): Authority and \;Authorship: Models of Self-knowledge
16:30 Carlos Moya (Universidad de Valencia\, Spain): A new defence of \;the Principle of Alternative Possibilities
Thurdsday\, May 17th\, 2012
10:00 Elisabeth Pacherie (Institut Jean Nicod\, France): The sense of \;agency: what is it and what is it for
11:45 Jesú\;s Navarro-Reyes (Universidad de Sevilla\, Spain): \;Knowledge-how as abilities
15:00 Juan Gonzá\;lez (Universidad Autó\;noma del Estado de Morelos\, \;Mé\;xico) : Are hallucinations real? A Neokantian Tentative Response
16:45 Annalisa Coliva (Universitá\; di Modena e Reggio Emilia\, Italy): \;Perceiving Reasons
Friday\, May 18th\, 2012
9:30 Jé\;rô\;me Dokic (Institut Jean Nicod\, France): Seeds of Knowledge: \;Noetic Feelings and Metacognition
11:00 Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick\, UK): The epistemic \;role of perceptual consciousness.
13:00 Ignacio Á\;vila (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): \;Self-knowledge and perceptual self-location
This meeting is organized by:
Group of Applied Epistemology and the Department of General \;Linguistic\, Logic and Philosophy of Science\, Faculty of Philosophy and \;Letters\, Universidad Autó\;noma de Madrid.
HERMES Group and the Department of Humanities\, Universidad Carlos \;III de Madrid.
CONSOLIDER-PERSP (Group on Applied Philosophy)
And is part of the activities of the following research grants:
FFI2009-12054: "Epistemology of Artefacts. Affordances\, practical \;knowledge and epistemic artefacts". Coordinated by Jesú\;s Vega Encabo \;
FFI2011-25131: "Agency\, normativity and identity. The presence of \;the subject in action".
Coordinated by Fernando Broncano Rodrí\;guez
\nCONSOLIDER-PERSP 2009-2013\, CSD2009-00056: "Facts and thoughts in \;perspective" Group 9: "Applied philosophy". Coordinated by Josep Corbí\;
\nContact:
\nAttendance to the conference is free\, for further information\, please \;send an email to:
jesus.vega@uam.es
mm.serrano@uam.es
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