We are pleased to announce a 2-day workshop on \;Testimony and Knowledge of Other Minds\, \; \;hosted by the Warwick Mind and Action Research Centre at the University of Warwick\, and funded by the Leverhulme Trust. Below you can find more information on the provisional schedule\, the topics that may be covered\, and how to register.
\nSchedule
\nPlease note that this schedule is provisional\, and precise talk timings may change. \;
\nWed 30th \;March
\n10.15&ndash\;10.30: Welcome and coffee
\n10.30&ndash\;12.00: \;Matt Parrott (Oxford) \;&ndash\; \;Testimony and Expressive Benhaviour
\n12.15 &ndash\; 13.45: Lucy Campbell (Warwick) &ndash\; \;Expression-based \;Testimonial \;Knowledge of Other Minds
\n13.45&ndash\;14.45: Lunch + coffee
\n14.45&ndash\;16.15: Guy Longworth (Warwick) &ndash\; \;Thinking Together
\n16.15&ndash\;16.30: Coffee etc.
\n16.30&ndash\;18.15: Beri \;Maru&scaron\;ić \;(Edinburgh)\, with commentary from Jane Heal (Cambridge) &ndash\; Interpersonal Reasoning
\n18.15&ndash\;19.15: Drinks \;
\n19.15: Dinner \;
\nThurs 31st \;March
\n9.30&ndash\;10.00: Coffee etc.
\n10.00&ndash\;11.30: Anita Avramides (Oxford) &ndash\; \;Exploring a Duality in the Problem of Other Minds
\n11.45&ndash\;13.15: Sanford Diehl (Oxford) &ndash\; \;Respect and Acknowledgement
\n13.15: Closing remarks
\nAnticipated topics of discussion
\nThe conference aims to discuss issues in the intersection of philosophical thinking about testimony\, and about knowledge of other minds. Topics include:
\n- The interaction between how to understand mental state self-ascription and self-understanding and how to understand knowledge and understanding of other minds. \;
\n- How testimony functions as a bridge between A&rsquo\;s psychological self-knowledge and B&rsquo\;s knowledge of A&rsquo\;s mind. What might be distinctive about this form of testimony by contrast with testimony which does not express self-knowledge. \;
\n- The commonalities and differences there might be between testimonial and expression-based knowledge of other minds. \;
\n- The ways in which testimony functions within joint activity\, including joint cognitive activity. \;
\n- The kind of meaning or significance carried by bodily and facial expressive behaviour\; how this plays a role in knowledge of other minds\; how this compares and contrasts with the meaning of linguistic testimony. \;
\nRegistration
\nThe workshop will be in-person at the University of Warwick. Please email \;wma.philosophy.events@gmail.com \;to register\, including &lsquo\;TKOM attendance&rsquo\; as the subject of the email. Because of the ongoing COVID situation and more general space constraints\, space is limited\, so you are advised to register early to guarantee a place. \;
\nRegistration is free\, and covers tea\, coffee\, and lunch on Day 1. \;
\nFor those visiting from further afield\, accommodation can be booked on campus (https://warwick.ac.uk/services/conferences/bed-and-breakfast/). A short bus/taxi journey away you can find a variety of accommodation options in Leamington Spa\, Kenilworth\, or Coventry.
\n(Please note\, there appears to be an error in PhilEvents' map function\; this event \;will \;take place on the University of Warwick campus\, and not in the center of Coventry as the map suggests.)
\nOrganisers
\nLucy Campbell and Jack Shardlow.
\nThis conference is funded by the Leverhulme Trust\, through Lucy Campbell&rsquo\;s Early Career Fellowship project on \;Epistemological Pluralism. We are grateful for this support. \; \;
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