7th Urbino Summer School in Epistemology

7th Urbino Summer School in Epistemology

University of Urbino Carlo Bo – Department of Pure and Applied Sciences.

Urbino, August 25 – 28, 2025.

 Under the auspices of:

The Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy (SIFA)

The Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS)

Lecturers

Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham)

Catarina Dutilh-Novaes (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University)

Timothy Williamson (Oxford University)

Overview

The goal of the four days in-person Summer School is to provide an opportunity for highly motivated graduate students (or even advanced undergraduate students), and early-career researchers to learn, discuss and exchange ideas about current epistemological issues in close contact with internationally renowned experts.

There will be two kinds of sessions on each of the four days: lectures in the morning, and parallel group sessions in the afternoon.

The lectures will be delivered by our Lecturers, and will focus on both general and specific aspects of their current work. Each lecture will comprise approximately 45-50 minutes of presentation, and 20 minutes for Q&A.

Each group session will be led by a different Lecturer, and will take a laboratory format. The topics dealt with are intended to be broad in scope – e.g., they might include Naturalism in Epistemology; Methodology and Meta-epistemology; Formal epistemology; virtue epistemology and reliabilism – in order to allow the participants to engage in open discussion, based on specific texts read in advance. A reading list will be provided in due course by the Lecturers.

Each student will hence have the opportunity to attend 16 lectures and 4 group sessions during the 4 days. Of course, there will be ample room for intellectual and philosophical exchanges outside of these academic activities, in the beautiful setting of late summer evenings offered by Urbino.

Participation fee

The enrolment fee is € 220,00. It includes didactic materials and four coffee breaks.

Depending on the availability of funds, we hope to be able offer a few bursaries to cover the cost of the enrolment fee.

Application

Applications to the Summer School must be sent via email to [email protected] by April 28th, and must include a CV (with a list of publications, if applicable).

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by May 15th.

The opening date for online enrolment is May 16th.

The closing date for online enrolment is July 14th.

All the info needed to complete the online enrolment procedure will be provided to selected participants in due time.

The Summer School will be activated only if the minimum number of participants is reached.

For all inquiries about the school, please contact: Adriano Angelucci ([email protected]), Daniele Sgaravatti ([email protected]) or Niccolò Covoni ([email protected])