Formal Epistemology Workshop 2015

The Formal Epistemology Workshop (FEW) will take place from May 20th to May 22nd in St. Louis, MO on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

The program begins on Wednesday morning and ends Friday at lunchtime.

Program:

Keynote Speakers:

Jeff Horty (University of Maryland, College Park): TBA

Tom Kelly (Princeton): Historical vs. Current Time Slice Theories in Epistemology

Submitted Papers:

Fabrizio Cariani (Northwestern): Local Supermajorities

Rebecca Chan (CU Boulder): Reasons! Weighing in on the Belief Independence Debate

Juan Comesaña and Eyal Tal (Arizona): Is Evidence of Evidence Evidence?

Justin Dallmann (USC): When Obstinacy is a Better (Cognitive) Policy

Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M), Luke Fenton-Glynn (UCL), Christopher Hitchcock (Caltech), and Joel Velasco (Texas Tech): Disagreement, Agreement, and Synergy

Melissa Fusco (UC Berkeley): Causal Decision Theory's Revenge

Konstantin Genin and Kevin Kelly (Carnegie Mellon): Theory Choice, Theory Change, and Inductive Truth-Conduciveness

Jeremy Goodman and Harvey Lederman (NYU): Guise Theory

Sophie Horowitz (Rice): Credences, Truth, and Educated Guesses

Dustin Tucker (Colorado State): Still More on the Paradox of the Knower without Epistemic Closure

Commentators: TBA

For more information, please visit the conference website:

https://sites.google.com/site/juliastaffelphilosophy/few

If you’d like to come to the conference, please let us know at [email protected]

There is no registration fee.