Workshop on Recent Perspectives on Knowledge and Agency

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 Jesús Vega-Encabo (Universidad Autónoma 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 Jesús Navarro-Reyes (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain): Knowledge-how as abilities
15:00 Juan González (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, México) : 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 Jérôme 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 Ávila (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 Autónoma 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 Jesús Vega Encabo 
FFI2011-25131: "Agency, normativity and identity. The presence of the subject in action".

Coordinated by Fernando Broncano Rodríguez

CONSOLIDER-PERSP 2009-2013, CSD2009-00056: "Facts and thoughts in perspective" Group 9: "Applied philosophy". Coordinated by Josep Corbí

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