CFP: The Significance of Higher-Order Evidence

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (Cologne, Deadline: April 15, 2018)  

Venue and Date:

The workshop “The Significance of Higher-Order Evidence” takes place at the University of Cologne (Germany) on September 21, 2018. It is a satellite workshop of GAP.10. (GAP.10 ends one day earlier on September 20, 2018.)

Purpose of the Workshop:

The purpose of the workshop is to bring together epistemologists who work on higher-order evidence. We are especially interested in debates concerning:

• conceptions of higher-order evidence
• epistemic akrasia
• evidence of evidence
• higher-order evidence and deductive reasoning
• higher-order evidence and defeaters
• higher-order evidence and disagreement
• higher-order evidence and suspension of judgement
• higher-order evidence, propositional and doxastic justification
• modeling higher-order evidence  

Invited Speakers:

• Kevin Dorst (MIT) together with Branden Fitelson (Northeastern)
• Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Helsinki)
• Thomas Raleigh (Bochum)
• Timothy Williamson (Oxford)

Organizers:

• Anna-Maria A. Eder (Northeastern) 
• Charlotte Werndl (LSE & Salzburg).  

Submissions:

We welcome submissions for additional talks. If you want to give a talk, please submit an extended anonymous abstract of not more than 1500 words (PDF) and a short anonymous abstract of not more than 150 words (PDF) to Kathrin Hommel ([email protected]) by April 15, 2018 (11:59 pm, UTC+1). The subject line of the email should be: “The Significance of Higher-Order Evidence”.

Please keep in mind that each presentation will be one hour long, including 15 to 20 minutes for the Q&A session.

Expect results by the end of May 2018.   Workshop related information is available here: