Common Sense Epistemology

In epistemology, the common sense approach is one of the options used to answer to the sceptical arguments. It has been accused of naivety and dogmatism for a long time, but it appears now as a relevant theory which renews our understanding of human knowledge. But which theory do we refer to ? If common sense epistemology surely constitutes a philosophy, are we entitled to consider it as one philosophy ? What does it offer: a method to tackle scepticism or a substantial thesis about first principles of knowledge? Common sense epistemology, under the banner of Reid and Moore, is not a theory whose edges are clear-cut. The two-days conference will be the occasion to draw the portrait of the commonsense philosopher and to show that this anti-sceptical strategy is far from being commonplace.

Program

June 19, 2018

10h00 : Accueil

10h25 : Introduction

10h30 - 11h20 : « Le sens commun est-il un sens ? L’apport de Claude Buffier » Jean-Christophe Bardout, Université de Rennes 1

11h20 - 12h10 : « The Delineation of Common Sense » René van Woudenberg, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

Déjeuner

14h - 14h50 : « A Plea for a Critical Commonsensism » Claudine Tiercelin, Collège de France

14h50 – 15h40 : " Common Sense Epistemology as a Generativist Meta-Philosophy" Jean-Baptiste Gullon, Collège de France 

Pause

16h – 16h50 : « L’émotion du ridicule » Roger Pouivet, Université de Lorraine

16h50 – 17h40  : « Common Sense and Deep Epistemic Disagreements » Angélique Thébert, Université de Nantes

June 20, 2018

9h30 – 10h20 : « Hinges are Known » Pascal Engel, EHESS

10h20 – 11h10 : « Common Sensein Reid’sResponseto Scepticism» Patrick Rysiew, University of Victoria, Canada

Pause

11h30 – 12h20 : « The Weight of Common Sense » Noah Lemos, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg (Virginia)

Déjeuner

14h – 14h50 : "Common Sense in the Epistemology of the Social Sciences: from Reid to Boudon" Laurent Jaffro, Université de Paris 1

14h50 – 15h40 : « Common Sense and Comparative Linguistics » Lucas Thorpe, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul