CFP: The Cologne Knowledge Router

Submission deadline: May 5, 2022

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The Cologne Knowledge Router: Call for Commentators

  The Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT) organizes an online talk series: The Cologne Knowledge Router. For each of the installments of The Router, CONCEPT invites established philosophers to present their work on a topic within the scope of traditional, social, and formal epistemology. By including early career scholars as commentators, The Router supports a horizontal knowledge transfer on all levels of experience. The main aim of each meeting is an interactive discussion on the presented topic.


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The ninth installment of The Cologne Knowledge Router will take place on May 13, 2022 at 6 p.m. CET, and it will be held via Zoom.

Exactly as any of the other installments, it will consist of a talk by the keynote speaker and a commentary by one or two early career respondents. The keynote speaker will have around 30 minutes to present their paper. Each respondent will then have about 10 minutes to comment on the speaker’s paper. The Q&A will be a further 30 minutes.

We are excited to announce that our keynote speaker will be  Nathan Ballantyne (Fordham University). He will give a talk entitled ‘Do Your Own Research’. The abstract is below:
This talk shares ongoing collaborative work undertaken with Jared Celniker (University of California, Irvine, Psychological Science) and David Dunning (University of Michigan, Psychology) on an emerging element in debate and inquiry: DYOR. (Haven’t heard of the acronym? Then Do Your Own Research.) The slogan is flexible and versatile, used frequently on social media platforms, in communication about topics from medical science to financial investing to conspiracy theories. We use conceptual and empirical resources, drawn from philosophy and psychology, to examine key questions about the slogan’s operation in human cognition and epistemic culture.  


Submissions:

The commentators will be selected on the basis of a call for expressions of interest. We thus invite submissions of letters of a maximum length of 500 words showing interest in commenting on the speaker’s paper. Along with their letters, applicants may also submit their Curricula Vitae. Submissions from academics from underrepresented groups in philosophy are especially encouraged.

The submission deadline is May 5, 2022.

All submissions and related inquiries should be sent to: [email protected].

Expect notifications about the outcome on May 6, 2022.  

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