Recent work in the philosophy of knowledge has lead to a
rediscovery—or a rethinking—of the relationships between
knowledge and action. What is the role of knowledge in the
explanation of action and in practical reasoning? To what extent do
knowers have to be agents and can knowledge be defined in relation to
what the knower does? Are beliefs and judgements in some sense
actions? Are there connexions between epistemic reasons and practical
reasons, and if there are, what are they? Is there a difference
between knowledge and the activity of inquiry? These are, in a sense,
traditional questions, which have also a long record within the
pragmatist tradition, from Peirce and Ramsey to Isaac Levi, and which
can be examined from many angles, from epistemology to philosophy of
mind and issues about practical reasoning or meta-ethics. The aim of
this conference, which is to examine these issues from a number of
aspects, starting from the question: can there be epistemic agency
?
The conference will follow a one-week visit by John
Greco (Saint Louis), a leading theorist in virtue epistemology,
and include a symposium on his work. See the John Greco's lectures
webpage or the programme below.
The conference is organised by Prof. P. Engel's Episteme group at Department of
Philosophy, University of Geneva, within the FNS project on Knowledge,
Reasons and Norms.
NEW (April 19th). A preliminary version of the conference booklet is
available
for download (.pdf). It contains the abstracts as well as the programme. You can download the Programme (.pdf) separately.
Invited Speakers
Fabian
Dorsch (Fribourg), "Rationality and The Limits of Epistemic
Agency"
Olav
Gjelsvik (Oslo), "Action, Agency and Knowledge"
John
Greco (Saint Louis), "Knowledge as Success From Ability".
The deadline for submitting paper is over. Submitted papers have
been selected on the basis of anonymous review by members of the
comittee. Here is the list of speakers whose submissions have been
selected:
Guy Axtell (Nevada)
Christian W. Bach (HEC Lausanne)
Jason Baehr (Loyola Marymont)
Martijn Blaauw (VU Amsterdam)
Matthew Boyle (Harvard / Basel)
Fernando Brocano (Carlos III Madrid) et Jesús Vega (Autonoma
Madrid)
J. Adam Carter (Edinburgh)
Timothy Chan (East Anglia)
Matthew Chrisman (Edinburgh)
Rémi Clot-Goudard (Grenoble)
Thomas Crowther (Heythrop College)
Daniel Dohrn (Konstanz)
Trent Dougherty (Rochester)
Miguel Ángel Fernández (Mexico)
Benoit Gaultier (Paris XII / IJN)
Mikkel Gerken (Copenhaguen)
David Hunter (Ryerson)
Anita Konzelmann Ziv (Basel)
Berislav Marusic (Brandeis)
Alberto Masala (Paris)
Conor McHugh (Edinburgh)
Rik Peels (Utrecht)
Uwe Riss (Karlsruhe)
Sergi Rosell Traver (València)
Bursaries
Five bursaries covering accomodation costs have been offered to
graduates and junior researchers. No further bursaries are
available.
Scientific Committee
Fabian Dorsch (Fribourg and Geneva)
Julien Dutant (Geneva)
Pascal Engel (Geneva)
John Greco (Saint Louis)
Anne Meylan (Geneva and Neuchâtel)
Roger Pouivet (Nancy)
Joëlle Proust (Institut Jean Nicod, Paris)
John Greco's Episteme lectures on epistemic
normativity
Here is the programme:
Tuesday, apr 22th, 16h-18h. Epistemic Normativity: A
Virtue-theoretic approach.
Wednesday, apr 23th, 16-18h. Epistemic Normativity:
Problems for everyone.
Thursday, apr 24th, 14-16h. Epistemic Normativity: Problems
for reliabilism.
Thursday, apr 24th, 16h-18h. Discussion session on virtue
epistemology.
See also the dedicated
webpage. The venue for the lectures will be announced soon.
Venue
The conference takes place in rooms B101 and B111, Uni
Bastions. Uni Bastions is the main university building
located at 2 rue de Candolle. Enter it and go to the first floor,
room B101 on the left, and room B111 on the right. There is a photo
of the building here.
To get there from the airport, the simplest and
quickest way is to take a train. Follow the sign "Geneve - Centre" at
the airport train station and take any train, they all trains stop at
the main train station (first stop). Then take the tram as indicated
below. (40 min, ticket 3 CHF or 2eur to be bought at the airport
train station. The ticket covers the tram journey as well.)
To get there from the train station, take trams
13 or 15 direction Palettes to Plainpalais. (10 mins, ticket 3 CHF or
2eur to be bought at the tram stop.)
To move around in Geneva, the simplest way by far
is to use public transportation - and if you have booked an
hotel in Geneva, they have to provide you with a free day
pass for all public transportation, do not forget to ask for
it. The public transport company (TPG) have a useful route planner.The
locations of the bus and tramway stops around the department and the
main university building (Bastions) are indicated on the following
plan, which is downloadable as gif, pdf and jpg
(courtesy eidos!).
Epistemic Agency
Conference
