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Knowledge and its Limits at 20

NEW! Knowledge and its Limits at 20 Conference to be held online and at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, 5-6 November 2020.

Invited speakers: Jessica Brown (St Andrews), Pascal Engel (EHESS, Paris), Anne Meylan (Zurich), Jennifer Nagel (Toronto), Johannes Roessler (Warwick), Timothy Williamson (Oxford).

Timothy Williamson's Knowledge and its Limits has a good claim to being the most influential monograph in contemporary epistemology. Knowledge and its Limits is a major source of current debates about the nature and norms of assertion and belief, the difficulties attending the analysis of knowledge as justified true belief, and the anti-luminosity of knowledge, and has inspired many to pursue a knowledge-centered approach to such issues as confirmation, evidence, and justification. Williamson's "knowledge-first" program has been widely debated and even its staunchest opponents admit that it is a force to be reckoned with in the contemporary epistemological landscape.

The twentieth anniversary of the publication of Knowledge and its Limits seems a perfect occasion to assess the book’s contribution and the research program it generated with a degree of hindsight and to evaluate the implications of the knowledge-first approach in areas beyond epistemology such as the philosophy of mind and philosophy of action. This is the rationale behind the international conference Knowledge and its Limits at 20 (Geneva, 5-6 November 2020). We hope that it will provide a comprehensive assessment of the knowledge-first approach, as well as opening up new perspectives on its implications both inside and outside epistemology.

***PROGRAM***

ALL TIMES ARE GENEVA, SWITZERLAND TIMES.

 Thursday, November 5 (Geneva time)

11.00 Timothy Williamson, Oxford: Where did it come from, where will it go? video

14.00 Anne Meylan, University of Zurich: Is Knowledge the Norm of Emotions?” video

15.45 Jessica Brown, Saint Andrews: Blameless belief video

17.15 Parallel Session 1. (30 min for presentation and 15 min for Q&A)

[Session 1A] Bob Beddor, National University of Singapore and Carlotta Pavese, Cornell University: Skills as Knowledge video

[Session 1B] Max Goetsch, Freie Universität Berlin: Knowledge and its Modality video

 

Friday, November 6 (Geneva time)

9.30 Johannes Roessler, Warwick: Do we need a theory of perceptual justification? video

11.00 Pascal Engel, EHESS, Paris: Can there be a knowledge first social epistemology ? video

14.00 Jennifer Nagel, Toronto: The hidden primacy of knowledge (and its limits) video references

15.45 Parallel session 2

[Session 2A] Dario Mortini, University of Glasgow: Knowledge-first: Metaphysical Credentials video

[Session 2B] Yair Levy, Tel Aviv University: The Priority of Intentional Action: From Developmental to Conceptual Priority video

16.45 Parallel session 3

[Session 3A] Michael Cohen, Stanford University: Inexact Knowledge and Dynamic Introspection video

[Session 3B] Wes Skolits, University of St Andrews/Rutgers University: Perception as a Way of Knowing: A Defense video

 

***REGISTRATION FOR ZOOM***

For people not physically present in Geneva who are interested in attending the talk via zoom, there are two links for registration. Link 1: to register for keynote talks and parallel sessions A. Please register by clicking on the following link: https://unige.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iMERfZzqTkS1ODlaUo066g. Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email. From then on, you will be able to virtually attend keynote talks during both days just by clicking on the same link above, at the scheduled time. Link  2: to register for talks of the parallel sessions B, please click here: https://unige.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O0woqyzVQeClk61kzaGnZA

If you want to attend the conference online, please register before November 4.

 

*** ABSTRACTS***

Abstracts for parallel sessions are here. 

***IN PERSON ATTENDANCE***

There will be no in-person attendance.

 

Talks will be recorded and available online after the conference on the conference website.

The conference is part of the "Knowledge, Action, and Factive Mental States" project (PI: prof. Fabrice Teroni). Conference organizers: Fabrice Teroni and Arturs Logins.

 

Contact for more information: Arturs.Logins AT uzh.ch; Fabrice.Teroni AT unige.ch

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NEW: CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ONLINE!

Knowledge and its Limits at 20 Conference, University of Geneva, Switzerland, 14-15 May 2020, 5-6 November 2020 (RESCHEDULED)

Invited speakers: Jessica Brown (St Andrews), Pascal Engel (EHESS, Paris), Anne Meylan (Zurich), Jennifer Nagel (Toronto), Johannes Roessler (Warwick), Timothy Williamson (Oxford).

The deadline for submission of abstracts (max. 1000 words and min. 700 words) is January 15, 2020