Workshop: Epistemic Reasons, Norms, and Dilemmas
Workshop des DFG-Projekts „Epistemische Dilemmata, normative Konflikte und epistemische Normativität“ am Institut vom 2.-4. September 2024.
Speakers:
Joshua Brecka (Toronto)
Tez Clark (New York)
Martin Grajner (Dortmund)
Nick Hughes (Oslo)
Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld)
Anne Meylan (Zürich)
Andy Mueller (Frankfurt)
Chenwei Nie (Warwick)
Michele Palmira (Madrid)
Eva Schmidt (Dortmund)
Keshav Singh (Birmingham (Alabama))
Timothy Williamson (Oxford)
When:
September 2-4, 2024
Where:
Emil-Figge-Str. 50, R. 2.213, Department of Philosophy and Political Science, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
We're happy to make online attendance possible to registered participants upon request.
Topics:
- What is epistemic rationality?
- Is there a unified concept of epistemic rationality?
- Or do we need to bifurcate epistemic rationality into a structural and a substantive dimension? What are the benefits of conceiving epistemic rationality as so bifurcated?
- Can there be instances of rational epistemic akrasia?
- What are epistemic reasons? Are they genuinely normative?
- What is the relation between the epistemic and the practical domains? Does the practical encroach on the epistemic?
- How do practical considerations affect ideal epistemology?
- Can there be practical reasons for belief?
- What is higher-order evidence? Is it even evidence?
- How should we deal with (apparent) epistemic dilemmas, for examples dilemmas involving higher-order evidence?
- What is the nature of suspension? Is suspension sensitive to higher-order evidence?
Schedule
Monday, September 2
10:00 – 10:10 Welcome & get together
10:10 – 11:35 Eva Schmidt “Can Normative Reasons Ground Everything Else That's Normative?” (85 min. in total, 45-55 min. for presentation plus 30-40 min. for discussion)
11:35 – 11:55 Coffee
11:55 – 13:20 Timothy Williamson “Evidence in Disguise”
13:20 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 15:55 Nick Hughes “Epistemic Dilemmas and Ought-Implies-Can Principles”
15:55 – 16:15 Coffee
16:15 – 17:40 Andy Müller “How to Resolve (Apparent) Dilemmas between the Demands of Evidence and Coherence”
17:40 – 17:50 Coffee
17:50 – 19:15 Martin Grajner “Epistemic Dilemmas, Higher-Order Evidence, and Intellectual Self-Trust”
20:00 Conference Dinner at No More Rice (Märkische Str. 62, 44141 Dortmund)
Tuesday, September 3
9:30 – 10:55 Joshua Brecka “Collective Epistemic Dilemmas“
10:55 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 12:40 Anne Meylan “Navigating the Balance Between Evidential and Zetetic Normativity”
12:40 – 13:50 Lunch
13:50 – 15:15 Michele Palmira “Epistemic Norms of Inquiry: Between Dogmatism and Anti-Dogmatism”
15:15 – 15:35 Coffee
15:35 – 17:00 Keshav Singh “The Normative Impotence of Practical Reasons for Belief”
17:00 – 17:10 Coffee
17:10 – 18:35 Benjamin Kiesewetter “Perspectivism and Dispositionalism about the Deliberative Ought“
19:30 Dinner at 60 Seconds to Napoli (Markt 5, 44137 Dortmund)
Wednesday, September 4
9:30 – 10:55 Tez Clark “Must Rationality be Stable?”
10:55 – 11:15 Coffee
11:15 – 12:40 Chenwei Nie “Why Rational People Obstinately Hold onto Irrational Beliefs:
A New Approach”
End of Conference
Attendance:
Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please register by email at epistemicnormsgmailcom. The deadline for registration is August 15, 2024.
Organizing committee:
Martin Grajner (TU Dortmund): martin.grajnertu-dortmundde
Eva Schmidt (TU Dortmund): eva.schmidttu-dortmundde
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