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Scepticism Conference: Conference Programme
 
 
 

Friday 12 June

19.00-12.00 Welcome Wine Reception (Well Area, The Gateway)

Saturday 13 June

9.00-10.50 Stewart Cohen (Arizona): 'Bootstrapping and Defeasible Reasons'
Respondent: Jessica Brown (St Andrews)
(Chair: Elia Zardini)
10.50-11.10 Coffee Break
11.10-13.00 Brian Weatherson (Rutgers/St Andrews): 'Probabilistic Arguments for Scepticism'
Respondent: Martin Smith (Glasgow)
(Chair: Daniele Sgaravatti)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.50 PhD student session: Aidan McGlynn (Austin): 'On Epistemic Alchemy: Entitlement, Justification, and Closure'
Respondent: Federico Luzzi (St Andrews)
(Chair: Julia Langkau)
15.50-16.10 Coffee Break
16.10-18.00 Ernest Sosa (Rutgers): 'Descartes, Scepticism, and Virtue Epistemology'
Respondent: Duncan Pritchard (Edinburgh)
(Chair: Bjorn Brodowski)
19.00 Conference Dinner at The Old Course Hotel, St Andrews

Sunday 14 June

9.00-10.50 Jonathan Vogel (Amherst): 'Explanation and the External World'
Respondent: Dylan Dodd (St Andrews)
(Chair: Josh Clarkson)
10.50-11.10 Coffee Break
11.10-13.00 Anthony Brueckner (UC Santa Barbara): '~K~SK'
Respondent: Elia Zardini (St Andrews)
(Chair: Paula Sweeney)
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.50 Roger White (MIT): 'Defeasibility and Scepticism'
Respondent: Philip Ebert (Stirling)
(Chair: Paul Dimmock)
15.50-16.10 Coffee Break
16.10-18.00 Crispin Wright (NYU/St Andrews): 'Epistemic Entitlement: Pascal, Reichenbach and the Sceptical Point of View'
Respondent: Patrick Greenough (St Andrews)
(Chair: Dylan Dodd)
18.30 Conference Closing - Whisky Tasting with David Wishart