The ECT Group has a broad range of interests in epistemology and cognate fields. As well as an interest in the traditional epistemological questions concerning knowledge, justification, internalism, externalism, and scepticism, members of the group have research interests concerning belief, assertion, norms, reasons, virtue, vice, epistemic injustice, cognitive bias, formal models of knowledge and belief, know-how, trust, entitlement, perception, illusion, self-knowledge, the methodology of epistemology, intuitions, the apriori, dogmatism, contextualism, relativism and epistemic modals.
ECT Seminar: This is a lively and friendly weekly seminar at which members of the group pilot their research, discuss recent work in epistemology, and host talks by visiting speakers. During ‘discussion’ meetings, we discuss a paper selected by a member. Please note that these meetings aren’t talks, meaning the author of the relevant paper likely won’t be present. You can find our up-to-date programme in the Arché Calendar. We meet each Thursday from 1.00pm to 2.30 pm. If you’d like to attend our meetings or be added to the mailing list, please email Lara Scheibli, lcs30@st-andrews.ac.uk
ECT Programme: Semester 1 ’24
October 10th: Viviane Fairbank
October 17th: Petronella Randell
October 31st: Justin Snedegar: Marusic and White on Peer Disagreement
November 7th: Lara Scheibli leading a discussion on Radical Externalism vs Radical Internalism (Srinivasan vs Johnson King)
November 14th: Ethan Lai leading a discussion of Martin Smith’s 2024 article ‘Is it ever rational to hold inconsistent beliefs?’
November 21st: TBC
November 28th: Philip Ebert: Varieties of Risk Pluralism
Members: Jessica Brown, Patrick Greenough, Simon Prosser, Justin Snedegar, Roy Sorensen, Sanford Goldberg, Catarina Dutilh Novaes
Research students: Pak Him Lai, Lara Scheibli, Katherine Crone, Frederik J. Andersen, Katharina Bernhard, Viviane Fairbank, Daniel Garibay Garcia, Jean Gové, Lara Jost, Nick Kuespert, Christopher Masterman, Sophie Nagler, Petronella Randell, Paolo Savino, Francisca Silva, Victor Tamburini
Associated news
SEECRs First Scottish Graduate Conference in Applied Epistemology
Arché members at European Epistemology Network Meeting
Paper accepted for Joint Session 2022: Petronella Randell
Jessica Brown – inaugural address
Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
Book Publication: Jessica Brown
Jessica Brown – elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh