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 2 ’25
April 24. Patrick Winther-Larsen ‘Exposing wrongdoing and blame’
May 1 Philip Ebert (Stirling). Excuses.
May 8th (no meeting due to workshop next day)
May 9. (Friday) Knowledge and society workshop. Speakers to include Peter Graham (U California Riverside), Amiya Haskes (St Andrews), Jesper Kallestrup (Aberdeen), Jack Lyons (Glasgow) and Lara Scheibli (St Andrews). Venue: The Philosophy Department, Room G03, Edgecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews. (With G01 for catering)
May 15th, Tianxiang Xu. Epistemic consequentialism
May 22nd Ethan Lai. Fragmentation and personal probabilism
May 29 Sandy Goldberg. TBA
June 5th no meeting due to dept reflectorium
June 11 (Wednesday): Workshop on normativity. Speakers to include: Sophia Dandelet (Cambridge), Chris Kelp (Glasgow), Richard Pettigrew (Bristol), Debbie Roberts (Edinburgh). Venue: The Philosophy Department, Room 104, Edgecliffe, The Scores, St Andrews. (With G01 for catering)
June 12th no meeting due to workshop previous day
June 19th James Shearer (WUSTL): Understanding Why (JAB away Helsinki)
June 26th Zoe Johnson-King (Harvard) – in person talk. TBA
Members: Jessica Brown, Patrick Greenough, Simon Prosser, Justin Snedegar, Sanford Goldberg
Research students: Amiya Hashkes, Pak Him Lai, Lara Scheibli, Katharina Bernhard, Viviane Fairbank, Sophie Nagler, Petronella Randell, Francisca Silva
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