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Epistemic Breakthroughs Workshop
24th June 2022 - 25th June 2022
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EPISTEMIC BREAKTHROUGHS: A WORKSHOP
University of St Andrews
When?
Friday, June 24th
Saturday, June 25th
Where?
Lecture Room 2, at St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews
What’s it about?
Our epistemic lives are marked by discoveries, changes of mind, epiphanies (if we are lucky), and ‘turning points’ – some of them potentially radical in nature. We may call these events epistemic breakthroughs. This philosophical workshop invites participants to think about the nature, varieties, and causation of such breakthroughs, as well as about their role in politics, society, and personal life.
How do I attend online?
For those who would like to attend online, we will be live-streaming the event. To attend the live-stream, you must register at the link below (Please note that, while we may take questions from the online audience, priority will be given to in person discussion):
Programme
24th June
09:00 – 9:30: Arrival and coffee
09:30 – 11:00 Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern) “What do Speakers Deserve? The Ethics and Epistemology of #BelieveWomen”
Commentator: Susanne Burri (Universität Konstanz)
11:15 – 12:45 Fabienne Peter (Warwick) “On Trusting Your Own Political Judgment”
Commentator: Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt)
12:45 – 13:45: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Catarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam) “Can Arguments Change Minds?”
Commentator: Jim Weatherall
15:45 – 17:15 Rachel Fraser (Oxford) “Understanding is Seeing”
Commentator: Justin Snedegar (St Andrews)
25th June
09:00 – 9:30: Arrival and coffee
09:30 – 11:00 Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open University) “Epiphanies”
Commentator: Julia Driver (Texas at Austin)
11:15 – 12:45 Adam Etinson (St Andrews) “Inducing Wonder”
Commentator: Louise Hanson (Oxford)
12:45 – 1:45: Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 C. Thi Nguyen (Utah) “Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude”
Commentator: Natalie Ashton (Stirling)
15:45 – 17:15 Cailin O’Connor (UC Irvine) “Interdisciplinarity Can Aid the Spread of Better Methods Between Scientific Communities”
Commentator: Katharina Bernhard (St Andrews)