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The Epistemology of Perception & the Perceptual Analogy Workshop
Plato’s Theatetus identified knowledge with perception. While this identity claim may go too far, the two notions are intimately related. At the very least, perceiving that something is the case is a paradigm explanation of how one is positioned to know it is the case. We invoke this sort of paradigm not only in sense perception proper but in connection with domains traditionally taken to be far removed from the sensible, such as mathematics and linguistic comprehension. For almost any…
Find out more »Externalism and Conceptual Change Workshop
Classic work by Kripke, Putnam, Burge, and others have led many philosophers to maintain that the meanings of our words and the contents of our mental states are determined at least in part by factors outside of us: for example, on some views meaning is determined in part by causal or evolutionary history, or by facts about a speaker's physical or social environment. But at least since Evans's critique of the causal theory of names, it has been clear that…
Find out more »JoshParsonsFest
We will be hosting a memorial conference at Arché, St Andrews, to celebrate the life and work of Josh Parsons. Speakers include: Roy Cook, Joe Diekemper, Patrick Greenough, Katherine Hawley, Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, Dan Loper De Sa, Jodie Kerper, Daniel Nolan, Simon Prosser, Agustin Rayo, Marcus Rossberg, Robbie Williams, Crispin Wright and Elia Zardini. It is going to be a proper celebration: full of philosophy (done in Josh's style), laughter, great memories, a little whisky (of which Josh was a bit of an expert), and experimental eleatic hangover…
Find out more »11th Arché Graduate Conference
The 11th Arché Graduate Conference will be an international event that will select talented graduate students from around the world for two days of research-led presentations and discussion, and provide students with the opportunity to engage with the work of two distinguished keynote speakers. Call For Papers We invite graduate students to submit high-quality papers for presentation in the main Arché research areas (Epistemology, Language, Logic, Metaphilosophy, Metaphysics, Mind) broadly construed, as well as related areas. We especially encourage submissions…
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