19-20 May 2008
Duesseldorf, Germany
Reliable Knowledge & Social Epistemology - The Philosophy of Alvin Goldman Duesseldorf, May 19-20, 2008 Organization: Gerhard Schurz and Markus Werning Website: http://goldman.uni-duesseldorf.de The workshop celebrates Goldman's groundbreaking contributions to contemporary epistemology. Attendance is free and open to all. If you plan to attend, please contact us at werning@phil.uni-duesseldorf.de by April 20, 2008. Schedule Monday, May 19 9:00 Thomas Grundmann (University of Cologne) Reliabilism and the Problem of Defeaters 10:00 Markus Werning (University of Düsseldorf) Menon’s Problem, Reliability, and the Evolution of Knowers 11:00 Oliver Scholz (University of Münster) Experts – What They Are and How We Recognize Them 14:00 Peter Baumann (University of Aberdeen) Problems of Reliabilism 15:00 Elke Brendel (University of Mainz) Social Veritistic Epistemology and Epistemic Relativism 16:00 Gerhard Schurz (University of Düsseldorf) Reliabilist Social Epistemology and Third Person Internalism Evening Lecture 18:15 Alvin Goldman (Board of Governors Professor in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, Rutgers University) Externalism, Internalism, and the Architecture of Justification Tuesday, May 20 9:00 Johannes Brandl (University of Salzburg) How Privileged Is Our Self-Knowledge? Some Problems for Goldman’s T heory of Self-Attribution 10:00 Albert Newen (University of Bochum) Social Epistemology: An Evaluation of Simulation Theory 11:00 Michael Baurmann (University of Düsseldorf) What Should the Voter Know? Epistemic Trust in Democracy 14:00 Christian Piller (University of York) The Value of Knowledge Problem 15:00 Christoph Jäger (University of Aberdeen) Goldman on Epistemic Values 16:00 Erik J. Olsson (Lund University) In Defense of the Goldman-Olsson Solution to the Swamping Problem Each talk (30 min) will be followed by a 10 min reply by Alvin Goldman and a 10 min general discussion. The sessions will take place in room 46A, level 0 of building 23.21. The evening lecture will be held vis-à-vis in lecture hall 3E.