3-5 October 2008
Basel, Switzerland
WORKSHOP ON COLLECTIVE EPISTEMOLOGY University of Basel Department of Philosophy and Science Studies Program 3-5 October 2008 Organized by Hans-Bernhard Schmid, Daniel Sirtes and Marcel Weber Supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel Further details: http://wifo.unibas.ch/ Everybody welcome, registration is free, but please register by e-mail (daniel.sirtes@unibas.ch <mailto:daniel.sirtes@unibas.ch>) Program: Friday, Oct. 3, Epistemology and Group Rationality 2-4 PM Miriam Solomon, Temple University: "Collective Intentionality and the Social Epistemology of Medical Consensus Conferences" Justin Biddle, University of Bielefeld: "Advocates or Unencumbered Selves? On the Role of Mill's Political Liberalism in Longino's Contextual Empiricism" 4:15-6:15 PM Don Fallis, University of Arizona: "Probabilistic Proofs and the Collective Epistemic Goals of Mathematicians" Husain Sarkar, Louisiana State University: "Group Rationality and a New Philosophical Problem" Saturday, Oct 4, Collective Intentionality in Epistemology 9:15-11:15 AM Deborah Tollefsen, University of Tennessee: "Groups as Rational Sources Anita Konzelmann Ziv, University of Basel: "Collective Epistemic Virtues" 11:30-12:30 AM Raul Hakli, University of Helsinki: “On Justification of Group Beli efs“ 2-4 PM Kay Matthiesen, University of Arizona: "Justifying Group Belief" Caroline Baumann, Cambridge University: "Gilbert on Social Norms" 4:15-5:15 PM Raimo Tuomela, University of Helsinki: "An Account of Group Knowledge" Sunday, Oct 5: Experts and Society/Epistemology, Deliberation and Democracy 9:15-11:15 AM Robert Evans, Cardiff University: "Expertise and Deliberation: Rethinking the Value of the Dis-interested Citizen" Miranda Fricker, Birkbeck College: "Forms of Institutional Virtue" 11:30-12:30 AM Fabienne Peter, University of Warwick: "Democracy and Proceduralist Social Epistemology" 2-3:30 PM Roundtable discussion