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Workshop on Collective Epistemology

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