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Formal Epistemology Workshop

15-16 Oct 2010
Copenhagen, Denmark

Copenhagen-NIP Formal Epistemology Workshop
Venue: Room 23.4.39, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

Friday October 15:
9.00 � 9.30: Coffee
9.30 � 11.00: Olivier Roy (Groningen) : Agreement Theorems, Moral 
Cognitivism and Deliberative Democracy
11.15 � 12.45: Sonja Smets (Groningen) and Alexandru Baltag (Oxford):� 
TBA
12.45 � 14.00: Lunch
14.00 � 15.30: Hannes Leitgeb (Bristol and LMU München): Reducing Belief 
Simpliciter to Degrees of Belief
15.45 � 17.15: Branden Fitelson (Rutgers): Knowledge from� non-knowledge
18.30 � : Workshop dinner

Saturday October 16:
9.30 � 10.00: Coffee
10.00 � 11.30: Tomoji Shogenji (Rhode Island): The Role of Coherence� in 
the Transmission of Testimonial Justification
11.45 � 13.15: Erik Olsson (Lund): Setting the Threshold of Assertion:� A 
Simulation Study in Social Epistemology
13.15 � 14.15: Lunch
14.15 � 15.45: Stephan Hartmann (Tilburg): No-Alternatives Arguments
Webpage: http://www.nikolajpedersen.com/few2010101516.html

Registration: Attending the workshop is free, but lunch is 140 D.kr.� 
(covers both Friday and Saturday) and the workshop dinner 500 D.kr.� 
People who wish to attend the workshop must register by emailing� Nikolaj 
J. L. L. Pedersen (nikolaj@ucla.edu) no later than Friday� October 8. In 
the email it should be indicated which of the meals are� wanted, if any. 
Payment for meals must be made in cash at the� beginning of the workshop.

Funding: The workshop is funded by Prof. Vincent Hendricks� Elite� 
Research Prize, awarded in 2008 by the Danish Ministry for Science and� 
Innovation, and the Northern Institute of Philosophy, University of� 
Aberdeen.

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Monday October 18:

9.00 � 9.30: Coffee
9.30 � 10.50: Martin Smith (Glasgow): Entitlement and Evidence
10.50 � 12.10: Tomoji Shogenji (Rhode Island): TBA
12.10 � 13.10: Lunch break
13.10 � 14.30: Julien Dutant (Geneva): Methods Models for Belief and 
Knowledge
14.30 � 15.50:�  Jens Christian Bjerring (ANU/Copenhagen): Non-Ideal 
Epistemic Spaces

Webpage: http://www.nikolajpedersen.com/few20101018.html

Funding: The workshop is funded by Prof. Vincent Hendricks� Elite� 
Research Prize, awarded in 2008 by the Danish Ministry for Science and� 
Innovation.