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. FEW20101018 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.