This week, we鈥檒l be discussing epistemic consequentialism. I鈥檒l start by giving some background on the topic more generally and presenting some problems that have been raised for it in the literature, and then spend most of the time on Andersen and Kappel鈥檚 article 鈥淓pistemic consequentialism as a metatheory of inquiry鈥�. Here is the abstract for…
Ethan Lai will lead a discussion on ‘What are epistemic standards’ by Laura Frances Callahan and Michael G. Titelbaum. This is the abstract for the paper: Abstract: Over the past two decades, a new concept has gained prominence in epistemology: 鈥渆pistemic standards鈥�. We catalog the functional roles of epistemic standards, including their role in explaining…
Philip Ebert (University of Stirling): Varieties of Risk Pluralism (joint work 聽with N. Pedersen) The dominant approach in the literature on risk is to adopt a monist stance by taking the probabilistic notion of risk to be the only proper notion. However, there is a growing philosophical literature on non-probabilistic notions of risk. In this…
This Friday, the Arch茅 term wraps up with another all-day all-Arch茅 get-together, featuring research presentations聽from Sabina Dom铆nguez Parrado, Lara Scheibli, Stephen Read, and Franz Berto, and five-minute lightning talks聽from brave presenters including Jessica Brown, Simon Prosser, Christopher Masterman, and more. We’ll be in G03 from 9:30am. 9:45: Stephen Read (Insolubles in Fourteenth-Century Logic, or: What…
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