Suspension of Belief

On October, 26–27, the University of Mannheim will host the workshop “Suspension of Belief”. Here's the workshop's presentation:

We often suspend belief. Some questions we haven’t considered yet, others are still under investigation, and yet others seem to allow for no definite answer. We often withhold belief and, more importantly, we do so rationally. Despite its core role in our doxastic everyday life, suspension of belief has not received much attention in the epistemological literature, which has mainly focused on positive belief alone. The workshop will fill this lacuna and investigate the nature and rational profile of suspension of belief.

Confirmed speakers include Wolfgang Freitag, Tim Kraft, Sven Lauer, Errol Lord, Sven Rosenkranz, Hans Rott, Miriam Schoenfield, Marc Andree Weber, Nadja-Mira Yolcu. The program and abstracts can be found here.