Monday, March 25, 2019

Skepticism and Social Epistemology

A workshop entitled “Skepticism and Social Epistemology” will take place at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa on Monday, April ‎‎8, 2019.

Although skepticism is a central theme in epistemology, skepticism is rarely dealt with in ‎social epistemology. A rarely challenged assumption in the epistemology of testimony is ‎that subjects normally acquire knowledge and justified belief from the testimony of ‎others. However, even if we can gain knowledge from non-testimonial sources, such as ‎perception and inference, there might be special reasons why we cannot get knowledge or ‎justified belief from testimony. Our increasing reliance on technologically and ‎algorithmically mediated testimonies and phenomena such as fake news may also cast ‎doubts on our possibility of getting testimonial knowledge in general or specific cases. ‎The workshop talks address these issues. 

The speakers will be Arnon Keren, Aviv Barnoy, Boaz Miller, Bryan Frances, Maya Roman, Ori Freiman, and Sandy Goldberg. 

Attendance is is free of charge, but prior registration is required. You may see the program and register at http://philevents.org/event/show/71482 or you can register by sending an email to boaz.m@zefat.ac.il.

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Issue 9.1 of IJSS

Issue 9.1 of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism has just been published. It contains articles by Ruth Weintraub, Ali Hossein Khani, Kevin McCain, and Nenad Popovic, as well as book reviews by Scott Aikin, Annalisa Coliva, Cameron Boult, and Gerhard Schurz. It can be accessed here.

Sunday, March 10, 2019

Ancient Skepticism Workshop in Paris

Stéphane Marchand has organized a one-day workshop on ancient skepticism (“Actualités du scepticisme ancien”) to be held on March 18, from 14h to 18h, at the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne (Salle de formation), 17, rue de la Sorbonne, Paris. If you want to attend, you should register by sending an email to philo-recherche@univ-paris1.fr. Here's the program:

Richard Bett (Johns Hopkins University): “The Modes in Sextus: Theory and Practice”.

Lorenzo Corti (Université de Lorraine): “Scepticisme, croyance et doute chez les Pyrrhoniens”.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Conference “Skeptical Anthropology”

The conference “Anthropologie sceptique et modernité will take place at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon on March 13-15. For complete information, click here.