Religious Epistemology

I've just found out about this forthcoming volume on religious epistemology:

D. Lukasiewitcz & R. Pouivet (eds.), The Right to Believe: Perspectives in Religious Epistemology. (Ontos, 2012). Information about the book can be found here.

I imagine that several papers discuss skepticism; at least this one definitely does: "Scepticism and Religious Belief: The Case of Sextus Empiricus," by Renata Zieminska.

PS: Another paper dealing with skepticism is Fabien Schang's "Believing the Self-Contradictory."

The Problem of the Criterion

The special issue of Philosophical Papers devoted to the problem of the criterion has finally been published. As expected, most of the pieces deal with skepticism. The issue can be found here.

A Priori Skepticism

The latest issue of PPR features the article "A Priori Skepticism" by James Beebe (Buffalo). It can be found here.

Second Issue Skepticism Journal

I'm glad to announce that the second issue of the International Journal for the Study of Skepticism is now out. You can check it out here. Among other things, this issue features a symposium on Ernest Sosa's Reflective Knowledge, with contributions by John Greco, Richard Fumerton, Michael Williams, and Sosa himself.

Latest Issue of Sképsis

Volume 4, Issue 7 of the Brazilian journal Sképsis is now out. It features papers by Roberto Bolzani Filho, Gianni Paganini, and Todd Ryan, among others. The issue is available for free here.

Issue on Arne Naess

A recent issue of the journal Inquiry is devoted to Arne Naess. One of the articles is Inga Bostad's "The Life and Learning of Arne Naess: Scepticism as a Survival Strategy." It can be found here. I think there are several problems with this paper, but it's still worth reading.

Reviews of Book on Mackie

In previous posts, I referred to a volume on Mackie's ethical skepticism, namely, A World without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory (Springer, 2010). Last year, Hallvard Lillehammer (Cambridge) published a review of this book in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. A couple of weeks ago, my own review was published in the Canadian journal Philosophy in Review.

Religious Disagreement

The following information might be of interest to those working on religious disagreement and skepticism.

Killeen Chair Conference on the Epistemology of Religious Disagreement, hosted by St. Norbert College, Green Bay, Wisconsin April 14th through 15th, 2012 (https://sites.google.com/site/killeenchair/)

Keynote Speakers:

Michael Bergmann (Purdue)
Thomas Kelly (Princeton)
Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern)

Additional Speakers:

Nathan King (Whitworth)
Jonathan Matheson (North Florida)
Andrew Moon (Missouri)
Tim Pickavance (Biola)

The organizing committee invites the submission of papers for two or three additional speakers. Papers should relate in some way to the epistemic significance of religious disagreement, and each should be suitable for a thirty-five minute presentation (roughly 3,500 words). Papers should be prepared for blind review and submitted electronically. Please send your file attached to an e-mail message in which you state your name, contact information, and the title of your paper. Preferred file formats include Word 97-2003 (.doc), Word 2007 (.docx), and PDF. Please send submissions to tomas.bogardus@snc.edu. The deadline for submissions is Friday, February 10th, 2012. The organizing committee warmly invites all interested philosophers to attend and participate in the conference. If you plan to attend, please email Tomas Bogardus at the above address so that we can plan to accommodate the group's size. Commentators will be selected for some papers. If you would be willing to comment, please indicate your interest in an email (with a current CV attached) by Friday, February 10th, 2012. One need not present a paper in order to serve as a commentator. For further information on the Killeen Chair in Theology & Philosophy, please visit http://www.snc.edu/killeen/.

Closure and Skepticism

The latest issue of Pacific Philosophical Quarterly features "No Closure on Skepticism," by Y. Avnur, A. Brueckner, and C. Bubord. The paper can be found here.

Medieval Skepticism

On November 9-10, an "atelier" on medieval philosophy entitled "Vérités probables, scepticisme et autorité" will be held at the Université de Fribourg (Switzerland). On the first day, there will be a talk and a workshop on skepticism:

15:15-16:45 (Miséricorde, salle 3115)

Conférence

Christophe Grellard (maître de conférences, Université Paris I-Sorbonne): "Le scepticisme au moyen âge".

17:15-19:00 (Miséricorde, salle 2122 AB)

Workshop

"Le scepticisme de Jean de Salisbury" sous la direction de Christophe Grellard.

For more information, you can contact the organizers at catherine.koenig-pralong@unifr.ch

Neo-Moorean Response to the Skeptic

Adam Carter (Belfast) recently published "Radical Skepticism, Closure, and Robust Knowledge," Journal of Philosophical Reasearch 36 (2011): 115-33. The contents of this journal are available on the Philosophy Documentation Center: click here.

The Moral Error Theory

A couple of years ago, Stephen Finlay published "The Error in the Error Theory," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 86 (2008): 347-69. There is now a response by Richard Joyce, "The Error in ‘The Error in the Error Theory'," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (2011): 519-34, together with a reply by Finlay, "Errors Upon Errors: A Reply to Joyce," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 89 (2011): 535-47.

Serbian Book on Ancient Skepticism

During my short visit to Baltimore, I found out about a book on ancient skepticism published in Belgrade a few years ago:

Skeptički priručnik 1: Antički skepticizam (A Handbook on Skepticism 1: Ancient Skepticism). Beograd: Filozofski fakultet / Institut za filozofiju, 2007. 

The book contains an introduction by Pavle Stojanović (PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins), and a Serbian translation of Sextus Empiricus' Outlines of Pyrrhonism, book I, and of Cicero's Academica.

Review of Scepticism Comes Alive

Jonathan Adler's review essay of Bryan Frances' Scepticism Comes Alive (OUP, 2005) has just appeared in PPR. The paper can be found here.