oxford epistemology group

Previous talks

Hilary 2023

Week 2 (Jan 24th): Alex Robert talk: De Re Modality Without Counterparts
Week 3 (Jan 31st): Kurt Sylvan talk: Inference, Epistemic Priority, and the Presentational Account of Knowing
Week 4 (Feb 7th): Alison Fernandes talk: Naturalism, Functionalism, and the Metaphysics of Science
Week 5 (Feb 14th): Lizzie Fricker talk: On What Grounds May One Believe What One is Told?
Week 6 (Feb 21st): Daniel Deasy talk: Worlds and Times as Propositions
Week 7 (Feb 28th): Henry Schiller talk: Informational Chauvinism
Week 8 (Mar 7th) Nick Hughes talk: Non-Ideal Epistemic Rationality

Michaelmas 2023

Week 1 (Oct 11th): Rachel Fraser talk: Practical Assurance
Week 2 (Oct 18th): Daniel Kodsi talk: On Byrne’s ‘Making Metaphysics’
Week 3 (Oct 25th) Andreas Ditter talk: Essence and Grain
Week 4 (Nov 1st) Nick Hughes talk: Non-Ideal Epistemic Rationality [POSTPONED]
Week 5 (Nov 8th) Vincent Grandjean talk: The Bare Past
Week 6 (Nov 15th) Teru Thomas talk: Chance, Self-Location, and Anthropic Reasoning
Week 7 (Nov 22nd) Sam Carter talk: Dogmatism and Inquiry
Week 8 (Nov 29th) Alexander Bird talk: Special Composition for Objects and Properties: Information and Inference

Previous talks

Trinity 2022

Week 2 (May 3rd): Kabir Bakshi talk: Against Indirect Confirmation (in-person)
Week 3 (May 10th): Ema Sullivan-Bissett talk: Delusions (on Zoom)
Week 4 (May 17th) Sara Aronowitz talk: Revisiting the Evidence-As-Object Theory (on Zoom)
Week 5 (May 24th) David Boylan talk: Evidence and Conditional Propositions (in-person)
Week 6 (May 31st) Emmalon Davis talk: Democratic Propaganda (on Zoom)
Week 7 (June 7th) Brian Hedden talk: Counterfactual Decision Theory (in-person)
Week 8 (June 14th) Samuel Fletcher talk: Evidence in Classical Statistics (in-person)

Hilary 2022

Week 1 (Jan 20th): Nick Hughes talk: Epistemic Dilemmas Defended
Week 2 (Jan 27th): Alex Worsnip talk: Ideal Epistemological Theory as Ideology: The Case of Higher-Order Evidence
Week 3 (Feb 3rd): Carolina Flores talk: Resistant Beliefs, Responsive Believers
Week 4: (Feb 10th): Eliot Michaelson talk: Iffy Know How
Week 5 (Feb 17th): Mona Simion talk: Resistance to Evidence and the Normativity of Inquiry
Week 6 (Feb 24th) Sinan Dogramaci & Ray Buchanan talk: Belief About Probability
Week 7 (March 3rd): Sven Rosenkranz talk: Epistemology Beyond Belief
Week 8 (March 10th): Maya Krishnan talk: Two New Problems for Ideal Reasoners

Michaelmas 2021

Week 1 (Oct 15th): Lucy Campbell talk: Agentialism about Self-Knowledge: Some Sceptical Thoughts
Week 2 (Oct 22nd): Richard Pettigrew talk: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality
Week 3 (Oct 29th): Lani Watson talk: The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them
Week 4 (Nov 4th): Martin Smith talk: Risky Belief [NOTE: TAKING PLACE ON ZOOM AT 2PM ON THE THURSDAY]
Week 5 (Nov 12th): Julien Dutant talk: A Theory of Degrees of Justification
Week 6 (Nov 19th): Daniel Kodsi talk: Are Doxastic Attitudes Deliberative Dispositions? [NOTE: TAKING PLACE ON ZOOM AT 2PM ON THE THURSDAY]
Week 7 (Nov 26th): David Thorstad talk: Three Paradoxes of Bounded Rationality
Week 8 (Dec 3rd): Eliot Michaelson talk: Iffy Know How [POSTPONED]

Trinity 2021

Week 1 (April 27th): Jennifer Nagel talk: Knowledge and Knowledge Attribution in Neural Networks
Week 2 (May 4th) Steven Diggin talk: Best Belief It Because (You Know) Its True
Week 3 (May 11th): Bernhard Salow discusses Brian Hedden’s On Statistical Criteria of Algorithmic Fairness
Week 4 (May 18th): Silvia Milano & Carina Prunkl talk: Epistemic Injustice and Algorithmic Profiling
Week 5 (May 25th): Zoe Jenkin talk: Encapsulated Failures
Week 6 (June 1st): Katia Vavova talk: Yeah, you would say that, wouldn’t you?
Week 7 (June 8th): Miriam Schoenfield talk: Can Bayesianism Accommodate Higher-Order Defeat?
Week 8 (June 15th): Berislav Marusic talk: Endless Love

Hilary 2021

Week 1 (Jan 21st): Lizzie Fricker talk: Epistemic Self-Governance and Trust in the Word of Others: Is There a Conflict?
Week 2 (Jan 28th): Jack Woods discusses The Game of Belief
Week 3 (Feb 4th): Endre Begby talk: Automated Risk Assessment in the Criminal Justice Process: A Case of ‘Algorithmic Bias’? [5PM START]
Week 4 (Feb 11th): Silvia Milano & Carina Prunkl talk: Epistemic Injustice and Algorithmic Profiling [POSTPONED]
Week 5 (Feb 18th): Michael Hannon discusses: Disagreement or Badmouthing? The Role of Expressive Discourse in Politics
Week 6 (Feb 25th): Grace Helton talk: Experimental Psychology and Norms of Rationality
Week 7 (March 4th): Rachel Fraser talk: Akrasia and Mushy Credences
Week 8 (March 11th): Matthew McGrath talk: A Problem for Strict Pragmatism About Reasons for Belief

Michaelmas 2020

Week 1 (Oct 15th): Rachel Fraser leads discussion on Builes, Horowitz, and Schoenfield’s Dilating and Contracting Arbitrarily
Week 2 (Oct 22th): Robin McKenna talk: Intellectual Autonomy
Week 3 (Oct 29th): Daniel Kodsi leads discussion on Carter and Goldstein’s The Normality of Error
Week 4 (Nov 5th): Zoe Johnson King talk: Radical Internalism [LATE START – 4PM]
Week 5 (Nov 12th): Bernhard Salow talk: Epistemology Normalized
Week 6 (Nov 19th): David Thorstad talk: Inquiry and the Epistemic
Week 7 (Nov 26th): Adam Carter talk: Collateral Conflicts and Epistemic Norms
Week 8 (Dec 3rd): Timothy Williamson talk: Epistemological Ambivalence

Summer 2020

July 16th: Renee Bolinger talk: #BelieveWomen and the Ethics of Belief
July 30th: Thi Nguyen talk: Value Capture
August 13th: Jessie Munton talk: Cognitive Flexibility and the Epistemology of Search Engines
August 27th: Rima Basu talk: The Parent Trap: How Doxastic Wrongdoing Starts at Home

Trinity 2020

Week 2 (May 7th): Bob Beddor and Carlotta Pavese discuss Modal Virtue Epistemology
Week 3 (May 14th): Richard Roth leads discussion on Hawthorne & Yli-Vakkuri’s Being In A Position To Know
Week 4 (May 21st): Kevin Dorst talk “Fine-Tuning and Varieties of Divine Indifference”
Week 5 (May 28th): Clayton Littlejohn talk “n-1 Guilty Children”
Week 6 (June 4th): Maria-Rosa Antognazza talk” “The Distinction of Kind Between Knowledge and Belief”
Week 7 (June 11th): Pietro Cibinel talk “Information Value and Accuracy Gain”
Week 8 (June 18th): Matt Hewson talk

Hilary 2020

Week 1 (Jan 23rd): Rachel Fraser talk: “Beliefs are Resolutions”
Week 2 (Jan 30th): Nick Hughes leads discussion on Maria Lasonen-Aarnio’s: ‘Dispositional Evaluations and Defeat’
Week 4 (Feb 13th): Claire Field talk: “Explaining (Away) the Irrationality of Epistemic Akrasia”
Week 5 (Feb 20th): Maria-Rosa Antognazza talk: “Thinking With Assent” [CANCELLED – STRIKE ACTION]
Week 6 (Feb 27th): Beau Madison Mount talk: “Absolute Provability, Safety, and Mechanism”
Week 8 (Mar 12th): Silvia Milano talk [CANCELLED – STRIKE ACTION]

Michaelmas 2019

Week 1 (Oct 17th): Rachel Fraser leads discussion on Kurt Sylvan’s ‘An Epistemic Non-Consequentialism‘
Week 2 (Oct 24th): Bernhard Salow leads discussion on Jessica Brown’s ‘What is Epistemic Blame?‘
Week 4 (Nov 7th): Alexander Greenberg leads discussion on Daniel Greco’s ‘Justifications and Excuses in Epistemology‘
Week 5 (Nov 14th): Kevin Dorst talk: ”Overconfidence’ is Rational”
Week 6 (Nov 21st): Chris Cowie talk: ‘Probability and Normativity’
Week 8 (Dec 5th): Nick Hughes talk: ‘Epistemology Without Guidance’

Previous talks

Hilary 2023

Week 2 (Jan 24th): Alex Robert talk: De Re Modality Without Counterparts

Week 3 (Jan 31st): Kurt Sylvan talk: Inference, Epistemic Priority, and the Presentational Account of Knowing

Week 4 (Feb 7th): Alison Fernandes talk: Naturalism, Functionalism, and the Metaphysics of Science

Week 5 (Feb 14th): Lizzie Fricker talk: On What Grounds May One Believe What One is Told?

Week 6 (Feb 21st): Daniel Deasy talk: Worlds and Times as Propositions

Week 7 (Feb 28th): Henry Schiller talk: Informational Chauvinism

Week 8 (Mar 7th) Nick Hughes talk: Non-Ideal Epistemic Rationality

Michaelmas 2023

Week 1 (Oct 11th): Rachel Fraser talk: Practical Assurance

Week 2 (Oct 18th): Daniel Kodsi talk: On Byrne’s ‘Making Metaphysics’

Week 3 (Oct 25th) Andreas Ditter talk: Essence and Grain

Week 4 (Nov 1st) Nick Hughes talk: Non-Ideal Epistemic Rationality [POSTPONED]

Week 5 (Nov 8th) Vincent Grandjean talk: The Bare Past

Week 6 (Nov 15th) Teru Thomas talk: Chance, Self-Location, and Anthropic Reasoning

Week 7 (Nov 22nd) Sam Carter talk: Dogmatism and Inquiry

Week 8 (Nov 29th) Alexander Bird talk: Special Composition for Objects and Properties: Information and Inference

Previous talks

Trinity 2022

Week 2 (May 3rd): Kabir Bakshi talk: Against Indirect Confirmation (in-person)

Week 3 (May 10th): Ema Sullivan-Bissett talk: Delusions (on Zoom)

Week 4 (May 17th) Sara Aronowitz talk: Revisiting the Evidence-As-Object Theory (on Zoom)

Week 5 (May 24th) David Boylan talk: Evidence and Conditional Propositions (in-person)

Week 6 (May 31st) Emmalon Davis talk: Democratic Propaganda (on Zoom)

Week 7 (June 7th) Brian Hedden talk: Counterfactual Decision Theory (in-person)

Week 8 (June 14th) Samuel Fletcher talk: Evidence in Classical Statistics (in-person)

Hilary 2022

Week 1 (Jan 20th): Nick Hughes talk: Epistemic Dilemmas Defended

Week 2 (Jan 27th): Alex Worsnip talk: Ideal Epistemological Theory as Ideology: The Case of Higher-Order Evidence

Week 3 (Feb 3rd): Carolina Flores talk: Resistant Beliefs, Responsive Believers

Week 4: (Feb 10th): Eliot Michaelson talk: Iffy Know How

Week 5 (Feb 17th): Mona Simion talk: Resistance to Evidence and the Normativity of Inquiry

Week 6 (Feb 24th) Sinan Dogramaci & Ray Buchanan talk: Belief About Probability

Week 7 (March 3rd): Sven Rosenkranz talk: Epistemology Beyond Belief

Week 8 (March 10th): Maya Krishnan talk: Two New Problems for Ideal Reasoners

Michaelmas 2021

Week 1 (Oct 15th): Lucy Campbell talk: Agentialism about Self-Knowledge: Some Sceptical Thoughts

Week 2 (Oct 22nd): Richard Pettigrew talk: Epistemic Risk and the Demands of Rationality

Week 3 (Oct 29th): Lani Watson talk: The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them

Week 4 (Nov 4th): Martin Smith talk: Risky Belief [NOTE: TAKING PLACE ON ZOOM AT 2PM ON THE THURSDAY]

Week 5 (Nov 12th): Julien Dutant talk: A Theory of Degrees of Justification

Week 6 (Nov 19th): Daniel Kodsi talk: Are Doxastic Attitudes Deliberative Dispositions? [NOTE: TAKING PLACE ON ZOOM AT 2PM ON THE THURSDAY]

Week 7 (Nov 26th): David Thorstad talk: Three Paradoxes of Bounded Rationality

Week 8 (Dec 3rd): Eliot Michaelson talk: Iffy Know How [POSTPONED]

Trinity 2021

Week 1 (April 27th): Jennifer Nagel talk: Knowledge and Knowledge Attribution in Neural Networks

Week 2 (May 4th) Steven Diggin talk: Best Belief It Because (You Know) Its True

Week 3 (May 11th): Bernhard Salow discusses Brian Hedden’s On Statistical Criteria of Algorithmic Fairness

Week 4 (May 18th): Silvia Milano & Carina Prunkl talk: Epistemic Injustice and Algorithmic Profiling

Week 5 (May 25th): Zoe Jenkin talk: Encapsulated Failures

Week 6 (June 1st): Katia Vavova talk: Yeah, you would say that, wouldn’t you?

Week 7 (June 8th): Miriam Schoenfield talk: Can Bayesianism Accommodate Higher-Order Defeat?

Week 8 (June 15th): Berislav Marusic talk: Endless Love

Hilary 2021

Week 1 (Jan 21st): Lizzie Fricker talk: Epistemic Self-Governance and Trust in the Word of Others: Is There a Conflict?

Week 2 (Jan 28th): Jack Woods discusses The Game of Belief

Week 3 (Feb 4th): Endre Begby talk: Automated Risk Assessment in the Criminal Justice Process: A Case of ‘Algorithmic Bias’? [5PM START]

Week 4 (Feb 11th): Silvia Milano & Carina Prunkl talk: Epistemic Injustice and Algorithmic Profiling [POSTPONED]

Week 5 (Feb 18th): Michael Hannon discusses: Disagreement or Badmouthing? The Role of Expressive Discourse in Politics

Week 6 (Feb 25th): Grace Helton talk: Experimental Psychology and Norms of Rationality

Week 7 (March 4th): Rachel Fraser talk: Akrasia and Mushy Credences

Week 8 (March 11th): Matthew McGrath talk: A Problem for Strict Pragmatism About Reasons for Belief

Michaelmas 2020

Week 1 (Oct 15th): Rachel Fraser leads discussion on Builes, Horowitz, and Schoenfield’s Dilating and Contracting Arbitrarily

Week 2 (Oct 22th): Robin McKenna talk: Intellectual Autonomy

Week 3 (Oct 29th): Daniel Kodsi leads discussion on Carter and Goldstein’s The Normality of Error

Week 4 (Nov 5th): Zoe Johnson King talk: Radical Internalism [LATE START – 4PM]

Week 5 (Nov 12th): Bernhard Salow talk: Epistemology Normalized

Week 6 (Nov 19th): David Thorstad talk: Inquiry and the Epistemic

Week 7 (Nov 26th): Adam Carter talk: Collateral Conflicts and Epistemic Norms

Week 8 (Dec 3rd): Timothy Williamson talk: Epistemological Ambivalence

Summer 2020

July 16th: Renee Bolinger talk: #BelieveWomen and the Ethics of Belief

July 30th: Thi Nguyen talk: Value Capture

August 13th: Jessie Munton talk: Cognitive Flexibility and the Epistemology of Search Engines

August 27th: Rima Basu talk: The Parent Trap: How Doxastic Wrongdoing Starts at Home

Trinity 2020

Week 2 (May 7th): Bob Beddor and Carlotta Pavese discuss Modal Virtue Epistemology

Week 3 (May 14th): Richard Roth leads discussion on Hawthorne & Yli-Vakkuri’s Being In A Position To Know