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2023 Edgington Lectures

‘Epistemic Agency’

Professor Catherine Elgin (Harvard)

Starts: 5 May 2023, 13:00

Finishes: 6 May 2023, 20:00

Venue: Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street

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The Edgington Lectures are a biennial pair of lectures held in the Department of Philosophy of Birkbeck, University of London. This year the lectures will be given by Dr Catherine Elgin. The lectures are free to attend and open to all, and each pair is accompanied by a graduate workshop in philosophy devoted to, and led by, the work of that year’s Edgington lecturer.

Friday 5th May

Room B30, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square

• 10.00 Coffee
• 10.30 ‘Motivational Approaches to Epistemic Corruption’, Taylor Matthews, University of Nottingham
• 11.45 ‘Understanding and Epistemic Value, Combatting Veritism’, Kellan Daniel Leo Head, Syracuse University
• 13.00 Lunch
• 14.00 ‘An Understanding-Centric Approach to the Epistemology of Testimony’, Ross Patrizio, University of Glasgow
• 15.15 Tea
• 15.30 ‘Art Lacks Discipline’, Christopher Earley, University of Warwick
• 16.45 End

Room B33, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square

• 18.00 Edgington Lecture: ‘Epistemic Autonomy’
  Catherine Elgin, Harvard University

Saturday 6th May

Room B30, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square

• 10.00 Coffee
• 10.30 ‘Elgin on scientific representation exemplification and epistemic normativity’, Stefan Sleeuw, University of Groningen
• 11.45 ‘Justification and the Community: Reflections on Dummett and Elgin’, Alex Murphy, Cambridge University
• 13.00 Lunch
• 14.00 ‘The Role of Personal Style in Epistemic Normativity’, Jack Idris Sagar, University of Bristol
• 15.15 Tea
• 15.30 ‘How to comply with the epistemic imperative’, Giulia Luvisotto
• 16.45 End

Room B33, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square

• 18.00 Edgington Lecture: ‘Epistemic Community’
  Catherine Elgin, Harvard University