Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology


The purpose of the University of Miami Graduate Student Conference in Epistemology is to facilitate the exchange of ideas among graduate students and current major figures in epistemology as well as to foster an interdepartmental community of philosophers interested in epistemology.   The conference is held annually and features a keynote address by a major figure in contemporary epistemology, several invited papers from promising philosophers in the field, and a number of selected graduate student presentations.  Each year the conference highlights a specific theme or range of topics.  The annual call for papers invites graduate students to submit a paper on the annual theme or in any area of epistemology.  Graduate students whose papers are selected for the conference are provided with accommodations for their stay in Miami. 


Submission Guidelines

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami invites submissions for its next annual graduate student conference in epistemology. We are especially interested this year, in papers concerned with modal epistemology, but welcome submissions from graduate students in any area of epistemology. The Department will pay for accommodation and meals for all speakers.

  1. Papers should be received by November 13, 2009.
  2. Papers should be no more than 3,000 words or 30 minutes reading time.
  3. Papers should be prepared for blind review, and accompanied with a title page including:

    a. Author’s name
    b. Academic status and affiliation
    c. Contact information (e-mail address preferably)
    d. 150 word abstract
     
  4. Send electronic copies in Word or PDF format to n.wiltsher@umiami.edu or send two paper copies to the  following address: Nick Wiltsher, UM Philosophy Department, PO BOX 248054, Coral Gables, FL 33124-4670, USA

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7th Annual Conference (2010)
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6th Annual Conference (2009)
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Keynote Address: "What is the Problem of Induction?"
Author: Gilbert Harman
Affiliation: Princeton University 

Title: "Possible Disagreements and Defeat"

Author: Brandon Carey

Affiliation: University of Rochester

 

Title: "What Is So Bad About Epistemic Circularity?"

Author: Ian MacMillan

Affiliation: University of Iowa

 

Title: "Which Motivation is Valuable?: A Revision of Zagzebski's Theory of the Value of Knowledge"

Author: Daniel L. Crescenzo

Affiliation: University of Georgia

 

Title: "Can A Priori Justified Belief Be Extended Through Deduction?"

Author: Ari Krupnick

Affiliation: Massachusetts of Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

Title: "Experience and the A Priori"

Author: Jamie Watson

Affiliation: Florida State University

 

Alumnus Speaker: "Knowledge of Non-Existence"

Author: Jeremy Morris

Affiliation: Ohio University
 


5th Annual Conference (2008)
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Keynote Address: "Improbable Knowing"

Author: Timothy Williamson

Affiliation: Oxford University

 

Title: "Is Knowability Factive?"

Author: Davide Fassio

Affiliation: University of Padua

 

Title: "Blameworthy, Yet Epistemically Justified"

Author: Jonathan Matheson

Affiliation: University of Rochester

 

Title: "Quantum Gravity and Formal Epistemology"

Author: Mark Shumelda

Affiliation: University of Toronto

 

Title: "Knowledge Closure and Evidential Defeaters"

Author: John Shoemaker

Affiliation: University of Rochester

 

Title: "The Log-likelihood Ratio Measure as the Bayesian Measure of Scientific Confirmation"

Author: Jordan Delange

Affiliation: University of Houston

 

Endnote Address: "Evidence Per Se"

Author: Edward Erwin

Affiliation: University of Miami

 


 

4th Annual Conference (2007)
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Keynote Address: "Knowledge, Certainty, Assertion"

Author: Jason Stanley

Affiliation: Rutgers University

 

Title: "Context-Sensitivity and Interest Relativity in Knowledge Attributions"

Author: Matthew Benton

Affiliation: Rutgers University

 

Title: "How We Choose Our Beliefs"

Author: Greg Salmieri

Affiliation: University of Pittsburg

 

Title: "Testimony Reductionism and the Condorcet Jury Theorem"

Author: Kelly Trogdon

Affiliation: University of Massachsetts

 

Title: "Lotteries, Knowledge, and Vagueness"

Author: Julien Murzi

Affiliation: University of Sheffield

 

Title:  "The Function and Context Sensitivity of Knowledge Attributions"

Author: Brian Kim

Affiliation: Columbia University

 

Title:  "Basic Knowledge is Easy to Lose"

Author: Ian Evans

Affiliation: University of Arizona

 

Title:  "Skeptical Challenges to Contextualism and the Dangerous Sport of World Surfing"

Author: Nathaniel Christiansen

Affiliation: Northern Illinois University

 

Endnote Address: "Contextualism Contextually Defended"

Author: Otavio Bueno

Affiliation: University of Miami

 



3rd Annual Conference (2006)
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Keynote Address: “Paradoxes of Falliblism”
Author: Stewart Cohen
Affiliation: Arizona State University

Title: “Testing the Case for Contextualism”
Author: Mikkel Gerken
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “Fallible A Priori Justification and Semantic Theories of the A Priori”
Author: Joshua C. Thurow
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin, Madison

Title: “Between the Extremes of Externalism and Internalism”
Author: David Alexander
Affiliation: Baylor University

Title: “Disjunctivism and the Fallibility of Perceptual Belief”
Author: Matthew Lockard
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “In Defense of the ‘Fatal Dilemma’ Against Moderate Foundationalism”
Author: John DePoe
Affiliation: Western Michigan University

Title: “If Every True Proposition is Knowable, then Every Believed (Decidable) Proposition Is True, or the  Incompleteness of the Intuitionistic Solution to the Paradox of Knowability”
Author: Elia Zardini
Affiliation: University of St. Andrews

Title: "Epistemic Benefits of Cultural Identity Group Membership"
Author:
Sheron Fraser-Burgess
Affiliation:
Ball State University

Title:  “Williamson on Justification”
Author:
Dennis Whitcomb
Affiliation:
Rutgers University

Endnote Address:  “'Personhood and Future Beliefs: Two New Argument for Reflection
Author:
Simon Evnine
Affiliation:
University of Miami


2nd Annual Conference (2005)
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Keynote Address: "Dancing Qualia and the A Priori"
Author: John Hawthorne
Affiliation: Rutgers University

Title: "Epistemological Closeness and Subjunctive Conditionals"
Author: Henry Pratt
Affiliation: Ohio State University

Title: "Freedom and Experience: A Critique of McDowell's Mind and World"
Author: Elliot Paul
Affiliation: Syracuse University

Title: "Rethinking the A Priori / A Posteriori Distinction"
Author: Jennifer Wilson
Affiliation: University of Iowa

Title: "A Defense of the Standard Bayesian Treatment of the Quine-Duhem Problem"
Author: Kevin Coffey
Affiliation: University of Michigan

Endnote Address: "Coherence Externalized"
Author: Keith Lehrer
Affiliation: University of Arizona

 


 

1st Annual Conference (2004)
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Keynote Address: "Reasonable Disagreements"
Author: Richard Feldman
Affiliation: Rochester University

Title: "A Makeover of the Pure Causal Theory of Knowledge"
Author: Roald Nashi
Affiliation: Cornell University

Title:
"Externalism and Conditional Reasons"
Author: Stephen Grimm
Affiliation: Notre Dame University

Title:
"A Friendly Amendment to the Standard Analysis of Supposition"
Author: Eric Swanson
Affiliation: MIT

Title: "A Solution to the Gettier Problem"
Author: Keota Fields
Affiliation: CUNY

 


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