About the Conference 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 We welcome all graduate submissions in any area of epistemology, broadly construed.  We are especially interested in papers in formal epistemology (e.g. belief-revision, theories of explanation and confirmation, epistemic logic, special research programs in epistemology, etc.). Papers should be 10-15 pages or approximately 30 minutes reading time. Papers should be 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 3.   Send electronic copies in Word or PDF format to alphonsen23@gmail.com  or send two paper copies to the  following address: Noel Alphonse, UM Philosophy Department, PO BOX 248054, Coral Gables, FL 33124-4670 Downloads -   Archive 5th Annual Conference (2008) Download the program here in Word Download the program here in Adobe 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) Download the program here in Word Download the program here in Adobe   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) Download the program here in Word Download the program here in Adobe 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) Download the program here 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) Download the program here 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   Constitution View the constitution