The factive turn in epistemology
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The Factive Turn in Epistemology Workshop


Philosophy
  Vienna  
7-8 May 2015

Invited Speakers

Maria Alvarez (KCL)

Clayton Littlejohn (KCL)
Aidan McGlynn (Edinburgh)
Timothy Williamson (Oxford)


Further Speakers

Jonathan Drake (Texas at Austin)
Claire Field (KCL)
Daniel Fogal (NYU)
Rachel Fraser (Oxford)
Mikkel Gerken (Edinburgh)
Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa (British Columbia)
Robin McKenna (Vienna)
Veli Mitova (Vienna)
Andreas Müller (Goethe Uni Frankfurt)
Michael Schmitz (Vienna)
Ian Schnee (Western Kentucky)
Michael Wilde (Kent)



Topic
Good reasons for belief used to be one a penny. Even brains in vats had them. But recently epistemologists have become pickier, and are beginning to think that only facts, true propositions, or factive mental states can be good reasons for belief. This Factive Turn has been variously motivated by considerations from philosophy of mind (e.g., Williamson), practical reason (e.g., Littlejohn), metaethics (e.g., Alvarez, Dancy), and philosophy of perception (e.g., Pritchard). Naturally, the Turn - like any other flourishing research programme - has attracted plenty of critical attention (e.g., McGlynn). This workshop brings together philosophers working on the factivity of epistemic reasons. 

Enquiries?
Email Veli at factiveturn@gmail.com

Funding
Institute for Philosophy, Vienna University


Organiser
Veli Mitova, Unit for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science 

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