PRPSEW
Welcome!
Please join us on April 8-9, 2017 as the Philosophy Department at the University of Pennsylvania hosts the fifth Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Workshop (PRPSEW5).
Registration
All participants (speakers and audience members) must register. Please fill out the form here to register. Registration is free.
Schedule
All talks will take place in Cohen Hall, Room 402 (directions and accessibility information below). Each talk is allotted 40 minutes (20-25 minute talk + 15-20 minute question period). Meals except Saturday dinner are open to all registered guests. Saturday dinner will be organized by email prior to the workshop.
Saturday, April 8
- 9:00 AM
- Breakfast, Philosophy Dept Lounge
- 9:45 AM - 12:00 PM
- Cat Saint-Croix (Michigan) “Evidential Disparity and Epistemic Norms”
- Steve Steward (Syracuse) “Hermeneutical Distortion”
- Adam Gibbons (Rutgers) “Moral Disagreement and Conciliationism”
- 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
- Lunch, Philosophy Dept Lounge
- 1:00 PM - 3:15 PM
- Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith) “The Epistemic Dangers of Context Collapse Online”
- Grace Boey (Penn) “Expertise on Oppression”
- Pamela Robinson (Rutgers) “Group Knowledge and Defeat”
- 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM
- Snack Break, Philosophy Dept Lounge
- 3:45 PM - 6:00 PM
- Rima Basu (USC) “Motivating Ethical Demands on Beliefs”
- Pierce Randall (Penn) “A Hawks and Doves Game for Peer Disagreement”
- Alex Guerrero (Rutgers) “Making Votes Epistemically Useful: Identifying and Resolving the Epistemic/Metaphysical Problem of Voting”
- 6:00 PM - 6:10 PM
- Day 1 Wrap Up, Mary Morgan (LSE/Penn), Honorary Discussant
- 6:30 PM
- Dinner for Invited Speakers, Participants, and Organizers
Sunday, April 9
- 9:30 AM
- Breakfast, Philosophy Dept Lounge
- 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM
- Olivia Bailey (Harvard) “Empathy, Trust, and Allyship”
- Wade Roberts (Juniata) “Knowledge, Judgment and the Limits of Epistocracy”
- Robin Dembroff (Princeton) “Unethical Truths: Truths that Reinforce Injustice”
- 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
- Lunch, Philosophy Dept Lounge
- 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
- Michael Schneider (UC Irvine) “The Non-Epistemic Origins of Research Strongholds”
- Michael Weisberg (Penn) “Trust, Scientific Authority, and Conservation: Community Science in the Galápagos Archipelago”
- 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
- Synthesis and Discussion, Mary Morgan (LSE/Penn), Honorary Discussant
Accessibility Information
All of the talks and meals except dinners will take place on the fourth floor of Cohen Hall. Accessibility information for Cohen Hall can be found here.
We hope to make this event accessible to all who wish to participate. If you have any special requests for accommodations, please let us know as soon as possible by contacting us at singerd@phil.upenn.edu.
Organizers
PRPSEW5 is primarily organized by Daniel J. Singer (Penn), with associate organizers Max Lewis (Penn) and Dylan Manson (Penn).
The series of Penn-Rutgers-Princeton Social Epistemology Workshops is organized by Alvin Goldman (Rutgers), Tom Kelly (Princeton), and Daniel J. Singer (Penn), along with a number of graduate student associate organizers.
For more information, please see the PhilEvents listing.
If you have any questions or would like to request accommodations, please email singerd@phil.upenn.edu.