Edgington Lectures
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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.
Full programme
DAY 1
Friday 5 May 2023
Graduate Workshop: Room B30, Birkbeck Main Building
10.00 Coffee
10.30 ‘Motivational Approaches to Epistemic Corruption’ - Taylor Matthews, University of Nottingham
11.45 ‘Against Veritism’ - Kellan Daniel Leo Head, Syracuse University
13.00 Lunch
14.00 ‘Elgin on scientific representation exemplification and epistemic normativity’ - Stefan Sleeuw, University of Groningen
15.15 Tea
15.30 ‘Art Lacks Discipline’ - Christopher Earley, University of Warwick
16.45 End
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18.00 Edgington Lecture: ‘Epistemic Autonomy’
Catherine Elgin, Harvard University
Room B33, Birkbeck Main Building
DAY 2
Saturday 6 May 2023
Graduate Workshop: Herschel Room, Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place.
11.00 Coffee
11.30 ‘Justification and the Community: Reflections on Dummett and Elgin’ - Alex Murphy, Cambridge University
12.45 Lunch
14.00 ‘The Role of Personal Style in Epistemic Normativity’ - Jack Idris Sagar, University of Bristol
15.15 Tea
15.30 ‘Virtues and the Categorical Imperative’ - Giulia Luvisotto, University of Warwick
16.45 End
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18.00 Edgington Lecture: ‘Epistemic Community’
Catherine Elgin, Harvard University
Lethaby Room, Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place
We gratefully acknowledge and thank the Aristotelian Society and the Analysis Trust for their support in enabling us to offer financial support to Workshop speakers.
Contact name:
Michael Garnett