skepticism Archives - Department of Philosophy

9:30 am - 6:00 pm

This workshop will focus on rationality and epistemology. Featured speakers include: Timothy Williamson (Oxford), Gurpreet Rattan (Toronto), Yonathan Fiat (Toronto), David Barnett (Toronto) and Jennifer Nagel (Toronto). Saturday, April 4 Location: JHB 100 Session I (9:45 – 11:00am): Jennifer Nagel (Toronto) “The Dawn of Human Rationality” Comments: Julia … Read More

Oct

25

Fri

2019

Friday October 25, 2019, 2:00 pm - Saturday October 26, 2019, 5:30 pm

Programme Friday October 25 2:00-2:15 Opening Remarks 2:15-3:00 Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, The Same Is the Different: Nature, Fortune, History in Machiavelli 3:00-3:45 Oleg Gelikman, The Quake of the Real: on the Ontology of Relation in Montaigne 3:45-4:15 Coffee Break 4:15-5:00 Willi Goetschel, Writing Otherwise: Montaigne and La Boëtie 5:00-5:45 Warren Montag, … Read More

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3:15 pm - 5:00 pm

Roger White’s work considers epistemology and the philosophy of science, including perceptual justification, applications of probability to reasoning, skepticism, induction, and the role of explanatory considerations in theory assessment.

skepticism

Workshop on Rationality and Epistemology

Difference and Alterity: Critical Models in Modern Thought