Third
Annual EPISTEME Conference
When Difference
Makes a Difference: Epistemic Diversity and Dissent
University
of Toronto June 2-3, 2006
Participants
from left to right:
Jim Brown, Alison
Wylie, Rebecca Kukla, Miriam Solomon, Deborah
Tollefsen, Daniel Weinstock, Elizabeth Anderson,
Kristina Rolin, Nancy Daukas,
Miranda Fricker, Sue Campbell, John Beatty,
Lorraine Code, Ann Garry,
David Coady, Alvin Goldman.
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The focus of
this year's meeting, is a cluster of questions about
the epistemic implications of diversity among knowers
and the epistemic functions of dissent within and between
communities of knowers. What constitutes epistemically
relevant diversity and epistemically appropriate dissent?
How does social and cultural, as well as cognitive,
difference enrich the resources of an epistemic community?
When is dissent productive, and why?
For a full list
of abstracts (pdf) click here.
For additional
information, each name is linked to home webpage wherever
available:
Finalized
Program:
Friday,
June 2:
9:00-12:45: chaired
by James
Robert Brown (University of Toronto)
Elizabeth
S. Anderson (University of Michigan): "The Epistemology
of Democracy"
Daniel
Marc Weinstock (Université de Montréal): "What is
Public Reason?"
David
Coady (University of Tasmania): "When Experts Disagree"
2:30-6:15: chaired
by James
Beebe (SUNY at Buffalo)
Miriam
Solomon (Temple University): "Epistemic Diversity
or Epistemic Randomness? (Or, More on the Invisible
Hand of Reason)"
John
Beatty (University of British Columbia): "Group
Deliberation"
Deborah
Perron Tollefsen (University
of Memphis): "Scientific Teamwork: Is There Room for
Dissent?"
Saturday,
June 3:
9:00-12:45: chaired
by Alison
Wylie (University of Washington)
Nancy
Daukas
(Guilford College): "Epistemic Trust and Social Location"
Kristina
Rolin (Academy of Finland Research, Helsinki School
of Economics): "The Bias Paradox in Feminist Standpoint
Epistemology"
Rebecca
Kukla (Carleton University): "Objectivity and Contingency
in Empirical Knowledge"
2:30-6:15:chaired
by
Ann Garry (CSU-Los Angeles)
Miranda
Fricker (Birkbeck College, University of London):
"Epistemic Injustice in Social Knowledge"
Sue
Campbell (Dalhousie University): "Performing Counter-memory"
Lorraine
Code (York University): "Advocacy, Negotiation, and the Politics of Unknowing"
Organizers:
Alison
Wylie, program (University of Washington):
awylie@stanford.edu
James
Robert Brown, local arrangements
(University of Toronto): jrbrown@chass.utoronto.ca
Alvin
Goldman, Episteme editor (Rutgers
University): goldman@philosophy.rutgers.edu
For further information
about the program, please contact Alison Wylie:
awylie@stanford.edu.
For local arrangements,
please contact James Robert Brown:
jrbrown@chass.utoronto.ca.
Location:
Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room
1230 (BA 1230), 40 St. George Street, University of
Toronto. Click here
for campus map - Bahen Centre is in the lower
left-hand corner marked BA
A special issue
of EPISTEME, containing a selection of presented papers,
will be released in conjunction with the conference.
Alison Wylie (University of Washington, Seattle) will
be the Guest Editor of the journal issue and James Robert
Brown (University of Toronto) will host the conference.
