On September 12 and 13, the Department of Philosophy hosts 'Epistemic Vice and Corruption', a two-day workshop devoted to the study of forms of epistemic vice and epistemic corruption – the many ways that agents, practices, and institutions can promote epistemically vicious behaviour or become corrupted in ways that impair their epistemic and social agency.
Bringing together established and emerging scholars of epistemic vice and corruption, we’ll explore ways to identify and interdict distortions of our individual and collective epistemic life.
To book your place at the workshop, please visit the online store page.
Schedule
Tuesday 12 September
11.30 – Welcome; tea and coffee
12.00 – Alessandra Tanesini, Intellectual obsequiousness and the psychology of oppression
Chair: Ian James Kidd
1.30 – Lunch
2.30 – Ian James Kidd, Theorising epistemic vices: Obstruction or oppression?
Chair: Tom Baker
4.00 – Tea and coffee
4.30 – Alice Monypenny, Understanding self-doubt
Chair: Alan Wilson
6.00 – Close
Wednesday 13 September
10.00 – Alan Wilson, The Development and Corruption of Intellectual Honesty
Chair: Lani Watson
11.30 – Tea and coffee
12.00 – Jennifer Chubb, Instrumentalism, freedom, and epistemic responsibility: Researchers and the impact agenda
Chair: tbc
1.30 – Lunch
2.30 – Lani Watson, What are epistemic rights and when are they violated?
Chair: Ian James Kidd
4.00 – Close