2024-2025 Can We Escape the Echo Chamber
Closed-Mindedness as a Defensible Fortress of Mind
Tuesday, May 6th 4:30 – 6:00 PM Humanities Auditorium El铆s Miller-Larsen, UVM Closed-mindedness is typically understood as an epistemic vice. The thought is that given competing viewpoints, positions, ideas, or beliefs, we (epistemically) should have a willingness to engage with viewpoints that differ from our own. But given the noxious outcomes of certain […]
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Vita Nova 100 April 24th 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM Brian Keeley (PZ) Not All Conspiracy Theorists & Not All Conspiracy Theories April 25th 9:00 AM Continental Breakfast 9:30 AM 鈥� 11:00 AM Miriam McCormick (U of Richmond) Do Conspiracy Theorists Really Believe What They Claim? 11:00 AM 鈥� 12:30 PM Sinan Dogramaci […]
Read MorePerspectival Testimony
Testimony transmits information. But it also suggests certain ways of organising that information. This talk examines whether speakers are responsible for the way they organise information, as well as for the content they communicate. Tuesday, April 22 4:30 PM Balch Auditorium
Read More鈥淒eference鈥� WORKSHOP
Friday, April 4th Vita Nova 100 Refreshments Provided 9:00 am Continental Breakfast 9:30 -11:00 Elise Woodard (King鈥檚 College London)聽聽How to Start Changing Your Mind. 11:00 – 12:30聽Michael Hannon (U Nottingham) 聽Standpoint Theory, Epistemic Advantage, and Deference to Marginalized Voices.聽 12:30 – 145 Lunch 1:45 – 3:15聽Heather Battaly (UConn) Intellectual Humility without Open-mindedness: How to Respond […]
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Friday, March 7th Hampton Room 9:30 – 11:00 Gabbrielle Johnson (CMC) Revisiting Bias: Friend or Foe? 11:00 – 12:30 Angel Pinillos (ASU) Cartesian Skepticism and Conspiracy Theories 1:45 – 3:15 Alex Madva (Cal Poly Pomona) Biases That Won’t Budge: Implicit Ageism… or Explicit Gerontocracy? 3:30 – 5:00 Cailin O鈥機onnor (UC Irvine) Polarization and Network Models […]
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