Our research group cordially invites you to its upcoming conference on
Date: 22-23rd November 2018
Venue: 1097 Budapest, 4. Tóth Kálmán st.
Program:
November 22:
Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology)
09.00-10.00: Jeffrey Dunn (De Pauw University): Accuracy as Similarity
10.00-11.00: Clayton Littlejohn (King's): An Accuracy Argument Against Credal Reductivism
11.00-11.20: Break
Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
11.20-12.20: Michael P. Lynch [via Skype] (University of Connecticut): Fake news and the Politics of truth
12.20-13.20: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): Three kinds of veritism and epistemically useful false beliefs
13.20-15.00: Lunch
Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
15.00-16.00: Kate Nolfi (University of Vermont): Epistemic Norms all Things considered
16.00-16.30: László Kocsis (University of Pecs): The value of truth-making: truth-groundedness and the truth as an epistemic goal
16.30-16.50: Break
Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
16.50-17.50: Miriam McCormick (University of Richmond): Value Beyond True Value
17.50-18.50: Tihamer Margitay (Eotvos Lorand University): The Epistemic Value of Moral and Other Values
Dinner
November 23:
Chair: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
09.00-10.00: Anna Maria-Eder (University of Cologne): No Commitment to the Truth
10.00-11.00: Filippo Ferrari (University of Bonn): Alethic Pluralism and the Value of Truth
11.00-11.20: Break
Chair: Laszlo Kocsis (University of Pecs)
11.20-12.20: Andrew D. Chignell (Princeton): The Value of Truth versus The Value of Believing True
12.20-13.20: Brian Pollex (University of Texas at Austin): Understanding The Swamping Problem: Two Competing Theories of the Value of True Belief
13.20-15.00: Lunch
Chair: Laszlo Kocsis (University of Pecs)
15.00-16.00: Peter Hartl (Hungarian Academy of Sciences): Truth and Morality in Rational Argumentation
16.00-16.20: Break
Chair: Akos Gyarmathy (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
16.20-17.20: Mihály Héder (Budapest University of Technology and Economics): When truth is not the final epistemic value: the case of the epistemology of engineering
17.20-18.20: Duncan Pritchard [via Skype] (University of Irvine, California): Intellectual Virtues, Ignorance and the Truth Goal
Dinner
