Geneva Report

I've just returned from the Epistemic Agency conference in Switzerland held at the University of Geneva. It was hosted by Pascal Engel (pronounced, appropriately, like "Angel") and was preceded by a week of lectures by John Greco. It was quite a gathering of the virtue epistemologists: JanusBlog Editor-in-Chief Guy Axtell, Jason Baehr, Adam Carter, and myself--a regular ABCD of virtue epistemology, it was quite a blessing. All we need is an E and F and we can connect ourselves directly to John!

[Aside: I'm writing this on the flight back to New York. Swiss Air (or whatever it really is) rules. I just got free red wine with my (delicious) pasta and when I acted surprised she gave me an extra bottle with a wink! But here's the aside: I put the bottles aside to finish this note and let it assume room temperature to drink and had the following thought: "I'm going to be pissed if this plane crashes and I don't get a chance to drink that first." What's the matter with me?]

At any rate, it was a very productive and enjoyable time. I'll be sorting pictures today hoping to get them up by tonight amongst the necessary catching up on work.

Both my talks went very well, and I hope to post some thoughts on the conference over on JanusBlog in the next couple of weeks. Right now it's on to finals!

Off to Switzerland...

Heading out to the Epistemic Agency conference in Switzerland! I'll report from there!

Rochester Epistemology Conference

I'm happy to announce the 5th Biennial University of Rochester Graduate Epistemology Conference.

It will be held Friday-Saturday, October 10th-11th on the beautiful campus of the University of Rochester, hosted by the Philosophy Department.

The main speaker is Alvin Goldman and Richard Feldman will be commenting.

The call for paper is here.

Kripke Center Gala Opening and Unpublished Works

Most will have seen that the Kripke Center is having a big event (like, insanely big), but I'm not sure how many followed the links and saw that there's an "unpublished works" link. Unfortunately it's just a place-holder, but that's a link I want to keep my eye on!

Heading to another S____land epistemology conference: Epistemic Agency

Well I'll be heading out in a few weeks to the Epistemic Agency Conference in Geneva, Switzerland put on by the Episteme group there. I look forward to seeing Julien Detant again whom I met briefly at the Aberdeen Linguistics and Epistemology conference, Olivier Massin and Anne Meyen whom I met at the Edinburgh epistemology conference, and hanging out with El Greco, the main speaker and all around good guy.

This will be my third time abroad: twice to Scotland and now Switzerland. It struck me that I should next go to Swaziland to keep with the theme of taveling to S___land. I can't think of any more countries that meet that pattern, so maybe it'll just be a trifecta.

England doesn't count since I was just on my way to Scotland, but even if you counted it it would make a consistent _____land theme. Now that would have more opportunities I think. Any conferences in Iceland?