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Due to the increasing number of contagions by Covid-19, the following events, to be held on March and April 2020 in the Autonomous University of Madrid, have been cancelled or postponed for health and preventive reasons:

– Workshop on Recent Topics in Epistemic Autonomy (March 23-24th)

– XIII Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality on Vice Epistemology. Recent Contributions by Quassim Cassam (April 15-17th)

All changes to these events will be updated on this website and the Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality website (https://mindartandmorality.wordpress.com/). 

We are sorry for the inconveniences.

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XIII Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality. Works Vice Epistemology: Recent Contributions by Quassim Cassam

Invited Speaker: Quassim Cassam (Warwick University)

The last few decades of philosophical research have seen a growing interest in virtue theories in ethics and epistemology.  The systematic study of ethical and intellectual vices has not received the same attention. Vice epistemology is the study of the nature, identity and epistemological significance of intellectual vices. A long list of intellectual vices has been identified and examined: close-mindedness, arrogance, wishful thinking, stupidity, impatience, gullibility, dogmatism, insouciance, malevolence, snobbery, etc. Intellectual ethics is concerned with the cultivation of virtues and the avoidance of intellectual vices that get in the way of knowledge, responsible belief formation or inquiry. The workshop will focus on the following questions, among others: What is the nature of intellectual vices? How do they affect our epistemic behavior? Are they character traits? Which kind of criticism do we deserve as intellectually vicious?

The workshop will be devoted to these and other topics discussed in the recent work by Quassim Cassam in  his book Vices of the Mind: From the Intellectual to the Political. We invite papers on vice epistemology as well as other topics addressed in the wide philosophical work of Quassim Cassam.  These topics include the self and self-knowledge, perception, neo-Kantian epistemology, conspiracy theories and the philosophy of terrorism.

Organizing Committee: Jesús Vega-Encabo (UAM, Spain), Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (UAM, Spain), Moisés Barba (UAM, Spain), Javier Osorio (UAM, Spain), Julen Ibarrondo (UAM, Spain).

Website: click here.

Seminar on: Understanding and its relation to knowledge.

Invited Speaker: Federica Malfatti (Universidad de Innsbruck)

Date: January 27, 11:00 AM. 2020. 

Venue: Meeting Room. Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Autonomous University of Madrid.

Website: click here.

Funded by the Spanish Research Agency through the research grant: “Intellectual autonomy in environments of epistemic dependence” (FFI2017-87395-P).

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Workshop on Intellectual Autonomy, Epistemic Paternalism, and Epistemic Authority

The ideal of intellectual autonomy plays an important role in shaping our views on how to conduct inquiry and become responsible knowers. In pursuing their cognitive endeavors, intellectually autonomous agents are supposed to exhibit features such as independence of thought, self-reliance, or self-governance. In the individualistic framework of traditional epistemology, these features have been seen as desiderata of ideal knowers, i.e., of agents who are able to acquire knowledge on their own, by relying on nothing else but their own cognitive capacities and resources. However, as more recent work in social epistemology has shown, most of our beliefs derive from relying on others and their testimony. More generally, our epistemic life is built upon a massive network of social dependencies, which give rise to relations of trust, deference to expert authority, and even paternalistic interferences. This workshop will be devoted to discussing the nature, limitations, consequences and prospects of the ideal of intellectual autonomy.

Date: February 5-6, 2019.

Venue:  Salón de Actos and Sala de Conferencias, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Cantoblanco Campus, Autonomous University of Madrid.

Program: click here.

For further information, please write to: jesus.vega@uam.es

Organized in the framework of the research grant FFI2017-87395-P. INTELLECTUAL AUTONOMY IN ENVIRONMENTS OF EPISTEMIC DEPENDENCE, funded byte Spanish  Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness

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