Conference Announcement "When Difference Makes a Difference: Epistemic Diversity and Dissent" 3rd Annual EPISTEME Conference University of Toronto Toronto, ON (Canada) 2-3 June 2006
The focus of this year's meeting, which will be run as a workshop, is a cluster of questions about the epistemic implications of diversity among knowers and the epistemic functions of dissent within and between communities of knowers. What constitutes epistemically relevant diversity and epistemically appropriate dissent? How does social and cultural, as well as cognitive, difference enrich the resources of an epistemic community? When is dissent productive, and why? Finalized Program: Friday, June 2: 9:00-12:45: chaired by James Robert Brown (University of Toronto) Elizabeth S. Anderson (University of Michigan): "The Epistemology of Democracy" Daniel Marc Weinstock (Université de Montréal): "What is Public Reason?" David Coady (University of Tasmania): "When Experts Disagree" 2:30-6:15: chaired by James Beebe (SUNY at Buffalo) Miriam Solomon (Temple University): "Epistemic Diversity or Epistemic Randomness? (Or, More on the Invisible Hand of Reason)" John Beatty (University of British Columbia): "Group Deliberation" Deborah Perron Tollefsen (University of Memphis): "Scientific Teamwork: Is there room for dissent?" Saturday, June 3: 9:00-12:45: chaired by Alison Wylie (University of Washington) Nancy Daukas (Guilford College): "Epistemic Trust and Social Location" Kristina Rolin (Academy of Finland Research, Helsinki School of Economics): "The Bias Paradox in Feminist Standpoint Epistemology" Rebecca Kukla (Carleton University): "Objectivity and Contingency in Empirical Knowledge" 2:30-6:15: chaired by Ann Garry (CSU-Los Angeles) Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck College, University of London): "Epistemic Injustice in Social Knowledge" Sue Campbell (Dalhousie University): "Performing Counter-memory" Lorraine Code (York University): "Advocacy, Negotiation, and the Politics of Unknowing" Organizers: Alison Wylie, program (University of Washington) <[email protected]> James Robert Brown, local arrangements (University of Toronto) <[email protected]> Alvin Goldman, Episteme editor (Rutgers University) <[email protected]> Conference website: http://www.episteme.us.com/conferencetoronto.htm _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
