The Philosophy Department at Northwestern will hold a one-day Epistemology conference on Northwestern’s Evanston Campus on Wednesday, February 17, 2010.  The conference is free and open to the public. We especially welcome philosophers who will be in town for the Central APA meeting (Feb 17-20, 2010, Palmer House, Chicago).

The conference is organized loosely around Jennifer Lackey’s book, LEARNING FROM WORDS, and the epistemology of testimony.

The participants are:

Robert Audi, Notre Dame (2009-10 Brady Distinguished Visiting Professor, Northwestern)

Elizabeth Fricker, Oxford

Peter Graham, University of California at Riverside

Jon Kvanvig, Baylor University

(In addition, Ted Poston of the University of Southern Alabama will be giving the epistemology brownbag that day, which will be folded in to the conference.)

All talks will take place in the Wildcat Room of the Norris Center on Northwestern’s Evanston campus.  The schedule is planned as follows:

Session 1: 9:00 a.m – 10:15 a.m.

Session 2: 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 p.m.

Session 3: [The Brownbag]  12:45 – 2:00 p.m.

Session 4: 2:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Session 5: 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

(The Norris Center has a food court two floors below where we will be meeting, so people can get food and either eat downstairs, or bring it back to the room on time for the brownbag.)

For further information, contact Sandy Goldberg at s-goldberg@northwestern.edu.