Episteme Reading Group 2010-2011

This is the webpage of the Episteme Reading Group, 2010-2011 session. The running of the meetings is described below.

Organisation

Time and venue

Every wednesday, 15:00-16h30, room 411, Department of Philosophy, 2 rue de Candolle.

Goals

1. The individual goal of these meetings is to help each member of the Episteme group in their respective philosophical task, i.e., writing papers or PhDs and to take an individual advantage of their having so close philosophical topics of interest.
2. The collective goal of these meetings is to improve the quality of the different works produced by Episteme, to keep its members informed about the other members' activities and progress.

Running of the meetings

During the meeting

Each meeting can take two forms which is previously decided by the Episteme member running it:

1. Either a discussion of his/her paper (PhD chapter, more or less elaborated paper draft, etc.) = the Paper Option;
2. Or a discussion of an article which raises some specific difficulty or is of specific interest for his/her work = the Problem Option.

Before the meeting

1. On month in advance, each Episteme member picks up as many slots as he likes by writing down his/her name under the dates in the calendar below.
2. Three days before the meeting, i.e. on Sunday evening at the latest, the Episteme member running the next meeting informs the other about what he/she chose between the Paper Option and the Problem Option by:
   1. modifying the wiki page accordingly;
   2. sending to the others either his/her paper (PhD chapter, very rough draft, etc.) —please send a Word file for the reason given below— or the article or part of article he/she wants to discuss.
   3. If s/he chose the problem option, s/he also formulates clearly the specific problem, question raised by the article and that s/he wants to discuss with the others during the meeting. (The idea is to keep the discussion as focussed as possible in order to increase the chance for these meetings being to be helpful for the one running it.)
3. If the Episteme member running the next slot chose the Paper Option, the other members of Episteme read his/her paper and comment it using Word suivi après modifications. Before Wednesday noon, they send him their commented version. The one running the meeting is then in charge to merge the commented versions and to print out exemplars of the "merged version" for the meeting.
4. If the Episteme member running the next slot chose the Problem Option, the other members of Episteme try to understand, solve, answer, the question, problem s/he formulates. There might be some written answers but this is not necessary. Every sort of help is welcome: written or non-written suggestions of further readings, etc.

Attendance

1. Everybody is welcome;
2. The meetings and their content will be advertised to the Philosophy Department and to the students every Monday.

Calendar

Oct. 6th

• Julien. Paper: "Methods models for Belief and Knowledge"

Oct. 11th

• Julien. Paper: "Methods models for Belief and Knowledge", 2.

Nov. 10th

• Arturs. Draft of paper "Evidence and explanation"

Nov. 17th

• Arturs. Draft of paper "Evidence and explanation"

Nov. 24th

• Julien. Paper: "The Legend of the Justified true Belief Analysis"

Dec. 1st

• Davide. Paper: "How truth doesn't govern belief"

Dec. 7th

• Ariel. Paper: "Problems for Conservative Accounts of Warrant"

Dec. 15th

• Ariel. Paper: "Problems for Conservative Accounts of Warrant"