Veritas Research Center
Yonsei International Campus
Songdo, South Korea
June 27-29, 2019

Organizers: Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University) Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen (Veritas Research Center, UIC, Yonsei University) Joohan Lee (Veritas Research Center, UIC, Yonsei University)

Keynote speakers: Melissa Koenig (Psychology, University of Minnesota)​ Michael P. Lynch (Philosophy, University of Connecticut) ​

PROGRAM

THURSDAY June 27
9.00 – 9.15: Coffee
9.15 – 9.30: Opening remarks: Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University) Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen (Yonsei University)
9.30 – 10.50 Keynote: Melissa Koenig (University of Minnesota): "A Framework for Testimonial Learning: Judgments of Epistemic and Moral Agency"
11.00 – 13.00 Shane Ryan (Nazarbayev University): "Epistemic Interventionism" Chris Ranalli (Free University, Amsterdam): "Indoctrination Epistemology" Commentators: Kunimasa Sato (Keiai University), Lani Watson (University of Edinburgh)
13.00 – 14.20 Lunch
14.20 – 15.40 Boaz Miller (Zefat Academic College): "An Epistemic Defence of Moderate Wishful Thinking: An Argument for a Restrained Direct Role for Values in Evidential Reasoning" Commentator: Robert Stainton (Western Ontario)
15.40 – 17.00 Early Career Talk Annette Martin (New York University): "Hermeneutical Obliviousness" Commentator: Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University)
17.00 – 17.20 Coffee
17.20 – 18.40 Early Career Talk Max Lewis (Ph.D. student, University of Pennsylvania): "Moral Deference and Moral Assertion" Commentator: Michael P. Lynch (University of Connecticut)

FRIDAY June 28
9.00 – 9.15: Coffee
9.15 – 11.15 Grace Helton (Princeton University): "The Import of Solipsism" Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas): "Social Factors and Epistemic Defeat" Commentators: Masashi Kasaki (Nagoya University), Peter J. Graham (UC Riverside)
11.15 – 12.35 Early Career Talk Alicia Patterson (Cornell University): "Reconceptualizing Prejudice" Commentator: Peter J. Graham (UC Riverside)
12.35 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 16.00 Emily McWilliams (Assistant Professor, Duke Kunshun University): "Testimonial Withdraw" Casey Johnson (University of Idaho): "Mansplaining and Illocutionary Force" Commentator: Rob Stainton (Western Ontario)
16.00 – 16.20 Coffee
16.20 – 18.20 Charles Côté-Bouchard (University of Montreal): "Is the Internet safe? Personalization and the threat of epistemological skepticism" Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen (Yonsei University): "Be careful what you Like: data analysis, psychological profiling and autonomy"

SATURDAY June 29
9.40 – 10.00: Coffee
10.00 – 11.20: Early Career Talk Eric Bayruns Garcia (CUNY): "Coverage-Reliance Ignorance" Commentator: Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas)
11.20 – 12.40 Early Career Talk Heather Spradley (Harvard University): "Practically Testifying: A New Constraint on the Ethics of Belief" Commentator: Melissa Koenig (University of Minnesota)
12.40 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 16.00 Michael Hannon (University of Nottingham): "Truth, Understanding, and Deliberative Democracy" Leandro De Brasi (Alberto Hurtado University): "Citizenry Incompetence and the Epistemic Structure of Society" Commentator: Cameron Boult (Brandon University)
16.00 – 16.20 Coffee
16.20 – 17.40 Keynote Michael P. Lynch (University of Connecticut): "Fake News and the Epistemology of Outrage"
17.50 – 18.50 Special session Moderator: Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern University)