Ishani Maitra (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Trust and Reliance in Testimony
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Much of what we know we learn through others telling us. Several philosophers have thought that trust plays some crucial epistemic role in our coming to know via others’ testimony. In this paper, I distinguish some different epistemic roles that trust might be thought to play here: for example,…
Book Launch - Women in philosophy: what needs to change?
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Edited by Dr Katrina Hutchison and Dr Fiona Jenkins, and including contributions from leading philosophers Marilyn Friedman, Jennifer Saul and Helen Beebee, this volume collects a series of critical essays by female philosophers pursuing the question of why philosophy continues to be inhospitable…
Standpoint Theory and the Formation of Gender Archaeology: Professor Alison Wylie
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Speaker: Alison Wylie, professor of Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Washington (Seattle), whose areas of specialization are philosophy of the social and historical sciences, specifically archaeology, and feminist philosophy of science. Speaker's abstract: “…
Alison Wylie (University of Washington): Standpoint Matters: Transformative Criticism and the Advantages of Collaborative Practice in Archaeology
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In his attack on relativism and constructionism, Fear of Knowledge, Boghossian (2006) takes as his point of departure a 1996 New York Times news story about a conflict between Native Americans and archaeologists in which indigenous beliefs about tribal origins, rooted in oral history, are pitted…
Lachlan Umbers (ANU): Equality, Autonomy and the All-Affected Interests Principle
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Thesis Proposal Review The all-affected interests principle (AAI) requires that all persons affected by a decision have the right to exercise some degree of power over that decision. AAI is both popular and intuitively appealing as a basis upon which we might determine the rightful constitution of…
Adrian Currie (ANU/Calgary): Marsupial Lions & Methodological Omnivory: function, success and reconstruction in paleobiology
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I draw on phenotypic reconstruction in paleobiology to argue that the success of historical scientists is their capacity to achieve plausible, sophisticated hypotheses about the past despite fragmentary evidence is in part explained by their capacity to generate new streams of…