3rd Urbino Summer School in Epistemology
University of Urbino Carlo Bo – Department of Pure and Applied Sciences
Urbino, August 27 – 30, 2019.
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Under the auspices of:
SIFA. Italian Society for Analytic Philosophy
SILFS. Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science
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Lecturers
Jessica Brown (University of St Andrews)
Hilary Kornblith (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University)
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Organizers
Mario Alai
Adriano Angelucci
Vincenzo Fano
Daniele Sgaravatti
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Overview
The goal of the Summer School is to provide an opportunity for highly motivated graduate students (or even advanced undergraduate students), and early-career researchers to learn, discuss and exchange ideas about current epistemological issues in close contact with internationally renowned experts.
There will be two kinds of sessions on each of the four days, i.e. lectures in the morning, and parallel group sessionsin the afternoon.
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The lectures will be delivered by three leading experts in the field, and will focus on both general and specific aspects of their current work. Each lecture will comprise approximately 45-50 minutes of presentation, and 20 minutes of questions and answers.
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Each group session will be led by a different lecturer, and will take a laboratory format. The topics dealt with are intended to be broad in scope – e.g. they might include Naturalism in Epistemology; Methodology and Meta-epistemology; Epistemic Contextualism and its rivals; virtue epistemology and reliabilism – in order to allow the participants to engage in open discussion, based on specific texts read in advance. A reading list will be provided in due course by the speakers.
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Each student will hence have the opportunity to attend 12 lectures and 4 group sessions during the 4 days. Of course there will be ample room for intellectual and philosophical exchanges outside of these academic activities, in the beautiful setting of late summer evenings offered by Urbino.
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Detailed course description
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Participation fees
There are two options: (1) enrolment in the school only, including participation and didactic material, at the cost of € 180,00; or (2) enrolment-plus-full-board, including 5 nights in Urbino and the meals for 4 days of school, at the cost of € 420,00. Accommodation and meals under this option will be provided at a University residence and cafeteria.
This event would not be possible without the contribution of the University of Urbino.
Depending on the availability of funds there may be a few bursaries available to cover in whole or in part the cost of the school.
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Application
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Applications to the Summer School must be sent via email to adriano.angelucci@uniurb.it or to daniele_sgaravatti@yahoo.it by April 30th, and must include a CV (with list of publications, if applicable).
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by May 15th.
The opening date for online enrolment at the School is May 16th.
The closing date for online enrolment at the School is June 30th.
All the info needed to complete the online enrolment procedure will be provided to selected participants in due time.
The Summer School will be activated only if the minimum number of participants is reached.
For all inquiries about the school, please contact:
adriano.angelucci@uniurb.it or daniele_sgaravatti@yahoo.it