Workshop on
The Social and Political
Dimensions of Epistemic Risk
(Second Edition)

You can reach the Philosophy Faculty by bus (routes C1, C2, B4, 52, B4, 25, 26, 38 and 38 A), underground (Metro, line 1) or tramway (Metrocentro line). From the Santa Justa rail station, the best option is bus route C1.

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Description

The epistemic well functioning of our societies may be threatened in countless different ways. Many of these threats have been thoroughly investigated in recent literature, and include phenomena such as epistemic injustice, epistemic oppression, group polarization, epistemic colonialism, willful ignorance, fake news, conspiracy theorising, or different kinds of denialism.

While “Epistemic risk” is often considered narrowly just as the close possibility of false belief, in this workshop we intend to use the concept in a broader sense, to target the full array of issues that may put the proper functioning of our epistemic practices at risk by hindering the production, acquisition or transmission of epistemically valuable states, such as knowledge or understanding. Special emphasis will be put on how epistemic and political phenomena may endanger, when intertwined, the kinds of relationships of epistemic trust that sustain our epistemic communities.

The topic of the workshop is thus intended to be broad. Papers on social and political epistemology addressing any of the aforementioned topics are welcome, as well as those in the vicinity of these areas that also investigate different ways in which knowledge production, acquisition or transmission may be compromised in our societies.

Organizing committee

Daniel Barbarrusa (University of Seville): barbarrusa@us.es

Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (University of Barcelona): f.broncano-berrocal@ub.edu

Nacho Gómez-Ledo (University of Seville): igledo@us.es

Javier González de Prado Salas (UNED): jgonzalezdeprado@fsof.uned.es

Lola Vizuete (University of Seville): lmvizuete@us.es

Jesús Navarro (University of Seville): jnr@us.es

Dani Pino (University of Seville): dps@us.es

Local committee (University of Seville)

Juan Luis Armesto

María del Campo

Alba González

Antonio Guillén

Funding

Proyecto de investigación E-RISK, “New Perspectives on Epistemic Risk” (PGC2018-098805-B-I00), financiado por MCIN/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ y por FEDER Una manera de hacer Europa.