Keynote Speakers

Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford)

Prof. Timothy Williamson will also give an honorary lecture the day after (i.e., on February 26). Participants in the workshop are kindly invited to attend.

Travel and Accommodation

TRAVEL

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.

The bus line EA connects the airport to the Faculty (San Bernardo stop) with departures every 30 minutes. The cost is 4 euros per trip. For more details, see: http://www.tussam.es/uploads/pdf/HORARIOLINEAAEROPUERTO.pdf?v=1539686760

Taxis from the airport to the Faculty cost between €22 and €25, approximately; supplementary charges may apply for suitcases heavier than 10 kg or depending on the time of the day.

ACCOMMODATION

HOTEL NH VIAPOL (****)

• Price per night:

• 82,09€ (double room, individual use with breakfast)

• 64,27€ (double room, individual use without breakfast)

• Address: Calle Balbino Marrón, (2 minute walk)

HOSTAL SAN VICENTE II

• Price per night: 45€ aprox.

• Address: Gran Plaza, 4 (15 minute walk or 10 minutes by underground)

PENSIÓN GRAN PLAZA

• Price per night: 25/30€ aprox.

• Address: Calle Beatriz de Suabia, 104 (15 minute walk or 10 minutes by underground)

Description

The notions of luck, risk and competence play a pivotal role in central areas of philosophy, either because they feature as key notions in significant philosophical theses and arguments or because they give rise to challenging puzzles. These notions occupy a particularly prominent position in several epistemological debates. For instance, Gettier-style cases, preface and lottery cases, and situations of misleading higher-order evidence can be framed in terms of epistemic risk and luck. In addition, whether one is in the business of analyzing knowledge or not, knowledge is widely thought to feature anti-luck or anti-risk conditions. On the other hand, the notion of competence (and the related notions of ability and skill) are also key to accounting for the nature of knowledge (both knowledge-that and knowledge-how) as well as for its value. More generally, when assessing the appropriateness or rationality of an agent’s attitude, it is crucial to consider the competences that the agent manifests or is in a position to manifest by adopting that attitude.

The aim of the workshop is to discuss epistemological topics where the notions of luck, risk and competence play a significant role. Beyond epistemology, the workshop aims at discussing the nature of luck, risk and competence in general (and related notions such as skill or ability) as well as the conceptual connections between them.

Topics

Possible presentation topics include, but are not limited to:

• Is the nature of luck modal or probabilistic, or is it a matter of lack of control? Should risk be understood in the same way?

• How are the notions of luck and risk related to the notions of competence and achievement?

• Can we explain, or at least shed light on, some of these concepts in terms of the others?

• What are the prospects of conditional or dispositional analyses of the notion of ability?

• How do the different conceptions of skill bear on the intellectualism vs. anti-intellectualism debate on know-how?

• Are skills dispositions to know? Do actions manifest skill only if they are guided by knowledge states? And how is such guidance affected by the presence of risks?

• What is epistemic risk, and what is its relation to epistemic luck?

• What different varieties of epistemic risk are there?

• What role may the notion of epistemic risk play in virtue epistemology?

• Are there varieties of epistemic luck and risk that specifically jeopardize our second-order and reflective abilities?

• How are epistemic luck and risk related to higher-order evidence and epistemic defeat?

• Can the notion of epistemic risk help us understand classical topics in epistemology such as epistemic normativity, the value of knowledge, skepticism, epistemic closure, Gettier cases or the lottery or the preface paradoxes?

• How is the notion of epistemic risk related to the internalist/externalist divide?

• Are we lucky to be rational? What are the normative and epistemological implications of this?

Call For Papers

To participate please send an abstract of approximately 1000 words (refs. excluded) to prof. Jesús Navarro (jnr@us.es) prepared for blind review.

Unfortunately, we cannot cover travel or accommodation costs, but contributed speakers will be given a daily allowance for meal and transportation expenses.

Submission deadline: 15th of December 2019

Notification of acceptance: 23th of December 2019

Organizing committee

Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (Autonomous University of Madrid): fernando.broncano@uam.es

Carla Carmona Escalera (University of Seville): ccarmona@us.es

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

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

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

Moisés Barba Magdalena (Autonomous University of Madrid): moises.barba@hotmail.com

Local committee (University of Seville)

Cecilia Alarcón

Mario Cáceres

Alba Aragón Estrada

Ignacio Gómez Ledo

Daniel Gutiérrez

Javier Portillo

Federico Rodríguez Gómez