Activities
Upcoming Events
Anandi Hattiangadi and Alex Sandgren to present 'Normative Subject Matters and How to Fix Them'. Arché, St Andrews, Scotland. December 7th, 2021.
Previous Events
Workshop
The Nature of Epistemic Normativity, May 13-14 2021 on Zoom.
https://sites.google.com/view/found-ep-norm/home/activities/the-nature-of-epistemic-normativity
Conference (postponed)
Reasoning, Rules and the Normativity of Logic‚ Stockholm, planned 25–26 June 2020 (postponed).
Conference website: https://sites.google.com/view/found-ep-norm/home/activities/reasoning-and-the-normativity-of-logic
Conference
Post-Truth and the Objectivity of Epistemic Norms, Sussex, 7–8 November 2019.
Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/view/found-ep-norm/home/activities/past-events/conference-on-post-truth-and-the-objectivity-of-epistemic-norms
Conference
Normativity and the A Priori, Stockholm, 30–31 August 2018.
Presentations
Corine Besson:
‘Explicit Representations and Epistemic Regresses’
First Workshop of the Justification, its Structure and Grounds Project, Logos Barcelona, 12-13/11/2020.
‘Logical Generality and the Possibility of Deductive Reasoning’
Saul Kripke Centre, CUNY, seminar series on the ‘Kripke-Carroll Adoption Problem’, 21/10/2020;
The Epistemology of Reasoning Conference, Cologne, 27-29/6/2019;
Keynote Address, 8th Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy Graduate Conference: The Normativity of Logic, 24-26/6/2019;
Joint MCMP-Mind Seminar, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Munich 6/6/2019;
Formal Methods Seminar, King’s College London, 1/3/2019.
‘Logical Expressivism and Carroll’s Regress’
Practical Reasons & Rationality Seminar with Ulrike Heuer and Joseph Raz, UCL, 12/3/2020;
Workshop on Expressivism, Knowledge and Truth, University College, London, 19-20/10/2018;
Bristol Philosophy Seminar, 6/3/2018;
Glasgow Senior Seminar, 20/2/2018.
‘Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic, Normativity and the A Priori’
Departmental Philosophical Colloquium, Hamburg, 16/1/2019;
Normativity and the A Priori Workshop, Stockholm, 30-31/08/2018.
‘Carroll’s Regress, Logical Knowledge and Non-Cognitivism’
Philosophy Colloquium, Stanford, 5/5/2019;
Diaphora Workshop, Edinburgh, 29-30/5/2018.
‘The Normativity of Logic Articulated in Terms of Normative Reasons’
Cardiff Research Seminar, 5/12/2018;
Norms and Reasons Conference, Zürich, 1-3/11/2018;
Logic, Norms, and Reasoning Colloquium, Tenth German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP.10) Conference, Cologne, 17-20/9/2018.
Anandi Hattiangadi:
‘Normative Subject Matters and How to Fix Them.’ (With Alexander Sandgren.)
Humboldt Normativity Workshop, Berlin, Germany, December 2020.
‘Three Ways in which Logic is Exceptional.’
Seminar Series on the ‘Kripke-Carroll Adoption Problem’, Saul Kripke Center, Saul Kripke Center, CUNY, New York, USA. December 2020.
‘Reasoning and Normativity.’
Third Annual Frankfurt Metaethics Conference—What is Normativity? Frankfurt, Germany. September 2019.
‘Is Logic Normative?’
Australian Association of Philosophy Conference, Wollongong, Australia. July 2019.
Conference on Normative Pluralism, The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway, January 2019.
Department of Philosophy, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. September 2018. Arché Research Centre, St Andrews, Scotland, May 2018.
Conference on Normativity and the A Priori, Stockholm University, Sweden. August 2018.
Department of Philosophy, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand. September 2018.
Corine Besson & Anandi Hattiangadi:
'Deductive Reasoning Without Rule Following.' CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA. September 2021.
Outreach
Corine Besson:
20 September 2020. Public debate on ‘Beyond Right and Wrong’ (online) organised by The Institute of Arts and Ideas. (Soon available online). Description: Politicians, scientists, experts, specialists and even philosophers frequently claim to be right and to have understood how things ultimately are. Yet at the same time they know this can't plausibly be the case. In the history of humankind there is no theory that has been shown to be definitive, no claim that cannot be disputed. Nor can we imagine a time when such dispute will come to an end. Should we give up the very idea that it is possible to be definitively right? Would this usher in a new era of compromise? Or is the possibility of being right essential to progress and culture, without which we risk violence and conflict? Host: Rana Mitter (Oxford); Speakers: Santiago Zabala (Barcelona); Corine Besson (Sussex); Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (Lancaster)
19-23 March 2019. EthicsLab Launch Week – creation of the Ethics and Public Policy Laboratory (EthicsLab) at the Catholic University of Central Africa (UCAC), Yaoundé, Cameroon (https://www.ethicslablaunch.com). Talk on ‘Norms, Evidence and Expertise’ on the panel Ethics and the Environment.
Anandi Hattiangadi:
18 February 2020. Public lecture on 'The Epistemology of Fake News', organized by R. Krishnaswamy, Jindal Global University, New Delhi.
22 May 2020. Public lecture course on ‘The Epistemology of Fake News’ organized by the Institute of Art and Ideas Academy (online). Description: From climate change denial to claiming that Covid-19 is “just the flu”, fake news has become a defining feature of our time and an urgent and novel problem to solve. While most of us believe ourselves immune to disinformation, unconscious psychological biases and epistemological limits make the task of discerning fact from fiction much harder than we might think. What exactly is fake news? Why are none of us immune to it? Can we truly know something if we haven’t carefully investigated all evidence for and against it? If not, is it even possible to drop all our beliefs and accept we don’t know anything? Can we avoid the dangers of dogmatism while committing to a realist epistemological framework?
19 September 2020. Public debate on ‘Belief, Hypocrisy and Reason’(online) organised by The Institute of Arts and Ideas. (Soon available online). Description: In our post truth age, it seems that we can collect beliefs on a whim or a tribal fashion. And many are happy to hold contradictory views to suit their temporary desires.Is this a dangerous approach that threatens not only the coherence of our own outlook but the stability and success of culture and society as whole? Do we need to apply reason to sort wild opinion from truth, eradicate our hypocrisies and build a better society? Or is the era of enlightenment reason over, and time to see its assertions as the prejudiced theories of a privileged class who used logic to promote a particular world view. Host: Hannah Dawson; Speakers: Graham Harman (Southern California Institute of Architecture); Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm); Hilary Lawson (IAI).
20 September 2020. Public debate on ‘A Matter of Facts’(online) organised by The Institute of Arts and Ideas. (Soon available online). Description: Facts and reason are essential if we are to make progress and create a better world. At least that's how it used to be. But now it seems everyone has their own 'facts'. Trump and Putin have their 'alternative' facts, but so, it is also claimed, does the liberal elite and the mainstream media. Meanwhile, reason is derided by many as a typically male bludgeon to deny alternative views. Should we welcome the challenge to facts and reason as a progressive move undermining the authority of traditional Western hierarchies founded on establishment prejudice? Or is the undermining of facts and reason singularly dangerous - threatening a belligerent world with no shared framework and no communication? Host: Joanna Kavenna; Speakers: Sofie-Grace Chappell (Open); Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm); Simon Blackburn (New College of the Humanities and Cambridge)
7 August 2020. ‘Is this real life, or The Matrix?’ Article published in IAI News, Institute of Art and Ideas.
7 February 2021. Dagens Nyheter Special: What is thought? Why do we think? How can we think well?