The PEG Seminar

The PEG Seminar convenes weekly through the semester at the University of Lisbon. We have a mix of visiting speakers, WIP talks, and paper discussions. 

Spring 2026 Seminar Schedule 

13th February

"The Autonomy Paradox: a Preemptionist Solution", Guido Tana (talk)

20th February 

Discussion of Ch 1 of MS from Maria Lasonen (discussion)

27th February 

Discussion of Ch 2 of MS from Maria Lasonen (discussion)

6th March

“Reasons to try”, Anne-Sofie Munk Autzen (talk) 

13th March

NO SEMINAR

20th March

"Sleeping with the windows open: Subjective Security and Privileged Ignorance", Carolina Flores (talk)

27th March

NO SEMINAR

April 3rd

NO SEMINAR

April 10th 

"Beyond Soundness: Fruitfulness and Interrogative Attitudes", André Abath (talk)

April 17th 

"The Epistemic Continuum", Jaakko Hirvelä (talk) 

April 24th 

"Beyond Risk and Safety: Tackling ARVE's Two Main Objections" Tiago Veloso (talk)

May 8th

Wide epistemic states and inferential knowledge, Giada Fratantonio (talk)

May 15th 

"Scepticism: Position or Paradox?" Joshua Thorpe (talk)

May 22nd 

Title TBC, Federico Bongiorno (talk)

June 5th

Title TBC, Nick Hughes (talk) 

June 19th 

"Contextualism and the Problem of the External world" by Ram Neta (paper discussion)

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Past schedules

Autumn 2025 Seminar Schedule

26th September 

"Disquotation and Silence", Josh Thorpe (talk)

3rd October 

No seminar

10th October

"On the Evocation Norm of Questioning", Giada Fratantonio (talk)

17th October

"Disagreement, Skepticism about philosophy, and the problem of the criterion", Guido Tana (talk)

24th October 

Social Role Epistemology, Jesper Kallestrup (talk)

31st October

"Epistemic Responsibility and Doxastic Agency", Conor McHugh (discussion)

7th November

"Why look again? On love as an epistemic virtue", Francesca Scapinello (talk)

14th November 

Title TBD, Nuno Venturinha (talk)

21 November

"Epistemic Teleology and the Seperateness of Propositions", Berker (discussion)

28th November 

"Narrative Epistemology", Fraser (discussion)

5th December

"Joint attention as a joint communicative action", Felipe León (talk)

12th December

"Shaping knowledge in regulatory science: orphan drugs and anti-ageing medicines in the EU", Roberto López Mas (talk)

19th December 

"What is the Lichtenberg objection?", Josh Thorpe (talk)

Spring 2025 Seminar Schedule

14th February
"Ambulo Ergo Sum", Lucy O'Brien (paper discussion)

21th February
"Lightning", in The Practical Self, Anil Gomes (paper discussion)

28th Februrary
"Certainty and Self-verification", Joshua Rowan Thorpe (talk)

7th March
"Why suspend judging?", Jane Friedman (paper discussion)

14th March
"Inquiry for the mistaken and confused", Arianna Falbo (paper discussion)

21st March
"(When) should I ostrich?", Giada Fratantonio (talk)

28th March
No Seminar

3rd April
TBA, David Horst, (talk)

11th April
"We have positive epistemic duties", Matthew McGrath (paper discussion)

18th April
NO SEMINAR (holiday)

25th April
NO SEMINAR (holiday)

2nd May
Matthew Vermaire (talk)

9th May
NO SEMINAR (due to Epistemic Norms and Epistemic Capacities conference)

16th May

 "How to Interpret LLMs?" Gabriel Malagutti (talk)

20th June
"Towards a Socially Sensible Epistemic Consequentialism", João Miranda (talk)