Workshop on Groups and Disagreement – University of Copenhagen

Workshop on Groups and Disagreement

Collective epistemology investigates the extent to which the epistemic properties we attribute to groups as well as the epistemic practices they are engaged in parallel or differ from individual epistemic practices and properties. An increasingly rich literature has shed light on topics such as collective belief, group epistemic justification or group knowledge. But many topics long-studied in traditional epistemology have been little investigated (or are yet unexplored) in the epistemology of groups. One such topic is disagreement. Recent discussion in epistemology has mainly focused on disagreement involving individual beliefs. However, many complex real-life disagreements take place among groups and consequently involve collective beliefs. This workshop aims to investigate the extent to which ongoing debates in the epistemology of disagreement can be replicated in the epistemology of groups. For example, should groups (as a whole) conciliate or remain steadfast in disagreements ranging over collective beliefs? Should their individual members do likewise? 

Closest Metro Station: Islands Brygge. From there it is a short walk.

Campus map

Everyone is welcome to attend, and there is no registration fee.

For inquiries, please contact Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (f.broncano.berrocal@hum.ku.dk)

Thursday, March 30

9:15 – 9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30 – 10:30 Nikolaj Nottelmann (University of Southern Denmark) - Disagreement as Evidence - The Group Doxastic Agent Case

10:35 – 11:35 J. Adam Carter (University of Glasgow) & Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (University of Copenhagen) - Group Polarisation as a Collective Epistemic Vice

11:45 – 12:45 Simon Barker (University of Sheffield) - Bucking the Trend – The Puzzle of Individual Dissent

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Asbjørn Steglich-Petersen (Aarhus University) & Mattias Skipper Rasmussen (Aarhus University) - Group Disagreement and Belief Aggregation

15:05 – 16:05 Nathan Sheff (University of Connecticut) - Intra-Group Disagreement and Conciliationism

16:15 – 17:15 Mikkel Gerken (University of Southern Denmark) - Pragmatic Encroachment, Epistemic Injustice and Disagreement

19.00 Dinner at Il Buco, Njalsgade 19c

Friday, March 31

9:15 – 9:30 Coffee and Tea

9:30 – 10:30 Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University) - The Duty to Object

10:35 – 11:35 Bjørn Gunnar Hallson (University of Copehnagen) - Is Motivated Reasoning Rational?

11:45 – 12:45 Erik J. Olsson (Lund University) - Polarization - Is it Rational?

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Jesús Zamora Bonilla (UNED-Madrid) & Javier González de Prado Salas (Autonomous University of Madrid) - Disagreement among and within Groups: An Inferentialist Account

15:05 – 16:05 Eric Sampson (UNC - Chapel Hill) - Can Groups Rationally Accept Conciliationism?