Workshop date: September 13th-15th, 2017
The use of intuitions as evidence in philosophical theorising has been intensely debated in recent years. In particular, experimental philosophers have criticised philosophers' reliance on intuitions as potentially biased and error-prone by showing that the folk's intuitions seem to vary from the philosophical consensus.
Some philosophers have responded to this methodological challenge by appealing to the so-called ‘expertise defense’: philosophical experts—by virtue of their relevant training and skills—are more suited to judge the outcomes of thought experiments than laypeople. However, more recent studies suggest that even philosophers themselves may be subject to extraneous factors.
In this workshop we will discuss the latest developments regarding the expertise defense and experimentalists’ responses. Some of the questions we hope to elucidate are: What exactly does philosophical expertise consist of? Are philosophers expert intuiters? Can the expertise defense be sustained in the face of the recent findings concerning the experts?
Workshop location: room M 2.3 at the Studenterhus (see here)
The duration of the talks on Wednesday and Thursday will be 45min + 30min discussion. On Friday, talks will be 35min + 15min discussion.
| Wednesday, September 13: | ||
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome and introduction by Samuel Schindler | |
| 9:15-10:30 | Jennifer Nado (Hong Kong University) | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:15 | Joachim Horvath (University of Cologne) | The Myth of Intuitive Expertise |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:45 | Edouard Machery (University of Pittsburgh) | Philosophy as Modeling? |
| 14:45-15:15 | Coffee break | |
| 15:15-16:45 | Pierre Saint-Germier (Aarhus University) | Getting Gettier Straight: a Pragmatic Approach to the Problem of Deviant Realizations |
| Thursday, September 14: | ||
| 9:15-10:30 | Jonathan Weinberg (University of Arizona) | Philosophical déformation professionelle and the burden of proof |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:15 | Sören Häggqvist (Stockholm University) | |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:45 | Samuel Schindler (Aarhus University) | An Expertise Defense via Armchair Physics |
| 14:45-15:15 | Coffee break | |
| 15:15-16:45 | Anna Drożdżowicz (Aarhus University) | Philosophical expertise beyond intuitions |
| 18:30 | Conference dinner at Domestic | |
| Friday, September 15: | ||
| 9:00-9:50 | Ana Butković (University of Zagreb) | Does the Expertise Defense Threaten the Armchair Intuitional Methodology? |
| 9:50-10:15 | Coffee break | |
| 10:15-11:05 | Eugen Fischer (University of East Anglia) | The Expertise Defence: A Psycholinguistic Perspective |
| 11:05-11:15 | Coffee break | |
| 11:15-12:10 | Miguel Egler and Lewis Ross (University of St. Andrews) | "Seeing the Trees for the Forest" - bringing the expertise defence into focus |
| 12:15 | Lunch | |
