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Workshop on Intellectual Autonomy, Epistemic Authority, and Epistemic Paternalism

Organiza

Applied Epistemology Research Group (AEGEA) Prof. Jesús Vega Prof. Fernando Broncano-Berrocal

Fecha

Desde el 05-02-2019 hasta el 06-02-2019

Hora

9:30

Lugar

Salón de Actos (Tuesday 9:30 - 13:15) Sala de Conferencias (Tuesday 14:45 - 18:30; Wednesday 9:30 - 18:30)

Descripción

The ideal of intellectual autonomy plays an important role in shaping our views on how to conduct inquiry and become responsible knowers. In pursuing their cognitive endeavors, intellectually autonomous agents are supposed to exhibit features such as independence of thought, self-reliance, or self-governance. In the individualistic framework of traditional epistemology, these features have been seen as desiderata of ideal knowers, i.e., of agents who are able to acquire knowledge on their own, by relying on nothing else but their own cognitive capacities and resources. However, as more recent work in social epistemology has shown, most of our beliefs derive from relying on others and their testimony. More generally, our epistemic life is built upon a massive network of social dependencies, which give rise to relations of trust, deference to expert authority, and even paternalistic interferences. This workshop will be devoted to discussing the nature, limitations, consequences and prospects of the ideal of intellectual autonomy.

Program

Tuesday, 5th of February

9:30 - 10:40 - Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff University) - Epistemic feelings and the intellectual vices of hyper-autonomy and heteronomy
10:40 - 10:50 - Coffee break
10:50 - 12:00 - Marion Worms (University Paris 1 / IHPST) - Expert advice for decision-making: the moving boundary between informing and instructing
12:05 - 13:15 - Xintong Wei (University of St.Andrews & Stirling) - Intellectual autonomy, expert testimony and the a priori
13:15 - 14:45 - Lunch
14:45 - 15:55 - Shane Ryan (Nazarbayev University) - Autonomy and reflection
15:55 - 16:05 - Coffee break
16:05 - 17:15 - Javier González de Prado (UNED) - Humble, but not too humble: disagreement as a threat to epistemic autonomy
17:20 - 18:30- Heather Spradley (Harvard University) - Escaping epistemic bubbles: defending an epistemic norm of inquiry

Wednesday, 6th of February

9:30 - 10:40 - Emily Sullivan & Mark Alfano (Delft University of Technology) - Network-first epistemology
10:40 - 10:50 - Coffee break
10:50 - 12:00 - Jeroen de Ridder (VU Amsterdam) - Algorithm-based illusions of understanding
12:05 - 13:15 - Fernando Broncano-Berrocal (Autonomous University of Madrid) - Duties of epistemic care
13:15 - 14:45 - Lunch
14:45 - 15:55 - Fleur Jongepier (Radboud University Nijmegen) - Do algorithms know us better than we know ourselves?
15:55 - 16:05 - Coffee break
16:05 - 17:15 - Josh Habgood-Coote (University of Bristol) - Group inquiry and epistemic objectification
17:20 - 18:30- Jesús Vega-Encabo (Autonomous University of Madrid) - Intellectual autonomy matters