Reminder:invitation to a philosophy talk - on THURSDAY

The CEU Philosophy Department cordially invites you to a talk (as part of its Departmental Colloquium series) by Nenad Miscevic (Central European University) on Structured Aposteriority: The Pale Grey Lore Revisited NOTE! THURSDAY! 12 February 2009, 5.30 PM, Zrinyi 14, Room 412 ABSTRACT Armchair beliefs have various origins that tie them to empirical evidence (in a broad sense). Using the model of two-stage justification, immediate and reflective, acceptable for both apriorists and aposteriorists, one can identify several sources of aposteriority. Their combination yields a structured tissue of justification, in contrast to both pure a priori line, and to the opposite extreme, which, following Quine, describes “the fabric of our knowledge” as “pale gray lore” in which there are no clearly white (say, a priori), nor purely black (a posteriori) threads. The view proposed charts thus a middle way between two dominant views: the conceptualist apriorism (Peacocke, Jackson) and the “ordinarist” view (T. Williamson, M. Devitt) according to which the justification of armchair beliefs is either purely a posteriori, or of a neutral, undefined status. Kriszta Biber Department Coordinator Philosophy Department Tel: 36-1-327-3806 Fax: 36-1-327-3072 E-mail: biberk(a)ceu.hu