Professor Timothy Williamson at CEU (fwd)

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by BIBERK(a)CEU.HU follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear All, The CEU Philosophy Doctoral Support Program cordially invites you to a = seminar and lecture by Professor Timothy Williamson.=20 We are extremely happy that Professor Williamson has accepted our = invitation and would be glad if all interested people could attend his = talk.=20 Time: Tuesday, 29 February 11.00-12.40 (lecture) and 14.30-16.10 (seminar) Place: Central European University, 9. Nador str. Faculty Tower, room 609. The title is "A Priori Knowledge, Content Externalism and=20 Deductive Closure". Abstract: According to externalism, the content of our beliefs and other=20 propositional attitudes depends constitutively on the external=20 environment. That raises the possibility that by knowing what we=20 think we can gain substantive knowledge of the environment, where=20 this knowledge would be a priori in the sense of being non- observational. It has been argued that would be a reductio ad=20 absurdum of content externalism, since we cannot have substantive a=20 priori knowledge of the environment. The talk will call such=20 arguments into question. In general, it is not clear that such=20 knowledge cannot be a priori in the relevant sense. In particular,=20 the argument in question assumes that one's a priori knowledge is=20 closed under one's deductions; this assumption is more problematic=20 than it sounds.=20 Please send me an e-mail whether you are interested in and would be able = to attend.=20 Thank you. Kriszta Biber, Program Coordinator