SEMINAR
COGITO EPISTEMOLOGY RESEARCH CENTRE

The COGITO Seminar meets on Mondays, 12–1pm, during semester at 67–69 Oakfield Avenue. It is the centre's regular meeting for staff, postdocs, PhD students and visitors, and it runs in three formats.

 

• COGITO Drafts: pre-read sessions. A paper is circulated a week in advance and the whole session is discussion.

• Talks: a 45-minute presentation by a visiting speaker or a member of the centre, followed by questions.

• Lightning Workshops: several short presentations on one theme in a single session, with quick-fire discussion.

 

For the programme, to propose a session, or to be added to the mailing list, contact Frances Darling (f.darling.1@research.gla.ac.uk) or Will Gopal (w.gopal.1@research.gla.ac.uk).

 

Schedule, Semester 1 2026–27

2 November 2026 (2–4pm) · Lightning Workshop · J. Adam Carter, “The Genus of Teleological Assessment”; Auke Montessori, “Trustworthiness and Memory Enhancement”; Will Gopal, “Advising & Understanding”; Guillaume Andrieux, “Pragmatic Encroachment on Knowledge-How”

9 November 2026 · COGITO Drafts (online) · Angelo Gulina

1 December 2026 (Tuesday, 1–3pm) · Lightning Workshop · Satsuki Inoue, “What’s the subject matter of epistemology? Characterising it in terms of knowledge-first”; Frances Darling, “Defeat and Atypical Knowers”

7 December 2026 · Talk · Arata Matsuda (visiting from Oxford), “The Skeptical Force of Uneven Philosophical Disagreement”

 

Past sessions

26 October 2026 · COGITO Drafts: J. Adam Carter, “Good Moves: A Risk-Theoretic Account of Telic Know-How”

28 September 2026 · COGITO Drafts: Auke Montessori, “How to Reveal a Secret”

27 July 2026 · COGITO Drafts: Jack Madock (Florida), “Knowing How and Being Trustworthy”

13 July 2026 · COGITO Drafts: Mariona Miyata-Sturm, “Aesthetic Theoretical Virtues Will Not Help You Gain Nonfactive Understanding”

29 June 2026 · COGITO Drafts: Jesper Kallestrup, “Social Role Epistemology”

26 May 2026 · Talk: Fabio Tollon, “Companion Chatbots, Virtue Theatre, and Hermeneutic Harm”

23 April 2026 · Lightning Workshop: J. Adam Carter, “What is the Epistemic Backstop Problem, Really?”; Jesper Kallestrup; Ross Patrizio

26 March 2026 · Talk: Anandi Hattiangadi (Stockholm), “What is Artificial General Intelligence?”

26 February 2026 · Lightning Workshop: Satsuki Inoue, “Know-How and Tasks in Action”; Matthew Jope, “Does Generative AI Entail a Credit–Blame Asymmetry?”; Guillaume Andrieux, “Epistemic Norms of Memory”

5 February 2026 · Online: Jack Madock (Florida), “Trusting Without Knowing”

29 January 2026 · Krzysztof Sękowski, “Modal Normativism Essentialized”

4 December 2025 · Satsuki Inoue (Chiba)

20 November 2025 · Glenn Anderau, “The Epistemic Importance of Narratives”

6 November 2025 · Ian Botti, “Epistemic Virtue and the Psychology of Reasoning”

23 October 2025 · Dominik Jarczewski (online)

18 September 2025 · Leverhulme Lecture: Malcolm Keating (Leverhulme Visiting Professor)

28 August 2025 · Kurt Sylvan (Southampton), “The Structure of Knowledge”

7 July 2025 · Matt McGrath (Washington University in St Louis), “Evidentialism and Having Evidence”

23 May 2025 · Manuel García-Carpintero (Barcelona), “Tell Me What You Know”

22 May 2025 · Ross Patrizio

16 May 2025 · Xindi Ye (Hong Kong), “Machine Speech: The Very Idea”

7 May 2025 · Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern), “The Expected Common Ground”

6 May 2025 · Grace Li (HKU and KCL), “Theorizing Sexual Harassment in Analytic Feminism”

1 May 2025 · David Boylan

3 April 2025 · Dominik Jarczewski, “Syntactic Violence and Epistemic Injustice”

20 March 2025 · Nicolas Côté (for Chloé de Canson), “The Epistemic Grounds for Popular Interference in the Conduct of Science”

 

COGITO Co-Working

Every Wednesday, 2–5pm, the centre runs a co-working afternoon at 67–69 Oakfield Avenue: 40-minute blocks of quiet writing with breaks for coffee and conversation, open to staff and postgraduate researchers in epistemology at Glasgow. Refreshments are provided by the KNOW-HOW project. There is no session in weeks with a Philosophy staff meeting. For details contact Mariona Miyata-Sturm (Mariona.Miyata-Sturm@glasgow.ac.uk), Adam Carter (adam.carter@glasgow.ac.uk) or Lilith Mace (lilith.mace@glasgow.ac.uk).