Stathis Psillos is Professor of Philosophy of Science and Metaphysics in the Dept of Philosophy & History of Science in the University of Athens, Greece and member of the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, Canada (where he held the Rotman Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Science in 2013-2015). Psillos is a leading contemporary defender of scientific realism and is the author of Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth (Routledge, 1999).
MARTIN KUSCH
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
STATHIS PSILLOS
UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
MICHELA MASSIMI
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
ROBIN MCKENNA
UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA
Martin Kusch is Professor of philosophy at the University of Vienna. Until 2009, Kusch was Professor of Philosophy and Sociology of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University.
He currently leading a major ERC project at the University of Vienna entitled 'The Emergence of Relativism— Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives'.
J. ADAM CARTER
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Michela Massimi is Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Massimi's work is primarily on philosophy of science, Kant, and the intersection between contemporary philosophical problems and historical and contemporary scientific practice. She has been (since 2011) Editor and Chief (with Steven French) of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Beginning in 2016, will be the Principal Investigator on a 5-year European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant on Perspectival Realism. Science, Knowledge, and Truth from a Human Vantage Point.
Robin McKenna is a postdoc on the ERC Project "The Emergence of Relativism" (PI: Martin Kusch) at the University of Vienna. Before coming to Vienna McKenna was a postdoc with the Episteme Research Group at the University of Geneva. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh under the excellent supervision of Duncan Pritchard, Allan Hazlett and Matthew Chrisman. McKenna works primarily in epistemology, philosophy of language, and ethics (especially metaethics). His work has appeared in (among other places) Analysis, Ethics, and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
J. Adam Carter is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Eidyn Research Centre, University of Edinburgh. His main research interest is epistemology. Carter's monograph Metaepistemology and Relativism was released in February 2016, from Palgrave Macmillan.
Speakers
The workshop will feature five speakers, two in the morning and three in the afternoon. See below for short bios for each speaker.