• 2nd International Conference on the topic of Socially Extended Knowledge, October 8-9, 2015

Socially Extended Knowledge is the second of two international conferences on the topic of ‘Extended Knowledge.‘ The aim of the first  ‘Extended Knowledge Conference‘ was to bring together leading scholars from around the world in order to critically examine the ramifications of the extended cognition programme (and related views) for contemporary epistemology, and for the theory of knowledge in particular. In this second conference on the topic of ‘Socially Extended Knowledge’, leading epistemologists, cyberneticists, philosophers of mind, psychologists and Web scientists will move further to explore the impact of the distributed cognition programme on analytic epistemology. 

The main event will take place on Thursday and Friday, October 8 and 9 and it will close with a public lecture by Prof Michael Lynch . 

Holly Arrow (Psychology, University of Oregon, USA)
Harry Halpin (Infrormatics, World Wide Web Consortium, USA)
Francis Heylighen (Cybernetics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
Michael Lynch (Philosophy, University of Connecticut, USA)
Joelle Proust (Philosophy, Institut Jean Nicod, France)
Sabine Roeser (Philosophy, Deft University, Netherlands)
Ernest Sosa (Philosophy, Rutgers university, USA)
Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff University, UK)
Deborah Tollefsen (Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA)
Brad Wray (Philosophy, State University of New York, USA)

For more details you can visit the conference website.

• 1st International Conference on the topic of Extended Knowledge, Edinburgh, April 22-24, 2015.

The aim of this 1st International Conference on the topic of ‘Extended Knowledge’ is to bring together leading scholars from around the world in order to critically examine the ramifications of the extended cognition programme (and related views) to contemporary epistemology, and to the theory of knowledge in particular.

Speakers:

FRED ADAMS (University of Delaware)
KENNETH AIZAWA (Rutgers University)
MARK ALFANO (University of Oregon)
HEATHER BATTALY (California State university, Fullerton)
ANDY CLARK (University of Edinburgh)
ZOE DRAYSON (University of Stirling)
JEROEN DE RIDDER (University Amsterdam)
ANDREA ENGLISH (University of Edinburgh)
BEN KOTZEE (University of Birmingham)
LAMBROS MALAFOURIS (University of Oxford)
RICHARD MENARY (Macquarie University)
MICHAEL MI (University of Soochow)
GUS SKORBURG (University of Oregon)
PAUL SMART (University of Sheffield)

The main event will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, April 22 and 23, and it will be followed by two satellite workshops on Friday, April 24. The first satellite (morning session) will be dedicated to the Epistemology of Education, and the second to Group Knowledge.

For more details you can visit the conference website.