[MaFLA] Knockdown arguments online workshop programme

[István Danka]

Knockdown Arguments in Philosophy and Science

online workshop

16.12.2022

https://meet.google.com/gbr-ophn-wup



1.      Knockdown arguments in context



GMT 10:55 Opening

GMT 11:00 Bálint Békefi (Central European University, Vienna)

Oppy on why there are no decisive arguments in the philosophy of religion

GMT 11:30 Jonathan Krude (University of Oxford)

               Heidegger on decisive insight

GMT 12:00 Krisztina Szabó (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

               To what extent is OECD PISA rational - and why not?

GMT 12:30 Coffee break



2.      Knockdown arguments and disagreement



GMT 13:00 Zsolt Ziegler (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

Newcomb’s dilemma as a metaphysical disagreement

GMT 13:30 Áron Dombrovszki (Institute of Philosophy, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences)

Reconceptualizing philosophical knowledge: What can we learn from the
disagreement problem?

GMT 14:00 Işık Sarıhan (Independent Postdoctoral Researcher)

Why can’t we convince one another? On the cheapness of disagreement in
philosophy

GMT 14:30 Coffee break



3.      The nature of knockdown arguments



GMT 15:00 John Keller (Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia)

               Are there knockdown arguments for substantive philosophical
theses?

GMT 15:30 Andrew Aberdein (Florida Institute of Technology)

Conclusive arguments

GMT 16:00 István Danka (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)

               Knockdown arguments and established facts

GMT 16:30 Closing remarks



Organisers:

Measures of Rationality Research Group, Department of Philosophy and
History of Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Value-Polarizations in Science Research Group, Institute of Philosophy,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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