J Adam Carter

Recent talks

  1. Induction, Abduction and Epistemic Circularity
    University of Dusseldorf New Work in Induction and Abduction, 29-30 September 2021
  2. Book Symposium on Autonomous Knowledge: Radical Enhancement, Autonomy, and the Future of Knowing
    University of Cologne Philosopher Meets Critics book symposia series, September 2021
  3. Epistemic Autonomy
    Autonomous University of Madrid, September 2021
  4. TBA
    Universidad Complutense Madrid, September 2021
  5. Reply to Lackey on Group Knowledge
    University of Cologne, May 2021
  6. Collateral Conflicts and Epistemic Norms
    University of Oxford, Epistemology Speaker Series, November 2020
  7. The Value of Autonomous Knowledge
    Conference on Intellectual Autonomy in a Digital Age, Madrid, January 2020
  8. Epistemic Curses: The Curse of Knowledge and the Curse of Expertise
    Danish Philosophical Society Meeting
  9. Therapeutic Trust
    TU Berlin, 31 January
  10. Global Scepticism and Global Relativism, Revisited
    Conference on Relativism, University of California Irvine (15-16 November 2019)
  11. Knowledge and Radical Enhancement
    Canadian Society for Epistemology Annual Meeting, Knowledge in a Digital Age, 14 November 2019
  12. Virtue Perspectivism, Relativism and Epistemic Circularity
    ERC Conference on Perspectival Realism, University of Edinburgh, -14 December, 2018
  13. Know-How and Performance Enhancement
    TU-Delft Department of Philosophy
  14. Understanding and the Right to an Explanation
    Explanation and Understanding in the Age of Algorithms, University of Bielefeld
  15. Scepticism and Relativism
    Workshop on Epistemic And Semantic Relativism, University of Vienna, 1-2 October
  16. Emotions in Epistemology
    World Congress of Philosophy, Shanghai, China, August 2018
  17. Refitting the Mirrors: On Structural Analogies in Williamson’s Epistemology and Action Theory
    Knowledge-First: Themes from Timothy Williamson, University of Cardiff, 7-8 May 2018
  18. Intellectual Vice, Cognitive Enhancement and Scepticism: Mind
    Conference on Intellectual Vice and Forms of Scepticism, University of Southampton, 12-13 April 2018. (link)
  19. A Bi-Level Account of Trust
    Glasgow Meets Hamburg Workshop, University of Glasgow, 10-11 February
  20. Testimony and the Transmission of Knowledge
    University of Glasgow, colloquium talk, January 2017
  21. Virtue Epistemology and Enhancement
    Conference on Medical Epistemology, Cologne Germany, December 2017
  22. On Knowledge and Transmission
    University of St. Andrews Colloquia, 6 December
  23. Is Searching the Internet Making us Intellectually Arrogant?
    Changing Attitudes in Public Discourse Conference, University of Cardiff, November 2017 (with E.C. Gordon)
  24. Trust and Competence
    Edinburgh Epistemology Research Group talk
  25. Trust and Competence
    Conference on Trust and Expertise, University College Dublin, 30 August - 2 September 2017
  26. Can You Know How to Fly a Plane if All Your Training was in VR?
    Workshop on the Philosophy of Virtual and Augmented Reality, University of Glasgow (slides)
  27. Archimedean Metanorms
    Conference on relativism, University College Dublin, 4-5 July 2017
  28. Intellectual Autonomy and Extended Cognition
    Workshop on 'Education, Conversation and New Learning Technologies', UCL Institute of Education, London, 4-5 May (abstract)
  29. Virtue Epistemology and Extended Cognition
    Pacific APA, Symposium on Embedded and Extended Virtue, 12-15 April 2017
  30. Group Polarisation as a Collective Epistemic Vice
    Conference on 'Groups and Disagreement', University of Copenhagen, 30-31 March, 2017 (info)
  31. Is the Ability to Φ Exercised only if one Successfully Φs? A Reply to Millar
    Epistemology Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 1 March 2017 (slides)
  32. Pritchard on Epistemic Relativism and Hinge Epistemology
    Workshop on Epistemic Angst, Paris-Sorbonne, 20 January 2017 (abstract)(handout)
  33. Intellectual Autonomy, Epistemic Dependence and Cognitive Enhancement
    Eidyn ERG talk, 21 September 2016 (slides)(video)
  34. Understanding and Factivity
    Workshop in Epistemology, University of Stockholm, Sweden (20 June 2016) (link)
  35. Virtue Epistemology and Extended Cognition
    Department of Philosophy, University of Seville, Spain (20 April 2016) (link)
  36. Knowledge-How and Epistemic Luck
    Department of Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, 23 March 2016 (link)
  37. Replacement Relativism: Boghossian, Kusch and Wright
    Workshop on Relativism in Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science, University of Edinburgh, 16 March 2016 (slides)(video)
  38. Social Epistemology, Epistemic Value and Education
    (with Emma C. Gordon), Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain talk, Moray House School of Education, 4 February 2016.
  39. The Ethics of Extended Cognition: Is Having Your Computer Compromised a Personal Assault?
    AHRC Extended Knowledge Project Impact Event, University of Edinburgh, 28 January (slides)
  40. Environment Relativism and Epistemic Dependence
    Workshop on Epistemic Dependence, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, January 2016 (link).
  41. Insight, Virtue and Feeling
    University of Basel, Switzerland 16-17 December, 2015 (slides)
  42. Knowledge-How and Anti-Intellectualism
    Stirling University Philosophy Department Colloquia, 12 November, 2015 (slides)
  43. Knowledge in the Cloud (Panelist)
    Forum for European Philosophy, London School of Economics, 12 October, 2015. (link)(podcast)
  44. Lectures on Metaepistemology and Relativism
    University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 28 September - 3 October 2015 The Pyrrhonian Argument for Epistemic Relativism (29 September) Diologic Arguments for Epistemic Relativism (30 September) Incommensurability, Circularity and Epistemic Relativism (2 October)
  45. Knowledge, Epistemic Luck and Propositional Memory
    East/West Philosophy Forum, International Conference on Knowledge, Virtue and Action, Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 2015 (draft)(slides)
  46. Knowledge, Assertion and Humility
    (with E.C. Gordon), Intellectual Humility Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 5 May 2015.
  47. Extended Emotion
    (with Emma C. Gordon & S. Orestis Palermos), Royal Society of Edinburgh Susan Manning Workshop, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 27 April, 2015.
  48. Non-Linguistic Arguments for Intellectualism
    Collège de France, Paris, 15 April, 2015. (abstract)(audio/video)
  49. Is Knowledge Relative?
    Edinburgh University, Modes of Representation in the Economy, Seminar Series, 16 March, 2015. (info)
  50. Dialogic Arguments for Epistemic Relativism
    University of York, Philosophy Colloquium Series, 25 February, 2015 (info).
  51. Dialogic Arguments for Epistemic Relativism
    Edinburgh University Philosophy Society, 5 February, 2015. (abstract)|(info)
  52. Extended Knowledge: Public Policy and Education
    (with S.O. Palermos), DiCE Education Seminar, Moray House School of Education, 30 January, 2015.
  53. The Ethics of Extended Cognition: Is Having Your Computer Compromised a Personal Assault?
    (with S.O. Palermos), at IT Futures Conference, University of Edinburgh School of Informatics, 11 December 2014. (info)|(YouTube)
  54. Group Knowledge and Epistemic Defeat
    Epistemology Research Group, Eidyn Research Centre, Edinburgh University, 17 September 2014. (PDF)|(YouTube)
  55. Reply to Paul Blaschko 'Disagreement, Dispositions, and Higher-order Evidence'
    4th Annual EIDYN Graduate Epistemology Conference, Edinburgh University, 27 June 2014 (PDF)
  56. Group Peer Disagreement
    Institute Jean Nicod, workshop on Deference and Concepts, Paris, France. (PDF). (Final version of paper here, forthcoming in Ratio.)
  57. Undercutting Epistemic Defeat and the Conciliatory Road to Agnosticism
    Oxford University at the New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology workshop Religious Epistemology and Epistemic Defeat, 17-18 March, 2014. (podcast)
  58. Sosa on Causation and Performance Normativity
    Symposium on Ernest Sosa’s Epistemic Agency’, University of Edinburgh, 14 March 2014. (PDF)
  59. Extended Virtue Epistemology
    4th Conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association, Helsinki, Finland, August 2013. (PDF)
  60. Extended Cognition and Propositional Memory
    Edinburgh University Epistemology Research Group seminar, (with Jesper Kallestrup), November 2013. (Final version of paper here, forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.)
  61. The Epistemology of the Precautionary Principle
    (with Martin Peterson), at the Eindhoven University of Technology Philosophy & Ethics Workshop, 11 March, 2013. (Final version of paper here, forthcoming in Erkenntnis.)