Rutgers Epistemology Conference 2024

The Rutgers Epistemology Conference will take place May 3 and 4. The REC is a pre-read conference. The papers are posted below.

Registration

There is no registration fee for the conference, but please notify Caroline von Klemperer, the conference manager, if you plan to attend by sending an email to rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com. If you wish to participate in the meals, please send a check made out to “Rutgers University” to Caroline von Klemperer by April 15 ($80 if you are a faculty member or a postdoc; $60 if you are a graduate student or an undergraduate). Checks should be sent to Caroline von Klemperer; Rutgers Epistemology Conference; 106 Somerset St, 5th Floor; New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Everyone signed up for conference meals by April 15 will be listed as a participant on the conference website.

Where to stay

All sessions will be held at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick, NJ. A limited number of reduced-priced rooms are available to those attending the conference. The reduced rate is $170 per night for a single or double room. You can reserve a room here: https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/group-booking/EWRRN/G-RE01.

If you are a graduate student or a postdoc and would like to attend the conference and stay with a Rutgers graduate student, please contact the conference manager at rutgersepistemologyconference@gmail.com. We will try to provide all graduate students and postdocs a place to stay, but we cannot make any promises.

Accessibility

Information about accessibility of the conference venue can be found here.

How to get there

Plane & Train: If you are flying, it is best to fly into Newark Airport. It is about 25 miles from the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick. The best way to get from the airport to New Brunswick is via NJ Transit. The train stops at the airport and it is a 25 min train ride from the airport to New Brunswick. When you arrive at Newark Airport, follow the signs to the monorail “airtrain”. The airtrain will take you to the NJ transit train stop. Trains run from Newark Airport to New Brunswick about every half hour. A oneway ticket Newark Airport – New Brunswick is about $14. You can buy tickets at the vending machines at the Newark Airport train station or on the mobile app MyTix. The Hyatt is a 5 min walk from the New Brunswick train station.

Train: The best way to get to New Brunswick from New York or Philadelphia is via NJ Transit. The Hyatt is a 5 min walk from the New Brunswick train station.

Schedule

Friday, May 3

1:30 - 3:15

Speaker: Mark Schroeder

Title: “Agnostic Wrongs and Pragmatic Disencroachment

Chair Juan Comesaña

Coffee break

3:45 - 5:30

Speaker: Annalisa Coliva

Title: “Hinge Trust

Chair: Ram Neta

Dinner

7:30 - 9:15

Speaker: Adam Elga

Title: “Bracketing and Boltzmann Brains”

Chair: Caroline von Klemperer

Reception

Saturday, May 4

9:30 - 11:15

Speaker: Julia Staffel

Title: “Are there transitional beliefs? — I think so?

Chair: Tom Kelly

Coffee break

11:45 - 1:30 (Winner of the YEP)

Speakers: Chris Willard Kyle and Tim Kearl

Title: “Epistemic Cans

Chair: TBA

2:45 - 4:30

Speaker: Scott Sturgeon

Title: “Puzzling About Rationality

Chair: TBA

Commentators-at-large

Eleonora Cresto

Sven Rosenkranz

Nicholas Silins

Michael Titelbaum