Workshop: Epistemology, Embodied Cognition and Expertise

On Friday I'm off to the UK to speak at a workshop at the University of Herdfortshire, organized by Richard Menary and Daniel Hutto. The idea is to bring together epistemologists (especially those working on social epistemology) and people working on embodied/extended cognition, as it all seems to indicate these two groups of people would have lots to say to each other. The specific theme is the concept of expertise. Here's from the workshop's website:

[The project] seeks to provide a theoretical framework that successfully explains expert performance. This workshop will be a first step towards developing an understanding of the relationship between embodied knowledge, reliable cognitive traits, distributed expertise and the ability to reflect upon performance and cognitive character.

The program (titles are not available at the website, so I thought it might be useful to copy the whole thing here):

9th July

9 - 10.15 Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern) Epistemic Extendedness: Natural and Artificial

10.15 - 11.30 Richard Menary (Macquarie) The Extended Expert

12.00 - 1.15 Catarina Dutilh Novaes (Amsterdam/Groningen) An Extended Cognition Perspective on Uses of Formalisms 

2.30 - 3.30 Michael Kirchhoff (Wollongong) Extended Cognition & Cognitive Assembly: Lessons from Contemporary Epistemology

4 - 5.15 Shaun Gallagher (Central Florida) An Education in Narratives

 

10th July

9 - 10.15 Dan Hutto (Hertfordshire) Elementary Mind Minding

10.15 - 11.30 David Simpson (Wollongong) Inferential Virtues

12.00 - 1.15 Christopher Winch (King's College London) Education, Knowing How and Intelligence Concepts

2.30 - 3.30 Britt Harrison (Hertfordshire) The Ability Intuition and Know-How

4 - 5.15 Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern) TBA

 

If you happen to be in the London area and have an interest in these topics, this looks like a fun way to spend your weekend, no? (^_^)