Events
Conferences, workshops and symposia organised or sponsored by the KNOW-HOW project.
Upcoming
Testimony, Aesthetics and Know-How
May 2027 (dates to be announced) · University of Glasgow
A two-day conference bringing together epistemologists and aestheticians to ask whether know-how and aesthetic knowledge can be gained through testimony. Organised by Mariona Miyata-Sturm (KNOW-HOW, Glasgow) and Alice Murphy (St Andrews), with support from Murphy's DFG project "Aesthetic Values and the Social Dimensions of Science". Keynote speakers include Alison Hills.
Past events
BSTK 2026 Biennial Conference
2–4 September 2026 · Exeter College (Cohen Quad) and the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, University of Oxford
The biennial conference of the British Society for the Theory of Knowledge, co-sponsored by KNOW-HOW alongside the BSTK, Exeter College, COGITO and the ERC project KnowledgeLab. Keynote by Timothy Williamson and presidential address by Jessica Brown. Talks from the KNOW-HOW team included J. Adam Carter, "Good Moves: A Framework for Telic Know-How"; Mona Simion and Christoph Kelp, "Artificial Epistemic Agency"; and Mariona Miyata-Sturm, "Aesthetic Theoretical Virtues Will Not Help You Gain Nonfactive Understanding". Local organisers: Bernhard Salow and Mona Simion, with J. Adam Carter and Christoph Kelp.
Knowledge, Language, and Action, with a book symposium on Annalisa Coliva's Social and Applied Hinge Epistemology
9–11 August 2026 · Mestral Room, Hotel Calipolis, Sitges (Barcelona)
A three-day workshop organised by COGITO and funded by KNOW-HOW. It opened with Annalisa Coliva presenting Social and Applied Hinge Epistemology, with commentaries by J. Adam Carter, Jesús Navarro, Mona Simion and Christoph Kelp. Talks: Esa Díaz-León, "Hermeneutical Injustice and Social Construction"; Mona Simion, "(When) Statistical Evidence Is not Evidence"; Christoph Kelp, "Pure Intellectualism"; Manuel García-Carpintero and Teresa Marques, "Silenced by the Fantasies that Shape Desire"; J. Adam Carter, "Manifesting Know-How"; Jesús Navarro, "Know-How, Mastery, and the Merit of Risk-Taking"; Joshua Shepherd, "Group Creativity".
Knowledge, Action, and Competence, with a book symposium on Ernest Sosa's The Bounds of Knowledge
4–6 May 2026 · Aula de Grados, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad de Sevilla
Three days on Ernest Sosa's The Bounds of Knowledge, with three lectures by Sosa, commentaries and research talks. Organised by J. Adam Carter (KNOW-HOW / COGITO), Jesús Navarro and Juanma Poyatos, and funded by KNOW-HOW with the University of Seville and the E-AIMS project. Speakers: J. Adam Carter, Carolina Flores, Sanford Goldberg, Modesto Gómez Alonso, Peter J. Graham, Jaakko Hirvelä, Sophie Keeling, Christoph Kelp, Jesús Navarro, Ram Neta, Susanna Schellenberg, Mona Simion, Ernest Sosa, Kurt Sylvan and Matthew Vermaire.
AI Epistemics: Knowing in the Age of AI
30 March – 1 April 2026 · Onassis Library, Athens
A three-day conference sponsored by KNOW-HOW and the AHRC project Digital Knowledge. Hosted by the Philosophy Research Laboratory on Sciences, Technology, and Culture, University of Ioannina, with COGITO (Glasgow), the Philosophy Department of the University of Aberdeen, and FORTH. Speakers: J. Adam Carter, Emma C. Gordon, John Greco, Jesper Kallestrup, Christoph Kelp, Jennifer Lackey, Orestis Palermos, Duncan Pritchard, Mona Simion, Deborah Tollefsen and Vangelis Triantafyllou.
