Events

Epistemological Themes in Kierkegaard’s Climacus Works

Avenue Campus University of Southampton, Highfield Road, Southampton, United Kingdom

Confirmed speakers include:

Aaron Goldman (Lund), “Believing the Absurd Versus Believing the Improbable in Fear and Trembling and Philosophical Fragments”.

Hans Halvorson (Princeton), "How can Belief be More than Knowledge?"

Eleanor Helms (California Polytechnic), "Doubt and the Texture of Reality in De Omnibus Dubidandum Est."

Fourth speaker TBC

Kierkegaard and Intellectual Virtue

Avenue Campus University of Southampton, Highfield Road, Southampton, United Kingdom

This workshop will draw connections between Kierkegaard's pseudonymous works and the role of the intellectual virtues such as epistemic courage. 

Confirmed speakers include:

Jonathan Ichikawa (University of British Columbia)

John Lippitt (University of Notre Damn Australia and Pardubice)

Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton)

Planned Events

Details to be confirmed


May 2026
Workshop on Conspiracy Theory, Epistemic Vice and Hinge Epistemology

September 2026
2-day international conference on Radical Scepticism, Intellectual Courage and Conspiracy Theory

May 2027
Workshop on Kierkegaard’s The Present Age and its Relevance to a ‘Post-Truth’ World

September 2027
Workshop on Knowledge Scepticism and ‘Post-truth’ Phenomena in the Wider Culture

October 2027
‘Ethical Challenges’ lecture on Scepticism and Conspiracy Theory

April 2028
Workshop on Intellectual Courage for policy makers and political commentators

July 2028
2-day Closing conference (interdisciplinary) on Scepticism and Doubt in a ‘Post-truth’ World