Assent

October 29-31, 2025

Progetto Finanziato dall’Unione Europea – NextGenerationEU – Missione 4 Istruzione e ricerca – Componente 2, investimento 1.1 “Fondo per il Programma Nazionale della Ricerca (PNR) e Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)” progetto PRIN_2022 – 2022KSEMSR  – Believing without Evidence? The Ethics of Belief and Doxastic Control from Augustine to Fake News

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29 October 2025,
opening 14.15

14.30 Pasquale Porro (Milano), Firmitas adhaesionis. Belief, Evidence and Assent in Thomas Aquinas

15.30 David Piché (Montreal) What causes Assent? Contrasting Answers among Theologians of the Years 1250–1350

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00 Fiorella Retucci (Lecce), Averroes on Assent, Knowledge and Faith

18.00 Luca Bianchi (Milano), Should one only believe what is evident or proven? On three articles condemned in 1277

20.15 Dinner, Osteria Alla Malora

30 October 2025

9.00 Stefano Di Bella (Milano), Decision for Truth. Descartes on Forging Assent in Theoretical and Practical Contexts

10.00 Alberto Frigo (Milano), “Qui s’accoutume à la foi la croit”. Apologetics and Belief in Pascal’s Pensées’

11.00 Coffee Break

11.30 Brunello Lotti (Udine), Assent, Probability and Error in John Locke’s Essay concerning Human Understanding.

12.30 Claire Etchegaray (Paris Nanterre), Thomas Reid on the Virtues of the Mind

13.30 Lunch, Collegio Ghislieri

14.30 Dan O’Brien (Oxford), Hume, Trust and Testimony

15.30 Lorenzo Mileti Nardo (Milano), Unjustified Believing? Georg Friedrich Meier’s Account of Prejudice between Logic and Aesthetics

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00 Marcus Willaschek, Lewis Wang (Frankfurt a.M./Boston), Kant on the Norms of Belief

18.00 Costantino Esposito (Bari), Between Truth and Certainty

20.15 Dinner, Locanda del Carmine

31 October 2025

9.30 Michela Summa (Würzburg), Knowledge, Belief, and Position-Taking. A Husserlian Approach to Epistemic Responsibility

10.30 Michel Croce (Genova), Doxastic Wronging and the Ethics of Belief

11.30 Tommaso Piazza (Pavia), Doxastic Voluntarism and Epistemic Responsibility

12.30 Lunch, Collegio Ghislieri

POTREBBERO INTERESSARTI ANCHE

PRIN 2022

Verità, evidenza, credenza

International Colloquium, Bari (in collaborazione con il Giornale di Metafisica)

November 26-28, 2025

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September 03-08, 2025

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May 30, 2025

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Edizioni di Pagina, Bari 2026 [nuova edizione digitale in Gold Open Access, nell’ambito del progetto PRIN 2022, dell’edizione originaria 1986].

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