The conference, organised jointly by UCD Newman Center for the Study of Religions and the PERITIA Nework of Resech on Trust and Expertise, explores the connections between the area of research in epistemology known as “hinge epistemology”, inspired by the last writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the views of philosopher and theologian St. John Henry Newman (1801-90), with a view to developing new insights both into hinge epistemology and Newman studies.
Wittgenstein, Newman, and Hinge Epistemology
Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th December 2024.
Newman House (Museum of Literature Ireland). 86 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
A hybrid conference. Zoom links will be sent to registered participants.
Organisers: Prof. Maria Baghramian (UCD) and Assoc. Prof. Daniel Esmonde Deasy (UCD).
Programme
Day 1: Monday 9 December
9.00-9.20 Registration and Welcome.
9.20-11.20 Parallel Session 1 (Old Physics Theatre):
9.20-10.00 Yoen Qian-Laurent (Sorbonne Université): ‘Newman and Wittgenstein: A Pascalian Genealogy’.
10.00-10.40 Twan Stiekel (Humboldt-Universität Berlin): ‘Hinge-Epistemology and the Universality of Empirical Knowledge’.
10.40-11.20 Eliora Henzler (University of Oxford): ‘Accordion Muscles—The ‘Hinge-Certainties’ View of Delusions on Collective Responsibility for Beliefs’.
9.20-11.20 Parallel Session 2 (The Salon):
9.20-10.00 ONLINE: Mohammadhadi Soleimani & Davood Hosseini (Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran): ‘Wright on Hinge Propositions; Resolving a Problem’.
10.00-10.40 Joshua Maffuccio (UC Irvine): ‘ Newman and Hinges: Nature’s Primacy, Reason’s Personality, and Certainty’s Versatility’.
10.40-11.20 Louise Gordon (St. Patrick’s University, Maynooth): ‘Could Mathematics be a Hinge Commitment for John Henry Newman?’.
11.20-11.40 Coffee Break
11.40-13.00 Invited Speaker 1 (Old Physics Theatre):
Annalisa Coliva (UC Irvine), ‘Religious Hinges?’.
13.00-14.20 Lunch break.
14.20-16.20 Parallel Session 3 (Old Physics Theatre):
14.20-15.00 Paweł Grad (University of Warsaw): ‘Hidden Grounds: On the Rational Profile of Religious Hinges’.
15.00-15.40 ONLINE: Yang Zhouwanyue Nata (LMU München): ‘Hinge Epistemology of Mathematical Understanding’.
15.40 -16.20 ONLINE: Russell Ming (UC Irvine): ‘Conciliationism & Hinge Epistemology’.
14.20-16.20 Parallel Session 4 (The Salon):
14.20-15.00 Susan Lucas (Team Rector, Parish of East Ham): ‘The Hinges of Doctrine: How the Door Turns: Wittgenstein, Newman, Lindbeck, and the Contested Doctrine of Marriage in the Church of England’.
15.00-15.40 ONLINE: Joe Milburn & Thomas Marré (University of Navarra): ‘Virtuous Hinge Epistemology: Or Why Hinge Epistemologists Need Epistemic Prudence’
15.40-16.20 ONLINE: Christian Emrich (Fordham University): ‘Defending Newman’s Quasi-Fideism’.
16.20-16.40 Coffee Break.
16.40-18.00 Invited Speaker 2 (Old Physics Theatre):
Genia Schönbaumsfeld (University of Southampton): ‘Passionate Commitment to a System of Reference’.
19.30 Conference Dinner.
Day 2: Tuesday 10 December
9.20-10.40 Invited Speaker 3 (Old Physics Theatre):
ONLINE: Duncan Pritchard (UC Irvine): ‘Quasi-Fideism and Virtuous Anti-Evidentialism: Wittgenstein and Newman’.
10.40-11.00 Coffee break.
11.00-13.00 Parallel Session 5 (Old Physics Theatre):
11.00-11.40 ONLINE: Jackson Hawkins (Brigham Young University): ‘Towards a Wittgensteinian ‘Hinge Ethics’: A Hinge Epistemological Approach to Absolute Value in Wittgenstein’.
11.40-12.20 Nicola Chadwick: ‘A Tale of Two Hinges: Propositional and Doxastic Hinge Commitments in Duncan Pritchard’s Non-Belief Hinge Epistemology’.
12.20-13.00. Matthias Statzkowski (Humboldt-Universität): ‘’Two problems with the transcendental interpretation of epistemic hinges in Wittgenstein’s On Certainty’.
11.00-13.00 Parallel Session 6 (The Salon):
11.00-12.00 Christopher Oldfield (University of Cambridge): ‘Thinking with Assent while Living with Doubts: Question, Doubts and Modes of Holding Propositions’.
12.00-13.00 Angelo Bottone (University College Dublin): ‘Wittgenstein’s Copy of The Grammar of Assent: A New Insight into His Engagement with Newman’.
13.00-14.20 Lunch break.
14.20-16.00 Parallel Session 7 (Old Physics Theatre):
14.20-15.00 Rajeev Dutta (UC Irvine): ‘Are Delusions Hinges?’.
15.00-15.40 ONLINE: Qihe Sun Damon (UC Irvine): ‘Does Crispin Wright’s Hinge Epistemology imply that Skepticism is Rationally Unsustainable?’
15.40-16.20 ONLINE: Joanna Lawson (Oklahoma State University): ‘Hinge Commitments as Core Normative Concepts’.
14.20-16.20 Parallel Session 8 (The Salon):
14.20-15.00 Modesto Gómez Alonso (University of Seville): ‘Unconditional Assent for Hinge Epistemologists’.
15.00-15.40 Jakob Ohlhorst (VU Amsterdam): ‘Newman, Fundamentalism, and the Moral Problem of Demarcation’.
15.40-16.20 ONLINE: Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast (Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany): ‘What Can John Henry Newman Teach to the Hinge Epistemologists?’.
16.20-16.40 Coffee Break.
16.40-18.00 Invited Speaker 4 (Old Physics Theatre):
Crispin Wright (University of Stirling): ‘What are epistemic ‘Hinges’ and what might a ‘hinge epistemology’ be?’.
18.00 Close of the conference.
