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The Epistemology of Counterterrorism
12 May 2017, Scarman House, University of Warwick; co-organised between PAIS and the Department of Philosophy.
A unique opportunity for a conversation between terrorism researchers and epistemologists about the epistemological challenges and fallacies of counterterrorism. The workshop will have a broad focus and will include discussion of the nature of knowledge, calculation, ignorance, illusion, epistemic vices and counterfactual thinking in counterterrorism.
This cross-disciplinary one day workshop, which supported by a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will be one of the first events of its kind in the UK.
The speakers will include:
- Ruth Blakeley (University of Kent)
- Quassim Cassam (University of Warwick)
- Stuart Croft (University of Warwick)
- Hamed El-Said (Manchester Metropolitan University Business School)
- Charlotte Heath-Kelly (University of Warwick)
- Richard Jackson (National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS))
- Lee Jarvis (University of East Anglia)
- Andrew Neal (University of Edinburgh)
- Sara Silvestri (City University)
No registration fee; please email q.cassam@warwick.ac.uk to reserve your place.