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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.

Epistemology of Counterterrorism  poster

Tue 11 Oct 2016, 10:51 | Tags: Staff PhD Postgraduate Research