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Program

You can download the program of the Cologne Summer School in Philosophy 2026 by clicking here (updated 29.05.2026).

Monday – August 10

10Aug

Opening

15:00h – 15:15h (CEST)

10Aug

Lecture I: Epistemology vs. Folk Epistemology – MIKKEL GERKEN

15:15h – 17:15h (CEST)

10Aug

Public Lecture: How to Combat Science Selectivism – MIKKEL GERKEN

18:00h – 20:00h (CEST)

10Aug

Reception

starting 20:00h (CEST)

Tuesday – August 11

11Aug

Comment: Content Preservation and Partially Understood Testimony – AUKE MONTESSORI (HRADEC KRALOVE, CZECHIA)

11:00h – 12:00h (CEST)

11Aug

Comment: Pragmatic Encroachment as a Diagnostic Tool: A Critique of Gerken’s Diagnostic Argument – HYEONHOE KWON (COLOGNE)

13:30h – 14:30h (CEST)

11Aug

Comment: Understanding Under Non-Transparent Dependence Relations – JITAI ZHANG (FU BERLIN)

14:45h – 15:45h (CEST)

11Aug

Lecture II: Science Skepticism vs. Philosophical Skepticism – MIKKEL GERKEN

16:00h – 18:00h (CEST)

Wednesday – August 12 [Day Off]

Thursday – August 13

13Aug

Lecture III: Science Skepticism vs. Science Communication – MIKKEL GERKEN

11:00h – 13:00h (CEST)

13Aug

Lecture IV: Science Skepticism vs. Science Selectivism – MIKKEL GERKEN

14:30h – 16:30h (CEST)

13Aug

Comment: Science Skecticism, Incommensurability, and Epistemic Authority – VICTORIA ADEOLA KOMOLAFE (OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE IFE, NIGERIA)

16:45h – 17:45h (CEST)

13Aug

Conference Dinner

starting 19:00h (CEST)

Friday – August 14

14Aug

Comment: How Virtuous is Vice Epistemology Really? – ERIC DEVALL (Waterloo, USA)

10:00h – 11:00h (CEST)

14Aug

Lecture V: The Structure of Scientific Recommendations – MIKKEL GERKEN

11:15h – 13:15h (CEST)

14Aug

END OF EVENT

13:15h (CEST)