I'm in beautiful and sunny Amsterdam right now for the International Conference on the Value of Knowledge, or in the case of my paper the value of skepticism. (Here is the Facebook Event.) The conference starts on Monday afternoon with Alvin Goldman's key note "Two Conceptions of Justification Value". He'll be followed over the next two days by Ernest Sosa, Jonathan Kvanvig, Duncan Pritchard, and a plethora of parallel sessions. The conference is sure to be hot with such a star line-up of speakers. I'm hoping to get in a bit of live blogging during the sessions and I'll be putting up pictures on the Facebook page.

Friday, November 30, and Saturday, December 1, Northwestern University will be hosting the first annual Midwest Epistemology Workshop. The hope is that the workshop will be an annual event, hosted by a college or university in the Midwest, where epistemologists will present and discuss recently completed work or work in progress that is close to completion.

The first workshop will consist of nine nonconcurrent sessions, each involving a presentation of approximately 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes of discussion, and a longer keynote address.  Ernie Sosa (Rutgers) has agreed to give the keynote address.  Robert Audi (Notre Dame), Al Casullo (Nebraska), Richard Fumerton (Iowa), Sandy Goldberg (Northwestern), John Greco (Saint Louis University), David Henderson (Nebraska), Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern), Matt McGrath (Missouri), and Baron Reed (Northwestern) have agreed to present papers.  There will also be a banquet on Friday evening.

All philosophers with an interest in epistemology, irrespective of their geographical location, are invited and encouraged to participate.