Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat (ARED)

We are pleased to share our new journal article, "Nonverbal Rationality? 2-Year-Old Children, Dogs, and Pigs Show Unselective Responses to Unreliability but to Different Degrees" @k_h_blakey @StirUni_Psych @StirUniPhil srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

New paper by Giacomo Melis and Kirsten Blakey entitled "Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively" rdcu.be/eqVqv. @k_h_blakey @StirUniPhil

New @aredproject paper! We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology. Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We are hiring! ARED is offering a position for a postdoctoral research fellow for up to 37 months, starting on February 1st or as soon as possible after that. Deadline for applications is December 1st. Full details here: stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-…

On Saturday October 19, Giacomo Melis will run a Cafe Philosophique on "Rational Animals?" for the Stirling Science Festival. The event will be at the Tolbooth (Jail Wynd, FK8 1DE) from 2:30 to 3:30 pm. See you then!

How do the minds of human & non-human animals compare? 🧠🐶🐷🐵🐭🦜👶 Get your thinking caps ready for this @GlasgowSciFest event 12 June with @StirUni @aredproject researchers! #AnimalMind #Philosophy gla.ac.uk/events/science…

#GlaSciFest 2024: Human & Animal Intelligence🧠 Join Dr. Giacomo Melis from @StirUni for a Café philosophique on the relation between human and animal intelligence. @aredproject 📅12th June, 6:30-7:30pm 📍@UofGARC booking & info👉gla.ac.uk/events/science…

On Wednesday, the 12th of June, Giacomo will host a Café Philosophique at the #GlaSciFest. Anyone interested in the relation between animal and human intelligence is welcome to join! More info & registration: gla.ac.uk/events/science…

We are very excited to be a part of the #GlaSciFest! Join us on the 15th and 16th of June at the Riverside Museum to learn about beliefs.

Pleased to share our new pre-print! Non-verbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability, but to different degrees doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

Can infants, dogs, and pigs identify misleading information?🧒🐶🐷KirstenBlakey & team’s study suggests all struggle to generalize the reliability of informants' actions, challenging assumptions about basic #ReflectiveThinking in non-linguistic beings #CO3_2024 @k_h_blakey

We are delighted to announce that the first workshop of the Empirical Epistemology Network will take place on April 23 & 24! The workshop will focus on acquiring and losing knowledge. Please see the EEN website for more information and registration links! empiricalepistemology.stir.ac.uk/index.php/even…

We are still looking for 2-to-6-year-old children to come and visit us at @StirUni_Psych and take part in our study. We are investigating how children of different ages revise their beliefs.

Join us at the public lecture by Professor Mark Rowlands entitled "World on Fire: Climate, Extinction, Pandemic" held on the 31st of January at 6pm in C.LTA5 at the University of Stirling. Register here: forms.office.com/e/Su0Q2Zy6hh

We are delighted to announce the third ARED workshop taking place on the 1st and 2nd February 2024 at the University of Stirling and online. If you are interested in attending please register using the link on our website ared.stir.ac.uk/events/

On 31 January Prof. Mark Rowlands will give a public lecture titled "World on Fire: Climate, Extinction, Pandemic" at the University of Stirling. The registration link is available here: ared.stir.ac.uk/engagement/

On November 30th, the ARED project is hosting a practitioner workshop on animal minds! We will be joined by speakers from @ScottishSPCA, @apdt_uk, @Battersea_PA, @onekindtweet, and @PawsforProgress. Please fill out this form to register: forms.office.com/e/1GaZz3rTpi

We are looking for 2-to-6-year-old children to come and visit us at @StirUni_Psych and take part in our study. We are investigating how children of different ages revise their beliefs.

Are Humans the Only Rational Animals? New publication from @aredproject and our🧠Mind & Knowledge cluster. academic.oup.com/pq/advance-art…

Exciting meeting on Empirical Epistemology tomorrow and Friday in Glasgow philevents.org/event/show/114…. Giacomo Melis, of our🧠 Mind & Knowledge cluster and @aredproject, will contributing.