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" Hadrian's career before his accession to the Empire in the bilingual inscription from the Theater of Dionysus in Athens " (Dessau, Inscr. Lat. Sel., 308 = IG II2 …

"I went down this morning to my physician Hermogenes". The figure of the emperor in Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951) put to the test by a continuous increase in documentation. Marguerite Yourcenar's use of ancient sources and her survey of …

Dal'verzintepe Dal'verzintepe, also in Uzbekistan, on the foothills of the Surkhan-darya, the tributary of the Amu-darya that flows into Termez and forms the main valley of northern Tokharestân, was excavated mainly between 1962 and 1974 by the JuTAKÈ …

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The third lecture reiterated the starting hypotheses and the precautions to be taken: properties, without which we would have no cognitive access to things, are defined essentially by the dispositions and causal powers they exert. On the one hand, there …

This lesser-known subject is becoming increasingly important. Since 2007, most people have been living in cities. Let's stop imagining the city as a "strictly unnatural space", removed from "wild" ecosystems and isolated from everything else. It's true …

Bioelectricity is the electrical phenomenon of living processes, underlining the essential role of ionic transport in the functioning of our organism. Concerted membrane ionic effects thus help explain the electric eel's ability to send strong electric …

The aim of this talk is to clear space for a new account of the value of epistemic justification. I argue that there are two constraints on such an account: it must explain both the motivational force of justification-considerations and their normativity. …

Some philosophers argued that the concept of belief involves a truth-norm according to which a belief is correct if and only if true. The truth-norm has been the object of some criticisms. In particular, in my talk I consider three criticisms directed to …

Belief aims at the truth and so beliefs that do not fit the facts are defective. In what sense are they defective? The orthodox view seems to be that these beliefs are defective because they don't constitute knowledge. Those who accept this view tend to …

Four highly correlated theses I would like to defend: Everything but knowledge is a constitutive failure of belief. This is how the intuition that knowing that P has more epistemic value than merely truly believing that P should be explained But: When I …

According to robust virtue epistemology , knowledge is a cognitive achievement, where this means that the agent's cognitive success is because of her cognitive ability. It is argued that a fundamental problem which faces this view is its inability to …

My concern in this paper is with a certain, pervasive picture of epistemic justification. On this picture, acquiring justification for believing something is essentially a matter of minimising one's risk of error - so one is justified in believing …