Anne Meylan is editing a special issue of dialectica on justification. It’s a topic that I don’t specifically work in, but I have some interests towards it, and in fact I’ve just given a lecture on justified true belief and will give another one on the Gettier cases next week. I don’t suppose that I will have anything to submit, but you never know… Here is the actual call for papers:

Call for Papers

Special Issue of dialectica

Justification Today

Guest editor: Anne Meylan

Post-Gettier epistemology and the difficulty of analysing knowledge have often led to scepticism about the notion of justification. It has been suggested that one should either move beyond justification or simply get rid of this notion within epistemology. But is the notion of justification really useless if knowledge turns out to be unanalysable ? Is the debate between internalist and externalist conceptions of justification still relevant ? How should we view the relationships between epistemic justification and other kinds of justification (in particular in the ethical case)? Is justification subjective? The aim of this special issue is to help to clarify the seemingly new role that the notion of justification plays in contemporary epistemology by answering these questions.

To do so, dialectica invites submissions for publication in a special issue on the topic of Justification Today.

Please send a pdf prepared for blind reviewing to anne.meylan@unige.ch

Deadline for submission: July, 1. 2010

Notification of acceptance, resubmission, rejection: September, 1. 2010

Final version due: December, 1. 2010