In einer Zeit der Desinformation, Polarisierung und Unsicherheit werden die Fähigkeiten zu kritischem Denken, der Bewertung von Argumenten und der Reflexion von Wissen immer wichtiger. Die Tagung widmet sich den Fragen, wie epistemische und argumentative Kompetenzen zu verstehen sind, welche normativen Grundlagen ihnen zugrunde liegen und wie ihre Vermittlung in Schule und in Öffentlichkeit gelingen kann. Sie richtet sich an Philosoph:innen und Philosophiedidaktiker:innen, an Vertreter:innen angrenzender Bereiche sowie an Lehrkräfte und Bildungsverantwortliche. Sie ist kostenlos und offen für Interessierte.
Datum: 17. bis 19. September 2026
Ort: HS 302, Franziskanergasse 1, Salzburg 5020
Veranstaltende: Bettina Bussmann&David Lanius
Weitere Informationen auf der Seite des Netzwerks "Argumentieren in der Schule"
Three days of the latest in social epistemology.
In the heart of Vienna.
How can epistemology help us to better understand and overcome the crisis of knowledge? The aim of this conference is to showcase cutting edge work on knowledge: its nature and norms as well as its social and political dimensions. We want to foster exchange between different approaches to knowledge and the crisis it finds itself in. At the heart of the crisis of knowledge are philosophical problems about the relationship between knowledge, truth, science, ethics and politics—and ultimately our relationship to reality itself.
Speakers and Provisional Titles
Endre Begby: What is False, Non-Explanatory, and Normatively Misguided? A Closer Look at Partisan Selective Exposure Theory
Jennifer Carr: To be announced
J. Adam Carter: Know-How in Motion
Carolina Flores: Feeling Safe and Staying Ignorant
Maria Lasonen: To be announced
Berislav Marusic: Solidarity, not Charity: On Ideals of Interpretation
Robin McKenna: What Is Wrong with Politicisation?
Johanna Thoma: Value Pluralist Science in Practice: The Case of Climate Economics
Elise Woodard: Psychologizing and Relationships
This conference is hosted by the University of Vienna and organized by Knowledge in Crisis. KiC is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under the Clusters of Excellence programme (10.55776/COE3). We're a collaboration between the University of Graz, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Vienna, led by Central European University.
More information can be found at the ↗ dedicated website.
Please direct conference-related questions to kic@ceu.edu. For questions regarding the registration portal, please contact congress@univie.ac.at.
This workshop brings together philosophers working on love, friendship, relationships, and other themes in interpersonal ethics.
Speakers:
Monika Betzler LMU Munich
Samuel Dishaw Université Catholique de Louvain
Cathy Mason Central European University
Anni A. Räty University of Vienna
Jonas Vandieken LMU Munich
Patrick Quinn White Harvard University
Organisers:
Anni A. Räty University of Vienna
Paulina Sliwa University of Vienna
The conference features talks from KiC postdocs and three Author Meets Critics sessions on recent (or forthcoming) books around the topic of self-knowledge.
Speakers:
Matthew Boyle University of Chicago
Lisa Doerksen Central European University
Keith Raymond Harris University of Vienna
Béatrice Longuenesse New York University
Ursula Renz University of Graz
Lukas Schwengerer University of Graz
Tuomo Tiisala University of Vienna
Organisers:
Denis Džanić University of Graz
Ursula Renz University of Graz
Bernhard Ritter University of Graz
Tuomo Tiisala University of Vienna
Where: University of Graz
Graz, Austria
Please register your interest before April 30 by emailing the organizers.
Join us for a public lecture on the bounds of knowledge by acclaimed philosopher Ernest Sosa (Rutgers University, USA)
We start with a comparison between Galileo and Descartes. Galileo held (and proclaimed) his very risky views in astronomy, and suffered the consequences. Because of that, Descartes kept his astronomy to himself, and perhaps even preferred to focus on mathematics and philosophy. By contrast, he faced Pyrrhonian rational concerns openly and deeply, while Galileo did not so much as address them, at least not thoroughly and publicly. So, how did those facts bear on the normative standing of their respective world views?
Descartes is generally accused of vicious circularity. So, are we doomed to intellectual failure where serious inquiry only serves to make us aware of our fallen state?
This lecture offers a hopeful course. When Elizabeth Anscombe faces dissatisfaction in normative ethics, she proposes a moratorium on normative inquiry until we can attain a better philosophical psychology. This lecture aims to enhance our epistemic psychology in the hope of a better normative epistemology that will make room for both Descartes and Galileo.
Ernest Sosa is the Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and a leading figure in contemporary epistemology. Sosa earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1964. He taught at Brown University for over four decades before joining the Rutgers faculty in 2007.
Sosa is widely recognized for his foundational contributions to virtue epistemology, a field he pioneered in the 1980s. His work explores the nature of knowledge, justification, and skepticism, often focusing on "virtue perspectivism"—the idea that knowledge should be understood as an "apt" belief resulting from the exercise of intellectual virtue. His extensive publications include Knowledge in Perspective (1991), A Virtue Epistemology (2007), Reflective Knowledge (2009), Knowing Full Well (2011), Judgment and agency (2015) and Epistemic Explanations (2021).
A past president of the American Philosophical Association and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Sosa has delivered prestigious lectures worldwide, including the John Locke Lectures at Oxford and the Carus Lectures.
He is also the recipient of many awards and prizes. Throughout his career, Sosa has held the position of editor, president and vice president for a vast array of journals and philosophical institutions and published over 300 works in philosophy.
Monday, May 11
5:30 PM - 7 PM
Central European University
Free tickets to the event are available ⤷ here
Views on what philosophy is and how it should be done vary widely. Is philosophy concerned with reality or our concepts used for grasping aspects of reality? Does philosophy use a priori or empirical methods? What is the role of intuitions? Of hypothetical cases? What are philosophers trying to find out? Is philosophy a descriptive or a normative discipline, or both? This workshop brings together a diverse group of philosophers who have tried to answer some of these questions. We are looking forward to illuminating talks and fruitful discussions.
Speakers:
Elijah Chudnoff, University of Miami
Matti Eklund, Uppsala University
Yaokun Fu, University of Vienna
Max Kölbel, University of Vienna
Edouard Machery, University of Pittsburgh
Asya Passinsky, Central European University
Sophie Veigl, University of Vienna
Eric Wallace, University of Vienna
Alice van't Hoff, University of Vienna
Organiser:
Max Kölbel, University of Vienna
This workshop is supported by the PACE and Knowledge in Crisis projects.
Registration and more details: https://philosophywhatandhow.phl.univie.ac.at/
Program
May 7
10:00
Michelle Montague - Presentational Phenomenology and Descriptive Metaphysics
11:00
Valentina Martinis - Against the Content Constraint. Non-Propositional Perception and Propositional Justification
14:00
Daniel Neumann & Denis Džanić - Perception and Modality
15:00
Søren Overgaard - The Presentational Character of Experience
16:30
Tobias Endres- Elastic Perception and Symbolic Normativity: Beyond ‘Reason in Perception’
May 8
10:00
Fiona Macpherson - Naïve Realism and Colour Illusion
11:00
Anders Nes - A Phenomenal and Functional Account of Perceptual Justification
14:00
Paweł Grad - Hinges of Perceptual Justification
15:00
John Morrison - Iconic Memory as a Window into Perceptual Confidence
16:30
Galen Strawson - Real Direct Realism 2: Charles Augustus Strong
Venue: GEWI Room (3rd floor), Mozartgasse 8, 8010 Graz
Organizers: Daniel Neumann & Denis Džanić
This is an in-person event only
This conference will take place at the University of Graz from 7-8 May 2026.
Venue: GEWI Room (3rd floor), Mozartgasse 8, 8010 Graz
Organizers: Daniel Neumann & Denis Džanić
This is an in-person event only
If you have any conference-related questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with Denis Džanić and Daniel Neumann.
Oft wird behauptet, es gebe ja keine absolute Wahrheit, sondern nur viele verschiedene Standpunkte, keiner besser als der andere. Im heutigen politischen Diskurs scheint diese Devise auch schon breite Anwendung zu finden. “Wahrheit” ist bestenfalls noch der Name einschlägiger Propagandamedien (“Pravda", "Truth Social").
Die Debatte soll versuchen, der Frage mit philosophischen Mitteln und mit philosophischem Wissen auf den Grund zu gehen.
Der Philosoph Marian David ist ein bekannter Verfechter der Korrespondenztheorie der Wahrheit, der Theorie, die besagt, dass eine Meinung dann wahr ist, wenn sie mit der Realität übereinstimmt. Professor David sieht sich in der Minderheit, wenn er die Frage “Gibt es eine absolute Wahrheit?” mit “ja” beantwortet.
Der Philosoph Max Kölbel, bekannt für seine Arbeiten zum Wahrheitsrelativismus, kann den Kritikern der absoluten Wahrheit zugerechnet werden.
Wer von beiden sich welchem Lager anschließen wird, konnte bis Redaktionsschluss nicht festgestellt werden, da es keine Einigkeit darüber gab, wie die zu debattierende Frage zu interpretieren sei. Wir lassen uns also überraschen!
KiC Debates wird vom Projekt Knowledge in Crisis organisiert, das vom Österreichischen Wissenschaftsfonds (FWF) im Rahmen des Exzellenzcluster-Programms (10.55776/COE3) gefördert wird. Wir sind eine Kooperation der Universität Graz, der Universität Salzburg und der Universität Wien unter der Leitung der Central European University.
↗ Kostenlose Tickets gibt es hier!
Dienstag, Mai 5, 2026, 17:30 – 19:00
Sprecher: Marian David & Max Kölbel
CEU Vienna Campus, Quellenstrasse 51
Raum: Tiered D-001
Join us for a public lecture on the philosophy of absence by acclaimed author and Philosophy Bites co-founder, Nigel Warburton.
We typically think perception reveals what is in front of us. But all of us are haunted to different degrees by what is not there as well as by what is present. Some things disappear over time and hardly anyone notices; others are felt as gaps or losses, and their absence pierces the present. As we age, the number of people no longer here increases, even as new people enter our lives. Many of us struggle to imagine a future in which we will become an absence for others: we lack the resources to think about a world without our first-person perspective.
In this lecture, freelance philosopher Nigel Warburton, co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast (which has had over 50 million unique episode downloads) and author of A Little History of Philosophy (translated into 30 languages), will explore some of the meaning, ethics and aesthetics of these phenomena.
Was unterscheidet eigentlich Wissen von Unwissen? Oder von Mutmaßung oder Überzeugung? In Zeiten von Fake News, Verschwörungstheorien und AI Halluzinationen sind diese Fragen relevanter denn je. Diese Station beschäftigt sich damit, was Wissen auszeichnet und wie wir es erlangen können.
Wissen ist das, was eine Gesellschaft funktionieren lässt. Ohne Wissen können wir die Umwelt, unsere Städte, das Gesundheitswesen, Regierungen, Bildungssysteme, Wissenschaft, Kultur und alles andere, was uns wichtig ist, nicht bewältigen. Heute stehen wir vor einer Wissenskrise. Unsere Ansprüche, Wissen zu besitzen, werden sowohl durch Technologie als auch durch Politik bedroht. Und die grundlegenden Ideen von Wissen und Wahrheit selbst werden angegriffen.
Im Zentrum dieser Wissenskrise stehen philosophische Probleme über das Verhältnis zwischen Wissen, Wahrheit, Wissenschaft, Ethik und Politik — und letztlich unsere Beziehung zur Realität selbst. Das FWF Exzellenzcluster "Wissen in der Krise" (Knowledge in Crisis) setzt sich mit grundlegenden philosophischen Fragen zum Thema Wissen auseinander.
An dieser Station laden wir Sie dazu ein, gemeinsam mit uns an konkreten Beispielen zu reflektieren, was Wissen auszeichnet und woher unser Wissen kommt.