Join us for our second annual celebration of World Philosophy Day. We'll be showing the film Waking Life (2001) at the Filmcasino. After the film, postdoctoral researchers Alex Horne (University of Vienna) and Camilo Martinez (CEU) will guide the audience through the film's many philosophical themes, encouraging the audience to share their thoughts and feelings about what they've just seen.
About the film:
Transcending the boundaries of technology and imagination, "Waking Life" (2001) is a revolutionary breakthrough in film animation. In "Waking Life," Wiley Wiggins ("Dazed and Confused") travels through a series of encounters and observations in a world that may or may not be reality. It is this surreal existence, flourishing with endless ideas and possibilities, that ultimately leads to the question -- Are we sleep-walking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams?
The public understanding of science is a significant determinant of trust in scientific research and, consequently, of support for public policy shaped by the results such research. What sort of understanding, however, might have the twin virtues of not only promoting such trust and support, but also of embodying a defensible fidelity to the epistemic status of our best science? In the sphere of education this question is often answered in terms of appeals to scientific literacy. I argue that currently influential conceptions of this – focusing on more effective science teaching, and teaching “the nature of science”, respectively – have neither virtue. What is required to promote science for the good of society in an epistemically responsible way, I contend, is a philosophical insight regarding scientific knowledge that is inherent in scientific practice itself, concerning its remarkable instrumental success.
For further information please contact: guido.melchior@uni-graz.at
Educational systems and the lifeworld today are confronted with huge transformational processes, placing unprecedented emphasis on questions concerning science and its nature. This was one reason to bring the Cluster of Excellence Knowledge in Crisis into the world. The goal for this workshop is to foster the collaboration between philosophy and science education, enabling each discipline to build upon the other's research findings and to jointly address new challenges.
Philosophy and science education share a common field of work: reflecting on the Nature of Science (NoS). NoS is an extensive field of research in science education, while it is largely neglected in philosophy education. This is because philosophy educators mainly focus on ethical and other areas of their field, often delegating science reflection processes to their colleagues in scientific disciplines. Meanwhile, philosophers of science, when dealing with education, usually look at the findings of science education. To build a bridge between the disciplines, the workshop will address key questions such as the following:
1. What aspects of NoS are best to be developed by science and philosophy education? Are epistemic competencies a promising candidate?
2. How can science education reflect the current research in history and philosophy of science?
3. Should we put more focus on teaching the history of science, and if yes, in what way and within which subjects?
4. Which empirical findings from teaching research and student beliefs are available that need to be taken into account?
5. Which interdisciplinary competencies are needed and have to be developed when we do empirically informed philosophy and philosophically informed science?
6. What are the most important problems in science communication for the broad public (e.g., media, citizen science, etc.) and what can philosophy and science education contribute?
This workshop presents talks from experts of different disciplines that work on the mentioned questions. A representative essay or longer abstract will be sent out to all the speakers in advance to deepen the discussion round.
Speakers include T.Y. Branch (Leibniz University Hannover), Anna Breitwieser (University of Salzburg), Bettina Bussmann (University of Salzburg), Anja Chakravartty (University of Miami), Kerstin Kremer (University of Giessen), David Lanius (University of Salzburg), and Raimund Pils (University of Salzburg).
The full programme can be found ↗here.
Contact Bettina Bussmann to register.
Pint of Science is an international festival where local scientists share their ongoing research at the bar! For this special off-season edition, Raimund Pils, Benedikt Leitgeb and Charlotte Werndl are at Weinek to discuss experts, climate change, and more. ↗ Details and registration here!
In unserer Demokratie ist Wissen die Grundlage für Meinungsbildung, Entscheidungen und gesellschaftliches Miteinander. Doch was passiert, wenn wir nicht mehr wissen, was wir glauben sollen? Bettina Bussmann und David Lanius vom Fachbereich Philosophie an der Gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Salzburg im Gespräch mit Senja Post und Gregor Betz vom Karlsruher Institut für Technologie über Wissenschaftsskepsis, Fake News, Bildung und Moralismus. Wir freuen uns auf Ihre Teilnahme und eine spannende Diskussion.
Die Panorama:Uni ist eine gemeinsame Vortragsreihe der Universität mit den Salzburger Nachrichten und der Wissenstadt Salzburg. Wissenschaftler*innen der Universität Salzburg stellen ihre aktuellen Forschungsgebiete vor und stehen für Fragen der Salzburger Bevölkerung zur Verfügung.
Vier Philosoph:innen ‒ Hans Bernhard Schmid, Anne Sophie Meincke, Julian Reiss und Angela Kallhoff ‒ leuchten die Bedeutung der wissenschaftlichen Philosophie für ein reflektiertes Verständnis moderner Gesellschaften aus. Sie erörtern Erkenntnisse und Perspektiven ihrer Fachgebieten im Rahmen der Sitzung der philosophisch-historischen Klasse der ÖAW, deren Vortragsteil für ein interessiertes Publikum geöffnet ist.
Mehr Infos und Anmeldung finden Sie ↗ hier.
Ab 10:45 Uhr: Ankunft, Meet and Greet
11:00 Uhr: Praxiseinblicke: KI und Lehre
12:00 Uhr: Vortrag und Diskussion
Gregor Betz: Gründe (Philosophie) zu studieren in Zeiten kognitiver Redundanz
14:00-16:30 Uhr: Vorträge und Diskussion
Jörg Noller: Jenseits kognitiver Entlastung: Mündige Mensch-KI-Interaktion in der philosophischen Hochschullehre
Maria Schwartz: KI-generierte ‚One-Click Essays’ als Herausforderung: Alte Bildungsziele, neue Lehr- und Leistungsformen?
Wir wünschen uns Praxisbeispiele zum Einsatz von und Umgang mit KI in der Lehre in der Philosophie, die kurz (maximal 10 Minuten) vorgestellt werden können. Einsendungen gerne bis zum 31.07.2025 an Ariane Filius, Universität Münster, ariane.filius [at] uni-muenster.de.
Diese Tagung wird von David Lanius organisiert.
Conventionalist approaches to areas of discourse such as logic and mathematics were for many years almost universally rejected, but this appears to be changing. Recent years have seen the publication of significant works broadly in the conventionalist tradition, works that respond to objections previously thought to be fatal for conventionalism and that develop and defend views that either are explicitly conventionalist or at least are clearly indebted to historical conventionalist approaches. We aim to bring together philosophers working on topics related to conventionalism, its challenges, and its prospects for a workshop on these themes.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to) the analytic-synthetic distinction, analytic theories of the a priori, the nature of linguistic conventions, easy ontology and related deflationary approaches, theories of inference and rule-following, expressivist and pragmatist approaches to meaning, metasemantic inferentialism and its relationship to the possibility of truth by convention, and determinacy worries about logical and mathematical language.
Invited speakers:
Corine Besson (Sussex)
Luca Incurvati (ILLC, Amsterdam)
Hannes Leitgeb (MCMP, LMU Munich)
Benjamin Marschall (Cambridge)
Fredrik Nyseth (Tromsø)
Gil Sagi (Haifa)
Zeynep Soysal (Rochester)
Sebastian Speitel (Bonn)
This is a two-day workshop (29 - 30 September).
Check ↗ here for more information.
This workshop is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the ‘Categoricity by Convention’ research project (grant no. P33708) and Knowledge in Crisis.
This 3-day conference has three interrelated aims: to 1) interrogate the nature and epistemological implications of probability, 2) address the role of probability in science, and 3) assess the epistemic, formal, and pragmatic norms governing our probability assignments.
Speakers include Sylvia Wenmackers (KU Leuven), Sebastian Liu (Princeton University), Caterina Sisti (University of Torino) & Luca Zanetti (School for Advanced Studies IUSS Pavia), Viktoriya Kudryavtseva (LSE), Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona), Stefan Lukits (University of British Columbia, Tamaz Tokhadze (Ilia State University), Johannes Fankhauser (University of Innsbruck), Asya Ciftci (McGill University), Rüdiger Schack (Royal Holloway University of London), Wayne Myrvold (University of Western Ontario), Mario Hubert (LMU Munich), Markus Müller (IQOQI Vienna), Charlène Laffond (University of Vienna), and Joanna Luc (Jagiellonian University)
Contact person: Denis Dzanic (denis.dzanic@uni-graz.at)
Agenda:
10:30-12:00 Ulf Hlobil (Concordia University): “Conceptual Content in Reasons for Logic: Some Historical Connections”
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Discussion of Epilogue and Chapter 6, introduced by Tim Crane (CEU)
15:00-15:30 Coffee
15:30-17:00 Discussion of Chapter 5, introduced by Shuhei Shimamura (Hiroshima University)
19:00 Dinner
This workshop is on Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons: Pragmatics, Semantics, and Conceptual Roles (Routledge, 2024) (co-authored with Robert Brandom).
Please contact the organizer to register: tuomo.tiisala@univie.ac.at