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.
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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
On the 4th and 5th of September 2025, the Department of Philosophy at Central European University in Vienna will be hosting a major two-day conference on the philosophy of Gilbert Ryle.
Planned speakers are:
Brice Bantegnie (University of California Riverside/University of Southampton)
Stefan Brandt (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Lesley Brown (University of Oxford)
Annalisa Coliva (UC Irvine) and Edward Mark (Loyola Marymount University)
Sean Crawford (University of Manchester)
Giuseppina D’Oro (University of Oulu)
Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College/University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Katalin Farkas (Central European University) and Pelin Kasar (Central European University)
Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zürich)
Jonathan Gombin (Bourdeaux-Montaigne University)
Maheshi Gunawardane (University of Manchester)
Lesley Jamieson (University of Pardubice)
Michael Kremer (University of Chicago)
Guy Longworth (University of Warwick)
Christoph Pfisterer (University of Zürich)
Joseph Schear (University of Oxford)
John Schwenkler (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Will Small (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Rowland Stout (University College Dublin)
Roger Teichmann (University of Oxford)
Andreas Vrahimis (University of Cyprus)
Natalia Waights Hickman (University of Oxford)
Attendance is limited. If you would like to attend, please ↗ register here by 15 August.
Philosophie klingt für viele nach abgehobenen, komplizierten Gedanken oder nach etwas, das »eh nichts bringt«. Dabei begleiten uns philosophische Fragen täglich – im Großen wie im Kleinen, oft ohne, dass wir es bewusst wahrnehmen.
Als teil der Kulturfestival Südalpenraum Sankt Daniel (4 - 6 Juli) sind Sie herzlich eingeladen, ein kostenloses Gespräch in geschütztem Rahmen zu erleben – ein Raum zum Innehalten und Nachdenken, der neue Perspektiven auf persönliche Lebensthemen eröffnen und bereichern kann. Ganz im Zeichen von Glaube, Liebe, Hoffnung.
This year’s WFAP graduate conference is devoted to the increasingly relevant phenomena of socio-epistemic structures in which the access to relevant sources of information is “filtered”, i.e., systematically modified, so as to channel certain contents to the exclusion of others. As a result, the epistemic attitudes of participants in such structures and their conferral of epistemic credentials on others are manipulated. Epistemic bubbles and echo-chambers are varieties of such socio-epistemic structures. Philosophical reflection on the topic aims to conceptualize information filters and related phenomena in order to explore their normative dimensions.
We aim to bring together early career and advanced researchers in order to discuss questions such as: What differentiates echo chambers from epistemic bubbles? Are epistemic bubbles inherently bad? How does one “pop” an epistemic bubble or break out of an echo-chamber? How do epistemic bubbles and echo chambers interact with other pernicious misinformation phenomena (e.g. fake-news, post-truth attitudes, bullshitting, conspiracy theories, etc.). What role can and should epistemic experts play in navigating this? What roles do epistemic virtues and vices play?
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About the organizer: The Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy is a student organization whose objective is to promote research, exchange and discussion among students and scholars. For this purpose, we organize regular meetings, lectures, workshops and conferences and foster national and international contact with individuals and groups interested in analytic philosophy.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading scholars working on the topics of grounding and truthmaking, both in contemporary philosophy and in the history of philosophy.
Our speakers will be Louis deRosset (Vermont), Kit Fine (NYU), Aaron Griffith (William and Mary), Marko Malink (NYU), Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS), Christof Rapp (LMU), Mike Raven (Victoria), Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers), Benjamin Schnieder (Vienna), Naomi Thompson (Bristol), Alice van’t Hoff (Vienna), Anubav Vasudevan (Chicago), and Jennifer Wang (SFU).
Each speaker will give a talk of approximately 45 minutes, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A. The workshop will run from 10 AM till 6 PM each day.
The workshop is open to all, but registration is required by June 20th. ↗ Please register here.
The main organizer of the workshop is Asya Passinsky (CEU) and the assistant organizer is Javad Hajialikhani (CEU). If you have any questions, please contact Asya at passinskya [at] ceu.edu.
Here is the workshop schedule:
Monday,June 30
9:45 - 10 AM: Welcome and logistics
10 - 11:30 AM: Christof Rapp (LMU): Grounding and Truthmaking in Aristotle's Categories and Metaphysics
11:30 - 11:45 AM: Coffee break
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM: Jennifer Wang (SFU): A Social Constructionist Account of Rén (仁)in the Analects
1:15 - 2:45 PM: Lunch
2:45 - 4:15 PM: Marko Malink (NYU) and Anubav Vasudevan (Chicago): Truthmaker Semantics for Aristotle's Syllogistic
4:15 - 4:30 PM: Coffee break
4:30 - 6 PM: Kit Fine (NYU): Generic Truthmaking
Tuesday, July 1
10 - 11:30 AM: Louis de Rosset (UVM): Truthmakers and Propositional Identity
11:30 - 11:45 AM: Coffee break
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM: Alice van’t Hoff (Vienna): Truthmakers for Higher-Order Quantification
1:15 - 2:45 PM: Lunch
2:45 - 4:15 PM: Aaron Griffith (William & Mary): Truthmaking and Grounding in Social Ontology
4:15 - 4:30 PM: Coffee break
4:30 - 6 PM: Jonathan Schaffer (Rutgers): Settling the Question, Grounding the Answer
Wednesday,July 2
10 - 11:30 AM: Francesca Poggiolesi (CNRS): Conceptual Explanations in Logic and Mathematics
11:30 - 11:45 AM: Coffee break
11:45 AM - 1:15 PM: Mike Raven (Victoria): Grounding Explanations: Worldly, Unworldly, and Both?
1:15 - 2:45 PM: Lunch
2:45 - 4:15 PM: Naomi Thompson (Bristol): Social Construction as Social Explanation
4:15 - 4:30 PM: Coffee break
4:30 - 6 PM: Benjamin Schnieder (Vienna): TBA
This workshop is about social metaphysics, broadly construed. Topics to be discussed include moral obligations to collectives, social group identification, junk social norms, gender identity, disability, and fundamentality relative to social reality.
The workshop will consist of three keynotes and five pre-read sessions. Each of the pre-read sessions will have one speaker and two commentators. The workshop uses a three-day (2 full days, 1 half day) schedule, beginning on 26 June and ending on 28 June.
Our keynote speakers will be Kit Fine (NYU), Katharine Jenkins (Glasgow), and Hans Bernhard Schmid (Vienna). Our pre-read speakers will be Gillian Gray (Michigan), Camilo Martinez (CEU), Emilie Pagano (Vienna), András Szigeti (Linköping), and Alice van’t Hoff (Vienna).
The workshop is open to faculty and students at Central European University, as well as those affiliated with Knowledge in Crisis. However, registration is required by May 15th. To register, ↗ please use this link.
If you are not affiliated with CEU or Knowledge in Crisis and you would like to attend the workshop, you can apply to be a commentator, chair, or non-presenting attendee by filling out ↗ this form. Please note that due to space limitations, we may only be able to accept a small number of external participants.
The workshop is organized by Asya Passinsky (CEU) and Kevin Richardson (Duke). It is part of the Knowledge in Crisis project, a Cluster of Excellence supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). If you have any questions, please contact the organizers directly at passinskya [at] ceu.edu and kevin.richardson [at] duke.edu.