CFP: The Cologne Knowledge Router

The Cologne Knowledge Router: Call for Commentators

The Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT) organizes a monthly online talk series: The Cologne Knowledge Router. For each of the installments of The Router, CONCEPT invites established philosophers to present their work on a topic within the scope of traditional, social, and formal epistemology. By including early career scholars as commentators, The Router supports a horizontal knowledge transfer on all levels of experience. The main aim of each meeting is an interactive discussion on the presented topic.

Description:

The seventh installment of The  Cologne Knowledge Router will take place on November 19 at 4 p.m. CET, and it will be held via Zoom.

Exactly as any of the other installments, it will consist of a talk by the keynote speaker and a commentary by one or two early career respondents. The keynote speaker will have around 30 minutes to present their paper. Each respondent will then have about 10 minutes to comment on the speaker’s paper. The Q&A will be a further 30 minutes.

We are excited to announce that our keynote speaker will bePaulina Silwa (University of Vienna). She will present her paper entitled ‘Moral Inquiry’. The abstract is below:

Philosophers have characterized moral inquiry as a matter of answering moral questions: are you required to become a vegan? Should you join the strike action? Sometimes our moral inquiry does take that form. But often it is more inchoate: we wonder how to make sense of a moral situation (a toxic workplace, a creepy date). The aim of this talk is to develop an account of the notion of sense-making and to explore its implications for moral testimony and moral expertise.

Submissions:

The commentators will be selected on the basis of a call for expressions of interest. We thus invite submissions of letters of a maximum length of 500 words showing interest in commenting on the speaker’s paper. Along with their letters, applicants may also submit their Curricula Vitae. Submissions from academics from underrepresented groups in philosophy are especially encouraged. 

The submission deadline is November 10, 2021.

All submissions and related inquiries should be sent to: [email protected].

Expect notifications about the outcome by November 11, 2021.