In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance &ndash\; Series III
\nA series of interviews with contributors to The Philosophy of Money and Finance (Hardcover\, OUP 2024\; Paperback\, fall 2025)
\nSchedule
\n"Truth in Financial Accounting"
Author: Christopher J. Cowton (Emeritus\, University of Huddersfield)
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center)
Date and Time: 15 January 2026\, 18:00 CET
"Green Central Banking" \;
Authors: Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria)\; Clé\;ment Fontan (University of Louvain)
Interviewer: Jens van't Klooster
Date and Time: 25 March 2026\, 18:00 CET
"On the Wrongfulness of Bank Contributions to Financial Crises"
Author: \;Richard Endö\;rfer (University of Gothenburg)
Interviewer: Kobi Finestone (Univeresity of San Diego)
Date and Time: 01 June 2026\, 18:00 CET
"Bitcoins Left and Right: A Normative Assessment of a Digital Currency"
Authors: Lars Lindblom and Joakim Sandberg
Interviewer: Violet Victoria
Date and Time: October (TBA) 2026\, 18:00 CET
Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) is an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs\, pejoratives\, expressives and evaluative terms in general\, from languages that have been seldom discussed in the recent philosophical and semantic literature\, and in particular\, from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages. Its main aim is to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challenge current theories. Empirical studies of the expressions mentioned from such languages\, comparisons with English slurs\, as well as wider cross-linguistic approaches and developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena are encouraged too.
\nThe network's coordinators are \;Isidora Stojanovic \;(Pompeu Fabra University/CNRS-Institut Jean Nicod) &\; \;Dan Zeman \;(University of Porto). More information about the network and its activities can be found at \;https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork. To contact the network coordinators\, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com.
\nThe STAL Seminar features monthly\, online talks by researchers tackling issues \;related to the study of slurs\, pejoratives\, expressives and evaluative terms in general\, from less studied languages. The meetings in the 2025-2026 academic year take place on MONDAYS\, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET). The list of speakers is the following (exact dates to be provided soon):
\n- OCTOBER 2025: Luvell Anderson (University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign)
\n- NOVEMBER 2025: Claire Horisk (University of Missouri)
\n- DECEMBER 2025: Xavier Villalba (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
\n- JANUARY 2026: Daisy Dixon (Cardiff University)
\n- FEBRUARY 2026: Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers University)
\n- MARCH 2026: Leopold Hess (Jagiellonian University)
\n- APRIL 2026: Robin Jeshion (University of Southern California)
\n- MAY 2026: Yim Binh Felix Sze (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
\n- JUNE 2026: Mingya Liu (Humboldt University of Berlin)
ORGANIZER;CN=Isidora Stojanovic;CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20251001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260630T170000 SUMMARY:Polysemy in the Evaluative Sphere UID:20260509T234838Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Faculty of Letters\, University of Porto\, Via Panorâmica s/n\, Porto\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:POLYSEMY IN THE EVALUATIVE SPHERE
\nIn-person: Faculty of Letters\, University of Porto\, Via Panorâ\;mica s/n
\nOnline: Zoom
\nThis is a biweekly seminar pertaining to the project Slurs and the Lexicon: A Rich-Lexicon Approach to Slurs and Other Evaluative Expressions - LEXISLUR (2023.05952.CEECIND\; PI: Dan Zeman). The main aim of the project is to offer a polysemy account fit for evaluative expressions and to assess to what extent a unified approach to the entire evaluative sphere is feasible. Much work on polysemy can be found in lexical semantics - the branch of semantics that studies the meaning of words\, their internal structure and interrelations\, etc. However\, while the debate about polysemy of various expressions has produced an impressive amount of work\, not much material on the polysemy of evaluative expressions exists in that area. The purpose of this seminar is twofold: first\, to get acquainted with the essential literature on polysemy (via in-person sessions dedicated to reading and discussing the relevant papers)\; second\, to feature current work on polysemy as applied to evaluative expressions (via online talks by invited speakers). In this way\, participants will both acquire knowledge about polysemy in general and see how the discussions in lexical semantics can be applied to the evaluative sphere.
\nIn-person meetings
\nNext meeting: NOVEMBER 5\, 15:00-16:30 WET: \;Marina Ortega André\;s &\; Agustin Vicente\, "Polysemy and co-predication"\, \;Glossa \;4(1)\, 2019.
\nPast meetings: \;OCTOBER 15\, 16.30-18.00 WET: \;Michelle Liu\, "Polysemy and Philosophy"\, \;Philosophy Compass \;20: e70040\, 2025.
\nFuture readings:
\nNicholas Asher\, Lexical Meaning in Context: A Web of Words\, Cambridge University Press\, 2011 (excerpts).
\nRobyn Carston\, "Polysemy: pragmatics and sense conventions"\, Mind &\; Language 36(1): 108-133\, 2021.
\nJohn Collins\, "Copredication as illusion"\, Journal of Semantics 40(2-3): 359-389\, 2023.
\nSteven Frisson\, "Semantic underspecification in language processing"\, Language and Linguistics Compass 3(1): 111-127\, 2009.
\nLotte Hogeweg &\; Agustin Vicente\, "On the nature of the lexicon"\, Journal of Linguistics 56(4): 865-891\, 2020.
\nRay Jackendoff\, Semantic Structures\, MIT Press\, 1990 (excerpts).
\nIngrid Lossius Falkum &\; Agustin Vicente\, "Polysemy"\, Oxford Bibliographies Online\, 2020.
\nJames Pustejovsky\, The Generative Lexicon\, MIT Press\, 1995 (excerpts).
\nPetra Schumacher\, "When combinatorial processing results in reconceptualization: Towards a new approach of compositionality"\, Frontiers of Psychology 4: 677\, 2013.
\nAgustin Vicente\, "Polysemy and word meaning"\, Philosophical Studies\, 175(4): 947-968\, 2018.
\nAgustin Vicente\, "Approaches to co-predication"\, Journal of Pragmatics 182: 348-357\, 2021.
\nOnline talks
\nNext talk: NOVEMBER 21\, 11:00-12.30 WET: Marina Ortega-André\;s (University of the Basque Country)\, "When this chef says pot: The importance of the speaker's identity in understanding ambiguous words"
\nPast talks: \;OCTOBER 31\, 11:00-12:30 WET: \;Michelle Liu (Monash University)\, "Ad Hoc Concepts\, Polysemy\, and Verbal Disputes"
\nFuture talks (schedule and titles TBA): \;John Collins &\; Agustin Vicente\, Tamara Dobler\, Jessica Keiser\, Michelle Liu\, Ingrid Lossius Falkum\, Emanuel Viebahn
ORGANIZER;CN=Dan Zeman;CN=Alba Moreno Zurita: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T170000 SUMMARY:UK XPHI Online UID:20260509T234840Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the next series of our monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy. The workshop is usually held via Teams\, the second Wednesday of each month\, 16:00-18:00 UK time. \; Details of 2025/26 season TBC
\n \; ORGANIZER;CN=James Andow;CN=Eugen Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20251009T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260604T170000 SUMMARY:Sign\, Language\, Reality Seminar 2025/26 UID:20260509T234842Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Sign. Language\, Reality (SLR) Seminar Series 2025/26
\nWe are pleased to announce the program for the upcoming academic year of the Sign. Language\, Reality (SLR) Seminar\, hosted by the Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Warsaw and the Polish Semiotic Society. The series brings together scholars working on philosophy of language\, logic\, philosophy of linguistics\, theoretical semiotics\, and related areas.
\nProgram 2025/26:
\n9 October 2025 &mdash\; Franç\;ois Recanati (Collè\;ge de France)
Mental files\, concepts\, and modes of presentation
23 October 2025 &mdash\; Antonina Jamrozik (University of Warsaw)
Why do we need the notion of a lie? Considerations from the case of presuppositional lies
6 November 2025 &mdash\; Edward Zalta (Stanford University)
How to Ground Semantics in Higher-Order Metaphysics
4 December 2025 &mdash\; Thomas Hodgson (University of Gdansk / Shanxi University)
The act-type theory of propositions as a theory of empty names
22 January 2026 &mdash\; Hannes Leitgeb (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
The Additive Logic of Epistemic Reasons. An Axiomatic Account
19 February 2026 &mdash\; Piotr Stalmaszczyk (University of Lodz)
Conceptual Engineering\, Semiotics and Metalinguistics
19 March 2026 &mdash\; Merel Semeijn (University of Groningen)
Common ground in non-face-to-face settings
16 April 2026 &mdash\; Louis Rouillé\; (University of Liè\;ge)
The dynamics of fictional names: an antirealist perspective
21 May 2026 &mdash\; Diego Feinmann (IPI PAN)
Theories of Relevance
4 June 2026 &mdash\; Antonio Negro &\; Salvatore Pistoia-Reda (Università\; degli Studi di Siena)
The contradiction puzzle for logicality
Participation is free and open to all scholars.
\nZoom information:
The seminar will be held online. To join the meeting\, please use the Zoom information below:
https://uw-edu-pl.zoom.us/j/92716044372?pwd=0l7PETAOwqQDBKTMCnheYQN7ag7zx1.1
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We are very pleased to announce the 6th season (2025&ndash\;2026) of:
MONTHLY PHENOMENOLOGY
An online forum of discussion on recent work in phenomenology \;
Description: This series of talks gathers together scholars interested in phenomenology and its relation to contemporary issues in philosophy\, especially in the philosophy of mind. It establishes a forum of discussion where people can meet on a regular basis and present their work-in-progress or recent publications. The topics addressed will stretch from the history of early phenomenology to the systematic application of phenomenological insights in recent debates in analytic philosophy. \;
Schedule: The talks will take place once a month on a Friday from October to May. Time: 10:15am ET\, 3:15pm GMT/GMT+1\, 4:15pm CET. Talks last 90 minutes\, including a 45 minutes Q&\;A. \;
Participation: Talks are held on \;zoom. To participate\, please send an email to \;hamid.taieb@hu-berlin.de \;with the heading "Registration Monthly Phenomenology". A zoom link will be sent to you the day preceding each talk. \;
Programme:
Francesca Forlè\; (Università\; Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
Embodied Affectivity. A Phenomenological Account of the Connection between Affective Phenomena and Bodily Expressions
Friday\, \;24 October 2025
James Kinkaid (Bilkent University)
Husserlian Idealism and the Identity Theory of Truth
28 November 2025
Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (University of Neuchâ\;tel)
Adolf Reinach's Theory of Social Acts: Illuminating Debates on Joint and Collective Intentionality
5 December \;2025 \;
Pascale Roure (Yildiz Technical University)
Phenomenology in Turkey
16 January 2026 \;
Benoit Guilielmo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Exploring the Essence of Bullshit through Early Phenomenology (Kolnai and Hildebrand)
20 \;February 2026 \;
Lorenza D'Angelo (Pompeu Fabra University)
Pleasure\, Pain and Introspection
6 \;March 2026 \;
Mohammed Saleh Zarepour (University of Manchester)
The Flying Man and the Transparency of (Self-)Knowledge
24 April 2026 \;
Sebastian Watzl (University of Oslo)
Attention Norms and Frames. On the Social Organisation of Experience
8 May 2026
Convenors:
Guillaume Fré\;chette (University of Geneva)
Marta Jorba (Pompeu Fabra \;University)
Alessandro Salice (University College Cork)
Hamid Taieb (Humboldt University Berlin)
Í\;ngrid Vendrell-Ferran (Philipps University Marburg) \;
Organized on behalf of the \;Network for Phenomenological Research \;
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We're delighted to invite you to the research seminar of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. These are organized in partnership with CELFIS\, the Center for Logic\, Philosophy and History of Science at UB. Here are talks scheduled so far:
\nFall 2025:
\nOctober 28\, 5pm: Alexandru Dragomir &\; Andrei Mărăşoiu (University of Bucharest\, \;f2f)\, "The Inconstant Moral Expert: the case of LLMs"
\nNovember 25\, 4pm: Nicholas Rimell (Chinese University of Hong Kong\, hybrid via Zoom)\, "A Metaphysics of Despair"
\nNovember 28\, 2pm: Micah Thomas Pimaro\, Jr. (University of Calabar\, \;f2f)\, "Placide Tempels&rsquo\;s Metaphysics: A challenge or a trap for African philosophy?"
\nDecember 2\, 3pm: Nora Grigore (Romanian Academy\, Institute of Philosophy and Psychology\, f2f)\, "Worthiness and Expediency: a Distinction without a Difference?"
\nDecember 19\, 2pm: Alin Olteanu (Shanghai International Studies University\, ICUB\, \;f2f)\, "Iconic Imagination in Modeling: A Semiotic Approach to Scientific Inquiry"
\nJanuary 16\, 2pm: Marco Facchin (University of Antwerp\, hybrid via Zoom)\, \;"Is mental content an illusion?" \;
\nJanuary 22\, 12pm: Sandra Brâ\;nzaru (University of Bucharest\, CELFIS\, FPSE\, \;f2f)\, "Conceptualising Empathy"
\nFebruary 10\, 4pm: Marian Călborean (OPTI Software &\; University of Bucharest\, f2f)\, "The minimal ontology of time" \;
\nSpring 2026:
\nMarch 27\, 2pm: Erik Myin (University of Antwerp\, \;hybrid \;via Zoom)\, &ldquo\;Of a Different Mind&rdquo\;
\nMarch 30: \;Mariona Eiren Miyata-Sturm (University of Oxford\, f2f)\, &ldquo\;The metacognitive account of aesthetics in science&rdquo\;
\nApril 3: \;René\; \;van Woudenberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, \;hybrid \;via Zoom)\, 'Are LLMs Authors?'
\nMay 11\, 12pm: Gheorge Ştefanov (U. Bucharest\, f2f)\; TBD
\nMay 13\, 4pm: Andrei Moldovan (U. Salamanca\, f2f)\, \;&ldquo\;Between Independence and Guidance: A Dilemma for Intellectual Autonomy&rdquo\;
\nMay 19\, 10am: Daian Bica (Heinrich Heine University\, \;hybrid \;via Zoom)\, \;''How to Tame &lsquo\;Abundance&rsquo\;? Roman Frigg&rsquo\;s User Manual''
\nJune 5\, 2pm: Paula Tomi (National University of Science and Technology 'Politehnica' Bucharest\, \;f2f)\, &ldquo\;LLMs and truth pluralism&rdquo\;
\nJune: Alexandru Nicolae (University of Bucharest\, Faculty of Letters\; Romanian Academy\, Institute of Linguistics\, \;f2f)
\nJune: Cătălin Teoharie (University of Bucharest\, CELFIS\, \;f2f)
\nJune: Ioan Muntean (UT Rio Grande Valley\, UI Urbana\, \;f2f)
\nJuly: Mihai Rusu (Babeş Bolyai University\, ICUB\, hybrid)
\nJuly: Constantin Stoenescu (University of Bucharest\, CELFIS\, \;f2f)\, "Revisiting 'The Normative Structure of Science' \;
\nSeptember: Oana Şerban (University of Bucharest\, CCIIF\, \;f2f)
\nPrevious events \;in the series are available at: \;
\n2021-22: \;https://philevents.org/event/show/93365 \;
\n2022-23: \;https://philevents.org/event/show/105249 \;
\nhttps://filosofie.unibuc.ro/category/seminar-cercetare-dft/ \;
\nhttps://icub.unibuc.ro/2022/06/14/workshop-semantic-cognition-and-truth/ \;
\nFor those of you who would like to join some of the meetings but have overlapping commitments\, we will do our best to record the meetings whenever everyone in attendance consents to it\, and to then upload the recordings on the Department's YouTube channel. Previous talks are available here:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgUq3dN8CXI4L6DhZT1f_Q
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrei Mărăşoiu": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260201T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T170000 SUMMARY:Inquiry Network WIP Talks (Spring 2026) UID:20260509T234849Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Inquiry Network WIP Talks feature presentations of work in progress related to inquiry\, broadly understood. For example\, presentations might discuss (but are not limited to): the epistemology of inquiry\, the metaphysics of inquiry\, ethical norms of inquiry\, historical perspectives on inquiry\, or the structure of scientific inquiry.
We aim to foster the sharing of ideas in an inclusive\, welcoming and low-pressure environment. Papers that are already accepted for publication will not be accepted. We aim to be sensitive to the needs of early-career scholars.
The group meets biweekly on Zoom during each of the Fall and Spring semesters. Meeting times are determined shortly before the beginning of each semester with the goal of finding a time that works for as many members as possible. Special consideration is given to finding a meeting time that works for presenters of accepted papers.
I am excited to share that the \;Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series \;will resume in \;February 2026! Please find the official flyer attached. All talks will take place from \;4:30 PM to 6:30 PM CET \;(10:30 AM&ndash\;12:30 PM EST).
The webinar can be accessed via the following link: https://meet.google.com/uaq-jqpf-mwr
Schedule of speakers:
The series is organized in collaboration with \;Carnap in Context IV \;(Ö\;AW\, FWF Grant PAT7905424) and \;Rudolf Carnap Digital \;(MCMP\, LMU Munich). \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Caterina Del Sordo;CN=Luca Oliva;CN=Silvano Zipoli Caiani: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260220T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260522T170000 SUMMARY:Online Bayle Seminar 2026 : Education and Pedagogy in the Philosopher of Rotterdam UID:20260509T234852Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The \;Online Bayle Seminar \;is a study and research group devoted to the figure of Pierre Bayle. In the very spirit of the &ldquo\;Republic of Letters&rdquo\; so dear to Bayle\, it seeks to be both international and interdisciplinary\, and aims&mdash\;thanks to the possibilities offered by online communication&mdash\;to overcome the divisions between schools and approaches that have sometimes characterized Bayle scholarship. Founded in 2025\, the seminar hosted in its first year a series of talks on various themes in Bayle\, such as atheism\, tolerance\, and the \;Dictionary. It thus provided an opportunity to discover the most recent research on Bayle carried out in Europe as well as in the Americas and Asia.
\nFor this second year\, we have chosen to develop the seminar&rsquo\;s format around a concrete theme through which Bayle&rsquo\;s work and thought&mdash\;and the context in which he evolved&mdash\;will be analyzed. The objective of this new format is to examine the production of the philosopher of Rotterdam in a more systematic way. Sessions will alternate between reading workshops devoted to the study of selected passages circulated beforehand\, and talks on specific topics. The theme for this second year is \;&ldquo\;Education and Pedagogy in Bayle.&rdquo\; \;The seminar will begin in 2026.
\nWhether from a biographical or a philosophical perspective\, the question touches closely upon Bayle&rsquo\;s life and writings. As a child\, Bayle himself suffered from an irregular schooling\, which he recalls in his correspondence and from which he draws lessons in the advice he gives to his brother Joseph. Later\, Bayle served as a teacher for almost his entire adult life. As is well known\, he first worked as a tutor\, in Coppet and Rouen\, and then as a professor at Sedan and Rotterdam. His philosophy courses\, included among the \;Miscellaneous Works\, are well known. His work as a writer and philosopher is marked by questions of education. The prefaces and forewords of his works not only provide information on the author&rsquo\;s status and his relationship to an ideal reader\; they also contain pedagogical reflections that fit more broadly within the theme of education. Likewise\, the project of a \;Journal of the Republic of Letters\, based on reviewing recent publications\, not only demonstrates an interest in erudition but also affirms the possibility of a learned public and the importance of its education. One should not forget the Reformed context in which Bayle pursued his schooling and his teaching: can one detect confessional markers in his reflections on education?
\nOn a political and theological level\, royal legislation concerning the children of the Huguenots raised the issue of the right to educate one&rsquo\;s children according to one&rsquo\;s own religious convictions. Religious controversy during the revocation of the Edict of Nantes also raises the question of the purpose and means of education: should one not &ldquo\;instruct&rdquo\; erring consciences rather than persecute them? At what point can one judge that the other has been sufficiently taught and that his error stems from culpable obstinacy? Can religious truth be taught in the same way to all minds? This question of &ldquo\;pedagogical differentiation&rdquo\; must be correlated in Bayle with his moral anthropology&mdash\;namely\, attention to the place and role of temperament and passions in the psychic and intellectual life of the individual. And this is directly linked to the &ldquo\;prejudices of childhood and education\,&rdquo\; where Bayle explicitly equates childhood and education with those factors that hinder the formation and exercise of a critical mind. Although the secondary literature has at times examined these issues in Bayle\, the question of education as such has been little studied in his work.
\nProgramme:
\nFriday 20 February\, 2:00 pm: Andy Serin (EPHE-PSL and Paris 1 University): \;&ldquo\;Text analysis: education and tolerance in the Supplement to the Philosophical Commentary&rdquo\;
\nFriday 20 March\, 2:00 pm: Isabelle Moreau (ENS de Lyon): \;&ldquo\;Bayle: education and religious identity&rdquo\;
\nFriday 24 April\, 2:00 pm: Ana Carmona (University of Geneva): \;&ldquo\;Text analysis: the power of prejudices&rdquo\;
\nFriday 22 May\, 2:00 pm: Chiara Musolino (Paris 1 University): \;&ldquo\;How to read philosophy? The pedagogy of doubt at work in Pierre Bayle&rdquo\;
\nPractical information:
\nThe sessions will take place online on Fridays at 2:00 pm (French time). The language used is French\, but it is possible to participate in English. The videoconference link and the texts can be obtained by sending an email to bayle.seminar@hotmail.com.
ORGANIZER;CN=Andy Serin;CN=Ana Alicia Carmona Aliaga: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics: Online Lecture Series UID:20260509T234853Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:&Eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;-&phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &sigma\;&kappa\;έ&psi\;&eta\;\, ό&pi\;&omega\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&delta\;ύ&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&chi\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&mu\;ό &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Alpha\;&lambda\;έ&xi\;&eta\; &Kappa\;&alpha\;&rho\;&pi\;&omicron\;ύ&zeta\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;\, &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &alpha\;&pi\;&omicron\;&tau\;&epsilon\;&lambda\;&epsilon\;ί &alpha\;&pi\;&lambda\;ώ&sigmaf\; &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &nu\;έ&alpha\; &theta\;&epsilon\;&omega\;&rho\;&eta\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &pi\;&rho\;ό&tau\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&eta\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &rho\;&iota\;&zeta\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&tau\;ό&pi\;&iota\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; ί&delta\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &nu\;&omicron\;ή&mu\;&alpha\;&tau\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\;&sigmaf\;\, &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &kappa\;ί&nu\;&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\; &alpha\;&pi\;ό &tau\;&eta\; &phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &sigma\;ύ&sigma\;&tau\;&eta\;&mu\;&alpha\; &pi\;&rho\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &tau\;&eta\; &phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&chi\;&tau\;ή &epsilon\;&mu\;&pi\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&rho\;ί&alpha\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\;\, ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &eta\; &sigma\;&kappa\;έ&psi\;&eta\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &pi\;&epsilon\;&rho\;&iota\;&omicron\;&rho\;ί&zeta\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&eta\; &lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;ά&sigma\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&eta\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;ώ&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&epsilon\; &tau\;&rho\;ό&pi\;&omicron\; ύ&pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&xi\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&mu\;&mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&omicron\;&chi\;ή&sigmaf\; &sigma\;&tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &pi\;&rho\;&alpha\;&gamma\;&mu\;&alpha\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;. &Sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &pi\;&upsilon\;&rho\;ή&nu\;&alpha\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ή&sigmaf\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &pi\;&rho\;&omicron\;&omicron\;&pi\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή&sigmaf\; &beta\;&rho\;ί&sigma\;&kappa\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &eta\; έ&nu\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&alpha\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &Alpha\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&chi\;&tau\;ή&sigmaf\; &Omicron\;&lambda\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\;\, &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\; &delta\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&alpha\;&mu\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;&eta\;-&kappa\;&lambda\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&sigma\;&tau\;ή&sigmaf\; &epsilon\;&nu\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\; &mu\;έ&sigma\;&alpha\; &sigma\;&tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &omicron\;&pi\;&omicron\;ί&alpha\; &omicron\; ά&nu\;&theta\;&rho\;&omega\;&pi\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &omicron\; &kappa\;ό&sigma\;&mu\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;-&sigma\;&upsilon\;&gamma\;&kappa\;&rho\;&omicron\;&tau\;&omicron\;ύ&nu\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &chi\;&omega\;&rho\;ί&sigmaf\; &nu\;&alpha\; &tau\;&alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ί&zeta\;&omicron\;&nu\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\;\, &sigma\;&upsilon\;&gamma\;&kappa\;&rho\;&omicron\;&tau\;ώ&nu\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ό &pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &omicron\; &Kappa\;&alpha\;&rho\;&pi\;&omicron\;ύ&zeta\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &omicron\;&nu\;&omicron\;&mu\;ά&zeta\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &Mu\;&eta\;-&Tau\;&alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &Tau\;&alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;\, &delta\;&eta\;&lambda\;&alpha\;&delta\;ή &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &sigma\;&chi\;έ&sigma\;&eta\; ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &tau\;&omicron\; έ&nu\;&alpha\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &alpha\;&pi\;&omicron\;&rho\;&rho\;&omicron\;&phi\;ά &tau\;&omicron\; ά&lambda\;&lambda\;&omicron\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &omicron\;ύ&tau\;&epsilon\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&alpha\;&mu\;έ&nu\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &alpha\;&pi\;&omicron\;&lambda\;ύ&tau\;&omega\;&sigmaf\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&chi\;&omega\;&rho\;&iota\;&sigma\;&mu\;έ&nu\;&omicron\;\, &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &epsilon\;&nu\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &sigma\;&epsilon\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&rho\;&kappa\;ή &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&mu\;ό&rho\;&phi\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\; &mu\;έ&sigma\;&alpha\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &chi\;&rho\;ό&nu\;&omicron\;. &Eta\; &pi\;&rho\;&alpha\;&gamma\;&mu\;&alpha\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;\, &sigma\;&epsilon\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ή &tau\;&eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;-&phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &sigma\;ύ&lambda\;&lambda\;&eta\;&psi\;&eta\;\, &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&alpha\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &omicron\;&upsilon\;&sigma\;ί&alpha\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&delta\;&iota\;&kappa\;&alpha\;&sigma\;ί&alpha\; &Sigma\;&chi\;&epsilon\;&sigma\;&iota\;&alpha\;&kappa\;ή&sigmaf\; &Sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;-&Gamma\;έ&nu\;&epsilon\;&sigma\;&eta\;&sigmaf\;\, έ&nu\;&alpha\; &pi\;&lambda\;έ&gamma\;&mu\;&alpha\; &zeta\;&omega\;&nu\;&tau\;&alpha\;&nu\;ώ&nu\; &sigma\;&chi\;έ&sigma\;&epsilon\;&omega\;&nu\; ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &kappa\;ά&theta\;&epsilon\; &mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;ή ύ&pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&xi\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&delta\;ύ&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;έ&sigma\;&alpha\; &alpha\;&pi\;ό &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;&eta\;&lambda\;&epsilon\;&pi\;ί&delta\;&rho\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&eta\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &alpha\;&mu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&beta\;&alpha\;ί&alpha\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&gamma\;&kappa\;&rho\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\;\, &gamma\;&epsilon\;&gamma\;&omicron\;&nu\;ό&sigmaf\; &pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\;ί&zeta\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;&epsilon\; &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &eta\;&rho\;&alpha\;&kappa\;&lambda\;&epsilon\;ί&tau\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&alpha\; &epsilon\;&nu\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &tau\;&omega\;&nu\; &alpha\;&nu\;&tau\;&iota\;&theta\;έ&tau\;&omega\;&nu\;\, &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &epsilon\;&kappa\;&pi\;ό&rho\;&epsilon\;&upsilon\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Epsilon\;&nu\;ό&sigmaf\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &Pi\;&lambda\;&omega\;&tau\;ί&nu\;&omicron\;\, &tau\;&eta\; &mu\;&omicron\;&nu\;&iota\;&sigma\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &omicron\;&nu\;&tau\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;ί&alpha\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Sigma\;&pi\;&iota\;&nu\;ό&zeta\;&alpha\;\, &tau\;&eta\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&lambda\;&epsilon\;&kappa\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &kappa\;ί&nu\;&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Chi\;έ&gamma\;&kappa\;&epsilon\;&lambda\;\, &tau\;&eta\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;-&alpha\;&nu\;ή&kappa\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&nu\; &alpha\;&nu\;&theta\;&rho\;ώ&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &Epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &Chi\;ά&iota\;&nu\;&tau\;&epsilon\;&gamma\;&kappa\;&epsilon\;&rho\;\, &tau\;&eta\; «\;&sigma\;ά&rho\;&kappa\;&alpha\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &kappa\;ό&sigma\;&mu\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;»\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; Merleau-Ponty &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&delta\;&iota\;&kappa\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&iota\;&alpha\;&kappa\;ή &omicron\;&nu\;&tau\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;ί&alpha\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; Whitehead.
\n&Sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\; &kappa\;έ&nu\;&tau\;&rho\;&omicron\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ή&sigmaf\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &sigma\;&kappa\;έ&psi\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&pi\;&tau\;ύ&sigma\;&sigma\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &eta\; &Omicron\;&nu\;&tau\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;ί&alpha\; &Mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&mu\;ό&rho\;&phi\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\;&sigmaf\;\, &sigma\;ύ&mu\;&phi\;&omega\;&nu\;&alpha\; &mu\;&epsilon\; &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &omicron\;&pi\;&omicron\;ί&alpha\; &tau\;&omicron\; &Epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&delta\;&omicron\;&mu\;έ&nu\;&omicron\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &gamma\;&epsilon\;&nu\;&nu\;ά&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&chi\;&eta\;&mu\;&alpha\;&tau\;ί&zeta\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&rho\;&kappa\;ώ&sigmaf\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &epsilon\;&delta\;ώ &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&delta\;ύ&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &eta\; &Pi\;&omicron\;&iota\;&eta\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Kappa\;ό&sigma\;&mu\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &Kappa\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&mu\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &Pi\;&omicron\;ί&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\;\, &delta\;&eta\;&lambda\;&alpha\;&delta\;ή &omega\;&sigmaf\; &eta\; ί&delta\;&iota\;&alpha\; &eta\; &delta\;&eta\;&mu\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &pi\;&rho\;ά&xi\;&eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\; &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &omicron\;&pi\;&omicron\;ί&alpha\; &eta\; &pi\;&rho\;&alpha\;&gamma\;&mu\;&alpha\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;&omicron\;&pi\;&omicron\;&iota\;&epsilon\;ί&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;&omicron\;-&epsilon\;&kappa\;&delta\;&eta\;&lambda\;ώ&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\;. &Eta\; &pi\;&omicron\;&iota\;&eta\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ή &pi\;&eta\;&gamma\;ά&zeta\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &alpha\;&pi\;ό &tau\;&eta\; &delta\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&alpha\;&mu\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &sigma\;&chi\;έ&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &Alpha\;&beta\;ύ&sigma\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;\, &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Mu\;&eta\;&delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\;ό&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Pi\;&alpha\;&nu\;&tau\;ό&sigmaf\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&theta\;ώ&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Chi\;ά&omicron\;&upsilon\;&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &Tau\;ά&xi\;&eta\;&sigmaf\;\, ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &tau\;&omicron\; &Mu\;&eta\;&delta\;έ&nu\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &sigma\;&eta\;&mu\;&alpha\;ί&nu\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &alpha\;&nu\;&upsilon\;&pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&xi\;ί&alpha\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &delta\;&eta\;&mu\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &delta\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&alpha\;&tau\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;\, έ&nu\;&alpha\; &pi\;&rho\;&omicron\;-&omicron\;&nu\;&tau\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό &beta\;ά&theta\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&pi\;ό &tau\;&omicron\; &omicron\;&pi\;&omicron\;ί&omicron\; &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&delta\;ύ&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&omicron\; &Pi\;ά&nu\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&epsilon\;&chi\;ή&sigmaf\; &phi\;&alpha\;&nu\;έ&rho\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\;\, &epsilon\;&nu\;ώ &tau\;&omicron\; &Chi\;ά&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &alpha\;&pi\;&lambda\;ή &alpha\;&tau\;&alpha\;&xi\;ί&alpha\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &pi\;&epsilon\;&delta\;ί&omicron\; &Delta\;&eta\;&mu\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή&sigmaf\; &Alpha\;&beta\;&epsilon\;&beta\;&alpha\;&iota\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\;\, &eta\; &alpha\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&chi\;&tau\;ή &mu\;ή&tau\;&rho\;&alpha\; &tau\;&omega\;&nu\; &mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;ώ&nu\;\, &alpha\;&pi\;ό &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &omicron\;&pi\;&omicron\;ί&alpha\; &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&delta\;ύ&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &eta\; &Tau\;ά&xi\;&eta\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &pi\;&rho\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omega\;&rho\;&iota\;&nu\;ή &mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;&omicron\;&pi\;&omicron\;ί&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\;\, &gamma\;&iota\;&alpha\; &nu\;&alpha\; &epsilon\;&pi\;&iota\;&sigma\;&tau\;&rho\;έ&psi\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &pi\;ά&lambda\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\; &Chi\;ά&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &mu\;έ&sigma\;&alpha\; &sigma\;&epsilon\; έ&nu\;&alpha\;&nu\; &rho\;&upsilon\;&theta\;&mu\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;&omicron\;-&upsilon\;&pi\;&epsilon\;&rho\;&beta\;&alpha\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό &kappa\;ύ&kappa\;&lambda\;&omicron\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&mu\;ό&rho\;&phi\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\;&sigmaf\;\, &gamma\;&epsilon\;&gamma\;&omicron\;&nu\;ό&sigmaf\; &pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&alpha\;&nu\;&tau\;ά &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &eta\;&rho\;&alpha\;&kappa\;&lambda\;&epsilon\;ί&tau\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&alpha\; &alpha\;&rho\;&mu\;&omicron\;&nu\;ί&alpha\; &tau\;&omega\;&nu\; &alpha\;&nu\;&tau\;&iota\;&theta\;έ&tau\;&omega\;&nu\;\, &tau\;&omicron\; &delta\;&eta\;&mu\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό &chi\;ά&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Nu\;ί&tau\;&sigma\;&epsilon\;\, &tau\;&eta\; &zeta\;&omega\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &omicron\;&rho\;&mu\;ή &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Mu\;&pi\;&epsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;&kappa\;&sigma\;ό&nu\;\, &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &pi\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&lambda\;&alpha\;&pi\;&lambda\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Nu\;&tau\;&epsilon\;&lambda\;έ&zeta\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\; &sigma\;ύ&gamma\;&chi\;&rho\;&omicron\;&nu\;&eta\; &epsilon\;&pi\;&iota\;&sigma\;&tau\;&eta\;&mu\;&omicron\;&nu\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &kappa\;&alpha\;&tau\;&alpha\;&nu\;ό&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;&omicron\;-&omicron\;&rho\;&gamma\;ά&nu\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &Pi\;&rho\;ί&gamma\;&kappa\;&omicron\;&zeta\;&iota\;&nu\;.
\n&Mu\;έ&sigma\;&alpha\; &sigma\;&epsilon\; &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ή &tau\;&eta\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&delta\;&iota\;&kappa\;&alpha\;&sigma\;ί&alpha\;\, &omicron\; &Kappa\;ό&sigma\;&mu\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;&eta\;&chi\;&alpha\;&nu\;&iota\;&sigma\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό &sigma\;ύ&sigma\;&tau\;&eta\;&mu\;&alpha\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;&omicron\;-&pi\;&omicron\;&iota\;&eta\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &delta\;&eta\;&mu\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;ί&alpha\;\, &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &zeta\;&omega\;&nu\;&tau\;&alpha\;&nu\;ή &rho\;&omicron\;ή ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &tau\;&omicron\; ά&mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;&omicron\; &gamma\;ί&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;ή &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &eta\; &mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;ή &epsilon\;&pi\;&iota\;&sigma\;&tau\;&rho\;έ&phi\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\; ά&mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;&omicron\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; έ&tau\;&sigma\;&iota\; &eta\; ύ&pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&xi\;&eta\; &epsilon\;&mu\;&phi\;&alpha\;&nu\;ί&zeta\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &gamma\;&epsilon\;&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή\, &sigma\;&chi\;&epsilon\;&sigma\;&iota\;&alpha\;&kappa\;ή &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &pi\;&omicron\;&iota\;&eta\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή. &Eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;-&phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &sigma\;&tau\;ά&sigma\;&eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&tau\;&omicron\;&pi\;ί&zeta\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &tau\;&omicron\; &kappa\;έ&nu\;&tau\;&rho\;&omicron\; &alpha\;&pi\;ό &tau\;&eta\; &gamma\;&nu\;ώ&sigma\;&eta\; &pi\;&rho\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &tau\;&eta\; &Beta\;&iota\;&omega\;&mu\;&alpha\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &Sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\;\, ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &eta\; &alpha\;&lambda\;ή&theta\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&alpha\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &alpha\;&pi\;&lambda\;ώ&sigmaf\; &epsilon\;&nu\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &epsilon\;&mu\;&pi\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&rho\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&mu\;&mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&omicron\;&chi\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή\, &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&tau\;ά&sigma\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&eta\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\;&iota\;&sigma\;&mu\;&omicron\;ύ &mu\;&epsilon\; &tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &rho\;&upsilon\;&theta\;&mu\;ό &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &kappa\;ό&sigma\;&mu\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &epsilon\;&delta\;ώ &epsilon\;&mu\;&phi\;&alpha\;&nu\;ί&zeta\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &eta\; &Upsilon\;&pi\;έ&rho\;&beta\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &Gamma\;&lambda\;ώ&sigma\;&sigma\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&theta\;ώ&sigmaf\; &eta\; &alpha\;&lambda\;ή&theta\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&alpha\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &mu\;&pi\;&omicron\;&rho\;&epsilon\;ί &nu\;&alpha\; &pi\;&epsilon\;&rho\;&iota\;&omicron\;&rho\;&iota\;&sigma\;&tau\;&epsilon\;ί &sigma\;&epsilon\; &omicron\;&rho\;&iota\;&sigma\;&mu\;&omicron\;ύ&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &delta\;ό&gamma\;&mu\;&alpha\;&tau\;&alpha\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &beta\;&iota\;ώ&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; ά&mu\;&epsilon\;&sigma\;&eta\; &pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&sigma\;ί&alpha\;\, ό&pi\;&omega\;&sigmaf\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&phi\;&alpha\;ί&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &Sigma\;&omega\;&kappa\;&rho\;ά&tau\;&eta\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\; &phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &tau\;&rho\;ό&pi\;&omicron\; &zeta\;&omega\;ή&sigmaf\;\, &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&sigmaf\; &Sigma\;&tau\;&omega\;&iota\;&kappa\;&omicron\;ύ&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &tau\;έ&chi\;&nu\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &beta\;ί&omicron\;&upsilon\;\, &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &Zeta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\; &mu\;&eta\;-&epsilon\;&nu\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &epsilon\;&pi\;ί&gamma\;&nu\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\;\, &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; Wittgenstein &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&alpha\; ό&rho\;&iota\;&alpha\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &gamma\;&lambda\;ώ&sigma\;&sigma\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; Heidegger ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &eta\; &sigma\;&kappa\;έ&psi\;&eta\; &pi\;&lambda\;&eta\;&sigma\;&iota\;ά&zeta\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\; &sigma\;&iota\;&omega\;&pi\;ή &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\;. &Eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;-&phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\;\, &epsilon\;&pi\;&omicron\;&mu\;έ&nu\;&omega\;&sigmaf\;\, &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&gamma\;&kappa\;&rho\;&omicron\;&tau\;&epsilon\;ί &kappa\;&lambda\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&sigma\;&tau\;ό &sigma\;ύ&sigma\;&tau\;&eta\;&mu\;&alpha\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά έ&nu\;&alpha\;&nu\; &Alpha\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&chi\;&tau\;ό &Omicron\;&rho\;ί&zeta\;&omicron\;&nu\;&tau\;&alpha\;\, &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&rho\;&kappa\;ή &kappa\;ί&nu\;&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\; &pi\;&rho\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &tau\;&omicron\; Ά&pi\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&rho\;&omicron\; ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &eta\; &epsilon\;&nu\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &omicron\;&mu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&omicron\;&mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;ί&alpha\; &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &Kappa\;&alpha\;&theta\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &Epsilon\;&nu\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;/&Pi\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&lambda\;&alpha\;&pi\;&lambda\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;\, &delta\;&eta\;&lambda\;&alpha\;&delta\;ή &mu\;&iota\;&alpha\; &epsilon\;&nu\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &epsilon\;&kappa\;&delta\;&eta\;&lambda\;ώ&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;έ&sigma\;&alpha\; &alpha\;&pi\;ό &tau\;&eta\; &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&phi\;&omicron\;&rho\;&omicron\;&pi\;&omicron\;ί&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &pi\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&lambda\;&alpha\;&pi\;&lambda\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;\, &gamma\;&epsilon\;&gamma\;&omicron\;&nu\;ό&sigmaf\; &pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&delta\;έ&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;&epsilon\; &tau\;&eta\; &sigma\;ύ&mu\;&pi\;&tau\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&omega\;&nu\; &alpha\;&nu\;&tau\;&iota\;&theta\;έ&tau\;&omega\;&nu\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; &Nu\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό&lambda\;&alpha\;&omicron\; &Kappa\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&zeta\;&alpha\;&nu\;ό\, &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &epsilon\;&xi\;&epsilon\;&lambda\;&iota\;&kappa\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &epsilon\;&nu\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; Teilhard de \;Chardin\, &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &pi\;&omicron\;&lambda\;ύ&pi\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&kappa\;&eta\; &sigma\;&kappa\;έ&psi\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; Morin\, &tau\;&eta\; &delta\;&eta\;&mu\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &phi\;&alpha\;&nu\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&iota\;&alpha\;&kappa\;ή &theta\;έ&sigma\;&mu\;&iota\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; Castoriadis &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\; &phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &pi\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&lambda\;&alpha\;&pi\;&lambda\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; Deleuze.
\n&Sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\; &beta\;&alpha\;&theta\;ύ&tau\;&epsilon\;&rho\;&omicron\; &epsilon\;&pi\;ί&pi\;&epsilon\;&delta\;&omicron\;\, &eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;-&phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\; &omicron\;&delta\;&eta\;&gamma\;&epsilon\;ί &sigma\;&tau\;&eta\; &Sigma\;&iota\;&omega\;&pi\;&eta\;&lambda\;ή &Epsilon\;&pi\;ί&gamma\;&nu\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\;\, ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &eta\; &gamma\;&nu\;ώ&sigma\;&eta\; &delta\;&epsilon\;&nu\; &epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &pi\;&lambda\;έ&omicron\;&nu\; &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&lambda\;&upsilon\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &alpha\;&lambda\;&lambda\;ά &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&chi\;&alpha\;&sigma\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&sigma\;ί&alpha\; &mu\;έ&sigma\;&alpha\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\; &Mu\;&upsilon\;&sigma\;&tau\;ή&rho\;&iota\;&omicron\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &epsilon\;&delta\;ώ &eta\; &phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&tau\;&rho\;έ&pi\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&epsilon\; &sigma\;&tau\;ά&sigma\;&eta\; &delta\;έ&omicron\;&upsilon\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&pi\;έ&nu\;&alpha\;&nu\;&tau\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\; ά&rho\;&rho\;&eta\;&tau\;&omicron\;\, ό&pi\;&omega\;&sigmaf\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; Pascal &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&sigmaf\; &lambda\;ό&gamma\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&sigmaf\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&rho\;&delta\;&iota\;ά&sigmaf\;\, &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; Meister Eckhart &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &epsilon\;&sigma\;&omega\;&tau\;&epsilon\;&rho\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &sigma\;&iota\;&omega\;&pi\;ή\, &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; Levinas &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&omicron\; ά&pi\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&rho\;&omicron\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; Ά&lambda\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\;&nu\; Blanchot &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&omicron\; ό&rho\;&iota\;&omicron\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &gamma\;&lambda\;ώ&sigma\;&sigma\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\;. Έ&tau\;&sigma\;&iota\;\, &eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;-&phi\;&iota\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &sigma\;&kappa\;έ&psi\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Kappa\;&alpha\;&rho\;&pi\;&omicron\;ύ&zeta\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &alpha\;&nu\;&alpha\;&delta\;ύ&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &omicron\;&nu\;&tau\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&omicron\;&gamma\;ί&alpha\; &delta\;&eta\;&mu\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή&sigmaf\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&mu\;ό&rho\;&phi\;&omega\;&sigma\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &tau\;&alpha\;&upsilon\;&tau\;ό&chi\;&rho\;&omicron\;&nu\;&alpha\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &upsilon\;&pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&xi\;&iota\;&alpha\;&kappa\;ό&sigmaf\; &tau\;&rho\;ό&pi\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &zeta\;&omega\;ή&sigmaf\;\, ό&pi\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &eta\; &pi\;&rho\;&alpha\;&gamma\;&mu\;&alpha\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &alpha\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&chi\;&tau\;ή\, &sigma\;&chi\;&epsilon\;&sigma\;&iota\;&alpha\;&kappa\;ή &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &pi\;&omicron\;&iota\;&eta\;&tau\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή\, &eta\; &gamma\;&nu\;ώ&sigma\;&eta\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&mu\;&omicron\;&rho\;&phi\;ώ&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &sigma\;&epsilon\; &sigma\;&omicron\;&phi\;ί&alpha\;\, &eta\; &epsilon\;&nu\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &phi\;&alpha\;&nu\;&epsilon\;&rho\;ώ&nu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &pi\;&omicron\;&lambda\;&lambda\;&alpha\;&pi\;&lambda\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\;\, &kappa\;&alpha\;&iota\; &omicron\; ά&nu\;&theta\;&rho\;&omega\;&pi\;&omicron\;&sigmaf\; &kappa\;&alpha\;&lambda\;&epsilon\;ί&tau\;&alpha\;&iota\; &nu\;&alpha\; &mu\;&epsilon\;&tau\;έ&chi\;&epsilon\;&iota\; &sigma\;&upsilon\;&nu\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&delta\;&eta\;&tau\;ά &sigma\;&tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &kappa\;&omicron\;&sigma\;&mu\;&iota\;&kappa\;ή &delta\;&iota\;&alpha\;&delta\;&iota\;&kappa\;&alpha\;&sigma\;ί&alpha\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; &delta\;&eta\;&mu\;&iota\;&omicron\;&upsilon\;&rho\;&gamma\;ί&alpha\;&sigmaf\;\, &beta\;&iota\;ώ&nu\;&omicron\;&nu\;&tau\;&alpha\;&sigmaf\; &tau\;&eta\;&nu\; &Alpha\;&nu\;&omicron\;&iota\;&chi\;&tau\;ή &Omicron\;&lambda\;ό&tau\;&eta\;&tau\;&alpha\; &omega\;&sigmaf\; &alpha\;&delta\;&iota\;ά&kappa\;&omicron\;&pi\;&eta\; &kappa\;ί&nu\;&eta\;&sigma\;&eta\; &tau\;&omicron\;&upsilon\; &Epsilon\;ί&nu\;&alpha\;&iota\; &mu\;έ&sigma\;&alpha\; &sigma\;&tau\;&omicron\; ά&pi\;&epsilon\;&iota\;&rho\;&omicron\; &mu\;&upsilon\;&sigma\;&tau\;ή&rho\;&iota\;&omicron\; &tau\;&eta\;&sigmaf\; ύ&pi\;&alpha\;&rho\;&xi\;&eta\;&sigmaf\;.
ORGANIZER;CN=Abhijith Jose: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T170000 SUMMARY:Representations in Minds\, Brains\, and AI UID:20260509T234855Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This series was prompted by a recent wave of fascinating new work on the topic of representations. We are honored and happy that so many authors agreed to participate and we hope to provide a platform for further interdisciplinary discussion. Most papers are already available and you can find links here: \;https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/ii/bewusstsein/lehre.html.en \;
Schedule
22 April\, \;Rosa Cao \;(Stanford): The Scientist in the Machine \;(paper forthcoming)
29 April\, \;Ken Aizawa \;(Rutgers): \;The Evidence for Representation \;
06 May\, \;Corey Maley \;(Purdue): \;Structural Representation is Analog Representation
13 May\, \;Kevin J. Mitchell \;(Dublin): \;The Origins of Meaning: From Pragmatic Control Signals to Semantic Representation
20 May\, \;Eric Hochstein \;(Victoria\, Canada)): \;Neural Representations as Scientific Posits and Metaphysical Entities
10 June\, \;Manolo Martí\;nez \;(Barcelona): \;The Information-Processing Perspective on Representation
17 June\, \;John Krakauer \;(Johns Hopkins/Champalimaud Foundation) &\; \;Bill Ramsey \;(Nevada\, Las Vegas): \;Mental Representation without Neural Representation
24 June\, \;Nina Poth \;(Radboud\, Nijmegen) &\; \;Annika Schuster \;(Dortmund): \;Mental\, Scientific\, and Artificial Representations
01 July\, \;Lotem Elber-Dorozko \;(Jerusalem) &\; \;Devin Gouvê\;a \;(Holy Cross): \;"Neural Representation" is not a Defective Concept
08 July\, \;Zina B. Ward \;(Florida State): \;Directive Representation and the Job Description Challenge
15 July\, \;Krzysztof Dolega \;(Ruhr-University Bochum): The Gloss on the Machine: Egan's Representations in Mechanistic Explanation \;(paper forthcoming)
All sessions will be on Zoom:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/64692924755?pwd=803uh1OEPBkBrEONeL87zJFudGjlw7.1 \; \;
Meeting-ID: 646 9292 4755 | Passwort: 531564
Everybody interested is welcome!
Women have long contributed to the development of theology and philosophy\, yet their voices have often been marginalized\, mediated through restrictive frameworks\, or silenced altogether. At the same time\, women have consistently found innovative means of expression &mdash\; from letters\, diaries\, and poetry to public lectures\, activism\, and today&rsquo\;s digital platforms &mdash\; to engage in theological and philosophical discourse.
This seminar approaches communication not only as a neutral means of expression\, but also as a form of power: the choice of medium\, style\, and platform can grant authority\, negotiate legitimacy\, or challenge dominant structures. From early modern women writing in private correspondence to contemporary digital influencers shaping theological debates\, the act of communication becomes a way to establish intellectual presence\, resist exclusion\, rethink society\, or reshape normative traditions.
The rise of digital culture has introduced new dynamics. Social media\, for example\, can amplify women&rsquo\;s perspectives and create alternative networks of recognition\, while also enabling ideologically charged phenomena &mdash\; such as the &ldquo\;tradwife&rdquo\; movement &mdash\; that recast debates about gender\, religion\, and philosophy. Situating such case studies within longer histories of women&rsquo\;s communicative practices allows us to explore continuities\, ruptures\, and tensions between tradition\, innovation\, and the struggle for authority.
The seminar thus invites critical reflections on the interplay of gender\, communication\, and power\, considering both historical trajectories and contemporary challenges. Contributions may address individual thinkers\, broader cultural movements\, or theoretical frameworks that illuminate how female voices have engaged with and transformed theological and philosophical discourse.
28.04.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nFloris Verhaart &ndash\; Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer: Memoirist\, Translator\, and Religious Polemicist
\nMargaret Matthews &ndash\; Rhetoric\, Method\, and Genre in Gabrielle Suchon&rsquo\;s Treatise on Ethics and Politics
\n\n05.05.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nElodie Pinel &ndash\; Vernacular Theology and Authority: Marguerite Porete\, Mechthild of Magdeburg\, Hadewijch of Antwerp
\nLila Braunschweig &ndash\; A Voice of One&rsquo\;s Own: Philosophizing as Feminized Subjects (Impostor Syndrome &\; Authority)
\n\n12.05.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nElżbieta Filipow &ndash\; Women&rsquo\;s Writing of Harriet Taylor Mill and its Various Modes of Self-expression
\nShamoni Sarkar &ndash\; Karoline von Gü\;nderrode: Fragmentation\, Philosophy\, and Early German Romanticism
\n\n19.05.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nMaxim Demin &ndash\; Philosophy\, God-Seeking\, and Developmental Psychology: Stolitsa and Volkovich in Late Imperial Russia
\nPatricia Guevara Wozniak &ndash\; The Metaphysical Tenacity of Barbara Skarga &ndash\; Metaphysics in Totalitarianism
\n\n02.06.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nJake Nicholas Brooks &ndash\; Autonomy Beyond Kant: Butler\, Tronto\, and Interdependence
\nKaimé\; Guerrero Valencia &ndash\; Intervening Assemblages of Trans-formation/Action: Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995)
\n\n09.06.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time): 2 lectures
\nMarianne Najm Abou-Jaoude &ndash\; Beneficent Communication as Power
\nRoula Azar Douglas &ndash\; Women&rsquo\;s Digital Voices and the Reconfiguration of Public Debate
\n\nFor further information about the talks and the speakers\, please visit the webpage: \;
Le Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone\, cré\;é\; en 2024\, vise à\; favoriser une synergie entre celles et ceux qui\, des amateurs aux chercheuses\, fré\;quentent la pensé\;e de Hannah Arendt. Dans cette optique\, nous cherchons à\; mettre en place un rendez-vous ré\;gulier pour en discuter les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects.
\nDu fait de l&rsquo\;é\;tendue de la francophonie\, ces sé\;minaires auront lieu en ligne. Leur principe sera le suivant : les participant-e-s auront tous et toutes pré\;alablement lu un article ou un chapitre ré\;cent\, lequel sera pré\;senté\; trè\;s rapidement par souci de prioriser les é\;changes (10 minutes) par son autrice ou auteur. À\; partir de celui-ci\, un-e membre du ré\;seau ouvrira (5 min) à\; un dé\;bat plus large afin de discuter\, outre l&rsquo\;article\, les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects de l&rsquo\;&oelig\;uvre d&rsquo\;Arendt (1h30).
\nProgramme 2026\nEn 2026\, nous proposons quatre sé\;ances ordinaires du sé\;minaire et une sé\;ance spé\;ciale : «\; Arendt et la science é\;conomique »\;\, «\; Arendt et le travail »\;\, «\; Liberté\;\, volonté\;\, politique »\;\, «\; Arendt et la violence »\;\, «\; Philosophie\, é\;ducation et politique »\;.
\nLe sé\;minaire est ouvert à\; toutes et tous sans inscription pré\;alable \; n&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas à\; venir y assister et y participer. Les articles et textes discuté\;s sont disponibles sur le site du RAF. N&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas non plus à\; nous contacter pour toute demande d&rsquo\;information complé\;mentaire.
\nLe RAF ?\nLe Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone (RAF) se veut un espace divers et pluriel\, rassemblant une communauté\; de doctorant-e-s\, enseignant-e-s\, chercheurs/ses\, intellectuel-le-s et toute personne inté\;ressé\;e ou engagé\;e dans l'é\;tude et la diffusion de la pensé\;e d'Hannah Arendt en France et le monde francophone. À\; travers cette plateforme\, nous souhaitons favoriser les é\;changes intellectuels\, offrir une visibilité\; accrue aux travaux de recherche et cré\;er des liens solides entre francophones s'inté\;ressant à\; et puisant dans l'&oelig\;uvre de cette autrice majeure du XXe siè\;cle.
\nOutre l&rsquo\;organisation de ce sé\;minaire et d'é\;vè\;nements acadé\;miques lié\;s à\; la pensé\;e d'Arendt\, le ré\;seau actualise continuellement un site web qui met à\; disposition : une bibliographie des textes de langue franç\;aise consacré\;s à\; Arendt ou la mobilisant\, un annuaire des membres du ré\;seau\, un agenda des activité\;s francophones qui lui sont dé\;dié\;es et une lettre d'information mensuelle.
\nN'hé\;sitez pas à\; rejoindre le ré\;seau ou à\; nous contacter pour rejoindre l&rsquo\;é\;quipe d&rsquo\;animation !
\n ORGANIZER;CN="Rémi Zanni": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260504T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260508T170000 SUMMARY:6th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: Artificial Intelligence (6ICPH) UID:20260509T234858Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Via Panorâmica\, s/n: 4150-564\, Porto\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:[Call for Abstracts]
\n6th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: Artificial Intelligence \;(6ICPH)
\nFaculty of Arts and Humanities\, University of Porto\, Porto\, Portugal
4-8 May 2026 (4-5 May\, Online | 6-8 May\, in-person)
About: The 6th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: Artificial Intelligence (6ICPH) brings together researchers\, academics\, and students working on central problems in philosophy of mind\, with this edition placing artificial intelligence at the center of the programme. Hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (Porto\, Portugal)\, the conference invites dialogue across philosophy of mind\, philosophy of cognitive science\, and adjacent fields that take AI as both an empirical phenomenon and a conceptual stress-test for our theories of mentality. The guiding aim is to examine what contemporary AI \; &mdash\; especially language-based and multimodal systems &mdash\; does (and does not) illuminate about understanding\, intentionality\, representation\, rationality\, agency\, and consciousness. Alongside classic debates (e.g.\, functionalism\, computationalism\, connectionism\, embodied and enactive approaches)\, the conference foregrounds questions that have become newly urgent: whether large language models support attributions of semantic competence or merely simulate it\; how norms of reasoning and explanation should be reconceived when behaviour emerges from distributed statistical structures\; whether artificial systems can participate in social cognition (coordination\, trust\, testimony\, deception) and what this implies for mindreading and second-person interaction\; and how reliance on AI tools reshapes human cognition through extended and scaffolded practices (search\, writing\, memory\, attention\, and self-interpretation).The event runs in a hybrid format: online sessions on 4&ndash\;5 May 2026\, followed by in-person sessions on 6&ndash\;8 May 2026 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities\, University of Porto.
\nPHILOSOPHY OF MIND AWARD 2026 (in-person talks only): The best-submitted abstract will receive the opportunity to deliver a special Award Talk similar to a keynote talk (note: the selected author will have the fee waived).
\nThe final deadline to submit proposals in different research topics is \;March 29\, 2026.
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\nKEYNOTES SPEAKERS:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Diana I. Pé\;rez is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the Director of the IIF&ndash\;SADAF&ndash\;CONICET.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Paul Thagard is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo\, where he founded and directed the Cognitive Science Program.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Gloria Andrada is a Ramó\;n y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (IFS)\, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)\, Madrid.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Miguel Pais-Vieira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Sciences at the University of Aveiro (iBiMED).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Â\;ngela Leite is a Researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH) at the Catholic University of Portugal (Braga).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Marina Trakas is an Assistant Researcher at CONICET (Argentina) and next year (2026) she will be a FCT Researcher at the Centre for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon.
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\nTopics might include (but are not limited to):
\n1. Consciousness\, Subjectivity\, and Artificial Systems
\na. Competing theories of consciousness (global workspace\, higher-order\, predictive processing) and what they imply for AI
b. The &ldquo\;hard problem&rdquo\; and whether AI changes (or merely rephrases) it
c. Machine consciousness: criteria\, tests\, and the status of &ldquo\;phenomenal&rdquo\; ascriptions to AI
2. Perception\, World-Modelling\, and Machine Inference
\na. Perception as active construction: implications for artificial perception (vision-language models\, robotics)
b. Predictive coding\, Bayesian perception\, and AI as &ldquo\;prediction machines&rdquo\;
c. 4E cognition and AI: embodied agents\, sensorimotor contingency\, and situated learning
3. Representation\, Meaning\, and Intentionality in Humans and AI
\na. Internalism vs. externalism under contemporary AI (training data\, environment\, social embedding)
b. From symbols to vectors: what do embeddings represent (if anything)?
c. Artificial intentionality: original vs. derived content\; can AI have aboutness or only mimic it?
4. Reasoning\, Rational Agency\, and Autonomy
\na. Reasoning beyond correlation: inference\, explanation\, and &ldquo\;competence vs. performance&rdquo\; in AI
b. Agency and control in human&ndash\;AI systems: who acts when decisions are AI-mediated?
c. Bias\, rationality\, and epistemic norms: when AI recommendations count as reasons
5. The Self\, Personal Identity\, and Digital Mediation
\na. Minimal\, narrative\, and extended self under AI scaffolding (assistants\, recommender systems)
b. Memory\, identity\, and externalised cognition (search\, notes\, &ldquo\;AI memory&rdquo\;)
c. Uploading\, duplication\, and continuity: metaphysics of identity with AI simulations
6. Mind&ndash\;Brain Relations and Computational Neuroscience
\na. Reductionism vs. pluralism: what computational models explain (and what they don&rsquo\;t
\nb. First-person data in an AI age: experience sampling\, neurophenomenology\, and modelling
\nc. AI in neuroscience: limits of decoding\, prediction\, and mechanistic explanation
\n7. Explainability\, Understanding\, and Epistemic Responsibility
\na. What counts as an explanation for a mind? Contrast: mechanistic\, functional\, and narrative explanation
b. Interpretability vs. justification: explanations for users\, clinicians\, regulators\, and researchers
c. Trust\, opacity\, and epistemic dependence: when reliance on AI is rational (or negligent)
\;
\n8. Ethics of AI\, Neurotechnology\, and Cognitive Liberty
\na. Brain&ndash\;computer interfaces and AI: agency\, enhancement\, and responsibility gaps
b. Neuroprivacy and &ldquo\;mind-reading&rdquo\; claims: conceptual and ethical boundaries
c. Governance of human&ndash\;AI cognition: auditability\, contestability\, and moral crumple zones
\;
\n9. Emotion\, Social Cognition\, and Human&ndash\;AI Interaction
\na. Affective states and AI: recognition\, simulation\, and the ontology of &ldquo\;emotion&rdquo\; in machines
b. Empathy\, testimony\, and trust in conversational AI
c. Moral cognition with AI advisors: persuasion\, manipulation\, and norm-shaping
\;
\n10. Extended\, Embedded\, and Collective Minds in the Age of AI
\na. Where does cognition end? LLMs as cognitive artefacts and &ldquo\;thinking with tools&rdquo\;
b. Language as a social technology: AI-driven standardisation and normative drift
c. Collective epistemology: AI\, group cognition\, and the reshaping of public reason
\;
\n11. Psychiatry\, Classification\, and Algorithmic Diagnosis
\na. Mental disorder: natural kinds\, social constructs\, and algorithmic categories
b. Prediction vs. understanding in computational psychiatry and clinical AI
c. Identity\, stigma\, and self-interpretation under diagnostic AI systems
\;
\n12. Evolution\, Cognition\, and Artificial Minds
\na. Evolutionary perspectives on intelligence: what AI lacks (development\, embodiment\, niche construction)
b. Modularity and architectures: are LLMs &ldquo\;general\,&rdquo\; or just wide?
c. Language evolution and AI language: what &ldquo\;fluency&rdquo\; shows (and what it can&rsquo\;t show)
13. Attention\, Salience\, and Control in Humans and Machines
\na. What is attention? Comparative models: neural attention vs. transformer &ldquo\;attention&rdquo\;
b. Control\, distraction\, and optimisation: how AI systems capture and steer attention
c. Situated attention: organism&ndash\;environment loops\, interfaces\, and cognitive ecology
\;
\nSpecial Track I: Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Mind
\nThis track explores the philosophical implications of AI\, cognitive models\, and the nature of artificial cognition. Topics may include:
\na. \; \; \; \; \; \; Can AI be conscious? Theories of artificial consciousness
\nb. \; \; \; \; \; \; Computational models of thought and mental representation
\nc. \; \; \; \; \; \; \; AI and intentionality: can machines have beliefs and desires?
\nd. \; \; \; \; \; \; The problem of explainability in AI
\ne. \; \; \; \; \; \; LLMs\, ChatGPT\, DeepSeek: philosophical approaches
\n\;
\nSpecial Track II: Conceptualizing Polysemy
\nThe focus of this panel is on ways of capturing \;polysemy \;at the conceptual level. Work on the nature\, structure and role of concepts expressed or encoded by polysemic words is welcome. Topics may include:
\na. \; \; \; \; \; \; Arguments for &ldquo\;rich&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;thin&rdquo\; theories of lexical meaning of polysemous words
\nb. \; \; \; \; \; \; Approaches to co-predication
\nc. \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Accounts of communication with polysemous words
\nd. \; \; \; \; \; \; Mechanisms of sense-selection or alternatives to it
\ne. \; \; \; \; \; \; Experimental studies that bear on polysemy and have impact on the debate
\nf. \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Applications of the polysemy idea to less-discussed or novel expressions
\n\;
\nFEES (accepted speakers)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Early Stage (until 10 April 2026)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 160\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 100\,00
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\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Later Stage (10April &ndash\; 30 April 2026)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 220\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 150\,00
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\nFEES (attendance)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Online Segment (4-5 May 2026\, Microsoft Teams)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 30\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 20\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; In-Person Segment (6-8 May 2026\, FLUP)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 30\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 20\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Both Segments (4-5May 2026\, Microsoft Teams + 6-8 May 2025\, FLUP)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 50\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 30\,00
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\nLanguages of the colloquium: English and Portuguese.
\nSUBMISSIONS:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; IMPORTANT: you should clearly state if you are submitting for the online segment (OS) (4-5 May) or the in-person segment (PS) (6-8 May). If online\, you need to provide a preferred day (4 or 5 May) and time schedule (Morning: 9h30-12h30\; Afternoon: 14h00 &ndash\; 18h) considering the Lisbon Time Zone.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; In-person submissions have a higher chance of being accepted (more slots available) and are automatically registered for the Philosophy of Mind Award 2026.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Proposals should include two files: (in word. format: pdf. formats will not be accepted):
\no \; \; (1) a cover page with identification\, clear academic affiliation (if several\, choose the main)
\no \; \; (2) an anonymized title and abstract (maximum 250 words\, up to 10 references)
\no \; \; (3) sent to interconfphilmind@gmail.com
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Paper duration: 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes for discussion)\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Notification Info: in order to facilitate the request for funding of the accepted talks so speakers can prepare their travel in advance\, notification of acceptance or rejection will be given in a 7-10 days period (review) after the submission\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Publications: Some of the papers presented at the conference are expected to be published in several projects (edited volume\, special issue\, etc.\; the publication process will be independent and optional\; more details after the conference)\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Any doubts or concerns can be addressed to: interconfphilmind@gmail.com
\nVenue: Faculty of Humanities of the University of Porto (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto) | Address: Via Panorâ\;mica\, s/n: 4150-564\, Porto\, Portugal.
\nOrganization: Mind\, Language and Action Group | Institute of Philosophy | University of Porto
\nOrganizing Committee
\nSteven S. Gouveia (Chair)
\nSofia Miguens
\nDan Zeman
\nRafael Antunes Padilha
\nJé\;ssica Azevedo
\nMaria Luiza llenaco
\nThales Maia
\nInê\;s Silva
\n\;
\nSupport:
\nCEEC Project by FCT 2022.02527.CEECIND
\nTL Modern &\; Contemporary Philosophy
\nRG Mind\, Language and Action Group (MLAG)
\nInstituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto &ndash\; UID/00502
\nFundaç\;ã\;o para a Ciê\;ncia e a Tecnologia (FCT)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260506T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260507T170000 SUMMARY:Neuroethics in Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for Research\, Politics\, and Society UID:20260509T234859Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Adenauerallee 131\, Bonn\, Germany\, 53113 DESCRIPTION:Organizer: \;Research Hub Neuroethics (RHUNE)
\nLanguage: \;German or English
\nKeynotes: \;Prof. Dr. Surjo Soekadar &\; Prof. Dr. Birgit Beck
\nDate: 05/06 9-14\, 05/07 9-17
ORGANIZER;CN=Bert Heinrichs;CN=Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs;CN=Orsolya Friedrich;CN=Philipp Kellmeyer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260506T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260506T170000 SUMMARY:Imagination Day UID:20260509T234900Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:The Scores\, Saint Andrews\, United Kingdom\, KY16 9AL DESCRIPTION:A one-day workshop on the philosophy of imagination\, addressing such questions as: What is the epistemic role of imagination? How does it work in our engagement with fiction and in thought experiments? How does it help with planning ahead? How does it relate to inner speech and to other attitudes\, such as belief and desire?
\n\nPlease register using this link: \;Imagination Day Registration &ndash\; Fill in form
ORGANIZER;CN=Franz Berto;CN=Alice Murphy;CN=Petronella Randell;CN=Soroush Rafiee Rad: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260506T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260508T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy and Generative Grammar 3 UID:20260509T234901Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:For more than sixty years\, \;developments in linguistic theory (particularly in the generative tradition) have significantly influenced philosophers' thinking about language and the mind. Likewise\, philosophers' discussions on the nature of language\, the mind\, and the world have influenced how linguists understand and model language.
\nThis conference brings together philosophers and linguists to discuss topics in the philosophy of generative grammar and linguistic developments that may be of interest to philosophers.
\nSpeakers
\nIf you want further information about the conference\, please visit our website:
ORGANIZER;CN=David Rey;CN=Rafael Gutierrez: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260507T060000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260507T060000 SUMMARY:What counts as scientific understanding in cognitive science? UID:20260509T234902Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Splaiul Independentei nr. 204\, Bucharest\, Romania\, 060024 DESCRIPTION:The conference will take place on the 22nd \;and 24th of May\, 2026 at the University of Bucharest\, Faculty of Philosophy. Regular presentations will be 30 minutes long\, followed by 20 minutes Q&\;A
\nIt will have a mixed format\; speakers may choose whether they present online or face to face (although face to face presentations are preferred).
\nAbstracts will receive full consideration if sent before \;May 7th \;2026 \;at the following email address \;ubphilosophymasters@gmail.com\, word or pdf\, with the message titled &ldquo\;Abstract Submission&rdquo\;. The abstracts should be written in English\, should have 300-500 words (references not included)\, a title and 5 keywords.
\nPlease write your identifying details in the body of the email\, and leave the attached abstract anonymised. We intend notifications of acceptance to be sent out on or before May 10th \;2026. The conference programme will be announced as soon as the review is completed. \;
\nConference panels
\nScientific understanding in cognitive science
\n&bull\;Can cognitive science produce a scientific explanation of understanding? Do we expect a mechanistic one\, a computational (representational) one\, one based on dynamic systems\, or should one better aim for a Bayesian approach?
\n&bull\;Do we need a unifying theory about the mind in cognitive science\, or should we settle for pluralism (at the level of explanations\, models and scientific practices)?
\n&bull\;What does a grand unified theory in cognitive science afford that pluralism does not
\n&bull\;Should we strive for a unified explanation (one that should account for cognitive\, neural\, phenomenological and behavioral aspects alike)?
\n&bull\;Do we want integration at the level of explanations? Should we also integrate at the level of models (is that even possible)? Do we need explanations or models to account for phenomenal aspects of understanding? If so\, what does explanatory pluralism imply for the phenomenology of understanding? What use for a unifying theory when finer-grained\, multilevel\, partial analyses might be more explanatory? \;
\n&bull\;What epistemic desiderata do cognitive-scientific models meet - approximate truth\, explanatory or predictive power\, simplicity\, empirical adequancy\, others? Which such desiderata matter more in which cognitive-scientific contexts?
\n&bull\;If different ensuing models impact different branches of cognitive science differently\, how does this bear on the field's interdisciplinary unity?
\nScientific understanding and interdisciplinarity
\n&bull\;Does integrating multiple levels of analysis require new forms of explanation and\, if so\, which? What are the limits of integration? Is integration desirable whenever achievable?
\n&bull\;What roles do models play in interdisciplinary understanding? How do these models function when integrating assumptions from multiple domains (with different ontologies)?
\n&bull\;How can experts communicate their understanding to an audience of non-experts? Does &ldquo\;translation&rdquo\; between multiple disciplines affect understanding? Are there aspects or nuances/features that get lost or transformed when concepts &ldquo\;migrate&rdquo\; between fields?
\n&bull\;If interactional expertise is required for interdisciplinary approaches\, does it grant contributory abilities? Is it sufficient for researchers in an interdisciplinary community of experts to be spectatorial cognizers? Is scientific understanding something individuals possess when part of an interdisciplinary effort\, or is understanding distributed across research teams\, maybe even split between specific research fields?
\n&bull\;Are epistemic standards transferable between fields in interdisciplinary studies\, or are they \; bound to specific fields?
\n&bull\;Does interdisciplinary research require new epistemic virtues (tolerance for ambiguity\, transferable and translatable knowledge) or norms?
\n&bull\;Can understanding at one level of analysis substitute for another level of analysis? If so\, in what circumstances?
\n&bull\;What is the epistemic value of interdisciplinarity? Does combining models from multiple fields increase scientific understanding\, or does it sometimes obscure it?
\nBenchmarking scientific understanding
\n&bull\; How can scientific understanding be operationalized?
\n&bull\; Is (scientific) understanding (just) a peak performance? Can we benchmark (scientific) understanding and if so\, should we include AI systems? If AI systems understand\, does AI understanding bear on how we conceive of human understanding?
\n&bull\; What distinguishes understanding from mere predictive success?
\n&bull\; What role does explainability play in benchmarking?
\n&bull\; Can human and AI understanding be compared? If any\, which shared metrics would apply across biological and artificial entities?
\n&bull\; Can interdisciplinary scientific understanding be benchmarked? How could it be evaluated?
\n&bull\; Do different models strike different trade-offs? If so\, how does it impact benchmarking model-based understanding? \;
\nPlease register before May 7th \;2026 \;at the email addresses below:
\nsandra-catalina.branzaru@fpse.unibuc.ro and andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro
ORGANIZER;CN=Sandra-Catalina Branzaru;CN="Andrei Mărăşoiu": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260507T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260508T170000 SUMMARY:Conceptual Engineering and Metalinguistic Awareness UID:20260509T234903Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:P.º de la Senda del Rey 5\,\, Madrid\, Spain DESCRIPTION:Conceptual engineering projects aim to improve our conceptual repertoire. Yet\, they face at least two significant challenges. First\, concepts may be revised so extensively that the resulting engineered concept no longer tracks the original subject matter\, effectively leading to a change of topic. Second\, the prospects for implementing conceptual change at scale are often limited\, given the entrenched and socially distributed nature of our conceptual practices. This workshop is guided by the hypothesis that both challenges can be better understood (and potentially addressed) by attending to metalinguistic awareness. In psycholinguistics\, this is typically understood as the ability to reflect on and manipulate the structural features of language\, including its phonetic\, syntactic\, semantic\, and pragmatic dimensions. The aim of the workshop is to bring together perspectives that connect the notion (and practice) of metalinguistic awareness with central themes in conceptual engineering. Some of the questions to be addressed include: How does metalinguistic awareness help disentangle conceptual improvement from subject change? How can it support the uptake of engineered concepts? How might it be cultivated within scholarly practice to better understand case studies of conceptual change?
\nSpeakers:
\nPedro Abreu (NOVA University\, Lisbon)
\nIsabella Bartoli (University of Oslo)
\nDelia Belleri (Spanish National Research Council\, Madrid)
\nTeresa Marques (University of Barcelona)
\nJoanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (University of Warsaw)
\nYael Peled (MPI-MMG\, Gö\;ttingen)
\nRachel Katharine Sterken (Hong Kong University)
\nYinqi Zhou (Hong Kong University)
\n*
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\nZoom Link
\nhttps://zoom.us/j/96542576120
\nMeeting ID: 965 4257 6120
\n*
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\nSCHEDULE
\nDay 1 - May 7th (Thursday)
\n10:00&ndash\;11:20 &mdash\; Talk 1 &mdash\; Teresa Marques: "Beyond Contestation and Manipulation: Rethinking Meaning Perversions"
\n11:20&ndash\;11:50 &mdash\; Break (30 min)
\n11:50&ndash\;13:10 &mdash\; Talk 2 &mdash\; Rachel Katharine Sterken: "LLMs\, Conceptual Disruption\, and Metalinguistic Awareness"
\n13:10&ndash\;15:10 &mdash\; Lunch break
\n15:10&ndash\;16:30 &mdash\; Talk 3 &mdash\; Isabella Bartoli: "Revising Semantic Deference"
\n16:30&ndash\;17:00 &mdash\; Break (30 min)
\n17:00&ndash\;18:20 &mdash\; Talk 4 &mdash\; Pedro Abreu: "&ldquo\;Diversity&rdquo\;: Fading Semantics\, Shifting Lexical Impact\, and the Plurality of Meanings"
\nDay 2 - May 8th (Friday)
\n10:00&ndash\;11:20 &mdash\; Talk 5 &mdash\; Delia Belleri: "Conceptual engineering\, the subject-change challenge\, and metalinguistic awareness"
\n11:20&ndash\;11:50 &mdash\; Break (30 min)
\n11:50&ndash\;13:10 &mdash\; Talk 6 &mdash\; Yael Peled: \;&ldquo\;We the Users&rdquo\;: Conceptual Engineering and Metalinguistic Awareness as a Twenty-First Century Life-Skill
\n13:10&ndash\;15:10 &mdash\; Lunch break
\n15:10&ndash\;16:30 &mdash\; Talk 7 &mdash\; Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska: "Topics\, lying\, and dual-character concepts"
\n16:30&ndash\;17:00 &mdash\; Break (30 min)
\n17:00&ndash\;18:20 &mdash\; Talk 8 &mdash\; Yinqi Zhou: "Systems of Categorization and the Development of Discourse"
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\nABSTRACTS
\n&ldquo\;Diversity&rdquo\;: Fading Semantics\, Shifting Lexical Impact\, and the Plurality of Meanings
\nPedro Abreu \;(NOVA University\, Lisbon)
\nThis presentation examines the recent career of the term &ldquo\;diversity&rdquo\; as a way of rethinking meaning and\, especially\, meaninglessness. It begins from a familiar but striking phenomenon: &ldquo\;diversity&rdquo\;\, like many buzzwords\, can seem at once semantically depleted and yet highly consequential in use\, a contrast made especially vivid by the recent shift in its evaluative valence. I argue that this tension arises from a conflation of distinct dimensions of meaning.
\nMy proposal starts from a pluralist picture of our ordinary notion of meaning. Rather than assuming that meaning is exhausted by a single\, privileged form of linguistic content\, I suggest that philosophy of language can be seen as engaged in a long and complex project of explicating a richer pre-theoretical notion of meaning\, one that contains not only stable community meaning\, but also locally coordinated meaning\, speaker meaning\, fragment meaning\, function\, and lexical effects. On this view\, different accounts of meaning introduce selective cuts into a richer\, more layered phenomenon\, bringing some dimensions into focus while leaving others aside.
\nThis broader framework has consequences for the notion of meaninglessness. Meaninglessness should not be treated as an all-or-nothing status\, nor reduced to semantic failure alone. It is better conceived as aspect-relative: a term may lose stability\, determinacy\, or grip in one dimension while remaining meaningful in others. This helps make sense of &ldquo\;diversity&rdquo\;: what can appear to be meaninglessness may instead be the erosion of one dimension of meaning alongside the persistence of others.
\nThe final part of the presentation considers in particular detail whether lexical effects should be counted as a bona fide dimension of meaning alongside the others\, and what difference this makes to how we think about meaninglessness.
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\nRevising Semantic Deference
\nIsabella Bartoli \;(University of Oslo)
\nIn describing social externalism\, Burge (1986) describes an idealized version of a &ldquo\;dialectic&rdquo\; and how this process generates meaning-giving characterizations. Burge argues that only epistemic reasons play a role in this dialect. However\, I argue that\, for socially and politically significant terms (which exhibit important features of &ldquo\;essentially contested&rdquo\; concepts)\, moral reasons ought to be considered to play a legitimate role in the Burgean dialectic. For those expressions\, in fact\, there is contestation both on the set of paradigmatic examples of a phenomenon (or archetypical applications)\, and on its characterization. Disagreements over the meaning of these terms appeal to moral reasons to motivate one characterization over another\, and we cannot appeal solely to empirical investigation of the world to decide between them. I defend this idea by comparing my critique of the Burgean dialectic to feminist perspectives on the role of values in science. Arriving at a meaning-giving characterization of a term for a language is in fact relatively similar to choosing a scientific theory of some particular phenomenon. I conclude that Burge ought to allow that moral reasons play a legitimate role in the dialectic that generates meaning-giving characterizations (at least for contested socially and politically significant terms).
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\nConceptual engineering\, the subject-change challenge\, and metalinguistic awareness
\nDelia Belleri \;(Spanish National Research Council\, Madrid)
\nConceptual engineering aims at evaluating and revising concepts for the better\, yet a common objection holds that such revisions risk &ldquo\;changing the subject&rdquo\;. This is problematic in two ways: theoretically\, subject-change may undermine a concept&rsquo\;s identity\; practically\, it may generate communicative disruptions and threaten inquiry-continuity. Drawing on psycholinguistics\, I argue that the practical (and partly\, the theoretical) challenge is better understood through the notion of &ldquo\;metalinguistic awareness&rdquo\;. Empirical studies suggest that metalinguistic awareness is poorly distributed among speakers. This supports a reinforced version of the challenge\, whereby limited awareness may facilitate unnoticed subject-changes and communicative failure. I then argue that\, surprisingly\, psycholinguistics data also offer some hope for resisting the challenge. Since (based on further literature) metalinguistic awareness seems to come in degrees\, sweeping assumptions about speakers&rsquo\; lack of awareness may be unwarranted. Moreover\, practices involved in introducing engineered concepts may themselves raise metalinguistic awareness &ndash\; following the language-learning literature.
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\nBeyond Contestation and Manipulation: Rethinking Meaning Perversions
\nTeresa Marques \;(University of Barcelona)
\nIn earlier work\, I argued that meaning perversions can be distinguished from legitimate conceptual amelioration either by their harmful consequences or by the constitutive misuse of normatively loaded terms. This paper revises that account in response to Inga Bones&rsquo\;s comparison with essentially contested concepts and Justin D&rsquo\;Ambrosio&rsquo\;s analysis of manipulative speech. I concede that Bones&rsquo\;s objection requires revising my original view. I then examine D&rsquo\;Ambrosio&rsquo\;s account of manipulative speech as the covert strategic exploitation of conversational norms\, a framework developed to explain Orwellian doublespeak. I argue that this framework fails to fully capture the core of meaning perversions\, and that recognizing this failure answers Bones&rsquo\;s criticism. While some meaning perversions may involve ambiguity\, vagueness\, or semantic underspecification\, many paradigmatic cases do not. Core cases of meaning perversions often consist in outright misapplications: a term is applied to something to which it does not apply under any admissible interpretation\, while presupposing that its evaluative or normative force is warranted. Crucially\, this misapplication is intentional: it aims to shape\, constrain\, or compel the audience&rsquo\;s practical attitudes and conduct toward the misdescribed referents. Describing sham plebiscites as free elections\, authoritarian legal orders as instances of the rule of law\, or systematically repressive regimes as democracies is not strategic ambiguity but a form of normative coercion. Meaning perversions thus constitute a distinct pathology of public language: practices that mobilize evaluative force\, sever it from its conditions of fit\, and deploy it to direct collective behaviour.
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\nTopics\, lying\, and dual-character concepts \;
\nJoanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska (University of Warsaw)
\nMy talk consists of three parts\, each with a related aim. In the first part\, I try to strengthen the arguments against samesaying as a criterion for sameness of topic\, and I also claim that agreement tests are not significantly better in this respect. In the second part\, I argue&mdash\;contrary to Sterken (2020)&mdash\;that conceptual engineers who employ revolutionary uses need not be considered liars\, since the literal content of their utterances is often too absurd to be believed and they cannot plausibly be seen as asserting it\; however\, the interventionist project can succeed even without this assumption. In the third part\, I suggest that conceptual engineering might proceed by eliciting the dual character of engineered concepts: on my view\, the crucial first step for a conceptual engineer is to convince the audience that a concept has both abstract and concrete criteria of membership\, and the subsequent steps involve securing agreement on the abstract value and convincing the hearer that this value can be realized by a different set of concrete criteria.
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\n&ldquo\;We the Users&rdquo\;: Conceptual Engineering and Metalinguistic Awareness as a Twenty-First Century Life-Skill
\nYael Peled \;(MPI-MMG\, Gö\;ttingen)
\nConceptual change can be argued to be a common - if not constant - historical occurrence. This owes\, in part\, to the complexity of the social and political life of the linguistic environments in which concepts are habitually coined\, tested\, contested\, and sometimes also ultimately consigned to history. For the purpose of exploring conceptual change\, and especially conceptual change resulting from purposeful conceptual engineering\, a particularly capable approach lies in metalinguistic awareness\; that is\, the capacity for a higher-order critical reflection on language\, its constitutive elements\, mechanisms\, dynamics and practices. \;
\nI explore in the talk the question of how might metalinguistic awareness advance the philosophical and scientific inquiry on conceptual change and conceptual engineering. I focus in particular on our contemporary twenty-first century world\, and the emerging transformation of the very concept of &lsquo\;language&rsquo\; itself\, as a result of the combined pressure of contemporary developments in the social (and especially critical) theory of language\, on the one hand\, and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and large language models\, on the other hand. This current momentum of change to the very understanding of &lsquo\;ֿlanguage&rsquo\;\, I contend\, not only illustrates the philosophical merit of a metalinguistic awareness approach to the study of conceptual engineering\; rather\, it highlights the practical significance of metalinguistic awareness as a basic life skill in our contemporary twenty-first century world. \;
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\nLLMs\, Conceptual Disruption\, and Metalinguistic Awareness
\nRachel Sterken \;(Hong Kong University)
\nThis paper argues that the debate over whether large language models (LLMs) produce meaningful speech is\, fundamentally\, a debate about concepts\, and one that the theory of conceptual engineering is well positioned to adjudicate. I develop three claims. First\, optimist positions that attribute meaning\, reference\, or communicative agency to LLMs propose revisions of concepts such as meaning\, speaker\, and assertion so substantial as to constitute changes of subject. Moreover\, even granting LLMs rich internal organisation\, the gulf between statistical text compression and human world-involvement makes it miraculous that their outputs would carry shared natural language content. Second\, on the candidate view of LLM outputs (Radulescu &\; Sterken\, ms)\, outputs are token sequences that acquire meaning and communicative force only through human adoption. This framing draws attention to the metalinguistic and metacommunicative work that adoption demands. Iterative exchanges between users and LLMs often display the surface form of metalinguistic negotiation but lack its normative substance. A finding that both clarifies what genuine negotiation requires and reveals LLM interaction as a site of metalinguistic self-clarification. Third\, I propose that LLM outputs produce a distinctive form of communicative disruption\, candidate disruption\, that is structurally parallel to the disruptions arising from conceptual revision: in both cases\, linguistic form and semantic or normative status come apart\, and navigating that mismatch demands the kind of metalinguistic awareness that the CECODISP project identifies as central to managing conceptual change.
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\nSystems of Categorization and the Development of Discourse
\nYinqi Zhou (Hong Kong University)
\nThis talk uses the tools of information structure to examine the structure of discourse in terms of its zetetic character and its embedded nature. Information structure tracks the organisation of conversation around sequences of logically related questions\, known as questions under discussion (QUDs). Using Eric Swanson&rsquo\;s notion of common ground paths\, I identify downstream effects on QUDs as a distinct kind of effect on the development of conversational common ground. First\, I articulate the effects of systems of categorization upon the pursuit or abandonment of lines of inquiry (discourse&rsquo\;s zetetic character). Second\, I employ the relation of contextual entailment to discuss ways in which discourses can be interrelated\, such that broader discourses may constrain the common ground paths of more local ones (discourse&rsquo\;s embeddedness). This account lies at the intersection of philosophy of language\, epistemology\, and sociolinguistics\, asking for a social understanding of the epistemic and a representation of discourse through its inquisitive dimension. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260507T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260507T180000 SUMMARY:Giulia DE CESARIS (Torino) - 'Tra percezione e spazio/tempo: un argomento senocrateo sull’esperienza o sulla realtà?' UID:20260509T234904Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Link Microsoft Teams: \;https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/361465226425174?p=7dRqrrh0JeJwVLReJN
ORGANIZER;CN=Roberto Granieri;CN=Riccardo Chiaradonna: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260508T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260508T170000 SUMMARY:Symposium: Philosophy in Practice (PiP) UID:20260509T234905Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Rodestraat 14\, Antwerpen\, Belgium\, 2000 DESCRIPTION:Symposium Philosophy in Practice (PiP)
\nTheme and aim
\nOver the past 20 years\, philosophical research has undergone a &lsquo\;practice turn.&rsquo\; Philosophers are increasingly and more explicitly drawing on empirical data and methods from the social sciences to support philosophical reflection. This methodological shift is accompanied by a growing interest in researching concrete social\, scientific\, and political practices. This is evident in various &lsquo\;in practice&rsquo\; research programs. \;
\nDespite the growing interest in empirical philosophy and the growing group of young researchers at (among others) Flemish institutions who use empirical methods\, adequate support and a stable network are still missing. Regardless of their innovative work and capacity for real-world impact\, young researchers involved in Philosophy in Practice (PiP) are therefore often isolated. They do not seem to fit within various disciplinary boundaries and are therefore generally unable to build on existing methodological expertise within their department. For example\, philosophy curricula currently offer few opportunities to develop empirical research skills\, and the necessary expertise for this is limited. Without a broader network of peers\, PiP risks being an extremely labor-intensive and lonely process.
\nWith this first PiP symposium\, we want to address this gap by introducing young researchers in this field\, who are currently scattered across various Flemish universities\, to each other and by stimulating the dialogue between various existing approaches to empirical philosophy in Flanders and elsewhere. We bring together researchers from different universities and sub-disciplines of philosophy to discuss &ndash\; together with established (national and international) researchers &ndash\; the possibilities and obstacles that empirical research in philosophy entails. \;
\nAt PiP\, early career researchers come first: we want to offer them the opportunity to share their personal experiences with practical philosophical research. In addition\, we will examine methodological and conceptual questions raised by the practice turn. In practice\, philosophy is not a clearly applicable methodological framework\, but rather a collective term for all kinds of approaches that lie at the intersection of philosophy and other empirical disciplines. For example\, which (qualitative and quantitative) methods are suitable for philosophical questions? How do we assess the quality of empirical philosophical research? \;
\nA second important pillar for PiP is emphasizing the intra- and interdisciplinary nature of empirical-philosophical research. Unfortunately\, cross-pollination has remained limited to date. In order to introduce young researchers to the diversity of empirical-philosophical research\, we therefore encourage applications from researchers in fields such as bioethics\, philosophy of science\, philosophy of mind\, social philosophy\, or other philosophical disciplines where empirical methods are gaining ground. In this way\, we hope that the PiP symposium will lay the foundation for a robust\, cross-disciplinary network of Philosophy in Practice.
\nProgram and preparation
\nConfirmed speakers on the program are Dr. Sophie Veigl (University of Vienna\, University of Johannesburg)\, Dr. Julie Mennes (Ghent University\, ILVO)\, and Prof. Dr. Kristien Hens (University of Antwerp). Other speakers will be selected from the abstracts submitted. The full program will follow.
\nParticipants are expected to read a number of short texts in preparation for the symposium. These texts will be sent to them well in advance. \;
\nPractical information
\nWhere? \;
\nCity campus of the University of Antwerp\, building R (Rodestraat 14).
\nWhen? \;
\nMay 8 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
\nHow?
\nParticipation is free\, but places for this symposium are limited. To ensure the interdisciplinary nature of the event\, we are working with a selection procedure. We welcome international applications.
\nYou can register via this link:https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/rntpr9j12h \;
\nApplication deadline: March 31st \;
\nParticipants will be notified of their acceptance by April 8th. \;
\nWould you like more information or are you unsure about whether your research fits this description? Please contact us at this email address:pipnetwork@proton.me \;
\nSubmitting an abstract?
\nParticipants also have the opportunity to submit an abstract to present their research during the symposium. Nine participants will be selected from the submitted abstracts to give a 10-15 minute flash talk. Submitting an abstract is not a requirement for participation in the symposium. \;
\nAbstracts may contain a maximum of 300 words (excluding references) and can be sent to:pipnetwork@proton.me \;
\nSubmission deadline: March 15th
ORGANIZER;CN=Kato Van Roey;CN=Sofie Avery;CN=Giulia Di Rienzo;CN=Ina Devos;CN=Daan Kenis: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260508T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260510T170000 SUMMARY:Treasuring Old and New in Social Theology: from Rerum novarum to the Present Pontificate UID:20260509T234906Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Strada General Berthelot 19\, Bucharest\, Romania\, 010164 DESCRIPTION:The Symposium of our Faculty (8&ndash\;10 May 2026) proposes an interdisciplinary reflection on social theology understood as a space of creative continuity between tradition and renewal. The notion of &ldquo\;old and new things&rdquo\; (cf. Matthew 13:52) expresses the fruitful tension between the Church&rsquo\;s doctrinal heritage and its capacity to interpret and orient the social realities of each historical period.
\nThe symposium aims to explore the theological\, biblical\, philosophical\, and cultural foundations of Christian social engagement\, as well as its concrete forms of expression within the life of the Church and in the public sphere. \;Rerum novarum \;is taken both as a point of departure and as a paradigmatic moment in the dialogue between theology\, society\, and public responsibility.
\nContributions are welcome from systematic and moral theology\, biblical exegesis\, patristics\, canon law\, social sciences\, and philosophy\, as well as from approaches that explore the spiritual\, symbolic\, and cultural dimensions of social theology. The symposium seeks to provide a space of encounter between different disciplines and methods\, united by a shared concern for human dignity\, the common good\, and the social vocation of Christian faith.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260508T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260508T143000 SUMMARY:From the Prompt to the Output: Tripartite AI Mediation in Digital History UID:20260509T234907Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Via Panorâmica\, s/n: 4150-564\, Porto\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:[Call for Abstracts]
\n6th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: Artificial Intelligence \;(6ICPH)
\nFaculty of Arts and Humanities\, University of Porto\, Porto\, Portugal
4-8 May 2026 (4-5 May\, Online | 6-8 May\, in-person)
About: The 6th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: Artificial Intelligence (6ICPH) brings together researchers\, academics\, and students working on central problems in philosophy of mind\, with this edition placing artificial intelligence at the center of the programme. Hosted by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (Porto\, Portugal)\, the conference invites dialogue across philosophy of mind\, philosophy of cognitive science\, and adjacent fields that take AI as both an empirical phenomenon and a conceptual stress-test for our theories of mentality. The guiding aim is to examine what contemporary AI \; &mdash\; especially language-based and multimodal systems &mdash\; does (and does not) illuminate about understanding\, intentionality\, representation\, rationality\, agency\, and consciousness. Alongside classic debates (e.g.\, functionalism\, computationalism\, connectionism\, embodied and enactive approaches)\, the conference foregrounds questions that have become newly urgent: whether large language models support attributions of semantic competence or merely simulate it\; how norms of reasoning and explanation should be reconceived when behaviour emerges from distributed statistical structures\; whether artificial systems can participate in social cognition (coordination\, trust\, testimony\, deception) and what this implies for mindreading and second-person interaction\; and how reliance on AI tools reshapes human cognition through extended and scaffolded practices (search\, writing\, memory\, attention\, and self-interpretation).The event runs in a hybrid format: online sessions on 4&ndash\;5 May 2026\, followed by in-person sessions on 6&ndash\;8 May 2026 at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities\, University of Porto.
\nPHILOSOPHY OF MIND AWARD 2026 (in-person talks only): The best-submitted abstract will receive the opportunity to deliver a special Award Talk similar to a keynote talk (note: the selected author will have the fee waived).
\nThe final deadline to submit proposals in different research topics is \;March 29\, 2026.
\n\;
\nKEYNOTES SPEAKERS:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Anil Seth is Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Diana I. Pé\;rez is a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and the Director of the IIF&ndash\;SADAF&ndash\;CONICET.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Paul Thagard is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo\, where he founded and directed the Cognitive Science Program.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Gloria Andrada is a Ramó\;n y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Philosophy (IFS)\, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)\, Madrid.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Miguel Pais-Vieira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medical Sciences at the University of Aveiro (iBiMED).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Â\;ngela Leite is a Researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH) at the Catholic University of Portugal (Braga).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Marina Trakas is an Assistant Researcher at CONICET (Argentina) and next year (2026) she will be a FCT Researcher at the Centre for Philosophy at the University of Lisbon.
\n\;
\nTopics might include (but are not limited to):
\n1. Consciousness\, Subjectivity\, and Artificial Systems
\na. Competing theories of consciousness (global workspace\, higher-order\, predictive processing) and what they imply for AI
b. The &ldquo\;hard problem&rdquo\; and whether AI changes (or merely rephrases) it
c. Machine consciousness: criteria\, tests\, and the status of &ldquo\;phenomenal&rdquo\; ascriptions to AI
2. Perception\, World-Modelling\, and Machine Inference
\na. Perception as active construction: implications for artificial perception (vision-language models\, robotics)
b. Predictive coding\, Bayesian perception\, and AI as &ldquo\;prediction machines&rdquo\;
c. 4E cognition and AI: embodied agents\, sensorimotor contingency\, and situated learning
3. Representation\, Meaning\, and Intentionality in Humans and AI
\na. Internalism vs. externalism under contemporary AI (training data\, environment\, social embedding)
b. From symbols to vectors: what do embeddings represent (if anything)?
c. Artificial intentionality: original vs. derived content\; can AI have aboutness or only mimic it?
4. Reasoning\, Rational Agency\, and Autonomy
\na. Reasoning beyond correlation: inference\, explanation\, and &ldquo\;competence vs. performance&rdquo\; in AI
b. Agency and control in human&ndash\;AI systems: who acts when decisions are AI-mediated?
c. Bias\, rationality\, and epistemic norms: when AI recommendations count as reasons
5. The Self\, Personal Identity\, and Digital Mediation
\na. Minimal\, narrative\, and extended self under AI scaffolding (assistants\, recommender systems)
b. Memory\, identity\, and externalised cognition (search\, notes\, &ldquo\;AI memory&rdquo\;)
c. Uploading\, duplication\, and continuity: metaphysics of identity with AI simulations
6. Mind&ndash\;Brain Relations and Computational Neuroscience
\na. Reductionism vs. pluralism: what computational models explain (and what they don&rsquo\;t
\nb. First-person data in an AI age: experience sampling\, neurophenomenology\, and modelling
\nc. AI in neuroscience: limits of decoding\, prediction\, and mechanistic explanation
\n7. Explainability\, Understanding\, and Epistemic Responsibility
\na. What counts as an explanation for a mind? Contrast: mechanistic\, functional\, and narrative explanation
b. Interpretability vs. justification: explanations for users\, clinicians\, regulators\, and researchers
c. Trust\, opacity\, and epistemic dependence: when reliance on AI is rational (or negligent)
\;
\n8. Ethics of AI\, Neurotechnology\, and Cognitive Liberty
\na. Brain&ndash\;computer interfaces and AI: agency\, enhancement\, and responsibility gaps
b. Neuroprivacy and &ldquo\;mind-reading&rdquo\; claims: conceptual and ethical boundaries
c. Governance of human&ndash\;AI cognition: auditability\, contestability\, and moral crumple zones
\;
\n9. Emotion\, Social Cognition\, and Human&ndash\;AI Interaction
\na. Affective states and AI: recognition\, simulation\, and the ontology of &ldquo\;emotion&rdquo\; in machines
b. Empathy\, testimony\, and trust in conversational AI
c. Moral cognition with AI advisors: persuasion\, manipulation\, and norm-shaping
\;
\n10. Extended\, Embedded\, and Collective Minds in the Age of AI
\na. Where does cognition end? LLMs as cognitive artefacts and &ldquo\;thinking with tools&rdquo\;
b. Language as a social technology: AI-driven standardisation and normative drift
c. Collective epistemology: AI\, group cognition\, and the reshaping of public reason
\;
\n11. Psychiatry\, Classification\, and Algorithmic Diagnosis
\na. Mental disorder: natural kinds\, social constructs\, and algorithmic categories
b. Prediction vs. understanding in computational psychiatry and clinical AI
c. Identity\, stigma\, and self-interpretation under diagnostic AI systems
\;
\n12. Evolution\, Cognition\, and Artificial Minds
\na. Evolutionary perspectives on intelligence: what AI lacks (development\, embodiment\, niche construction)
b. Modularity and architectures: are LLMs &ldquo\;general\,&rdquo\; or just wide?
c. Language evolution and AI language: what &ldquo\;fluency&rdquo\; shows (and what it can&rsquo\;t show)
13. Attention\, Salience\, and Control in Humans and Machines
\na. What is attention? Comparative models: neural attention vs. transformer &ldquo\;attention&rdquo\;
b. Control\, distraction\, and optimisation: how AI systems capture and steer attention
c. Situated attention: organism&ndash\;environment loops\, interfaces\, and cognitive ecology
\;
\nSpecial Track I: Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Mind
\nThis track explores the philosophical implications of AI\, cognitive models\, and the nature of artificial cognition. Topics may include:
\na. \; \; \; \; \; \; Can AI be conscious? Theories of artificial consciousness
\nb. \; \; \; \; \; \; Computational models of thought and mental representation
\nc. \; \; \; \; \; \; \; AI and intentionality: can machines have beliefs and desires?
\nd. \; \; \; \; \; \; The problem of explainability in AI
\ne. \; \; \; \; \; \; LLMs\, ChatGPT\, DeepSeek: philosophical approaches
\n\;
\nSpecial Track II: Conceptualizing Polysemy
\nThe focus of this panel is on ways of capturing \;polysemy \;at the conceptual level. Work on the nature\, structure and role of concepts expressed or encoded by polysemic words is welcome. Topics may include:
\na. \; \; \; \; \; \; Arguments for &ldquo\;rich&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;thin&rdquo\; theories of lexical meaning of polysemous words
\nb. \; \; \; \; \; \; Approaches to co-predication
\nc. \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Accounts of communication with polysemous words
\nd. \; \; \; \; \; \; Mechanisms of sense-selection or alternatives to it
\ne. \; \; \; \; \; \; Experimental studies that bear on polysemy and have impact on the debate
\nf. \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Applications of the polysemy idea to less-discussed or novel expressions
\n\;
\nFEES (accepted speakers)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Early Stage (until 10 April 2026)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 160\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 100\,00
\n\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Later Stage (10April &ndash\; 30 April 2026)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 220\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 150\,00
\n\;
\nFEES (attendance)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Online Segment (4-5 May 2026\, Microsoft Teams)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 30\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 20\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; In-Person Segment (6-8 May 2026\, FLUP)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 30\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 20\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Both Segments (4-5May 2026\, Microsoft Teams + 6-8 May 2025\, FLUP)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Professionals (posdoc\, professor\, tenure-track): &euro\; 50\,00
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Students: (Master\, PhD): &euro\; 30\,00
\n\;
\nLanguages of the colloquium: English and Portuguese.
\nSUBMISSIONS:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; IMPORTANT: you should clearly state if you are submitting for the online segment (OS) (4-5 May) or the in-person segment (PS) (6-8 May). If online\, you need to provide a preferred day (4 or 5 May) and time schedule (Morning: 9h30-12h30\; Afternoon: 14h00 &ndash\; 18h) considering the Lisbon Time Zone.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; In-person submissions have a higher chance of being accepted (more slots available) and are automatically registered for the Philosophy of Mind Award 2026.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Proposals should include two files: (in word. format: pdf. formats will not be accepted):
\no \; \; (1) a cover page with identification\, clear academic affiliation (if several\, choose the main)
\no \; \; (2) an anonymized title and abstract (maximum 250 words\, up to 10 references)
\no \; \; (3) sent to interconfphilmind@gmail.com
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Paper duration: 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation + 10 minutes for discussion)\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Notification Info: in order to facilitate the request for funding of the accepted talks so speakers can prepare their travel in advance\, notification of acceptance or rejection will be given in a 7-10 days period (review) after the submission\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Publications: Some of the papers presented at the conference are expected to be published in several projects (edited volume\, special issue\, etc.\; the publication process will be independent and optional\; more details after the conference)\;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Any doubts or concerns can be addressed to: interconfphilmind@gmail.com
\nVenue: Faculty of Humanities of the University of Porto (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto) | Address: Via Panorâ\;mica\, s/n: 4150-564\, Porto\, Portugal.
\nOrganization: Mind\, Language and Action Group | Institute of Philosophy | University of Porto
\nOrganizing Committee
\nSteven S. Gouveia (Chair)
\nSofia Miguens
\nDan Zeman
\nRafael Antunes Padilha
\nJé\;ssica Azevedo
\nMaria Luiza llenaco
\nThales Maia
\nInê\;s Silva
\n\;
\nSupport:
\nCEEC Project by FCT 2022.02527.CEECIND
\nTL Modern &\; Contemporary Philosophy
\nRG Mind\, Language and Action Group (MLAG)
\nInstituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto &ndash\; UID/00502
\nFundaç\;ã\;o para a Ciê\;ncia e a Tecnologia (FCT)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260509T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260510T170000 SUMMARY:Beyond the Imitation Game UID:20260509T234908Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Splaiul Independentei nr. 204\, Bucharest\, Romania DESCRIPTION:Since its release for public use\, AI has been introduced in a significant number of industries\, and many aspects of our day-to-day lives. Therefore\, \;Beyond the Imitation Game \;student conference aims to bring together students and researchers in fields such as philosophy of cognitive science\, psychotherapy\, law\, policy making\, social and political philosophy\; in order to further our understanding regarding the effects that mainstream integration of AI has had on the practice of psychotherapy\, work-life\, authorship (e.g. art and research).
\nThe conference will have three different panels:
\n- Human and AI interaction: issues in cognitive science\, psychology and philosophy of mind
\nThis panel is dedicated to interdisciplinary approaches to the mind and potential impacts from AI use and Human-LLMs interaction: cognitive offloading\, general and social skill erosion\, anthropomorphism\, human-AI social bonding (how it impacts theory of mind in humans\, why humans assume - if they assume- AI minds). We also accept submissions that explore benchmarking understanding (both scientific and social)\, consciousness and cognitive mechanisms in humans and AI.
\n- Therapy bots and healthcare
\nSeveral debates have emerged with regards to the social skills LLMs may or may not have developed\, such as empathy\, theory of mind\, compassion\, sympathy\, broadly understanding others\, their goals\, intentions\, hopes and desires. Either lack of embodiment\, opaque reasoning or the uncertainty with regards to LLMs mechanisms at play\, may lead to misaligned\, superficial therapeutic values\, ethical and dangerous outcomes in the case of therapy bots. This panel explores how therapy bots may impact the users\, but also psychotherapy in general.
\n-AI use on law and policy making\, social and political philosophy
\nThis panel explores the impact of AI on law and policy making (autonomous agents performing different tasks\, authorship\, academic risks resulting from AI use)\, but also how concepts such as agency\, democracy\, privacy and autonomy are affected by AI tools.
\nAside from the aforementioned subjects\, other topics of interest are: the interaction between humans and LLMs broadly construed\, AI driven misinformation\, AI and the educational sector\, AI and inequality\, and other connected issues.
\nThe conference will take place on the 9th and 10th of May in Bucharest\, Romania and online. Regular presentations will be 20 minutes long\, followed by 10 minutes long Q&\;A.
\nIt will have a mixed format\, in that speakers may choose whether they present online only or face to face at the event's location (if so\, their session will enjoy a live audience\, but it will also be streamed to remote participants).
ORGANIZER;CN=Sandra-Catalina Branzaru;CN="Catalina Frâncu";CN=Daniel Cristian Stancu;CN=E.G. Rosu;CN=David Buciuman;CN=Petru A. Costeschi;CN=Alexia Lungianu;CN=Andreea-Isabela Gavrila;CN=Carol Eugen Costin: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260510T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260510T234500 SUMMARY:Migration\, Adaptation and Memory - 9th International Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20260509T234909Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Gdańsk\, Poland DESCRIPTION:Conference online
\nCFP:
How do we remember and represent our migration experiences? Who is involved in these processes? How does history remember these events? What helps migrants and societies to adapt? The significance of these and related questions have made their way into our daily lives\, from the refugee crisis to policy decisions\, individual psychotherapy to (re)building identities\, communities\, and memories.
During the conference\, we are going to turn our attention to processes that are integral to human experience: migration\, adaptation\, and memory. We are interested in all aspects of migration and adaptation\, in their individual and collective dimensions\, in the past and in the present-day world. We would like to examine the role of memory\, the processes of migrating and adapting to various dynamic life circumstances\, across time\, space\, culture\, language\, and discipline.
Therefore\, we strive to represent and discuss the crossroads of migration\, adaptation\, and memory in their multiple representations: psychological\, social\, historical\, cultural\, philosophical\, religious\, neurological\, organizational\, methodological\, economic\, political\, and many others. We will also devote considerable attention to how these phenomena appear and transform in artistic practices: literature\, film\, theatre\, and visual arts. This is why we invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: anthropology\, history\, psychiatry\, psychology\, psychoanalysis\, sociology\, politics\, philosophy\, economics\, law\, literary studies\, theatre studies\, film studies\, design\, project management\, memory studies\, migration studies\, consciousness studies\, dream studies\, gender studies\, postcolonial studies\, medical sciences\, cognitive sciences\, and urban studies\, to name a few.
Different forms of presentations are encouraged\, including case studies\, theoretical inquiries\, personal reflections\, problem-oriented arguments\, comparative analyses\, and creative expressions.
We will be happy to hear from experienced scholars and young academics\, doctoral and graduate students\, as well as professionals from various disciplines. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners\, without giving a presentation.
Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not limited to:
I. Arts
-Literature\, poetry\, film\, theatre\, etc. as adaptive mediums
-Adaptation through artistic creation and destruction
-Artistic imagination and adaptation
-Migration as represented in arts
-Art created during migration
-Creative expression through memories
II. History
-Adaptation across history
-Memory processes in writing history
-Documenting history and memories in migration
III. Political Sciences and Law
-Policies related to migration and adaptation
-Human rights and migration
-Bureaucracy in relation to migration policies
-Judiciary systems
-Political agendas\, memory and migration
-Objective vs. subjective memory in politics
-International politics and adaptation
IV. Psychology and Psychiatry
-Mental health and adaptation
-Abnormal behaviors and adaptation
-(Mal)adaptive memory processes
-Social and transcultural psychiatry
-Perception/cognition/attention
-Personality
-Psychoanalysis
V. Medical sciences
-Genetics/epigenetics in adaptation processes
-Neurobiology and biochemistry of adaptation and memory
-Evolutionary approaches to memory\, adaptation and migration
-Chronic diseases\, memory\, and adaptation
VI. Humanitarian work\, Governments and NGOs
-Roles and responsibilities
-Management of temporary and transitory spaces
-Project management and evaluation
-Best practices
-Welcome contexts
VII. Philosophy and Worldviews (Eastern\, Western\, Indigenous...)
-Epistemology and metaphysics
-Existential and postmodern adaptation
-Ethics in migratory context
-Philosophy of memory
VIII. Sociology and Anthropology
-Cultural determinants and adaptation
-Race/ethnic identity and adaptation
-Religion\, adaptation and migratory experiences
-Gender\, adaptation and migratory experiences
-Social networks and adaptation
-Language of adaptation\, memory and migration
-Family relations and adaptation
-Urban planning and adaptation
-Diaspora and community development
IX. Economics
-Adaptation and job security
-Private sponsorship and adaptation
Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations\, together with a short biographical note to: \;migrationconferenceoffice@gmail.com \;or
online presenters - by 10 May 2026
The conference language is English.
Our conference email: \;migrationconferenceoffice@gmail.com
For all details please visit our website.
https://www.inmindsupport.com/migration-adaptation-and-memory
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260510T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260510T234500 SUMMARY:Racism\, Nationalism and Xenophobia - 9th International Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20260509T234910Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Conference online (via Zoom)
\nCALL FOR PAPERS:
\n \;\n\; \; \; \; \; It is widely known that ideologies of racism\, nationalism\, and xenophobia are dangerous and spread all over the world. We want to examine these terms as much as possible\, from many perspectives and variable aspects: in politics\, society\, psychology\, culture\, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the phenomena of racism\, nationalism and xenophobia are represented in artistic practices: in literature\, film\, theatre or visual arts.
\n\nOur first conference on racism\, nationalism and xenophobia took place in Warsaw in March 2016. The second edition was held in June 2018\, followed by subsequent editions in 2020\, 2021\, 2022\, 2023\, 2024\, and 2025. We have hosted over 250 scholars representing universities and research institutions from all over the world. \;
\n\nWe invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: history\, politics\, psychology\, sociology\, anthropology\, philosophy\, economics\, law\, literary studies\, theatre studies\, film studies\, fine arts\, design\, memory studies\, migration studies\, consciousness studies\, dream studies\, gender studies\, postcolonial studies\, medical sciences\, psychiatry\, psychoanalysis\, cognitive sciences among others.
\n\nDifferent forms of presentations are encouraged\, including case studies\, theoretical investigations\, problem-oriented arguments\, and comparative analyses.
\n\nWe will be happy to hear from both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers\, as well as doctoral students. We also invite all individuals who wish to attend the conference as listeners\, without giving a presentation.
\n\nWe hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature\, the conference will bring many interesting observations on and discussions about the role of racism\, nationalism and xenophobia in the past and in the present-day world. \;
\n\n\; \; \; \; \;Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is \;not restricted \;to:
\n\nI. Politics and History
\nColonialism / postcolonialism
\nAntisemitism: past and present
\nIslamophobia and terrorism
\nOrientalism
\nImperialism
\nCrimes against humanity
\nHuman rights violations
\nRacism\, nationalism and political correctness
\nNationalism and patriotism
\nXenophobia and cosmopolitism
\nRacism\, nationalism and religion
\nII. Anthropology and Philosophy \;
\nIdeologies of racism
\nNationalism and the &ldquo\;will of power&rdquo\;
\ncultural determinants of racism\, nationalism\, and xenophobia
\nNationalist states
\nXenophobic societies
\nRacist generations
\nIII. Psychology
\nStereotypes and prejudices
\nRacist myths and phantasms
\nRacism and scapegoat mechanism \;
\nXenophobia and sense of guilt
\nNationalism and narcissism
\nProjection and repression
\nIndividual and social susceptibility to hate ideologies
\nTherapy for victims of discrimination
\nIV. Memory and the Protection of Human Rights
\nOrganization for the protection of human rights \;
\nEducation against racism\, nationalism and xenophobia
\nMemory in the service of education
\nMemorial places
\nSolidarity with victims of violence
\nEmpathy toward the Other
\nV. Literature and the Arts
\nRacism\, nationalism and xenophobia in literature
\nRacism\, nationalism and xenophobia in film
\nRacism\, nationalism and xenophobia in theatre
\nLiterature and the arts against hate ideology
\nRacist artists
\nPlease submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations\, together with a short biographical note\, by \;10 May \;2026 \;to: \;inconferenceoffice@gmail.com \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20260511T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20260513T170000 SUMMARY:THE CRITICISM CULTURE AND MORALITY OF TOLERANCE IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT -5 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM UID:20260509T234911Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Istanbul LOCATION:Muş\, Turkey DESCRIPTION:Human beings are weak on their own and must live together to withstand the challenges of life. This natural necessity constitutes the foundation of culture\, which arises from collective human existence. One of the essential conditions of communal life is language. It enables communication among individuals\, serves as a cornerstone of social cohesion\, and functions as the primary vehicle for transmitting knowledge and experience across generations.
\nThe advancement of knowledge in any society depends on the depth and integrity of exchange among those who produce\, preserve\, and transmit it. When communication is grounded in cooperation\, constructive criticism\, and openness to new ideas\, intellectual and cultural development flourishes. Conversely\, when intolerance dominates social relations\, the rhythm of progress slows. In this regard\, Islamic civilization offers a rich legacy of examples illustrating how the ethos of criticism and tolerance can coexist and sustain intellectual vitality across diverse contexts.
\nToday\, Muslim societies differ significantly from their predecessors in how they engage with criticism and tolerance. Shaped by a range of internal and external forces\, they have gradually drifted from their own intellectual heritage\, making it increasingly difficult to respond effectively to the challenges of modern life. In response to these difficulties\, Muş Alparslan University launched a symposium series centred on &ldquo\;Criticism and Tolerance&rdquo\; to draw attention to the underlying issues behind these crises. The first symposium\, titled &ldquo\;The Criticism Culture and Morality of Tolerance in Islamic Thought\,&rdquo\; was held on April 26&ndash\;28\, 2019\, and attracted considerable interest. Encouraged by its success\, a second symposium was organized on December 7&ndash\;8\, 2020\, focusing on the first five centuries of Islamic civilization (7th-11th centuries). Participants in the second symposium concurred that the theme warranted further exploration. As a result\, two additional symposia were organized: one focusing on the 12th to 19th centuries\, held on May 28&ndash\;29\, 2021\, and another addressing the modern period\, held on October 7&ndash\;8\, 2022. The series was originally planned to conclude with the fourth meeting\, which examined the modern era. However\, because the topic is both profound and far-reaching\, the series is now being extended \;with a new and complementary symposium.
\nSince 2019\, the symposium series\, when viewed as a whole\, tended to place greater emphasis on the past. \;This has reinforced the conviction that giving the next symposium a future-oriented theme would be both balancing and complementary. To use a classical distinction in Arabic rhetoric (balāgha)\, the first four symposia may be described as \;ikhbārī \;in character -concerned with what has already taken place-. In contrast\, the fifth has been conceived as \;inshāʾī\, oriented toward what is yet to come. Accordingly\, the fifth symposium will be held under the subtitle &ldquo\;Religion\, Method\, Future.&rdquo\;
\nThe outcomes of the first four symposia converge on a shared conclusion: the intellectual heritage of Islamic civilization offers valuable guidance -both in content and in method- for addressing the contemporary challenges faced by the Muslim world. This recognition undergirds the theme of the fifth symposium\, which is designed as a platform for scholars who\, mindful of the demands of the present\, seek to draw on this heritage in envisioning the future.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260514T170000 SUMMARY:1st UFFS International Congress on Neurophilosophy: Neurophilosophy\, after 40 years UID:20260509T234912Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Group of Studies in Neurophilosophy (GENF)\, affiliated with the Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS)\, has the honor of inviting researchers\, faculty\, and undergraduate and graduate students to its 1st UFFS International Congress on Neurophilosophy: Neurophilosophy\, after 40 years\, to be held in a hybrid format on May 11\, 12\, 13\, and 14\, 2026. This year\, we celebrate four decades since the 1986 publication of Patricia Churchland's book Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain\, widely recognized as the foundational point of Neurophilosophy. Since then\, Neurophilosophy has established itself as a field of study that seeks a unified science of the mind-brain\, involving disciplines such as neuroscience\, philosophy\, computing\, psychology\, and psychiatry. Thus\, the 1st UFFS International Congress on Neurophilosophy: Neurophilosophy\, after 40 years\, aims to reflect on the advances\, challenges\, and future of trans- and interdisciplinarity in the study of the mind-brain over these 40 years\, with special focus on Neurophilosophy in Brazil.
\nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
\nCesar Schirmer dos Santos (UFSM)
\nFederico Burdman (UAH)
\nJonas Gonç\;alves Coelho (UNESP)
\nOsvaldo Pessoa Jr. (USP)
\nPatrí\;cia Fanaya (UNB)
\nPreston Stovall (UHK)
\nSerdal Tü\;mkaya (IHU)
\nSergio Barberis (UBA)
\nSofia Inê\;s Stein (USP)
\nSteven Gouveia (UPORTO)
\nZuleide Igná\;cio (UFFS)
\n\n\nCALL FOR ABSTRACTS: \;
\n&bull\; Submission Period: January 23 to February 28\, 2026.
\n&bull\; Notification Acceptance: By March 30.
\n&bull\; Event Dates: May 11-14.
\n&bull\; Access: Online\, via Google Meet. Links will be provided by email.
\nThematic Axes:
\nFoundations of Neurophilosophy: Discussions on the legacy of Patricia Churchland and Paul Churchland and of Eliminative Materialism\; History of the emergence of Neurophilosophy\; Co-Evolution\; New developments in the Churchlands' Neurophilosophy\; New neurophilosophical interpretations of Neural Networks.
\nNeurophilosophy in Brazil: Political and theoretical reflections on how Neurophilosophy can be practiced authentically and freely in Brazil\; Brazilian reception of the Churchlands' Neurophilosophy\; Neurophilosophical trends in Brazil.
\nNeurophilosophy of Psychiatry: New explanatory models for brain-mind disorders (Schizophrenia\, Mood Disorders\, Personality Disorders\, Sleep Disorders\, Chronic Pain\, Dementias\, Aphasias\, ASD\, ADHD\, Addictions\, etc.)\; Elucidations on the co-evolutionary influence between Psychiatry and Neurophilosophy\; Etiology and Pathogenesis in Psychiatry\; Diagnostic challenges.
\nConsciousness\, Cognition\, and Evolution: New approaches concerning the explanatory gap\; Evolutionary arguments related to Neurophilosophy\; Evolutionary plausibility and Neurophilosophy.
\nFree Will and Neurosciences: New explanatory models of free will\; Denial of free will\; (In)Compatibilism\; (In)Determinism\; Agency.
\nNeuroethics and Neural Law: Moral challenges posed by new neurotechnologies and brain interventions\; Co-evolution between Neurophilosophy and Law\; Neuronal anti-racism\; Neuronal injustice\; Neurophilosophical discussions on gender.
\nReductionist and Non-Reductionist Neurophilosophy: Discussions on the limits of intertheoretic reduction\; Interpretative failures of non-reductionism\; Defense of the Churchlands' Eliminative Materialism.
\n\; Instructions for Abstract Submission [Oral Presentations]: \; Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format to the email alisson.b.moreira.nacional@gmail.com\, with the Subject line: Congress / Abstract Submission\, accompanied by a separate identification file\, following the guidelines below: \;
\n\; Note: By submitting an abstract\, the author grants permission for its subsequent publication in the event's official Book of Abstracts. \;
\n\n\nCoordination:
\nAlisson Brandemarte Moreira (UFFS\, GENF)
\nJoã\;o Pedro Á\;vila Teixeira (UFMG\, GENF)
\nOrganization &\; Scientific Committee:
\nEdiovani Antô\;nio Gaboardi (UFFS\, GENF)
\nFlá\;vio Miguel Zimmermann (UFFS\, GENF)
\nJoã\;o Carlos Lopes do Prado (UFFS\, GENF)
\nNewton Soares Santarossa (UFSC\, GENF)
\nMaria Luiza Iennaco (USP\, GENF)
\nMarcio Martins (UFMT\, GENF)
\nYasmin Maeda de Souza (PUC/RS\, GENF)
\nMore information:
ORGANIZER;CN=Maria Luiza Iennaco;CN=Alisson Brandemarte Moreira: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260513T170000 SUMMARY:Process Philosophy in Under-explored traditions in philosophical history UID:20260509T234913Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:There are two dominant streams for talking about reality in the history of metaphysical thought - \; substance and process. These two streams are noticeable in virtually all traditions but the former seems to have gained more attention at the expense of the latter which offers a more robust and insightful framework for codifying reality. The metaphysical framework of substance has been elevated as absolute and universal in humanity&rsquo\;s comprehension of the self and the world. That metaphysical framework fails in providing a springboard on topics such as value and conscious nature of all ontological entities. As a result\, topics such as the cellular basis of consciousness or biopsychism in plant neurobiology\, panpsychism and its impact over the inter-relationship among all entities for environmental stability have not received penetrating and convincing analysis from the substance-based perspective. This is why an alternative framework in process metaphysics as broadly construed in all religious and philosophic traditions &ndash\; African\, Oriental\, Anglo-American\, and Continental become pertinent.
\nIn its most commonly shared formulation\, process philosophy\, regardless of tradition\, lays emphasis on vital force\, flux\, biopsychism\, dynamism\, relationality and interconnection among entities such that nothing stands in isolation (see Mesle 2008\; Ivakhkiv 2018). Among process philosophers\, there is a shared acknowledgement that reality is &lsquo\;becoming&rsquo\; and an interconnected web such that no event stands in isolation. Process philosophers eschew the mainstream and dominant outlook in traditional metaphysics that changelessness implies perfection (see Rescher 1996\; Mesle 2008). Extant scholarship offers a more robust explanation for topics like ecology (Ivakhiv 2018\; Maffie 2015\; McLeod 2023)\, consciousness (Griffin 2007\; Raud 2021\; Zu 2025)\, agency (Valmisa 2025)\, relationality (Chimakonam &\; Ogbonnaya 2021\; Maffie 2015\; McLeod 2023)\, mystical experiences (Dambrowski 2023)\, and Being (Ofuasia 2024). These are hot topics that signal the importance of such metaphysics for contemporary scholarship. In spite of this common ground\, process scholars in the afore-mentioned philosophical traditions have never engaged one another critically.
\nThis conference will therefore be the first to birth this long overdue intellectual exchange as it offers an improved metaphysical framework for value and consciousness in all ontological entities to address various concerns that are facing humanity: economy\, political\, and environmental. Although there are hesitant answers to some of these global challenges facing humanity\, the influence of substance-based analysis has yet to offer penetrative answers\, in addition to the almost lack of interaction among scholars of process to explore their common ground for a common voice in the way that substance thought has done over the centuries.Based on the foregoing established gap\, anonymized abstracts\, not more than 250 words are invited from scholars of all traditions who specialise in process philosophy over topics that are not limited to the following thematic coverage of the Conference:
\nBeing discourses in two traditions &ndash\; Substance and Process\;
\nBecoming\, relationality\, and vital force in substance and process philosophies\;
\nConsciousness and process philosophy\;
\nProcess-relational philosophy and Ethnophilosophy\;
\nProcess philosophy in conversation: African\, Chinese\, and Indian\;
\nProcess implications for environmental philosophy\;
\nAlternative logics and eventism\;
\nTime and processism in Africa and beyond\;
\nRelational field metaphysics\;
\nRelationality and a process alternative framework in African environmental philosophy\;
\nBecoming and relationality in Aztec thought system\;
\nVitalism\, biopsychism\, panpsychism\, and panexperientialism in processism\;
\nPhilosophic sagacity and processism in African\, Indian\, Chinese\, &\; Anglo-American traditions\;
\nProcess philosophy\, sentience and plant neurobiology\;
\nEzumezu logic and classical logic\;
\nDoctrines of Being in process thought: African and Eastern\;
\nAfrican traditional religions and process theology\;
\nThe subjectivist principle and the reformed subjectivist principle\;
\nPessimism\, meaningfulness\, and becoming\;
\nProcessism in Medieval Islamic theology\;
\nAfro-Brazilian religions and process philosophy\;
\nSelfhood and process philosophy\;
\nRelationality and change in ancient and contemporary philosophical systems\;
\nProcessism in Medieval Christian theology\;
\nProcess theology and Indian religious systems and practices\;
\nChinese philosophy and process thought\;
\nIdentity\, (trans)gender and feminism in relational and vitalist contexts\;
\nBuddhist and Hindu processisms\;
\nProcess philosophy and the question of alternative systems of logic\;
\nAfricana philosophy and processism\;
\nDeath and immortality in Afro-Indo process thoughts\; and
\nProcess theology and the nature of God in classical theology.
\nInstructions &\; Important Timelines
\nOpen Call for Abstracts: \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; September 30\, 2025.
\nAbstract Submissions Deadline: \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;January 16\, 2026.
\nAbstract Acceptance/Notification to Participants: \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; February 13\, 2025.
\nSubmissions of Article Drafts (to be shared with respondents) ends: \; \;April 15\, 2026.
\nOnline Conference Proper: \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;May 19-21\, 2026. \; \;
\nDeadline for submission of Final papers for consideration in publication: \; \; July 31\, 2026.
\nTalks are ongoing with a renowned and reputable Journal for a Special Issue edition as post-conference publication.
\nAll abstracts for the online conference MUST be submitted via this link: https://forms.gle/ppjSjRMGDP8CpRNn7
\nNo registration fees but all participants and observers must register before they can get the links to the talks/panels. This will be communicated in due course. For further information\, please relate with Dr. Chukwueloka Uduagwu via email: \; cuduagwu@noun.edu.ng More information will be made available to participants.
\nReferences
\nChimakonam\, J. O. &\; Ogbonnaya\, L.U. (2021). African metaphysics\, epistemology and a new logic: A Decolonial approach to philosophy. Palgrave.
\nDombrowski\, D. (2023). Process Mysticism. SUNY Press.
\nGriffin\, D.R. (2007). Whitehead&rsquo\;s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for its Contemporary Relevance. SUNY Press.
\nIvakhiv\, A. (2018). Shadowing the Anthropocene: Eco-Realism for Turbulent Times. Punctum Books
\nMaffie\, J. (2015). Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion. University Press of Colorado.
\nMcLeod\, A. (2023). An Introduction to Mesoamerican Philosophy. Cambridge University Press.
\nMesle\, R. C. (2008). Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. Templeton Foundation Press.
\nOfuasia\, E. (2024). Ì\;wà\;: The process-relational dimension to African metaphysics. Springer Verlag
\nRaud\, R. (2021). Being in Flux: A Post-Athropocentric Ontology of the Self. Polity.
\nRescher\, N. (1996). Process Metaphysics: An Introduction to Process Philosophy. SUNY Press.
\nValmisa\, M. (2025). All Things Act. Oxford University Press.
\nWhitehead\, A.N. (1929 [1978]). Process and reality: An essay in cosmology. The Free Press.
\nZu\, J. (2025). Just Awakening: Yogācāra Social Philosophy in Modern China. Columbia University Press. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Emmanuel Ofuasia;CN=Chukwueloka S. Uduagwu;CN=Abhishek Tripathi: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T141500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T154500 SUMMARY:“Equality and the Right to Abortion” UID:20260509T234914Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce a series of three online seminars\, each dedicated to the discussion with the author(s) of a draft paper circulated among participants in advance.
\nEach paper and seminar engages\, in a different way\, with the moral limits of shaping others. The first seminar will focus on a paper by Areti Theofilopoulou (Warwick) that examines the distinction between coercive control and boundary-setting in romantic relationships. The second will discuss a paper by Christie Harley (Georgia State) and Ashley Lindsley-Kim (British Columbia)\, arguing for abortion rights on the grounds that state-enforced pregnancy and childbirth are incompatible with the status of equal citizenship. The third and final seminar will consider a paper by Nanette Ryan (Singapore) and Joshua Lucza (Singapore) which argues that\, in response to the climate crisis\, children&rsquo\;s capacities for responsible\, reflective\, and ethically engaged citizenship should be prioritized over cultivating frugal preferences in children.
\nMonday\, May 4\, 2026: Areti Theofilopoulou (Warwick)\, &ldquo\;Is It Control or Boundary-Setting?&rdquo\;
\nMonday\, May 11\, 2026: Christie Hartley (Georgia State) and Ashley Lindsley-Kim (British Columbia)\, &ldquo\;Equality and the Right to Abortion&rdquo\;
\nMonday\, May 18\, 2026: Nanette Ryan (Singapore)\, &ldquo\;Cultivating Frugal Preferences in Children: A Response to the Climate Crisis&rdquo\; (co-authored with Joshua Lucza)
\nThe seminars will be held online on Mondays at 2.15-3.45 p.m. CET. \;
\nWe welcome participants at any or all of the seminars! Please email justparenthood.project@gmail.com to receive the draft papers and the online meeting link.
\nThe seminars are organized by Francesca Miccoli (Basel)\, Tom Bailey (John Cabot)\, and Johanna Rensing (Basel).
ORGANIZER;CN=Tom Bailey: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T151500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260511T164500 SUMMARY:The Responsibility of Individuals UID:20260509T234915Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Collective Ethics Seminar: Online Presentation &ndash\; 11 May 2026 &ndash\; 15.15 &ndash\; 16.45 CEST / 09.15 &ndash\; 10.45 EST
Teresa Marques - The Responsibility of Individuals
On Monday 11 May 2026\, Teresa Marques (University of Barcelona) will give a presentation in the Collective Ethics Seminar entitled &lsquo\;The Responsibility of Individuals&rsquo\;.
Abstract: \;Should we displace the moral responsibility from the individual to the social in accounts of oppression\, discrimination\, and injustice? Here\, I consider anti-individualist challenges to the explanation of social phenomena and of social injustice. First\, I argue that those challenges are consistent with social phenomena that are constituted \;by people&rsquo\;s attitudes and actions\, and I provide evidence from research in the social sciences to this effect. Second\, I argue that putative paradigm cases of structural injustice are cases where individuals\, or collectives of individuals\, have moral responsibility\, or are cases with no individual or collective culprits\, and where it is questionable that they are unjust.
The online seminar is open for all to attend. The session starts at 15.15 CEST / 09.15 EST. You can join the session via the following link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/62736288881?pwd=SndEdTNoNlZtSzJqcmpabm5NaWIyUT09
For more information about the seminar\, please see https://social.univie.ac.at/events/collective-ethics-seminar/. \;We hope to see you at the seminar!
Kind regards\,
Gunnar Bjö\;rnsson (Stockholm University)\, Kenneth Silver (Trinity College Dublin)\, and Niels de Haan (University of Vienna)
The conference may be attended on-line. Please send an email to Maxime Hilbert (maxime.hilbert@unamur.be).
\nConference program:
\nMay 12th
\n8h45 &ndash\; 10h00 | Karen Crowther \;(University of Oslo): Doubling Down on Emergence
\n10h00 &ndash\; 10h45 | Andrea Roselli \;(University of Namur) &\; Olivier Sartenaer \;(University of Namur): The Many Faces of Diachronic Emergence
\n10h45 &ndash\; 11h15 | Coffee Break
\n11h15 &ndash\; 12h30 | Samuel Fletcher (University of Oxford): The Diachronic Emergence of Time
\n12h30 &ndash\; 14h00 | Lunch
\n14h00 &ndash\; 14h45 | Milan Stü\;rmer (Erasmus School of Philosophy\, Rotterdam) &\; Daniel Bella (University of Hamburg): Both British and Emergentist: Whitehead&rsquo\;s Account of Diachronic Emergence
\n14h45 &ndash\; 15h30 | Michele Paolini Paoletti (Università\; degli Studi di Macerata): Better Late Than Never. The Strong\, Diachronic Emergence of State
\n15h30 &ndash\; 16h00 | Coffee Break
\n16h00 &ndash\; 17h15 | Timothy O&rsquo\;Connor (Indiana University Bloomington): Structures in the Varieties of Emergence
\n19h00 | Conference Dinner
\nMay 13th
\n8h45 &ndash\; 10h00 | Erica Onnis (Cusano University): TBA
\n10h00 &ndash\; 10h45 | Maxime Hilbert \;(University of Namur) &\; Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard \;(University of Namur): Can an Emergentist be an Eternalist?
\n10h45 &ndash\; 11h15 | Coffee Break
\n11h15 &ndash\; 12h30 | John Heil (Washington University in St. Louis): TBA
\n12h30 &ndash\; 14h00 | Lunch
\n14h00 &ndash\; 14h45 | Martha Pedroni (University of Geneva): Can There Be Diachronic Spacetime Emergence?
\n14h45 &ndash\; 15h30 | Floris Eskens (University of Oslo): The Flat Emergence of Laws of Nature
\n15h30 &ndash\; 16h00 | Coffee Break
\n16h00 &ndash\; 17h15 | Jessica Wilson \;(University of Toronto): The Search for Diachronic Emergence
ORGANIZER;CN=Olivier Sartenaer;CN=Alexandre Guay;CN=Andrea Roselli;CN=Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard;CN=Maxime Hilbert: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260512T094500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260512T170000 SUMMARY:Husserl\, Sellars\, Intentionality UID:20260509T234917Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Leuven\, Belgium\, 3000 DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Husserl\, Sellars\, Intentionality
\n12 May 2026 | KU Leuven \;
\nThe workshop brings together two philosophical traditions that have had remarkably little to say to each other\, given how much they share. Its guiding concern is to explore what the resources of Husserl&rsquo\;s and Sellars&rsquo\; philosophies\, taken together\, can contribute to a theory of intentionality\, the relationship of lifeworld and scientific theory\, and what transcendental method still has to offer the philosophy of mind\, including its more naturalistically inclined variants. \; The format follows a Collective Research model. Junior researchers\, mid-career scholars\, and established figures are invited to pool their expertise rather than perform it. Those interested in commenting on paper drafts ahead of the event are welcome to write to \;agne.valatkaite@kuleuven.be. \; \;
\nAttendance is free but registration is required for in-person or remote attendance. \;The registration \;form \;is open until 11th May 2026. Further information: \;https://husserl-sellars-intentionality.pages.dev \; \;
\nProgramme
\n09:45-10:00 &ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\; \;&ensp\;Agnė Valatkaitė - \;Welcome
\n10:00-11:30 &ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Gregor Bö\;s [Leuven] - \;Husserl&rsquo\;s Lifeworld-Foundation of Science and Sellars&rsquo\; Grain Argument \; &ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;
\nCoffee Break
\n12:00-13:30 &ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Luz Christopher Seiberth [Potsdam] - \;Accepting First Principles
\n13:30-14:30 &ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Lunch&ensp\;
\n14:30-16:00 &ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Agnė Valatkaitė [Leuven] - \;Grounding Material Inference: Varieties of Evidence and Subjunctive Robustness of Intentional Content \; &ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;
\nCoffee Break
\n16:30-18:00 &ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Alexander Porto [Duquesne] - \;We-Intentions and I-Intentions \;
\nRespondents:
\n&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Emanuele Caminada
&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Sybren Heyndels
&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Julia Jansen
&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Batoul Sukkar
&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;&ensp\;Henning Tegtmeyer
This workshop is funded by the Husserl Archives\, the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science\, and the Doctoral School of Philosophy at KU Leuven. \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN="Gregor E. Bös";CN=Luz Christopher Seiberth: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T113000 SUMMARY:Rethinking the Social Contract: A Ricœurian Perspective UID:20260509T234918Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines the contribution of Paul Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s political philosophy to the social contract tradition. It shall explain how Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s notion of the &ldquo\;political paradox&rdquo\; highlights the fundamental ambiguity of political power: the state exists to establish justice and protect citizens yet simultaneously contains the potential for domination and violence. Drawing on Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s understanding of justice as requiring both interpersonal ethics and institutional structures\, the presentation \;further highlights how Ric&oelig\;ur conceives institutions as essential mediations\, extending solicitude beyond \;face-to-face relationships. \;His framework for understanding ethics and institutions as necessary for actualizing the good life \;provides resources for reimagining the social contract\, by grounding political legitimacy in a distinctive type of relationality and the dynamic pursuit of just institutional arrangements\, rather than mere hypothetical\, rational\, and abstract consent.
\nDr. Laure Gillot-Assayag is a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Goethe University Frankfurt\, Germany (Democratic Vistas). Former visiting scholar at Monash University (Prato campus)\, she published her research in political philosophy in the \;Ric&oelig\;ur \;Studies\, \;the Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy\, \;the \;Journal of Philosophy of Education\, and soon \;Democratic Theory. Her book on Paul Ric&oelig\;ur is forthcoming with SUNY Press. In 2025\, she received \;the Paul Ric&oelig\;ur Excellence Prize for the best paper on Paul Ric&oelig\;ur.
ORGANIZER;CN=Christopher Watkin: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T120000 SUMMARY:ISPSM Double book symposium - Hohwy & Nave UID:20260509T234919Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind announces a double book symposium on Kathryn Nave's A Drive to Survive: \;The Free Energy Principle and the Meaning of Life and Jakob Hohwy's The Self-Evidencing Agent: \;Mind\, Existence and Predictive Processing.
\nCan the Free Energy Principle/Predictive Processing illuminate the sort of being we are? This symposium explores two important - and importantly different - ways to answer the question. Kate Nave&rsquo\;s book offers a negative answer\, grounded in the enactivist tradition. Hohwy&rsquo\;s book offers a positive\, internalist and representationalist answer.
\nBy placing Nave&rsquo\;s and Hohwy&rsquo\;s opposite accounts in critical conversation\, this double-book symposium explores the Free Energy Principle and the various\, opposite ways in which it can be interpreted. It also sheds light on a number of foundational topics in cognitive science\, including the nature of representation\, the relevance of embodiment\, the complex\, tangly relation between our pragmatic and epistemic grip on the world\, and the normativity - biological or epistemic - governing that grip.
On May 12\, 2026. At 10:00 CEST
Online. For the link\, please register here: \;https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVOrKG1YyHByLLk-DlfU2ABBKRjIYBBCibYJm2pGEhWyc-xQ/viewform
ORGANIZER;CN=International Society for the Philosophy and the Sciences of the Mind (ispsm): METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T180000 SUMMARY:Talk 5: Women’s Writing of Harriet Taylor Mill and its Various Modes of Self-Expression. Talk 6: Karoline von Günderrode: Fragmentation\, Philosophy\, and Early German Romanticism UID:20260509T234920Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Register here: https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/156/
12.05.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time)
Elżbieta Filipow &ndash\; Women&rsquo\;s Writing of Harriet Taylor Mill and its Various Modes of Self-expression
\nHarriet Taylor Mill (1807&ndash\;1857) was a long-time friend\, intellectual partner\, and\, eventually\, wife of John Stuart Mill (1806&ndash\;1873) &ndash\; one of the main representatives of utilitarianism and an advocate of feminism. My preliminary research has shown that Harriet Taylor Mill is an almost entirely absent figure in the field of literary studies. The aim of my presentation will be to highlight her contribution to the development of women&rsquo\;s writing\, aesthetics\, and literary self-reflection\, based on her essays in aesthetics\, literary criticism\, and poetry. Although the topic of Harriet Taylor Mill&rsquo\;s female writing is completely overlooked from the perspective of her contributions to social thought or feminist philosophy\, it is\, in my view\, worth taking a closer look at these insufficiently explored aspects of various modes of self-expression in her literary activity. Doing so may show her creative output in a different light: as that of a writer with a critical sensibility towards literary work and as a poet addressing themes linked to emotions arising from motherhood and marriage. Particularly\, this last element of her female voice inwriting may serve to complete her portrayal as a woman who attempted to reconcile her feminist beliefs with family life &ndash\; a considerable challenge in the Victorian era. Ultimately\, I will argue that it is possible to demonstrate that Harriet Taylor Mill&rsquo\;s works represents an example of female writing as a form of self-reflection\, which ambivalently set for and against her own perception of the social issues related to gender inequality within the broader context of the role and place of women in Victorian society.
\nAbout the Speaker:Elżbieta Filipow holds MA in sociology and BA in philosophy. Since 2022 she is working as a research assistant in the Department of Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and she is principal investigator in the research project entitled &lsquo\;The Place of Equality in John Stuart Mill&rsquo\;s Utilitarianism&rsquo\; financed by the National Science Centre (Poland) and a research assistant in the project &lsquo\;Enlightenment-Era Pedagogical Reforms and Arguments against the Gendered Conception of Human Progress in Poland and Germany&rsquo\; financed by National Agency of Academic Exchange (NAWA\, Poland). She is completing her doctoral dissertation in philosophy entitled &lsquo\;Perfectionism and Justice. The Equality of Women and Men in John Stuart Mill&rsquo\;s Utilitarianism&rsquo\;. Since 2024 she is doctoral student in a Doctoral School in Sociological Science at the University of Bialystok (Poland). Her doctoral dissertation focuseson the contribution of Harriet Taylor Mill into the canon of sociological thought. In 2024 she was an Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Philosophy\, Oxford University and conducted research in The John Stuart Mill Library at Somerville College
\nShamoni Sarkar - Karoline von Gü\;nderrode: Fragmentation\, Philosophy\, and Early German Romanticism
\nIn this paper\, I argue for a creative ethics grounded in fragmentation in the work of the early German romantic poet and philosopher Karoline von Gü\;nderrode. Scholarship on Gü\;nderrode is scant\, but commentators have emphasized\, among other themes\, her novel environmental ethics and Naturphilosophie\, as well as her original philosophy of gender and selfhood. However\, the larger hermeneutics of the early romantic fragment as a form of philosophical communication has not been sufficiently investigated in terms of her philosophical conception\, especially given her role as a woman on the fringes of the movement. With this in mind\, I provide a close reading of Gü\;nderrode&rsquo\;s essay-fragment &ldquo\;The Idea of the Earth&rdquo\; (Die Idee der Erde) and her lyric poem &ldquo\;The Kiss in the Dream&rdquo\; (Der Kuss im Traume) to show how her concept of the spiritual will\, life\, and dream-inspired creativity all depend on an underlying conception of fragmentation at the core of willing\, living\, and dreaming. We are confronted with fragmentation as both a threat as well as a sustenance of our collective life on earth and of our creative communication. Therefore\, writing in the fragment form is a direct expression of the pain of philosophizing and poeticizing from within a context of a world and a creative will that is consistently torn apart seemingly by its own volition. Gü\;nderrode&rsquo\;s work appeals to our imaginations to see and to use this pain to re-imagine the real rather than chase the ideal. Ideal unity functions more as a limit condition of this philosophical activity rather than as a destination.
\nAbout the Speaker: Shamoni Sarkar obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of California\, Riverside in Fall 2025. Her dissertation argued for a conception of openness in community in Early German Romantic philosophy. This is facilitated by the process of reading and understanding the early romantic fragment&ndash\; in which finitude and infinitude work themselves out together. From 2023-2024\, she was an associated doctoral fellow at the Freie Universitä\;t Berlin\, funded by an Einstein Stiftung grant. In the future\, she plans to focus more on women philosophers from the period\, and on investigating alternative forms of &lsquo\;philosophizing&rsquo\; as a form of community creation. \; \; \; \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun;CN=Jil Muller;CN=Daniel Fischer;CN=Katia Raya Rami: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260513T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260513T140000 SUMMARY:From Non-Cognitivism to Global Expressivism: Carnap’s Unfinished Journey? UID:20260509T234921Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Dear all\,
\n\nThe next Carnap Webinar will take place on May 13\, 2026. Our speaker will be Huw Price (Trinity College Cambridge)\, who will give a talk entitled From Non-Cognitivism to Global Expressivism: Carnap&rsquo\;s Unfinished Journey?
\n\nI am writing in advance as the talk will take place at a different time than usual\, since the speaker will be presenting from Sydney. Please find below the details and corresponding time zones:
\n\nSpeaker: Huw Price (Trinity College Cambridge)
Title: From Non-Cognitivism to Global Expressivism: Carnap&rsquo\;s Unfinished Journey?
Time: May 13\, 2026
&bull\; 12:00&ndash\;14:00 (CEST\, Rome Hours)
&bull\; 20:00&ndash\;22:00 (AEST\, Sydney Hours)
&bull\; 06:00&ndash\;08:00 (EDT\, New York Hours)
Link: meet.google.com/uaq-jqpf-mwr
The talk is based on a paper available here.
\nThe series is organized in collaboration with Carnap in Context IV (Ö\;AW\, FWF Grant PAT7905424) and Rudolf Carnap Digital (MCMP\, LMU Munich). For further information about the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026\, please consult the following webpage:
https://valep.vc.univie.ac.at/files/External/2026_Reconstructing_Carnap-original.pdf
Videos of past presentations are available on the YouTube channel of the series&mdash\;feel free to explore and subscribe:
Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series &ndash\; YouTube
For any questions\, please do not hesitate to contact me.
I very much look forward to seeing you all!
Best regards\,
Caterina
Abstract
\nFrom Non-Cognitivism to Global Expressivism: Carnap&rsquo\;s Unfinished Journey?
\nBy Huw Price(Trinity College Cambridge)
\nCarnap was one of the first to use the term &ldquo\;non-cognitivism.&rdquo\; His linguistic pluralism and voluntarism\, together with his deflationary views of ontology and semantics\, are highly congenial to those of us who want to take non-cognitivism in the direction of global expressivism. In his own case\, however\, this move is in tension with his continued endorsement of what he calls &ldquo\;the general thesis of logical empiricism\,&rdquo\; namely that &ldquo\;there is no third kind of knowledge besides empirical and logical knowledge.&rdquo\; Thus\, while Carnap clears a path towards global expressivism\, he does not seem to fully appreciate what this path requires him to leave behind.
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Caterina Del Sordo;CN=Luca Oliva;CN=Silvano Zipoli Caiani: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260513T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T170000 SUMMARY:Indigenous Philosophy in Conversation with V.F. Cordova UID:20260509T234922Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Gilman Hall\, Baltimore\, United States DESCRIPTION:A workshop revisiting Viola Cordova&rsquo\;s landmark book\, How It Is. \; We will have papers from ten scholars of American Indian philosophy as well as roundtable discussions. \; Registration is free but required. \; To register email connolly@jhu.edu.
ORGANIZER;CN=Patrick J. Connolly;CN=Joseph Len Miller;CN=Getty Lustila;CN=Janella Baxter: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260513T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260514T170000 SUMMARY:Early Career Workshop UID:20260509T234923Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers:
\nEarly Career Workshop
\n13-14 May 2026\, Online
\nDeadline for submissions: \;1st \;February 2026
\nThe Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace is pleased to announce its Early Career Workshop. We invite submissions from current and recent graduate students (within two years of receiving their PhD). Papers should address issues in moral\, legal\, or political philosophy connected to the ethics of war and peace\, broadly construed. This includes\, for example\, papers on moral responsibility\, authority\, partiality\, scarcity of resources\, collective action\, punishment\, and self-defence\, as well as more traditional topics in the ethics of war and peace. Sessions will run from roughly 15.00-18.30 BST each day.
\nAll sessions will be pre-read. Each author will be allocated a faculty respondent who will provide written comments on the paper and serve as a commentator at the workshop. In order to find the most suitable respondents\, faculty will be invited after papers have been selected. Past respondents have included Helen Beebee\, Yitzak Benbaji\, Garret Cullity\, Christopher Finlay\, Helen Frowe\, Adil Ahmad Haque\, Kimberly Kessler Ferzan\, Holly Lawford-Smith\, Seth Lazar\, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen\, Kieran Oberman\, Massimo Renzo\, David Rodin\, Adam Slavny and Laura Valentini.
\nPapers should be no longer than 8000 words\, including notes\, and prepared for blind review. Papers should not have been accepted for publication or given revise and resubmit verdicts at the time of submission. Submissions from graduate students should include a letter from their department confirming their year of study. Submissions from early career researchers should include confirmation that they are within two years of receiving their PhD (e.g.\, a letter from an examiner or supervisor\, or a copy of their PhD certificate). Submissions and enquiries should be sent to \;jonas.haeg@philosophy.su.se \;(subject line: &ldquo\;SUBMISSION Graduate Workshop&rdquo\;).
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonas Haeg;CN=Helen Frowe;CN=Fabio Crespi: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260513T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260513T183000 SUMMARY:Despair and Diachronic Agency: Disheartening Chances and the Rational Revision of Plans UID:20260509T234924Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to the next session of \;the \;Empirically \;Informed \;Philosophy of Mind online Seminar \;
\nWho: Juliette Vazard (University of Zü\;rich)
When: Wednesday\, May 13th\, 2026 &mdash\; 5&ndash\;6:30 pm (CET)
Where: Online via Zoom:
https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/92782580594?pwd=a5p3WfunQQxJICrjJaUenFJFzmllbx.1
What: Despair and Diachronic Agency: \;Disheartening Chances and the Rational Revision of Plans
In this paper\, I add to the current debate regarding the nature and value of despair. I argue that despair should not be viewed strictly as a \;form of sadness (Milona and Stockdale\, 2025) \;but rather as an emotional reaction through which we \;apprehend the loss of a future as likely. As such\, despair is not only valuable because it provides a \;&ldquo\;reflective break&rdquo\; (Menges &\; Altehenger\, 2025). Instead\, it is a response of &ldquo\;restless apathy&rdquo\; which \;prepares us both to retreat and renounce our commitments\, and to launch &lsquo\;last resort&rsquo\; &lsquo\;desperate&rsquo\; acts. \;Despair is not only valuable as an antidote to &ldquo\;wishful hoping&rdquo\; (Huber\, 2024) but\, more fundamentally\, because it counteracts our resistance to reconsidering plans we are diachronically committed to. As beings with temporally extended agency\, we form intentions that guide\, monitor\, and rationally control \;action across time (Mylopoulos &\; Pacherie\, 2019). Despair allows us to respond to the disheartening \;lowering of chances of success by urgently reconsidering our plans\, in spite of our inherent resistance \;to doing so.
\nFor any questions\, please contact:
Sacha Behrend &mdash\; sachabehrend1991@gmail.com
Elodie Boissard &mdash\; Elodie.Boissard@univ-paris1.fr
Program
\nOrganizers:
Sacha Behrend &mdash\; Postdoctoral Researcher\, University of Hradec Krá\;lové\; (Czech Republic) / Affiliated Researcher\, Institut d&rsquo\;histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST)\, Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on-Sorbonne
\nElodie Boissard &mdash\; Postdoctoral Researcher\, Bordeaux Neurocampus Department / Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Inté\;gratives d&rsquo\;Aquitaine (UMR 5287)\, Université\; de Bordeaux\, CNRS
ORGANIZER;CN=Sacha Behrend;CN=Elodie Boissard: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260514T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260515T170000 SUMMARY:Mythical Archipelagos: Islands\, Narratives\, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media International Interdisciplinary Seminar UID:20260509T234925Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Campus Obelisco \, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria\, Spain\, 35004 DESCRIPTION:Across cultures\, historical periods\, and media\, islands have functioned as privileged sites of myth-making and imagination. Often perceived as bounded worlds\, islands have generated narratives of origin and apocalypse\, utopia and dystopia\, exile and belonging\, isolation and connection. From ancient mythologies to contemporary cultural production\, from oral traditions to visual and digital media\, and from colonial imaginaries to ecological discourses\, islands have operated as narrative laboratories in which cultural anxieties\, desires\, and transformations are articulated.
\nThe international seminar Mythical Archipelagos: Islands\, Narratives\, and Imaginaries Across Cultures and Media invites scholars to explore islands as mythical\, symbolic\, and narrative spaces. Myths are understood here in a broad sense: as foundational stories\, cultural imaginaries\, symbolic systems\, and narrative frameworks that are inherited\, transformed\, reimagined\, or contested in relation to insular spaces.
\nRather than treating islands as merely geographic entities\, this seminar approaches them as dynamic sites where overlapping temporalities\, negotiated identities\, and human and more-than-human relations converge. Particular attention will be given to environmental humanities\, indigenous and postcolonial perspectives\, and intermedial approaches\, while remaining open to comparative\, historical\, theoretical\, and interdisciplinary contributions.
\nInstitutional Framework
\nThis seminar is organised within the framework of the ANDRÓ\;MEDA Project (Ref. PHS-2024/PH-HUM-76) and results from the collaboration between:
\nThe event is hosted by the Department of Modern Philology\, Translation and Interpreting (DFMTI) at ULPGC.
\nTopics of Interest
\nThe seminar welcomes proposals from literary studies\, cultural studies\, linguistics\, visual studies\, environmental humanities\, education\, anthropology\, history\, media studies\, and related disciplines. Contributions may address (but are not limited to) the following thematic areas:
\nA. Myth\, Folklore\, and Cultural Memory
\nB. Islands\, Childhood\, and Pedagogy
\nC. Environmental and More-than-Human Humanities
\nD. Isolation\, Confinement\, and Liminality
\nE. Migration\, Belonging\, and Contested Spaces
\nF. Visual\, Intermedial\, and Nonfiction Representations
\nG. Mobility\, Tourism\, and Connectivity
\nH. Linguistic\, Religious\, and Ethnographic Insularity
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nLanguages: English or Spanish (other languages may be considered).
\nAbstracts: 250&ndash\;300 words\, including title\, research question(s)\, methodology\, and relevance to the seminar theme.
\nPresentation format: Please indicate whether you wish to propose an oral paper or a poster.
\nAuthor information: A brief biographical note (approx. 100 words)\, institutional affiliation\, and contact details.
\nFile format: One single Word document\, using the official event template (available on the website).
\nSubmission email: mythical-2026@ulpgc.es
\nEmail subject line: &ldquo\;Mythical Archipelagos 2026 - Abstract submission&rdquo\;
\n\nImportant Dates
\nAbstract submission deadline: 30 March 2026
\nNotification of acceptance: by 15 April 2026
\nhttps://icms.confex.com/icms/2026/meetingapp.cgi/Session/8038
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260515T140000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260515T153000 SUMMARY:Reference in Imagination without Intentions to Imagine UID:20260509T234927Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Monash Clayton Campus\, Melbourne\, Australia DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom meeting:
\nhttps://monash.zoom.us/j/86351045263?pwd=1gHMLhmDnXiFJIV0Jl8s6GxhgBgylb.1 \;
\nMeeting ID: 863 5104 5263 // Passcode: 184791
\nReference in Imagination without Intentions to Imagine (Joint work with Daniel Munro) \;
\nAbstract: How do imaginings come to refer to their objects? One popular view (&ldquo\;intentionalism&rdquo\;) assigns a central role to imaginative intentions. According to this view\, intentions about what to imagine are sufficient for fixing the referent of one&rsquo\;s resulting imagining. Previous criticisms of intentionalism have pointed to apparent counterexamples in which imaginers intuitively fail to imagine what they intend\; however\, these criticisms are arguably inconclusive. We provide further reasons for rejecting intentionalism by presenting cases in which subjects succeed in imagining what they intend\, but in which their intentions are still not the factor that determines what they imagine. Instead\, their imaginings inherit their contents from prior imaginings or episodic memories. We use the range of counterexamples to intentionalism to motivate an alternative causal explanation\, according to which causal connections to objects often explain imaginative reference to those objects. We conclude by exploring how our cases support continuities between the imagination and episodic memory. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Sandra Leonie Field: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T090000 SUMMARY:North American Sartre Society 31st Annual Conference UID:20260509T234928Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:North American Sartre Society
31st \;Annual Meeting
\nCall for Abstracts
\n\;
\n23-24 October 2026
\nVirtual Zoom Conference \;
\nSubmission Deadline: May 15\, 2026
\n\;
\nTheme
\nA.I.\, Virtual Worlds\, and Digital Existentialism
\n\nThe North American Sartre Society invites proposals for our 31st \;meeting. \; \;Our conference theme is A.I.\, Virtual Worlds\, and Digital Existentialism. We encourage papers that explore existentialism as it relates to A.I.\, social media\, data centers\, and virtual worlds. We encourage papers on topics and questions such as: \;
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;How does artificial intelligence reshape our understanding of selfhood\, agency\, and responsibility?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Can virtual worlds provide authentic forms of meaning\, identity\, and community\, or are they structurally alienating?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;What does &ldquo\;existence&rdquo\; mean when one&rsquo\;s social\, emotional\, and creative life is increasingly mediated by A.I. systems and platforms?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Do A.I.-generated personas and avatars challenge distinctions between authenticity and bad faith?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;How should we understand freedom and choice when algorithmic systems increasingly guide behaviors\, desires\, and commitments?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;What ethical obligations do creators of A.I. and virtual worlds have toward users&rsquo\; existential well-being and sense of meaning?
\n\nWe invite proposals from any area of Sartre studies and from any disciplinary background. In the spirit of Sartre&rsquo\;s eclectic thinking\, we encourage proposals that address philosophy\, literature\, theater\, aesthetics\, psychology\, politics\, intellectual history\, art\, music\, and other disciplines. Aiming to foster diverse and pluralistic approaches\, we understand Sartre Studies broadly to indicate work in the existentialist tradition\, including work emerging from thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir\, Maurice Merleau-Ponty\, Frantz Fanon\, Richard Wright\, Angela Davis\, Albert Camus\, Anna Julia Cooper\, Harriet Ann Jacobs\, Lewis R. Gordon\, Frederick Douglass\, Kathryn Sophia Belle\, Steve Biko\, Naomi Zack\, Chabani Manganyi\, Emilio Uranga\, Jorge Portilla\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Aimé\; Cé\;saire\, Keiji Nishitani\, Azzedine Haddour\, Martin Buber\, Hannah Arendt\, Martin Heidegger\, Gabriel Marcel\, Emmanuel Levinas\, Sara Ahmed\, danielle davis\, bell hooks\, Kamau Brathwaite\, Nathalie Etoke\, Achille Mbembe\, Suzanne Cé\;saire\, James Baldwin and others. \;
\n\n\;
\n\;
\n\;
\nKeynote Speaker: Stefano Gualeni
\n\;
\nTitle: Existential Immersion and Care in Virtual Worlds
\nStefano Gualeni is a Full Professor at the Institute of Digital Games\, University of Malta. His academic books include \;Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools \;(Palgrave\, 2015)\, \;Virtual Existentialism \;(Palgrave Pivot\, 2020\, with Daniel Vella)\, and \;Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play \;(Bloomsbury\, 2023\, with Riccardo Fassone). Stefano&rsquo\;s games\, essays and philosophical fictions can be found on his webpage at \;www.gua-le-ni.com
\nStefano&rsquo\;s philosophical fictions include \;The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction \;(Routledge\, 2024)\, \;What We Owe the Dead \;(Set Margins'\, 2025)\, \;Scholar's Codex \;(Tune and Fairweather\, 2026)\, and \;Errata Corpora \;(Set Margins'\, forthcoming in 2027)
\n\nThe submission process:
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;The submission deadline is May 15. \;
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words. Reading time for papers is 20-25 minutes. \;
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;We will accept proposals for both individual papers and panel proposals. Please indicate if you are interested in the teaching existentialism session. \;
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;English or French is acceptable.
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Please submit your abstract (or any questions) by email to NASS President\, Dane Sawyer\, \;dsawyer@laverne.edu
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Graduate students are encouraged to submit.
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;All proposals will be forwarded to the program committee for review.
\n\nContacts:
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Dane Sawyer\, NASS President: dsawyer@laverne.edu
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Paul Gyllenhammer\, NASS Co-President: \;gyllenhp@stjohns.edu
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Kiki Berk\, NASS Past-President k.berk@snhu.edu
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Kimberly Engels\, NASS Treasurer: kengels@molloy.edu \;
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Damon Boria\, NASS Member-at-Large: damon.boria@gmail.com \;
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;T Storm Heter\, NASS Member at Large: sheter@esu.edu \;
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;James Sares\, NASS Member-at-large: james.sares@uky.edu
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Tom Meagher: NASS Member-at-large: tjm101@shsu.edu
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Thomas Payre\, NASS Member-at-large: thp42@aber.ac.uk
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Varun Chandrasekhar\, NASS Member-at-Large: c.varun@wustl.edu
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;NASS Webpage: \;https://www.northamericansartresociety.org
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;NASS Knowledge Commons Page: \;https://hcommons.org/groups/north-american-sartre-studies-society/
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;NASS Facebook: \; \;https://www.facebook.com/SartreSociety/
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \;Sartre Studies International \;https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/sartre-studies/sartre-studies-overview.xml
ORGANIZER;CN=Dane Sawyer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T090000 SUMMARY:JIS Symposium 2026: The Future of Democracy: Renewing Ordered Liberty UID:20260509T234929Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL \; FOR \; PAPERS \; \; \;JIS \; SYMPOSIUM \; 2026 \;
\nTHE \; FUTURE \; OF \; DEMOCRACY: \; RENEWING \; ORDERED \; LIBERTY
\nPASADENA\, \; CALIFORNIA\, \; USA\, 17 October \; 2026 \; (Online: Zoom) \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; HOSTED \; BY \; OMEGA \; GRADUATE \; SCHOOL
\nSuggested \; Themes:
\nBy its 250th anniversary\, American democracy is at a crossroads. \; The American experiment in self-government faces a triple challenge: moral\, cultural\, and political. \; In The Fragility of Order (2018)\, George Weigel recounts America&rsquo\;s major \; twentieth-century \; challenges whose successes have come into question. Weigel argues that order is a &ldquo\;fragile thing\,&rdquo\; and needs continual renewal\, especially in a postmodern cultural context unsure about the truth of anything. According to Weigel\, order rapidly unraveled in the United States on three levels: moral\, cultural\, and political. Skepticism and relativism of the moral order found expression in nihilism in both popular and high culture\, which also translated into increased partisanship in the political order. \; The question arises how to restore the American Founders&rsquo\; ideal of a government that invoked &ldquo\;the Laws of Nature and of Nature&rsquo\;s God\,&rdquo\; with a conception of human nature as a &ldquo\;crooked timber of humanity\,&rdquo\; but redeemable\, that set up a constitutional framework with checks and balances to circumscribe the exercise of political power. \; If this &ldquo\;One nation under God\, with liberty and justice for all\,&rdquo\; is to endure\, then its Judeo-Christian cultural roots need to be rediscovered to nurture individuals\, families\, and communities\, reaffirming America&rsquo\;s promise of equality of opportunity\, in contrast to quasi-Marxist &ldquo\;equity&rdquo\; as leveling egalitarianism or &ldquo\;equal outcomes\,&rdquo\; a democratic temptation that Alexis de Tocqueville warned against in his Democracy in America. \; The neo-Freudian obsession with sex and its perversions needs to yield to the imago Dei vision of human dignity (Gen 1:27)\; the un-American emphasis on race and gender in education and public policy (affirmative action/DEI) replaced by merit as the best criterion for gauging individual effort\; while politics need the leaven of respect for all. \; In brief\, can America find its soul and redeem the American Dream?
\nJIS Symposium 2026 endeavors to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and denominations for an exciting international conference which takes both scholarship and faith seriously. \; JIS Symposium 2026: The Future of Democracy: Renewing Ordered Liberty (Online via Zoom) is co-sponsored by IIR-ICSA-JIS. \; All conference participants must pre-register. \; Abstracts (250 words) due: May 15\, 2026: c/o Dr. O. Gruenwald\, JIS Editor\, 1065 Pine Bluff Dr.\, Pasadena\, CA 91107\, USA\, per e-mail (no attachments) to: info@jis3.org. Include: Paper Title\, First &\; Last Name\, faculty or student\, institution\, mailing address\, telephone &\; e-mail. Fully-developed papers will be considered for publication in the refereed Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXXIX 2027. \; Web: https://www.jis3.org/symposium2026.
\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; CONFERENCE STRUCTURE:
\nMain Conference Program via Zoom: Saturday\, 17 October 2026.
\nFormat: Multidisciplinary panels and papers. Suggest PowerPoint presentations.
\nKeynote: Dawn Sutherland (Liberty University): "Democracy after Datafication: Personhood and the Renewal of Ordered Liberty."
\nLeitmotif: In search of virtues (the Tao) in the American Experiment.
\nSponsors: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies\, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research\, International Christian Studies Association.
\nHosted By: Omega Graduate School. Dr. David C. Ward\, Zoom Coordinator.
\nRegistration: Required (tax-deductible). Online Option via PayPal: Use PayPal Donate Button on JIS Symposium 2026 web: https://www.jis3.org/symposium2026.
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies;CN=Oskar Gruenwald: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260516T170000 SUMMARY:Grains of Sand & Stars in the Sky: Science and Theology from the microscopic to the cosmic UID:20260509T234930Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Confirmed Keynote Speakers:
\nProf John Barton\, Emeritus University of Oxford: The importance of the innumerable in ancient Hebrew identity and cosmology
\nProf. Mark Harris\, University of Oxford: \; Quantum Theology
\nFrom the moment early microscopes unveiled a hidden world of exquisite complexity in the 16th century\, and the first telescopes revealed the vast splendour of the heavens in the 17th\, scientific discovery has continually expanded our sense of wonder. Each new window into the natural world has brought not only advances in knowledge but also profound theological and philosophical questions.
\nToday\, the sciences continue to push the boundaries of the observable&mdash\;from the subatomic realm to the furthest edges of the cosmos. These explorations invite renewed reflection on creation\, purpose\, and the place of humanity within an ever‑deepening picture of reality. They also open fresh opportunities for constructive dialogue between scientific inquiry and religious thought.
\nThis conference will explore how contemporary understandings of both the minute and the immense prompt theological engagement\, shape religious imagination\, and offer new possibilities for integrating scientific insight with faith traditions. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines\, we will examine how science and religion can meaningfully converse in light of discoveries that challenge\, enrich\, and inspire.
\nApproximate running times BST (tbc):
\n15th May: 12noon - 5pm (conference)
\n16th May: 9am - 2pm
ORGANIZER;CN=Finley Lawson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T120000 SUMMARY:III International Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Semantics of Fiction UID:20260509T234931Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:III International Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Semantics of Fiction
\nKeynote speakers:
\nAndreas Stokke (Uppsala Universitet)
\nElisa Paganini (Università\; degli Studi di Milano)
\nEdward Zalta (Stanford University)
\nManuel Garcí\;a-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona)
\nMerel Semeijn (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
\nSara Uckelman (Durham University)
\nThe event is free of charge and will be held \;online on June 24\, 25\, and 26\, 2026. Abstract submissions will be accepted until May 15.
\nFor further information: \;https://metasemafiction.wixsite.com/phil
ORGANIZER;CN=Italo Lins Lemos;CN=Jerzy Brzozowski: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260505T213704Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260515T170000 SUMMARY:Tackling speciesism and anthropocentrism in higher education UID:20260509T234932Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:From institutional pressures to competing demands from students\, teachers are increasingly having to navigate complex political\, pedagogical\, and ethical challenges. For anti-speciesist teachers in the context of anthropocentric societies\, there are several further layers of difficulty: how should we approach the teaching of core subjects and the general &ldquo\;canon&rdquo\;\, when those often replicate speciesist norms and assumptions? Is it necessary to balance &ldquo\;objectivity&rdquo\; and advocacy? Is pedagogical or academic rigour threatened by moves towards animal-friendly pedagogy? How should we \; engage with students and colleagues who are resistant to non-anthropocentric perspectives? What specific pedagogical strategies or curriculum design choices (e.g.\, choice of texts\, use of various media\, interactive activities\, assessment design) can anti-speciesist teachers effectively employ to introduce non-anthropocentric materials without alienating students or triggering a defensive backlash?
\nThis online workshop aims to bring together academics working in politics\, philosophy\, and adjacent fields to consider the challenges and opportunities associated with tackling speciesism and anthropocentrism in higher education. It will be an opportunity to share ideas\, research\, and experience. We invite contributions from anyone involved in teaching in relevant fields. We're looking to provide a space to share reflections on experiences as well as formal paper-presentations. Keeping this in mind\, we invite submissions of the following types:
\nResearch papers discussing topics related to the workshop theme\, including but not limited to:
\nAnimal activism and teaching\,
\nTeaching controversial topics related to animals\,
\nTeaching the canon with animals in mind\,
\nThe intersection between non-anthropocentrism/anti-speciesism\, decolonisation\, and/or diversification of the curriculum\,
\nThe effectiveness of pedagogical interventions\,
\nThe role (or reaction) of the broader institution in (or to) animal-friendly pedagogy.
\nCase-studies\, including but not limited to:
\nExperience of developing non-anthropocentric/anti-speciesist curricula.
\nExperience of teaching on topics such as non-anthropocentrism\, animal rights\, veganism\, and so on.
\nExperience of non-traditional forms of assessment\, such as reflective journals\, campaign projects for animal-related issues\, policy design or review addressing animal-related issues. \;
\nSubmissions must be suitable for approx. 15-20 minute presentations and Q&\;A/discussion. Please send anonymised submissions to sara.vangoozen [at] york.ac.uk
\nThe deadline for submissions is 30 March 2026
\n\nFor any further information\, please contact Sara van Goozen.
ORGANIZER;CN=Sara Van Goozen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR