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:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics: Online Lecture Series UID:20261111T175409Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 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:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261126T170000 SUMMARY:Séminaire Arendt 2026 UID:20261111T175411Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION: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:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 SUMMARY:Inquiry Network WIP Talks UID:20261111T175412Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 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.
Applications are open for Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology\, a doctoral-level course hosted by Institute for Analytical Sociology\, Linkö\;ping University. The course is organized around an international lecture series featuring many of the scholars who have shaped analytical sociology and continue to define its contemporary development.
\nConfirmed speakers include:
\nPeter Bearman\, Delia Baldassarri\, Elizabeth Bruch\, Damon Centola\, Diego Gambetta\, Peter Hedströ\;m\, Gianluca Manzo\, Michael Macy\, Arnout van de Rijt\, Duncan Watts\, and Petri Ylikoski.
\nThe course explores central questions concerning social mechanisms\, explanation\, social interaction\, networks\, diffusion\, collective action\, computational social science\, and the relationship between theory and empirical research. Particular attention is devoted to the role of mechanism-based explanations in the social sciences and to philosophical questions concerning explanation\, causation\, and social scientific inquiry.
\nThe lecture series is accompanied by readings and highly participatory seminars in which participants critically discuss the lectures\, the assigned literature\, and connections to their own research. The course culminates in an individual paper in which participants develop an independent analysis of a research question using the theories\, concepts\, and explanatory models discussed throughout the course. Participants are encouraged to connect this assignment directly to their doctoral projects.
\nThe course is open to doctoral students and researchers from sociology\, philosophy\, political science\, economics\, computational social science\, and related disciplines.
\nFor more information\, contact the course organizer and seminar leader \;Josef Ginnerskov at josef.ginnerskov(at)liu.se
\nSyllabus:
https://forskarstudier.liu.se/en/kurs/7FIEI26/2026V/1624499#syllabus
Registration:
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Join us for a weekly close reading of Gramsci&rsquo\;s Prison Notebooks! The group has a twofold goal: first\, to analyze contemporary political events through the categories formulated in the text\; and second\, to critically examine potential blind spots in Gramsci&rsquo\;s work regarding race\, gender\, and empire\, while keeping in mind the historical context in which he wrote.
TIME
THURSDAYS: weekly\, beginning September 24\, 2026.
5-6 PM Eastern US Time.
FACILITATOR
Giusi \;Russo is an associate professor of History at Montgomery County Community College in the greater Philadelphia area. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Italian left and internal colonialism\, as well as the entanglements between bodies and European empires. She is the author of \;Women\, Empires\, and Body Politics at the United Nations\, 1946&ndash\;1975 \;(University of Nebraska Press\, 2023) and has published extensively on the colonial history of the United Nations and on the construction of colonial and post-colonial narratives. She is currently working on a book project under contract with Routledge\, titled\, \;The Aesthetics of Third-Worldism in Italy: Bodies\, Spaces\, and Oppression.
ABOUT INCITE SEMINARS
We are a mix of rogue scholars\, disgruntled academics\, disenchanted buddhists\, enchantment-hungry anarchists\, radical therapists\, and general weirdos looking to create autonomous and accessible forms of &ldquo\;higher education.&rdquo\;
We offer online seminars and reading groups to incite personal exploration and inspire community action. Incite Seminars offers an educational experience. We do so by gathering an engaged group of participants for a dynamic exchange of ideas\, led by skilled facilitators. All of our facilitators have a deep relationship to a subject or topic through intensive study or practice.
Incite Seminars is a 100% member-supported learning community. We depend on member contributions to continue holding space for radical study and practice groups\, putting on rigorous seminars and courses\, and providing our facilitators and organizers with fair compensation. If you are unable to pay the full amount for a session or membership at this time\, we invite you to join us at reduced or no cost with our Solidarity option.
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 2026-2027 academic year take place on MONDAYS\, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET). The list of speakers is the following (exact dates and titles to be provided soon):
\n- OCTOBER 12\, 2026: Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University)
\n- NOVEMBER 30\, 2026: Daniel James (Technical University Berlin)
\n- DECEMBER 14\, 2026: Jennifer Saul (University of Waterloo)
\n- JANUARY 2027: Muhammad Owais Raza (Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University) \;
\n- FEBRUARY 2027: Chris Cousens (University of Glasgow)
\n- MARCH 2027: Jessica Keiser (University of North Carolina)
\n- APRIL 19\, 2027: Cornelia Loos (University of Cologne)
\n- MAY 2027: Marcin Lewiński (NOVA University of Lisbon)
\n- JUNE 2027: TBA.
ORGANIZER;CN=Isidora Stojanovic;CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20270731T170000 SUMMARY:DFT-CELFIS research seminar\, University of Bucharest UID:20261111T175416Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Splaiul Independenței 204\, Bucharest\, Romania DESCRIPTION: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. For details\, don't hesitate to reach out at andrei.marasoiu@filosofie.unibuc.ro.
\nFall 2026
\nOctober 27\, 5pm: Bradley Armour-Garb (State University of New York at Albany\, f2f)\, \;"A Pretense Account of Property-Talk for Property Deflationists"
\nNovember 9\, 4pm: Gheorghe Ștefanov (University of Bucharest\, f2f)\, "It follows by reason"
\nNovember 17\, 4pm: Cătălin Teoharie &\; Nansi Lungu (University of Bucharest\, f2f)\, "What is Consciousness? A View from Predictive Processing"
\nNovember 24\, 5pm: Matt Duncan (Rhode Island College\, hybrid)\, \;"Experiencing Ourselves in the World"
\nDecember 8\, 4pm: Andreea Eșanu (New Europe College\, f2f)\, "A defeasible and relational account of epistemic trust? &ndash\; Some reflections on the epistemology of deep-learning AI"
\nDecember 14\, 9am: Michael Kirchhoff (University of Wollongong\, hybrid)\, "Idealization\, Computation and Cognition"
\nDecember 22\, 4pm: Codruța Hainic (Babeș-Bolyai University\, hybrid)\, TBA
\nSpring 2027
\nPii Telakivi (University of Helsinki\, hybrid)
\nIoana Leuștean (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science\, University of Bucharest\, f2f)
\nMiklos Redei (London School of Economics\, 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 \;
\n2023-24: \;https://philevents.org/event/show/115878
\n2024-25: \;https://philevents.org/event/show/127766
\n2025-26: https://philevents.org/event/show/141649
\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
\nStay tuned\, as there will be weekly announcements concerning the titles and abstracts of upcoming talks on the Facebook page titled "Seminarul Departamentului de Filosofie Teoretica UniBuc". \;
\nhttps://www.facebook.com/p/Seminarul-Departamentului-de-Filosofie-Teoretica-UniBuc-100063082908977/
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrei Mărăşoiu": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20270430T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: Foundations\, Challenges and Applications UID:20261111T175417Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Krakow\, Poland DESCRIPTION:We are living in a breakthrough period of human history. The dynamic development of artificial intelligence\, its application to successive areas of our lives: science\, industry\, education\, culture\, and everyday life\, makes us face a range of practical challenges as well as questions about this phenomenon that we do not understand. Questions concerning intelligence\, cognition\, agency\, responsibility\, truth\, ethics\, and the future of humanity have become central to understanding the role of AI in contemporary society. We recommend participation in our Program: \;Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: Foundations\, Challenges and Applications to all those who want to understand and become familiar with this new form of intelligence and reflect on how our lives may change with its emergence.
ORGANIZER;CN=Roman Krzanowski: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270531T170000 SUMMARY:UK XPHI Online: 2026 Series UID:20261111T175418Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the next series of UK XPHI Online. This is a monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy (broadly construed). We feature work from all areas of experimental philosophy\, by researchers at all career stages\, from the UK and all over the world. The workshop meets once a month on Teams\, typically the second Wednesday of each month (16:00-18:00 UK time)\, for a two-hour session that typically features two talks (each 40 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&\;A). \;
\nOct 14\, 16-18 UK
\nRedesigning Ethical Thought Experiments: Reassessing the Experimental Challenge to Moral Intuition\, Pietro Tunesi (Trinity College Dublin)
\nWhat people (don't) want to know in the moral domain\, Jordan Wylie (Cornell University)\, Nathan Liang (Cornell University)\, and Charlotte Austin (Cornell University)
\nNov 11\, 16-18 UK
\nMoral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging: An Experimental Investigation\, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)\, Kevin Reuter (University of Gothenburg)\, Somogy Varga (Aarhus University)\,
\n(CANCELLED) The Side-Effect Effect and &ldquo\;Intentionally&rdquo\;\, Lilian O&rsquo\;Brien (Tampere University\, University of Helsinki)\, Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki).
\nDec 9\, 16-18 UK
\nMischaracterization Objection 2.0\, David Bordonaba-Plou (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)\, Krzysztof Sękowski (University of Warsaw)
\nFrom Thought Experiments to Experimental Evidence: Transparency and Quality of Reporting in Experimental Philosophy: Bartosz Maćkiewicz (University of Warsaw)\, Katarzyna Kuś (University of Warsaw)\, Joanna Gęgotek (University of Warsaw)\, Monika Gurak (University of Warsaw)\, and Franciszek Kittel (University of Warsaw).
\nJan 13\, 16-18 UK
\nNARRABODY: Narrative and Body in Post-Stroke Selfhood. A Longitudinal Qualitative Study\, Camille Lé\;pingle (ENS de Lyon)
\nA cross-cultural\, qualitative study on HPV vaccination intention\, Konrad Henne (University of Heidelberg)\, Alejandra Petino Zappala (Ruhr University Bochum)\, Nora Heinzelmann (University of Heidelberg)
\nFeb 10\, 16-18 UK
\nDo subjects have revelation intuitions?\, Marcus Ashby (King&rsquo\;s College London)
\nCorrect\, incorrect\, or neither? Demonstrating and explaining variation in folk normative objectivism\, Mikló\;s Kü\;rthy (University of Graz)\, Geoffrey Goodwin (University of Pennsylvania)\, Paulo Sousa (Queen's University Belfast).
\nTo submit for future series\, please email the organizers an abstract of up to 500 words by Dec 15\, 2026 to james.andow@manchester.ac.uk.
\nThis series is organised by:
\nEugen Fischer (UEA)
\nJoanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford)
\nJames Andow (Manchester)
ORGANIZER;CN=James Andow;CN=Joanna Demaree-Cotton;CN=Eugen Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261005T113000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261130T170000 SUMMARY:Computational Social Philosophy of AI Seminars (CSPAIS 2026) UID:20261111T175419Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Computational methods and simulations have become a fruitful methodology for philosophers\, particularly for understanding how social relations\, norms\, and communicative structures could and should shape inquiry. Work in computational social philosophy has illuminated phenomena ranging from the epistemic value of diversity and the dynamics of epistemic belonging to the emergence and erosion of norms and processes of polarization.
\nGenerative and agentic AI tools stand to profoundly reshape computational social philosophy in at least two ways:
\nAs objects of study for computational social philosophy. Generative and agentic AI are increasingly embedded in epistemic life: as sources of information\, interlocutors\, surrogates for social participants\, gatekeepers within epistemic communities\, and even partially autonomous epistemic actors. This should motivate a broadening of purview in social epistemology\, which has tended to focus primarily on personal\, interpersonal\, and institutional factors that impact inquiry\, but comparatively less on technological factors. \;
\nAs tools of study for computational social philosophy. These systems can lower the technical barriers to computational work. More interestingly\, they may expand the range of social phenomena philosophers can model\, including richer representations of agents&rsquo\; beliefs and behavior\, more complex interactions and environments\, and even digital-twin-style models of particular communities or institutions.
\nThis cluster brings together philosophers working in\, or seriously engaging with\, computational social philosophy. We are eager to gather a cohort who can bring rigor\, clarity\, and intellectual generosity to advancing understanding in relation to the above themes.
\nWe&rsquo\;re particularly interested in philosophical contributions that engage one or more of the following cross-cutting threads:
\nModeling of AI systems as socio-epistemic phenomena: How might explicitly modeling the effects of AI systems within social epistemic processes challenge\, deepen\, or expand existing understanding in social epistemology and philosophy of science?
\nModeling of socio-epistemic phenomena with AI-based tools: What new forms of social epistemological phenomena can AI-based tools help us represent and investigate beyond traditional methods\, such as typical agent-based models?
\nUnderstanding aims and tradeoffs: How should we think about the tradeoffs between promises of AI-based tools (e.g.\, flexibility\, expressive power\, scale) and other desiderata (e.g.\, robustness\, justification\, tractability\, understanding) that have long been central to computational social philosophy? What can we learn about these issues from the use of AI-based tools in other disciplines such as computational social science?
\nMethodological standards: What standards should guide reliable\, reproducible\, and more generally epistemically and ethically responsible philosophical inquiry using AI-based methods in computational social philosophy?
\nPlease note that\, while we welcome expressions of interest from all disciplines\, this is not a general workshop about AI or AI-based simulations. It is a workshop about how deeper engagement with AI systems as objects of modeling studies and as a modeling tool can ultimately enrich and expand philosophical inquiry.
\nTalks
\nDate: September 21\, 2026 \;
\nDate: October 5\, 2026
\nDate: October 19\, 2026
\nDate: November 2\, 2026
\nFormat
\nThe series will consist of bi-weekly virtual meetings\, in the style of CSPS\, starting in October 2026.The meetings are on Mondays at 11:30am ET.
\nApplications
\nYou can submit your application to join the seminars by using this application form: https://forms.gle/SC2iqbZUBU6iB52v6 \;
\nThe application form includes:
\nBasic details: Your name\, email address\, affiliation\, career stage
\nExtended abstracts of up to 750 words and prepared for anonymous review (no identifying information in the abstract itself).
\nThe submission deadline for applications is July 27th\, 2026 [CLOSED].
\nOrganizers
\nSina Fazelpour (Northeastern)
\nLuca Garzino Demo (UPenn) \;
\nPlease direct inquiries to lgarzino@sas.upenn.edu
ORGANIZER;CN=Sina Fazelpour;CN=Luca Garzino Demo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261006T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270706T170000 SUMMARY:Emotion and Society Lab's Works-In-Progress Series (2026-27) UID:20261111T175420Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Philosophers working on emotions want to produce good work. But good work is never done alone. The WIP Series is an opportunity to learn what emotion scholars are working on as well as present works in progress and receive valuable feedback to improve them &mdash\; all in a casual\, friendly environment.
\nThe WIP series is virtual and takes place the first Tuesday of the month from October-July (with no meetings January) from 11:00-12pm Pacific/ 2-3pm Eastern.
At this time\, sessions are for faculty\, graduate students\, &\; independent scholars only.
Register for the zoom link below.
ORGANIZER;CN=Myisha Cherry;CN=Rachel Fredericks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261027T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20270427T170000 SUMMARY:"Ricœur\, Dead or Alive?" Fonds Ricœur Monthly Seminar (ENS\, Paris) UID:20261111T175421Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:École Normale Supérieure\, 45 rue d'Ulm\, Paris\, France\, 75005 DESCRIPTION:Presentation of the Seminar
\nThe seminar "Actualité\;s de Ric&oelig\;ur" ("Ric&oelig\;ur Studies Today") aims to offer a space for discussion and development for early-career research on Ric&oelig\;ur. Hosted at the É\;cole Normale Supé\;rieure for the 2026&ndash\;2027 academic year\, it welcomes proposals from doctoral students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars who wish to explore\, extend\, or put to the test the resources of Paul Ric&oelig\;ur's philosophy.
\nThe first edition of this seminar is entitled "Ric&oelig\;ur\, Dead or Alive?" &mdash\; a deliberately ambiguous formulation\, one that invites us to question both the internal vitality of his &oelig\;uvre and its capacity to nourish the philosophical\, ethical\, and political debates of today.
\nIs Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutic phenomenology not defined\, in essence\, by its defense of &mdash\; and\, as it were\, its "vow" (v&oelig\;u) in favor of &mdash\; life\, the living\, and the lively? But is he still a living interlocutor\, or has his thought sedimented into heritage?
\nThe seminar will follow this format: two speakers per two-hour session\, with 30 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of discussion for each speaker.
\nFor paper proposals\, we welcome submissions engaging with three thematic axes.
\nAxis I. Life as Resistance &ndash\; Language\, Time\, and Action
\nHow does life affirm\, narrate\, and configure itself in the face of what negates it? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutic phenomenology is traversed by a fundamental tension between the power to act and the multiple forms of its hindrance. Confronted with evil\, forgetting\, or indeed death\, Ric&oelig\;ur explores the diverse forms of resistance at work within life &mdash\; metaphors\, narratives\, memories\, history. These resistances\, as actions\, possess an intrinsic logic and continue to create the meaning of life.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n1. Language as resistance: How does the "living metaphor" (The Rule of Metaphor\, 1975) constitute a form of resistance to the "entropy of language\," which freezes meaning? In what sense is semantic innovation a vital act\, a "revival"?
\n2. Narrative as resistance: In Time and Narrative (1983&ndash\;1985)\, emplotment is presented as a provisional victory over temporal discordance. How are we to think this victory in the face of the radicality of Heideggerian "being-towards-death"?
\n3. Memory as resistance: Memory\, History\, Forgetting (2000) distinguishes between forgetting kept in reserve and forgetting through effacement. In what way does this distinction commit us to an ethics of memory as a form of fidelity to life?
\nAxis II. A Life of One's Own &ndash\; Selfhood\, Vulnerability\, Ethicity
\nHow might vulnerability\, far from being a limit of subjectivity\, be its very condition of ethical possibility? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutics of the self is built upon the recognition of a constitutive fragility: narrative identity is always exposed to rupture\, to suffering\, to undergoing the action of the other &mdash\; the other inscribing at the very heart of the self. This axis proposes to deepen reflection on the relation between the self and the other\, and to explore the modes by which a "good life" may be accomplished\, starting from the concrete ordeals of vulnerability: trauma\, the quest for mutual recognition\, and the precariousness of existence.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n4. The ordeal of narrative identity: Oneself as Another (1990) articulates idem-identity and ipse-identity around the self-constancy under trial. What becomes of this articulation when the trial is that of identity's collapse &mdash\; serious illness\, exile\, trauma? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutics of narrative identity also resonates with debates on the performativity of identity and with gender studies (Butler).
\n5. The reciprocity of recognition: In The Course of Recognition (2004)\, Ric&oelig\;ur moves from self-recognition to mutual recognition. How might this course enter into dialogue with contemporary theories of vulnerability (Weil\, Levinas) or of care?
\n6. The ethical life: The "ethical aim" defined in the "ethical studies" (Oneself as Another\, Studies 5-7) seeks to realize a "good life." Does this notion remain operative in the face of situations of thwarted life\, precarity\, or desubjectivation?
\nAxis III. Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s Survival &ndash\; Present Legacies
\nRic&oelig\;ur maintained a singular relationship with his own era\, marked as much by fruitful resonances as by sharp conflicts. This axis seeks to interrogate the philosophical actuality of these past debates: what extensions\, what corrections\, and what ruptures does Ric&oelig\;urian thought call for today? Proposals will place Ric&oelig\;ur's texts in critical dialogue with contemporary problematics\, without confining themselves to historical reconstruction.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n7. Radical alterity in phenomenology: Ric&oelig\;ur engaged in a twofold critical dialogue with Derridean deconstruction and Levinasian ethics &mdash\; two distinct contestations of the autonomy of the self\, the one through the play of language\, the other through the ethical injunction of the face. How do these confrontations\, taken together\, illuminate the limits and the resources of the hermeneutics of the self in the face of the contemporary challenges of hospitality\, communication\, and responsibility?
\n8. Philosophical anthropology: Is the human being\, understood as the "capable human being" (From Text to Action\, 1986)\, in a position to accommodate new forms of agency &mdash\; collective\, distributed\, digital &mdash\; or do its anthropological presuppositions constrain it? In this regard\, Ric&oelig\;urian philosophy could enter into fruitful dialogue with the theories of Stiegler (tertiary retention) and Arendt (collective action).
\n9. Justice today: How might Ric&oelig\;ur's reflections on justice\, collective memory\, and forgiveness (Memory\, History\, Forgetting\, Epilogue) be articulated with the contemporary stakes of memory conflicts\, politics of reconciliation\, or postcolonial reparations? Ric&oelig\;ur's philosophy is bound up with figures such as Halbwachs\, Derrida\, and Honneth. His reflection on memory and forgiveness continues to shed lasting light on the practices of transitional justice.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nTo submit a proposal or for any inquiries\, please write to us at the following address: seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com. Proposals are welcome from doctoral students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars of any discipline (philosophy\, literary studies\, theology\, social sciences\, law)\, provided that they are grounded in Ric&oelig\;ur's texts and in contemporary debates for which Ric&oelig\;urian theory could be fruitfully mobilized. Comparative and transdisciplinary proposals are welcome. We will accept proposals in French and in English.
\nPractical Information
\nContact: seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com
\nVenue: É\;cole Normale Supé\;rieure\, 45 rue d'Ulm\, Paris (75005)
\nUpdate for Oct 27 meeting: Venue has changed : \;at the Institut Protestant de Thé\;ologie (83 Boulevard Arago\, 75014 Paris)\, Building A\, Room 11.
\nFrequency: monthly (2026&ndash\;2027 academic year)\, normally on the last Tuesday of each month\, beginning on Tuesday 27 October.
\nSchedule: 27/10 \; 24/11 \; 15/12 (due to the holiday break) \; 26/01 \; 23/02 \; \; 16/03 \; 30/03 \; 27/04.
\nMeeting Link To join the videoconference\, please click on this permanent link : https://visio.numerique.gouv.fr/how-ewzn-pjk \;
\nTo join by phone\, dial +33 9 79 94 06 78 and enter code: 940 979 8403#
ORGANIZER;CN=Barberousse Tristan;CN=Hu Kexin;CN=Lodi Martina;CN=Chen Qiyu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261030T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270507T170000 SUMMARY:Monthly Phenomenology UID:20261111T175422Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;
We are very pleased to announce the 7th season (2026&ndash\;2027) 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: \;4:15pm CET\, 3:15pm GMT/GMT+1\, 10:15am ET. 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:
Thomas Szanto (Europa-Universitä\;t Flensburg)
The Phenomenology and Affective Politics of Feelings of Belonging
30 October 2026 \;
Andrew Butler (Boston University) \;
Husserl&rsquo\;s Metaphysical Realism: Essence\, Sense\, Experience \;
13 November 2026 \;
Esther Neuhann (Goethe-Universitä\;t Frankfurt/Freie Universitä\;t Berlin)
Embodied Integrity \;
11 December \;2026
Nicolai K. Knudsen (Aarhus University) \;
Shall We? Invitations\, Equality\, and the Routes to Joint Action \;
29 January 2027
Laura Gow (University of Liverpool) \;
Cognitive Phenomenology and Belief-discordant Behaviour \;
12 \;February 2027
Alfredo Tomasetta (IUSS Pavia) \;
Is Intentionality Phenomenal? A Debate in Classical Indian Philosophy
5 \;March 2027
Ali Kerem Eroglu (University of Liè\;ge) \;
Intentionalism without Retention: Brentano on Temporal Experience \;
9 April 2027
Minna-Kerttu Kekki (University of Helsinki) \;
Phenomenology of the State: From Edith Stein to the Present \;
7 May 2027
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 \; \;
&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;
We are pleased to announce that our online fortnightly reading group\, &ldquo\;Language and Thought Before and After Kant&rdquo\;\, is starting again on 04/11/2026. \; \;
\nThe reading group is organized by the Linguistic Kant Consortium\, a research initiative within the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at Ghent University\, Belgium. It brings together a PhD and a Postdoctoral project\, both funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO)\, obtained by Alice Cambi and Levi Haeck Gormez\, respectively (promotor: Professor Gertrudis Van de Vijver). The central aim of the consortium is to explore the intersection of Kant&rsquo\;s transcendental philosophy and philosophy of language and/or linguistics. This area of study has seen a growing wave of interest in recent years\, though there remains a scarcity of resources for scholars and students working on Kant&rsquo\;s philosophy. The Linguistic Kant Consortium seeks to address this gap by (a) organizing the aforementioned fortnightly reading group dedicated to Kant's reflections on language\, as well as his intellectual sources (e.g.\, Locke\, de Condillac\, Rousseau)\, key interlocutors (e.g.\, Herder\, Hamann)\, and the developments in post-Kantian philosophy (e.g.\, von Humboldt\, Hegel). To enrich the discussions\, the reading group also (b) features regular lectures by leading experts.
\nThis semester\, the group will be reading the Metacritique on the Purism of Reason by Hamann and the Origin of Languages and Writing by Tetens. \; \;
\nSCHEDULE
\n4/11\, 3-5 PM CET: J. G. Hamann's Metacritique on the Purism of Reason
\n18/11\, 3-5 PM CET: J. N. Tetens' On the Origin of Languages and Writing (Part I-V)
\n2/12\, 3-5 PM CET: J. N. Tetens' On the Origin of Languages and Writing (Part VI-VII) \;
\nWe warmly invite all interested students and colleagues to join us for the discussions. \; To be included in the mailing list\, receive the Teams link\, and the schedule of the reading group\, send an email to [Alice.Cambi@UGent.be]
ORGANIZER;CN=Alice Cambi;CN=Levi Haeck Gormez: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261108T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261122T170000 SUMMARY:Fractured Ontologies in Music UID:20261111T175424Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:a 3-session seminar with Andrea F. de Donato\, Gorica Orsholits &\; Carlos A. Segovia &bull\; with guest contributions by Luigi Attademo &\; Gaia Ferrantini
SEMINAR DESCRIPTION
Fractured Ontologies in Music explores musical forms in which fracture becomes a productive way of organizing musical experience. From the spectral dispersions of the French style brisé\; to the phantomic operations of fantasia and the mutable structures of variation in the Romantic piano repertoire\, music emerges as a field where presence is continually refracted through absence\, interruption\, and excess. Across these perspectives\, the seminar asks how musical forms might resist organic wholeness without simply celebrating its dissolution\, opening instead onto modes of existence that are multiple\, unstable\, and generative.
Session I (&ldquo\;Style Brisé\;&rsquo\;s Ghost: Neither Unity Nor Its Loss\,&rdquo\; with Carlos A. Segovia and a guest contribution by Luigi Attademo) explores how French Baroque music&mdash\;and the lute world within it in particular&mdash\;is an anomaly running perpendicular to the principles of development of modern European music. Neither is architecture in it prior to expression\, as in Renaissance polyphony\, nor does drama determine form\, as in the Italian Baroque&mdash\;the development of these tendencies having resulted in Classicism and Romanticism\, and post-Romanticism having dissolved organic wholeness wherever it emerged. The French style brisé\; or luthé\;&mdash\;which is not merely a style but an aesthetic field with its own affective ontology&mdash\;thus amounts to modernity&rsquo\;s musical ghost. Two ideas define it: the refraction and diffraction of the experienceable. Through them\, harmony and rhythm\, to which melody is subordinated\, disperse into echoes\, delays\, and interruptions\, from the repertoire to the individual note. Music thus becomes spectral: neither does unity precede fragmentation\, nor is fragmentation the effect of its loss\; rather\, fracture itself becomes the condition of its manifestation. Hence\, the French style brisé\; inhabited positively what modernism would seek through negation\, thereby unsettling the narrative of today&rsquo\;s dominant musical aesthetics.
In turn\, Session II (&ldquo\;Fantasia: The Sounding of a Phantom\,&rdquo\; with Gorica Orsholits) examines fantasia: an imagined musical composition that represents the free-form\, improvisational\, and irrational power of imagination through sound\, overcoming the limits of ordinary conceptual thinking. The structure of fantasia is a bridge between the sensory and the supersensory\, where music does not imitate the external world\, but directly expresses the inner essence and movement of consciousness\, ignoring common harmonic structures to achieve hyper-sensual experiences. Fantasia operates through phantasm which represents a phantomic sound operation that exposes the visibility of its being through a disguise\, a phantom\, a non-being. The phantomic event of non-being is a combination of real and completely invented situations where the trace of a presence appears as an absence. The original fantasias were compositions intended for the lute and related string instruments\, and later for keyboard instruments. In Baroque music\, fantasia acquires a more extensive\, technically complex structure while in the classical period\, it appears in more freely-formed sonata movements. In the Romantic period\, it is encountered as the title of various compositions. Fantasia in contemporary music changes shape and embodies musical expressionist melodrama\, speech-songs and forms of dark\, phantasmagoric musical fantasias.
Lastly\, Session III (&ldquo\;The Mutant Sound Object: Paganini-Liszt &\; Variation\,&rdquo\; with Andrea F. de Donato and a guest contribution by Gaia Ferrantini) focuses on the problem of variation. After providing an introductory overview of how the concept of variation can be defined differently in philosophy and musicology\, the session presents a case study of Franz Liszt&rsquo\;s Grandes é\;tudes de Paganini\, S. 141\, from 1851. This work serves as an exemplary case to demonstrate how creative thought and the structuring of a musical style can constitute multiple levels of ontological expressibility. Thus the session begins with a comparative analysis of the 1851 é\;tudes and an earlier version\, published by Liszt in 1838 under the title É\;tudes d&rsquo\;exé\;cution transcendante d&rsquo\;aprè\;s Paganini\, S. 140. Next\, focusing on É\;tude No. 3\, &ldquo\;La Campanella\,&rdquo\; four different modes of variation are identified: functional\, semantic\, sound\, and spatial variation. Supported by specific audio and score excerpts\, key harmonic characteristics are analyzed\, providing the following conclusions: 1. the four modes of variation structure a distinctive sound object&mdash\;not monadic and isolated\, but processual and mutant\; 2. from this sound object\, an ontology based on variation may be derived. Whether and how this variational ontology\, derived from the Paganini-Liszt é\;tudes\, might constitute a fractured ontology is likewise examined.
TIME
3 Sundays\, November 8\, 15\, and 22\, 2026
10:00&ndash\;12:00 Eastern Time Zone &bull\; 16:00&ndash\;18:00 Central European
SESSIONS
Session I &bull\; November 8\, 2026
Style Brisé\;&rsquo\;s Ghost
Neither Unity Nor Its Loss
with Carlos A. Segovia
Session II &bull\; November 15\, 2026
Fantasia
The Sounding of a Phantom
with Gorica Orsholits
Session III &bull\; November 22\, 2026
The Mutant Sound Object
Paganini-Liszt &\; Variation
with Andrea F. de Donato
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the call for abstracts for the colloquium &ldquo\;From Leibniz to Kant: Ruptures and Continuities&rdquo\;\, to be held from November 10 to 13\, 2026\, at the Faculty of Philosophy\, Languages\, and Human Sciences of the University of Sã\;o Paulo (FFLCH&ndash\;USP).
\nThe colloquium will feature keynote lectures\, panel discussions\, and communications. Communications will be limited to a maximum of 30 minutes\, with additional time for questions. Abstracts should be between 200 and 400 words. We also request the submission of a preliminary bibliography\, limited to 300 words. Submissions may be made only by graduate researchers (master&rsquo\;s and doctoral students)\, as well as by holders of master&rsquo\;s and doctoral degrees. Abstracts may be submitted in Portuguese\, Spanish\, English\, French\, German\, or Italian. They will be evaluated by a scientific committee\, which reserves the right to select them according to criteria of philosophical rigor and historical-thematic delimitation. After acceptance\, full papers of between 2\,500 and 3\,000 words must be submitted to the organizing committee.
\nExtended deadline for abstract submission: 10/07/2026
ORGANIZER;CN=Pedro Casalotti Farhat;CN=Robson Carvalho dos Santos;CN="Caio Aruanã Batista": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Caracas:20261111T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Caracas:20261113T170000 SUMMARY:VII Simposio Internacional Ilusión\, Autoengaño y Verdad UID:20261111T175426Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:America/Caracas LOCATION:Caracas\, Venezuela DESCRIPTION:With the theme "Illusion\, Self-Deception\, and Truth\," the USB-USAL-USACH Philosophical Research Group continues\, at its VII International Symposium\, the lines of inquiry initiated in previous editions. This year\, the symposium will examine\, from various philosophical disciplines\, the impact of the interactions and indeterminacies between illusion\, self-deception\, and truth on contemporary philosophy and the world. Among other topics\, the symposium will address illusion and virtuality\, the mechanisms of the perceptual and discursive constitution of our beliefs about the world and subjectivity\, the problem of truth and falsehood\, biased cognition\, and more\, seeking to examine the limits and paradoxes of truth in the face of self-deception and illusion.
ORGANIZER;CN=Miguel Cabrera Machado: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T170000 SUMMARY:Moral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging: An Experimental Investigation UID:20261111T175427Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the next series of UK XPHI Online. This is a monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy (broadly construed). We feature work from all areas of experimental philosophy\, by researchers at all career stages\, from the UK and all over the world. The workshop meets once a month on Teams\, typically the second Wednesday of each month (16:00-18:00 UK time)\, for a two-hour session that typically features two talks (each 40 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&\;A). \;
\n\;Talk 1
\nTalk 2
\nOct 14\, 16-18 UK
\nRedesigning Ethical Thought Experiments: Reassessing the Experimental Challenge to Moral Intuition\, Pietro Tunesi (Trinity College Dublin)
\nWhat people (don't) want to know in the moral domain\, Jordan Wylie (Cornell University)\, Nathan Liang (Cornell University)\, and Charlotte Austin (Cornell University)
\nNov 11\, 16-18 UK
\nMoral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging: An Experimental Investigation\, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)\, Kevin Reuter (University of Gothenburg)\, Somogy Varga (Aarhus University)\,
\nThe Side-Effect Effect and &ldquo\;Intentionally&rdquo\;\, Lilian O&rsquo\;Brien (Tampere University\, University of Helsinki)\, Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki).
\nDec 9\, 16-18 UK
\nMischaracterization Objection 2.0\, David Bordonaba-Plou (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)\, Krzysztof Sękowski (University of Warsaw)
\nFrom Thought Experiments to Experimental Evidence: Transparency and Quality of Reporting in Experimental Philosophy: Bartosz Maćkiewicz (University of Warsaw)\, Katarzyna Kuś (University of Warsaw)\, Joanna Gęgotek (University of Warsaw)\, Monika Gurak (University of Warsaw)\, and Franciszek Kittel (University of Warsaw).
\nJan 13\, 16-18 UK
\nNARRABODY: Narrative and Body in Post-Stroke Selfhood. A Longitudinal Qualitative Study\, Camille Lé\;pingle (ENS de Lyon)
\nA cross-cultural\, qualitative study on HPV vaccination intention\, Konrad Henne (University of Heidelberg)\, Alejandra Petino Zappala (Ruhr University Bochum)\, Nora Heinzelmann (University of Heidelberg)
\nFeb 10\, 16-18 UK
\nDo subjects have revelation intuitions?\, Marcus Ashby (King&rsquo\;s College London)
\nCorrect\, incorrect\, or does it depend? Demonstrating and explaining variation in folk metanormative judgment\, Mikló\;s Kü\;rthy (University of Graz)\, Geoffrey Goodwin (University of Pennsylvania)\, Paulo Sousa (Queen's University Belfast).
\nTo submit for future series\, please email the organizers an abstract of up to 500 words by July 15\, 2026 to james.andow@manchester.ac.uk.
\nThis series is organised by:
\nEugen Fischer (UEA)
\nJoanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford)
\nJames Andow (Manchester)
ORGANIZER;CN=James Andow;CN=Joanna Demaree-Cotton;CN=Eugen Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T183000 SUMMARY:Carnap on internal and external questions UID:20261111T175428Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Dear all\,
\nThis is a kind reminder that the next talk in the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026 will be delivered by Thomas Hofweber on Wednesday\, November 11\, 2026.
\nSpeaker: Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Title: Carnap on internal and external questions
Time: Wednesday\, November 11\, 2026 &mdash\; 4:30&ndash\;6:30 pm CET (10:30 am&ndash\;12:30 pm EST)
Link: Meet - uaq-jqpf-mwr
The abstract is provided below. 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
\nVideos of past presentations are available on the YouTube channel of the series&mdash\;feel free to explore and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@reconstructingcarnap.
\nThe series is organized in collaboration with Carnap in Context IV (Ö\;AW\, FWF Grant PAT7905424) and Rudolf Carnap Digital (MCMP\, LMU Munich).
\nAll the best\,
Caterina
Carnap on internal and external questions
By Thomas Hofweber (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Carnap&rsquo\;s celebrated distinction between internal and external questions can be seen as an attempt to solve a more general problem about the relationship between philosophy\, especially metaphysics\, and the sciences. The puzzle about this relationship is that sometimes we use the very same language when we apparently want to do very different things. How this tension can be resolved is a general problem that has potentially many very different solutions. In this talk I will outline what I take Carnap&rsquo\;s solution to be and what insights and flaws I see in it. Then I will outline a different solution that is partly inspired by Carnap\, but also partly non-Carnapian. This solution also accepts a distinction between internal and external questions\, but it has very different consequences for the status of metaphysics and how it relates to the sciences.
ORGANIZER;CN=Caterina Del Sordo;CN=Luca Oliva;CN=Silvano Zipoli Caiani: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261111T180000 SUMMARY:(CANCELLED) The Side-Effect Effect and “Intentionally” UID:20261111T175429Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the next series of UK XPHI Online. This is a monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy (broadly construed). We feature work from all areas of experimental philosophy\, by researchers at all career stages\, from the UK and all over the world. The workshop meets once a month on Teams\, typically the second Wednesday of each month (16:00-18:00 UK time)\, for a two-hour session that typically features two talks (each 40 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&\;A). \;
\n\;Talk 1
\nTalk 2
\nOct 14\, 16-18 UK
\nRedesigning Ethical Thought Experiments: Reassessing the Experimental Challenge to Moral Intuition\, Pietro Tunesi (Trinity College Dublin)
\nWhat people (don't) want to know in the moral domain\, Jordan Wylie (Cornell University)\, Nathan Liang (Cornell University)\, and Charlotte Austin (Cornell University)
\nNov 11\, 16-18 UK
\nMoral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging: An Experimental Investigation\, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)\, Kevin Reuter (University of Gothenburg)\, Somogy Varga (Aarhus University)\,
\nThe Side-Effect Effect and &ldquo\;Intentionally&rdquo\;\, Lilian O&rsquo\;Brien (Tampere University\, University of Helsinki)\, Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki).
\nDec 9\, 16-18 UK
\nMischaracterization Objection 2.0\, David Bordonaba-Plou (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)\, Krzysztof Sękowski (University of Warsaw)
\nFrom Thought Experiments to Experimental Evidence: Transparency and Quality of Reporting in Experimental Philosophy: Bartosz Maćkiewicz (University of Warsaw)\, Katarzyna Kuś (University of Warsaw)\, Joanna Gęgotek (University of Warsaw)\, Monika Gurak (University of Warsaw)\, and Franciszek Kittel (University of Warsaw).
\nJan 13\, 16-18 UK
\nNARRABODY: Narrative and Body in Post-Stroke Selfhood. A Longitudinal Qualitative Study\, Camille Lé\;pingle (ENS de Lyon)
\nA cross-cultural\, qualitative study on HPV vaccination intention\, Konrad Henne (University of Heidelberg)\, Alejandra Petino Zappala (Ruhr University Bochum)\, Nora Heinzelmann (University of Heidelberg)
\nFeb 10\, 16-18 UK
\nDo subjects have revelation intuitions?\, Marcus Ashby (King&rsquo\;s College London)
\nCorrect\, incorrect\, or does it depend? Demonstrating and explaining variation in folk metanormative judgment\, Mikló\;s Kü\;rthy (University of Graz)\, Geoffrey Goodwin (University of Pennsylvania)\, Paulo Sousa (Queen's University Belfast).
\nTo submit for future series\, please email the organizers an abstract of up to 500 words by Dec 15\, 2026 to james.andow@manchester.ac.uk.
\nThis series is organised by:
\nEugen Fischer (UEA)
\nJoanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford)
\nJames Andow (Manchester)
ORGANIZER;CN=James Andow;CN=Joanna Demaree-Cotton;CN=Eugen Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261111T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261111T130000 SUMMARY:Philosophy Undergraduate Conference UID:20261111T175430Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:London\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Western&rsquo\;s Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) Chapter is pleased to announce our 10th annual Minorities and Philosophy Undergraduate Conference\, taking place on March 19th\, 2027. This huge milestone marks a decade of celebrating the philosophical works of undergraduate students at Western! Over the past decade\, undergraduate students have been fortunate enough to have an active MAP chapter\, dedicated to making space for students with marginalized identities to do very important work. We are proud to continue this tradition\, especially amidst shifting political climates and declining support for academic programs that focus on social justice\, diversity\, and equality for all.
\nUnfortunately\, this is not a space that many undergraduate students have access to at their own institutions. That is why\, in true MAP spirit\, this year\, we will be accepting papers from undergraduate students from all academic institutions. While we are unable to provide funding for travel and lodging expenses for presenters\, a limited number of virtual presentation spots will be available for those who cannot make it in person.
\nIn keeping with MAP&rsquo\;s values and commitments\, we welcome papers that engage with philosophical questions concerning gender\, race\, sexuality\, class\, disability\, and other related areas. These themes can intersect with other areas of philosophy. Although papers must engage with philosophical questions\, applicants need not be majoring\, minoring\, or specializing in philosophy. \; Please note that presentations will be no more than 15 minutes long\, followed by a short Q&\;A period. The authors of accepted papers will be matched up with MAP representatives to help them prepare for the conference. Students are encouraged to submit a relevant term paper from a previous class.
\n
Submissions are expected to meet the following requirements:
Deadline: Email papers to the Western MAP email address: map@uwo.ca by December 11th\, 2026.
ORGANIZER;CN=Purya Rabet;CN=Shayanuthaa Indran;CN=Isabella Braga;CN=Leonie Webb: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261112T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261114T170000 SUMMARY:10th International Transdisciplinary Symposium "Bioethics and Aporia of Psyche" - Call for Abstracts UID:20261111T175431Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Jordanovac 110\, Zagreb\, Croatia DESCRIPTION:Esteemed colleagues\, respected friends and associates\,
\nIt is our honour and great pleasure to invite you to contribute with presentations at the jubilee 10th International Transdisciplinary Symposium Bioethics and the Aporia of \; Psyche.
\nThe event will take place in a celebratory atmosphere from November 12 to 14\, 2026\, at various locations in Zagreb. Building upon the traditional breadth and live significance of the topics\, the inter- and transdisciplinary diversity of keynote speakers\, and the rich array of themes and program segments\, this year we are appropriately focusing on a comprehensive overview of the symposium series held to date.
\nWith a clear vision directed toward the future of the human person &ndash\; navigating the space of possibilities and challenges found within the bioethical horizons of destigmatization\, empathy\, and inclusion &ndash\; we aim to continue fostering new collaborative networks both domestically and internationally\, as well as various project initiatives in the field of mental health in society.
\nUnited on a platform of pluriperspectivism\, orientational knowledge\, and integrative reflection and action &ndash\; and encouraged by previous gatherings\, a resolute perspective\, and a commitment to following the path of bioethical sensibility &ndash\; our goal this year remains to integrate and spread a culture of empathy\, understanding\, support\, and care!
\nKey conference topics:
\n- Reflections based on experience regarding the state of inclusion and destigmatization in Croatia (and regions) over the past decade
\n- Bioethical foundations and challenges of philosophical practice in Croatia and the region
\n- The relationship between psychotherapy and pastoral care
\n- Bioethics and mental health &ndash\; the intersection of applied ethics and philosophical practice
\n- Spiritual exercises: between mental gymnastics\, psychotherapy\, and the sacrament
\n- Logotherapy: between psychotherapy\, spirituality\, and religiosity
\n- Phenomenology of psychopathology &ndash\; the enactment of interdisciplinary dialogue in the research and practical spheres of mental health and the human psyche
\n- Points of convergence between upbringing\, education\, art\, and the psyche &ndash\; practical examples and guidelines
\nIn addition to the suggested topics\, you are welcome to propose other presentation topics based on your own interests and areas of focus.
\nThe symposium will be held in a hybrid format\, allowing for both in-person and online participation. The official languages of the conference are English and Croatian (including related languages).
\nPlease submit the completed forms by November 1\, 2026\, via the following e-mail address: \;hufp.hr@gmail.com
\nRegistration fees for active participation (presenters) are:
\n1. \;0 euros (free of charge) for retirees\, the unemployed\, and graduate students
\n2. \; 25 euros for all others
\nVenues:
\nFaculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies\, University of Zagreb (Jordanovac 110)
\nUniversity Centre for Integrative Bioethics\, University of Zagreb (Ivana Lučića 1a)
\nFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Zagreb (I. Lučića 3)
\nOrganizers of this year's conference:
\nCroatian Philosophical Practice Association\, "Ludruga" Association\, Croatian Institute for Mental Health Research and Education (HIIEMZ)\, Centre for Bioethics of the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies (University of Zagreb)\, Mental Health Office of the Croatian Institute of Public Health (HZJZ)\, University Centre for Integrative Bioethics (University of Zagreb)\, Croatian Philosophical Society\, Amigdala Centre\, Croatian Bioethics Society.
\nWith warm regards and a cordial invitation\,
Asst. Prof. Luka Jane&scaron\;\, PhD
Chair of the Organizing Committee
10th International Transdisciplinary Symposium
Bioethics and Aporia of Psyche
What do cognitive scientists explain when they explain a behaviour\, and what would count as having explained it? How do computational\, mechanistic\, representational and dynamical accounts of the same phenomenon relate &mdash\; do they compete\, complement one another\, or answer different questions? Where do the methods and models of empirical research come from\, and how well do they fit what they are meant to describe? What\, if anything\, do artificial systems teach us about biological minds?
\nQuestions of this kind keep coming up because there is no shortage of findings about the mind. What is scarce is a clear account of how they hang together\, or whether they do. Modelling the Mind is a seminar series for working that out in the open\, one talk at a time. The aim is to contribute to an empirically informed philosophical understanding of the mind and of the methods by which it is studied.
\nUpcoming talks:
\nFri 9 October 2026 - Silvano Zipoli Caiani (Università\; degli Studi di Firenze)
\nFri 16 October 2026 - Matteo Colombo (Tilburg University)
\nThu 12 November 2026 - Dimitri Coelho Mollo (Umeå\; University)
\nThu 10 December 2026 - Beate Krickel (Technische Universitä\;t Berlin)
\nMon 18 January 2027 - Nina Poth (Radboud University)
\nThu 11 February 2027 - Andrew Richmond (University of Otago)
\nWed 3 March 2027 - Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri)
\nWed 31 March 2027 - Grace Lindsay (New York University)
\nWed 21 April 2027 - Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh)
\nFri 7 May 2027 - Danielle Williams (New York University)
\nThu 27 May 2027 - Alfredo Paternoster (Università\; degli Studi di Bergamo)
\nEach session pairs a 45-minute talk with an extended discussion. Each talk of the seminar series is in hybrid form. Attendance is free\, in person and remotely\, and everyone is welcome at any career stage.
\nFor info on abstracts\, Zoom links\, times of the talks (in UTC) and to subscribe to the mailing list - \;in order to receive by email all of the above information and reminders of the talks \;- visit our website at the link below.
ORGANIZER;CN=Claudio Fabbroni: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261112T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261112T170000 SUMMARY:Representations and ontologies: what tools do we need to explain deep neural networks? UID:20261111T175433Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici\, Via Porta di Massa 1\, Napoli\, Italy\, 80133 DESCRIPTION:Deep neural networks have increasingly become objects of scientific and philosophical investigation in their own right. In this talk\, I examine the possibilities and challenges of applying key concepts from the cognitive sciences to the domain of advanced connectionist systems. In particular\, I focus on whether and in what way the notions of internal representation and cognitive ontology can play a role in the project of better understanding how today&rsquo\;s large language models work.
ORGANIZER;CN=Claudio Fabbroni: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261112T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261112T173000 SUMMARY:Alba Montes Sánchez: The affective ambivalence of migration privilege UID:20261111T175434Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:BSP Research Seminar 2026
\n\nSession 4
\nAlba Montes Sá\;nchez
\nOnline | November | Free
\nThe 2026 season of the BSP Research Seminar runs for five months from August to December\, with one session every month featuring a speaker from the world of phenomenology.
\n\nAlba Montes Sá\;nchez
\nThe affective ambivalence of migration privilege
\n\nDate and time: Thursday 12 November 2026\, 16:00&ndash\;17:30 UK/Ireland time\, corresponding to 17:00&ndash\;18:30 Madrid time
\n\nThe notion of privilege has become increasingly prevalent in recent analyses of the marginalization of oppressed minorities. Activists urge increasing number of groups to &ldquo\;check their privilege&rdquo\; &mdash\; for example\, racial or gender privilege &mdash\; and take responsibility for what they find. For a great number of people\, this process can cause unpleasant emotions such as discomfort\, guilt or shame. Thus\, philosophers are devoting more and more attention to the phenomenology and moral psychology of discomfort in these morally-laden contexts\, and a debate has emerged on whether or not discomfort can be morally productive and\, if so\, how best to harness it towards social justice.
\n\nIn this talk\, I focus on a case that is seldom discussed in the literature: discomfort about migration privilege. My aim is to take the first steps towards an account of the moral emotional landscape of this ambiguous form of privilege. In other words\, I seek to map and explore the consequences of the ambivalent feelings that migrants who relocate in comparatively advantaged financial\, legal or cultural conditions experience about their situation. I do this based on the preliminary study of three vignettes from fieldwork among intra-EU migrants\, to show that discomfort about privilege can have\, at least\, two opposing consequences. On the one hand\, it has the counter-productive effect of leading privileged migrants to trying to ignore and neglecting to address their own suffering linked to migratory grief\, for example. Nonetheless\, on the other\, it can increase solidarity and encourage building bridges towards less privileged migrants to improve everyone&rsquo\;s conditions.
\n\nFind out more about session 4 - including free online joining instructions - and the remaining session of the BSP Research Seminar 2026 at BSP Online.
\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Alessandro Guardascione: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20261113T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20261113T070000 SUMMARY:The Right of War in Grotius and Hobbes UID:20261111T175435Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/Istanbul LOCATION:Middle East Technical University Üniversiteler Mahallesi\, Dumlupınar Bulvarı No:1\, Ankara\, Turkey\, 06800 DESCRIPTION:The Hobbes Scholars International Association Sixth International Conference
\n13-14 November\, 2026
&ldquo\;The Right of War in Grotius and Hobbes&rdquo\;
Department of Philosophy - Middle East Technical University
Ü\;niversiteler Mahallesi\, Dumlupınar Bulvarı No:1\, 06800 Ç\;ankaya/Ankara Turkey
We invite papers on theories of war in Grotius and Hobbes for presentation and discussion during the Sixth International Conference Thomas Hobbes organized by the Hobbes Scholars International Association which is to be held on 13-14 November 2026 at the Middle East Technical University.
\n
Format of the conference :
Presentation of 20 minutes and discussion
Languages :
English and French
If you would like to present a paper\, please send a short abstract (no more than 500 words) by August 20 2026 to Liang PANG (Email : ).
\n
We will inform you of the result of the selection by August 31 2026.
If your contribution is accepted\, you will have to send the complete paper by October 15 2026.
Keynote lectures :
Yves Charles ZARKA\, Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne\, Université\; Paris Cité\;
James GRIFFITH\, Assistant professor\, Middle East Technical University
----------------------------
Pr. Didier MINEUR
President of the Hobbes Scholars International Association
Professor at Sciences Po Rennes \; Researcher at PHILé\;POL\, Université\; Paris Cité\;
Format of the conference :
Presentation of 20 minutes and discussion
Languages :
English and French
Event dedicated to the memory of Susan Haack.
\nLogic is often regarded as neutral within a theoretical\, conceptual framework.
\nOn a traditional view\, it is topic-neutral and metaphysically neutral: its laws and principles apply irrespective of subject matter\, abstracting from the particular domains to which they are applied. In this sense\, logic would provide a framework for reasoning independent of what we are reasoning about. Moreover\, as a scientific discipline\, logic is commonly expected to be neutral to social and political commitments. Indeed\, because of its high degree of abstraction\, this may be expected of logic more strongly than of most other disciplines.
\nMeanwhile\, the purely theoretical view on logic faces revisions from research practices through logical devices. Within a practical framework\, some philosophers and logicians have nevertheless questioned whether logic is genuinely neutral. For instance\, some have questioned whether topic-neutrality can be sustained considering debates over logical pluralism\, expressive power\, and domain pertinence. Others have discussed whether logic can\, in practice\, be disentangled from the social and institutional contexts in which it is developed\, taught\, and applied.
\nThis workshop will examine the idea of logical neutrality from multiple perspectives.
\nProgram
\nConsult the program and the content of the presentations in our book of abstracts.
\nhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1U_nUL-aCLy-aDMLlnNk8H8-M4EOZHSFp
\nRegistration
\nParticipation is free\, but you must register using the form below:
\nhttps://forms.gle/HRgmz38g5M2w1Vqw6
\nAcknowledgements
\nThe workshop is generously funded by Faculty 10&rsquo\;s Mentoring Program\, the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (Gesellschaft fü\;r analytische Philosophie e.V.\, GAP).\, and the German Society for Philosophy of Science (Gesellschaft fü\;r Wissenschaftsphilosophie e.V.\, GWP).
ORGANIZER;CN=Luis F. Bartolo Alegre;CN=Zhouwanyue Nata Yang: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261113T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261113T183000 SUMMARY:Evaluating Procedural and Pluralistic Moral Reasoning in Language Models UID:20261111T175438Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This is an online seminar. Each session lasts no more than one hour\, comprising approximately 25 minutes of presentation followed by 25 minutes of questions and exchange. The seminar welcomes philosophers\, digital humanists\, computer scientists\, anthropologists\, cognitive scientists\, and anyone interested in how computational approaches can enrich philosophical research.
The seminar is free and open to all. Interested participants are welcome to join by sending an email with the subject line "Participation in Seminar Cultural Analytics and Digital Approaches in Philosophy" to lgarzon@us.es
The Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh invites you to join us for our 67th Annual Lecture Series Talk. Attend in person in room 1008 in the Cathedral of Learning (10th Floor) \; or visit our live stream on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.
\nThe Annual Lecture Series\, the Center&rsquo\;s oldest program\, was established in 1960\, the year when Adolf Grü\;nbaum founded the Center. Each year the series consists of six to eight lectures\, about three quarters of which are given by philosophers\, historians\, and scientists from other universities.
\nAnnual Leture Series &ndash\;John Morrison
\nFriday\, November 13th @ 3:30 pm - 5:30pm EDT
\n1008 Cathedral of Learning \;
\nTitle: \; \;Do neural networks understand what they are doing?
\nAbstract: \;
\nIt is often claimed that neural networks construct models of the world (&ldquo\;world models&rdquo\;) and do not merely exploit heuristics. In this sense\, they are said to understand their tasks. But it is not always clear what having a world model amounts to\, or what should count as evidence for or against. In the first half of the talk\, I propose a minimal notion of a world model: a single\, unified representation of a task that preserves its structural relations. I explain how this notion sits within a hierarchy of stronger ones\, and argue that many disputes about world models are merely verbal. In the second half of the talk\, I reassess the standard example of a network using a world model: Othello-GPT\, a transformer widely taken to use a model of the Othello board. I argue that the existing evidence is ambiguous once we adopt the right baselines and the right metrics. I then introduce another kind of evidence that favors the heuristic interpretation: how quickly the network learns variants of Othello that extend rather than scramble the board&rsquo\;s geometry. I end by drawing general lessons for attributing world models to neural networks\, and by describing similar approaches for attributing algorithms and probabilistic inference.
\nCan&rsquo\;t make it in-person? This talk will available online through
\nZoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/98388637045 and \;
\nYouTube: \; \;https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrRp47ZMXD7NXO3a9Gyh2sg.
\n\nA reception with light refreshments will follow in The Center on the 11th floor from 5-6pm.
ORGANIZER;CN=Edouard Machery: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261113T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261113T234500 SUMMARY:Perspectives about Truth 5 UID:20261111T175440Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Perspectives \;about \;Truth 5 \;(November 20-21\, 2026 - online)
\nTruth \;is \;a \;central \;notion \;in philosophy and in many related areas of inquiry.Through \;this \;conference\, we aim to provide an opportunity for researchers to debate the concept of truth and related notions. To encourage constructive discussions\, the \;topics \;will \;be \;organised into panels\, allowing participants to engage \;with others who share similar interests. \;
\nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
\nScott F. Aikin (Vanderbilt University)
\nSorin BANGU (University of Bergen)
\nMircea DUMITRU (University of Bucharest)
\nMona SIMION (University of Oxford)
\nPanel1:Truth in Analytic Philosophy (Organisers: Paula Tomi\, Adrian Ludușan)
\nPanel 1\, part A: Truth and other semantic notions
\nIn analytic philosophy\, various theories of truth aim to define the nature of truth and provide a comprehensive account. From substantive theories (such as coherence and correspondence) to deflationary approaches\, each perspective offers distinct strengths and limitations. We welcome presentations that engage with fundamental questions regarding truth and related semantic notions\, including specific kinds of truth such as modal truth. Sample research topics include\, but are certainly not limited to:
\nPanel 1\, part B: Truth and AI
\nIn a society that aims towards knowledge and progress\, truth is an essential concept for distinguishing genuine information from misinformation\, disinformation\, and conspiracy theories. In the context of artificial intelligence (AI)\, we expect systems to provide relevant\, reliable\, and accurate output. Thus\, an AI model must be able to filter false information from accurate data. This panel aims to address - without being limited to - questions such as:
\nPanel 2:Truth \;in/of the Anthropocene (Organiser: Ciprian Bogdan)
\nThe Anthropocene is not only a challenge to our planetary ecological systems (Crutzen and Stoermer 2000)\, but also to our representations of society and nature. These often rely on an ontological divide between social constructions and natural causality (Bonneuil and Fressoz 2013). While continental philosophy has been more willing to trespass (or simply ignore) this divide\, analytic philosophy has mostly remained faithful to it by advancing social ontologies based upon the distinction between &bdquo\;social&rdquo\; and &bdquo\;physical facts&rdquo\; (Searle 1995). Our panel will address several questions without being limited to them:
\nPanel 3:Truth and Ethics (Organiser: Mircea Toboșaru)
\nUnderstanding truth means also understanding our ethical relation to truth. Do we owe the truth to our peers and to ourselves? Does it have instrumental value\, but also intrinsic value\, so that it is our duty to seek\, expand\, and affirm it no matter what? Is there such a thing as moral truth different from scientific truth? If so\, what is their relation? Do our current moral practices depend on a strong \; notion of moral truth? Would they collapse if it disintegrates under philosophical analysis? This panel seeks to explore the horizon of such concerns\, but also other subjects relevant to the connection between truth and ethics.
\nPanel 4: What do we do with the hard truths? Ethical and theoretical challenges for the anthropology of unpleasant realities (Organiser: Ciprian Tudor)
\nSocial scientists may sometimes encounter evidence which could contribute to a negative representation of the people involved in their research. Perhaps some popular stereotypes have some truth to them\, or perhaps they discover new truths that could damage the reputation of their subjects and ethnographic collaborators. What is there to be done about such hard\, inconvenient truths? Should researchers try harder to see the error of their data or interpretations? Or should they keep such ideas to themselves as an ethical act of preventing marginal groups from being further discriminated against? Or\, conversely\, should they disclose everything that comes up in empirical research as a commitment to truth irrespective of the social outcomes of their research? Are &ldquo\;hard truths&rdquo\; an obstacle or a challenge to rethink methodology\, theory and the social use of science? \;
\nThis panel invites contributions from researchers who faced the problem of dealing with &ldquo\;hard truths&rdquo\; in their writing\, academic conversations\, collaborations with state or non-governmental agencies\, or engagement with the general public. We are interested in the personal experience of ethical dilemmas\, the dynamics of social engagement around &ldquo\;hard truths&rdquo\;\, the negotiation of positionality both with academics and informants\, as well as any other forays into the issue of uncomfortable truths. The panel is open to any empirical and/or theoretical contributions coming from anthropology and other social sciences that deal with controversial issues. \;
\nAbstract submission: \;
\nOrganising Committee:
\nPaula Tomi(National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest)
\nCo-organisers: \;
\nCiprian Bogdan (Babeș-Bolyai University)
\nAlexandru Dragomir (University of Bucharest)
\nAdrian Ludușan (Babeș-Bolyai University)
\nMihai Rusu (Babeș-Bolyai University)
\nAndrei Simionescu-Panait (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest)
\nMircea Toboșaru(National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest)
\nCiprian Tudor (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest)
\nSupporting co-organisers:
\nBeatrice Balgiu(National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest)
\nTeodora Chicioreanu(National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest) \;
\nIon Copoeru (Babeș-Bolyai University) \;
\nDaniela Cotoară (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest)
\nHoria Vicențiu Pătrașcu (National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest)
\nAna Voichița Tebeanu \;(National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest)
ORGANIZER;CN=Paula Tomi;CN=Mihai Rusu;CN=Adrian Ludusan;CN=Alexandru Dragomir: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20261114T094500 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20261114T170000 SUMMARY:Enactive Cognition and Japanese Philosophy UID:20261111T175441Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Asia/Tokyo LOCATION:Yoshida Honmachi\, Sakyo-ku\, Kyoto\, Japan\, 606-8501 DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP: Enactive Cognition and Japanese Philosophy
\nKyoto University\, Graduate School of Letters
\nYoshida Campus\, Yoshida Honmachi\, Sakyo-ku\, Kyoto
\nVenue: Large Conference Room (B1F)\, Faculty of Letters Building (文学部校舎地下大会議室)
\nWorkshop Schedule &mdash\; Saturday\, 14 November 2026 (Time JST)
\n09:45&ndash\;09:55 \; Opening
\n09:55&ndash\;10:40 \; Jay McKinney (Carleton College) &mdash\; Online
\nThe Figure-Ground Reversal of Radical Embodied Cognitive Science
\n10:40&ndash\;11:25 \; Artur Gromadzki (Kyoto University)
\nOne\, Two\, or Maybe Neither. The Possible Landscape of Comparison between Japanese Philosophy and the Enactive Approach
\n11:25&ndash\;11:45 \; Break
\n11:45&ndash\;12:30 \; Konrad Werner (University of Warsaw)
\nThe (Lacking) Ontology of Enactment. In Search of a New Categorial Framework
\n12:30&ndash\;13:15 \; Christian Halstead (Fordham University)
\nNothing\, Rather than Something: Nishida&rsquo\;s Answer to the Fundamental Question of Metaphysics
\n13:15&ndash\;14:30 \; Lunch Break
\n14:30&ndash\;15:15 \; Patrick Grü\;neberg (Kanazawa University)
\nTranscendental Conditions of Selfhood: Generating First-Person Significance
\n15:15&ndash\;16:00 \; KONISHI Yoshia (The University of Tokyo)
\nAfter Secularization\, Even Beyond Impersonality: Reading Keiji Nishitani on Science through Evan Thompson
\n16:00&ndash\;16:20 \; Break
\n16:20&ndash\;17:05 \; Richard Stone (Tokyo City University)
\nNishida\, Autopoiesis\, and the Logical Formulation of Biological Individuals
\n17:05&ndash\;17:50 \; Matthew A. Izor (Santa Clara University)
\nNaturalizing Pure Experience: Emergent Form in the Philosophy of Nishida
\n17:50&ndash\;18:35 \; David Walsh (University College Cork) &mdash\; Online
\nThe Work of Art for Nishida Kitarō and Alva Noë\;
\n18:35&ndash\;18:45 \; Closing
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\nRegistration (for online participation / Zoom)
\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf4nd842Xy7OtyRIFYAvHZEZUVbWljSMtbWbaLbybPYXAiANw/viewform?usp=dialog
\n(No fees\, free participation)
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\nOrganized by: \;
\nArtur Gromadzki\, Department of Japanese Philosophy\, Kyoto University
\nRichard Stone\, \;Department Of Design And Data Science\, Tokyo City University
\nInquiries/contact: artur.gromadzki.67x@st.kyoto-u.ac.jp
ORGANIZER;CN=Gromadzki Artur: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261114T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261122T170000 SUMMARY:Otherness (online) UID:20261111T175442Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Dear All\,
\nAlthough submissions to our conference are officially closed\, unforeseen circumstances required us to transfer the SoPheRE Conference on Otherness to an online format. While we regret not being able to meet everyone in person this year\, this transition also creates an opportunity to broaden the scope of our discussions and accept a limited number of additional papers.
\nWe therefore invite new abstract submissions (maximum 500 words)\, formatted for anonymous review. Abstracts must be written in English and sent toconference2026@sophere.org.
\nWe will review submissions on a rolling basis and aim to communicate decisions within approximately one week of receipt. The submission period will remain open until our online capacity is full or till the end of September\, at which time we will need to finalize the conference program.
\nThe original Call for Papers can be found here:
\nKeynote speakers:
\nMichael Barber (Saint Louis University): &ldquo\;The Question of the Ideology of Religious Experience and the Other: Essence\, Social Science\, and Verstehen&rdquo\;
\nPeter Costello (Providence College): &ldquo\;Marked By the Other: A Reading of Husserl and Genesis&rdquo\; \;
\nJoseph Rivera (Dublin City University): &ldquo\;Where to Experience the Other: A Critical Reading of Michel Henry&rdquo\; \;
\nMichael Staudigl (University of Vienna): &ldquo\;Barbarians\, Cannibals\, Terrorists: A Tropological Phenomenology of Otherness&rdquo\; \;
\nWe welcome additional submissions on Otherness in religion\, including\, but not limited to\, questions such as:
\nWith regard to Otherness in social and societal contexts\, we welcome phenomenological reflections on both contemporary and historical issues. We are particularly interested in contributions that apply phenomenological methods to the understanding of social diversity\, conflict\, migration\, exclusion\, inclusion\, and related topics.
\nWe look forward to receiving your submissions.
\nThe Organizers: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (UC Davis)\, Martin Nitsche (Czech Academy of Sciences)\, Mary Shahanan (Atlantis Technological University)\, Tareq Ayoub (Western University Canada).
ORGANIZER;CN=Olga Louchakova-Schwartz;CN=Martin Nitsche: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261115T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261115T090000 SUMMARY:League of African Women Philosophers (LAWP) Third Annual International (Virtual) Conference 2027 UID:20261111T175443Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:LEAGUE OF AFRICAN WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS (LAWP)
\nTHIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2027
\nVIRTUAL CONFERENCE
\nTHEME: Women in African Endogenous Knowledge Systems: Philosophical Perspectives on Theories\, Concepts\, and Institutions
\nCONCEPT NOTE:
\nAfrican Endogenous Knowledge Systems are the living\, plural ways African communities understand personhood\, health\, land\, governance\, education and spirituality. Women have been central to producing\, preserving and transforming this knowledge as healers\, farmers\, educators and custodians of culture\, yet their contributions are often dismissed as merely &ldquo\;domestic&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;informal&rdquo\;. This conference recovers women&rsquo\;s knowledge of philosophy as theory\, ethics and institutions\, and interrogates its place in contemporary debates on decoloniality\, sustainability and justice.
\nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
\n1. Prof. Gail Presbey\, \; University of Detroit Mercy\, USA
\n2. Prof. Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob\, University of Calabar\, Nigeria
\n3. Assoc. Prof. Lydie Chritiane Azab à\; Boto University of Yaounde I\, Cameroon
\nCONFERENCE INFO:
\nDate: 29-30 January 2027 | Venue: Online | Languages: English &\; French | Fee: FREE
\nSUB-THEMES (10):
\n1. Women\, African Endogenous Epistemologies\, Ontologies\, Rationalities and Production of Knowledge
\n2. African Women and Philosophies of Personhood and Community
\n3. African Women\, Knowledge Transmission and Philosophy of Education
\n4. Women and Philosophy of Health and Care in Africa
\n5. African Women and Philosophies of Agriculture\, Food and the Environment
\n6. Women\, African Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law
\n7. African Women and Endogenous Art
\n8. African Women and Philosophy of Technology and the Digital
\n9. African Women&rsquo\;s Philosophical Contributions to Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice
\n10. African Feminist Thought and Studies / Women Philosophers\, Thinkers and Knowledge Innovators
\nCALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
\nSubmit 150-200 words abstract stating problem\, argument\, method and contribution.
\nIMPORTANT DATES:
\nCall Opens: Oct 1\, 2026
\nDeadline for Abstract: Nov 30\, 2026
\nNotification: Dec 15\, 2026
\nRegistration Deadline: Jan 20\, 2027
\nSUBMIT TO: africanwomenphilconference@gmail.com
\nSubject: LAWP 2027 Abstract &ndash\; [Your Name]
\nInclude: Title\, Name\, Affiliation\, Country\, Email\, 5 Keywords
\nPUBLICATION: Selected papers will be published in an Edited Volume &\; Journal Special Issue
\nConference Organizing Committee \; \; 1- Dr Mirian Ngozi Alike (Chairperson Organizing Committee) \; \; 2- Dr Grace Tomoka Bakuwa (Vice-Chairperson Organizing Committee) \; \; 3- Dr Gama Lindo (Coordinator for Academic Networking and Conference Outreach) \; \; 4-Ms Modupe Olajumoke ADU (Secretary 1) \; \; 5- Ms Margaret Kanyemba ( Secretary 2 \; ) \; \; 6- Ms Ebbah Dube (Officer in charge of communication) \; \; \;
\nLIGUE DES FEMMES PHILOSOPHES AFRICAINES (LAWP) TROISIÈ\;ME CONFÉ\;RENCE INTERNATIONALE ANNUELLE 2027 CONFÉ\;RENCE VIRTUELLE \; THÈ\;ME : Les Femmes dans les Systè\;mes de Connaissances Endogè\;nes Africaines : Perspectives Philosophiques sur les Thé\;ories\, les Concepts et les Institutions \; NOTE CONCEPTUELLE : Les Systè\;mes de Connaissances Endogè\;nes Africaines sont les maniè\;res vivantes et plurielles dont les communauté\;s africaines comprennent la personne\, la santé\;\, la terre\, la gouvernance\, l'é\;ducation et la spiritualité\;. Les femmes ont joué\; un rô\;le central dans la production\, la pré\;servation et la transformation de ces savoirs en tant que gué\;risseuses\, agricultrices\, é\;ducatrices et gardiennes de la culture\, pourtant leurs contributions sont souvent relé\;gué\;es au rang de savoirs simplement «\; domestiques »\; ou «\; informels »\;. Cette confé\;rence vise à\; ré\;cupé\;rer le savoir des femmes en tant que philosophie &mdash\; en tant que thé\;orie\, é\;thique et institutions &mdash\; et à\; interroger sa place dans les dé\;bats contemporains sur la dé\;colonialité\;\, la durabilité\; et la justice. \; CONFÉ\;RENCIÈ\;RES PRINCIPALES : 1. Prof. Gail Presbey &ndash\; Université\; de Detroit Mercy\, USA 2. Prof. Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob &ndash\; Université\; de Calabar\, Nigeria 3. Prof. Assoc. Lydie Christiane Azab à\; Boto &ndash\; Université\; de Yaoundé\; I\, Cameroun \; INFORMATIONS SUR LA CONFÉ\;RENCE : Date : 29-30 Janvier 2027 | Lieu : En ligne | Langues : Anglais &\; Franç\;ais | Frais : GRATUIT \; SOUS-THÈ\;MES (10) : 1. Femmes\, É\;pisté\;mologies\, Ontologies\, Rationalité\;s Endogè\;nes Africaines et Production du Savoir 2. Femmes Africaines et Philosophies de la Personne et de la Communauté\; 3. Femmes Africaines\, Transmission des Savoirs et Philosophie de l'É\;ducation 4. Femmes et Philosophie de la Santé\; et du Soin en Afrique 5. Femmes Africaines et Philosophies de l'Agriculture\, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement 6. Femmes\, Philosophie Politique Africaine et Philosophie du Droit 7. Femmes Africaines et Art Endogè\;ne 8. Femmes Africaines et Philosophie de la Technologie et du Numé\;rique 9. Contributions Philosophiques des Femmes Africaines à\; la Dé\;colonialité\; et à\; la Justice É\;pisté\;mique 10. Pensé\;e et É\;tudes Fé\;ministes Africaines / Femmes Philosophes\, Penseuses et Innovatrices de Savoirs \; APPEL À\; COMMUNICATIONS : Soumettre un ré\;sumé\; de 150-200 mots indiquant le problè\;me\, l'argument\, la mé\;thode et la contribution. \; DATES IMPORTANTES : Ouverture de l'appel : 1er Octobre 2026 Date limite de soumission : 30 Novembre 2026 Notification d'acceptation : 15 Dé\;cembre 2026 Date limite d'inscription : 20 Janvier 2027 \; SOUMISSION À\; : africanwomenphilconference@gmail.com Objet : LAWP 2027 Ré\;sumé\; &ndash\; [Votre Nom] Inclure : Titre\, Nom\, Affiliation\, Pays\, Email\, 5 Mots-clé\;s \; PUBLICATION : Les articles sé\;lectionné\;s seront publié\;s dans un Ouvrage Collectif et un Numé\;ro Spé\;cial de Revue (avec é\;valuation par les pairs) \; Comité\; d'Organisation De la Conference \; \; 1- Dr Mirian Ngozi Alike ( Pré\;sident\, Comité\; d'organisation) \; 2- Dr Grace Tomoka Bakuwa (Vice- Pré\;sident\, Comité\; d'organisation) \; 3- Dr Gama Lindo (Coordinatrice du Reseautage pour la Confé\;rence virtuelle) \; 4-Ms Modupe Olajumoke ADU (Secré\;tarie 1) \; \; 5- Ms Margaret Kanyemba ( Secré\;tarie 2 \; ) \; \; 6- Ms Ebbah Dube (Responsable de la communication)
ORGANIZER;CN=Dr Marlene Femba;CN=Dr Miriam Ngozi Alike;CN=Grace Dr. Tomoka;CN=Dr Lindokuhle Gama;CN=Modupe Adu;CN=Margaret Kanyemba;CN=Ebbah Dube: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261115T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261115T170000 SUMMARY:The Book of Job: A Literary and Theological Classic UID:20261111T175444Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Professor C.L Seowis distinguished professor (emeritus) of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt University\, where he was inaugural incumbent of the Vanderbilt\, Buffington\, Cupples Chair in Divinity. Before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt in 2015\, he was the Henry Snyder Gehman Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary\, where taught for 32 years.
ORGANIZER;CN=Himanshu Himanshu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261115T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261115T234500 SUMMARY:Philosophical and Technological Reflections on Contemporary Cosmology UID:20261111T175445Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Online Workshop: "Philosophical and Technological Reflections on Contemporary Cosmology"
When: 27-29 January 2027.
Where: Online (Zoom and streamed on the YouTube channel of the UNAM's Institute for Philosophical Research). \;
Submission deadline: 15 November 2026.
Keynote speakers:
Motivation and central questions:
Cosmology has undoubtedly become an epistemically successful science. Some of its successes include explaining the Cosmic Microwave Background and its features (temperature\, anisotropies\, polarization\, etc.) with high precision\; accounting for the abundances of the light chemical elements in the universe with high accuracy\; discovering the isotropic accelerated expansion of the universe\; establishing a model that synthesizes the results of various observational research projects (SNIFS\, BOSS\, COBE\, etc.) into a relativistic model of an overall flat geometry with predictive power\, and much more.
On the one hand\, its success makes cosmology a reliable ground on which to test philosophical theses and frameworks motivated by research in other areas of science (Doboszewski &\; Elder\, 2026\; Elder\, 2025). On the other hand\, despite its success\, there remain several philosophical concerns regarding the standard model of cosmology and inflation (Jacquart\, 2021\; Smeenk\, 2014)\, the conceptual character and metaphysics of the phenomena it aims to account for (Martens &\; Lehmkuhl\, 2020\; Josset\, Pé\;rez &\; Sudarsky\, 2017)\, the integration of relativistic and quantum theories into a coherent whole (Sudarsky\, Urrutia &\; Vucetich\, 2002\; Okó\;n &\; Sudarsky\, 2014)\, the epistemological significance of computational methods (Gueguen\, 2020\; Meskhidze\, 2023)\, and the challenges involved in developing a science of the universe itself (Ellis\, 2001\; Smeenk\, 2017).
The workshop aims to open a dialogue between physics and philosophy. We welcome contributions addressing\, but not limited to\, the following questions:
Scientific Committee:
\nSubmission Guidelines:
Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words (references not included)\, and they should be prepared for blind review. Abstracts must be sent in PDF format to philcosmology.unam@gmail.com. \;
Submission deadline: 15 November 2026.
Notification of acceptance: 30 November 2026. \;
We are pleased to announce our monthly \;online \;talk series on "Inferences &\; Capacities."
Our next speaker is:
Hans-Johann Glock \;(University of Zü\;rich)
"Is ascribing inferences to brains or non-human animals a fallacy?"
Nov 16: \;12am (Buenos Aires)\, 10am (New York)\, 4pm (Berlin).
Abstract: \;Authors inspired by Aristotle and Wittgenstein have alleged that ascribingcognitive-cum-epistemic properties to (parts of) brains amounts to a &lsquo\;homunculus&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;mereological fallacy&rsquo\;. In a first step I show that this allegation is mislabelled as a fallacy\, and that it can be reconstructed as an argument that invites extension to non-human animals and AI system. In the remainder I consider the soundness of this argument with a focus on a) animals and LLMs\; b) four &lsquo\;R-notions&rsquo\;&mdash\;reason\, reasons\, reasoning\, rationality. It will transpire that the obstacles to crediting animals and LLMs\, respectively\, with the capacity of reason responsiveness and inferences are diametrically opposed&mdash\;lack of discursive rationality for animals\, lack of sentience and conation for LLMs.
\nHow to participate: \;Please\, send an email to Alfredo Vernazzani at: \;
\nalfredo-vernazzani AT protonmail.com
\n_______
\nThe series brings together work on inferential capacities\, rationality\, normativity\, and cognition &mdash\; across both human and non-human animals &mdash\; with the aim of fostering discussion on the nature and limits of the cognitive sphere. \;
\n2026 line-up: \;
April 27: \;Angelica Kaufmann \;(University of Milan): "Mind Blanking as Mental Imagery." \;
\nMay 18: \;Federico Burdman \;(Universidad Alberto Hurtado) "Constrained choices: addiction\, attention\, and reasons-responsiveness." \;
\nJune 22: \;Susanna Schellenberg \;(Rutgers): "Reflection and Self-Governance in Human and Machine Intelligence" \;
\nJuly 20: \;Cameron Buckner \;(University of Florida): "Chains-of-Thought\, Inner Speech\, and Artificial Epistemic Agency."
\nSeptember 7: \;Ulf Hlobil \;(Concordia University): "Inference and Object" \; \;
\nOctober 19: \;Eva Schmidt \;(TU Dortmund): "Reasons are States of Affairs" \;
\nNovember 16: \;Hans-Johann Glock \;(University of Zü\;rich): "Is Ascribing Inferences to Brains or Non-human Animals a Fallacy?" \;
\nDecember 14: \;Emma Borg \;(SAS\, University of London): "Twitches\, Fidgets\, Habits\, Skills: The Scope of Common-Sense Psychology." \;
Each talk lasts c. 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes open Q&\;A. \;
\nThe series is co-organized by:
\nMariela Aguilera \;(University of Có\;rdoba)
\nMatí\;as Osta-Vé\;lez \;(Universidad de la Repú\;blica)
\nAlfredo Vernazzani \;(TU Dortmund\; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg).
\nVisit our website: \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Alfredo Vernazzani;CN=Mariela Aguilera;CN="Matías Osta Vélez": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261116T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261116T170000 SUMMARY:The Classroom as a Scholarly Workshop UID:20261111T175447Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Talking/Teaching is the AAPT's online one-hour discussion series about topics in teaching philosophy. Facilitators will take 5-10 minutes providing a concise summary of their thinking on the topic they have chosen\, and enough context and good questions to start and sustain a conversation. No advance preparation is required\, and you need not be an AAPT member to attend.
For full calendar and registration link\, see Talking/Teaching &ndash\; American Association of Philosophy Teachers
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tehran:20261117T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tehran:20261118T170000 SUMMARY:Divine Agency/Action UID:20261111T175448Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Asia/Tehran LOCATION:mam Khomeini International University Blvd\, Qazvīn\, Iran DESCRIPTION:The Iranian Association for the Philosophy of Religion\, in cooperation with Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU)\, presents:
\nTheme: Divine Agency/Action Conference Themes Divine Agency/Action in the History of Thought and Religions
\nSemantics of Divine Action
\nOntology of Divine Agency/Action
\nEpistemology of Divine Agency/Action
\nMethodology of the Study of Divine Agency/Action
\nCompeting Theories of Divine Agency/Action
\nAcademic Board
\nConference Chair: Reza Akbari
\nScientific Secretary: Majid Mollayousefi
\nConference Dates: 17&ndash\;18 November 2026
\nAbstract Submission Deadline: 18 September 2026
\nNotification of Acceptance: 9 October 2026
\nVenue: Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU)
\nThe conference will be held in a hybrid format (both virtually and in person)
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nTo register for CPR2026\, you must first submit your abstract through the conference submission page. (here)
\nTo submit an abstract\, you should prepare the following:
\nSubmitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference referees and will receive one of the following decisions: Accepted\, Rejected\, Accepted subject to revisions
\nThe registration fee is payable only after the abstract has been accepted. Authors must send a scanned copy or photograph of the payment receipt in reply to the acceptance email.
\nAuthors whose papers are selected for oral presentation are expected to submit an extended abstract of approximately 2\,000 words to the conference secretariat before the conference.
\nAuthors may submit multiple abstracts. However\, after peer review and acceptance\, only one single-authored paper and one co-authored paper per author will be published.
\nRegistration Fees
\nNote: Payment instructions will be provided to authors of accepted abstracts. Catering costs during the conference will be calculated separately and announced to participants before the conference.
\nHigh-resolution conference poster
\nConference Secretariat Contact
\nPhone: +98 902 908 0340
\nEmail:philorconf@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Iranian Association for Philosophy of Religion Philosophy of Religion: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:I Seminário Internacional de Fenomenologia e Existencialismo: Angústia\, Medo e Cura UID:20261111T175449Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:I Seminá\;rio Internacional de Fenomenologia e Existencialismo: Angú\;stia\, Medo e Cura
\nO I Seminá\;rio Internacional de Fenomenologia e Existencialismo: Angú\;stia\, Medo e Cura\, promovido pelo Nú\;cleo de Teoria dos Direitos Humanos (NTDH) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)\, será\; realizado no dia 17 de novembro de 2026\, em formato on-line.
\nO evento propõ\;e um espaç\;o de reflexã\;o e diá\;logo filosó\;fico sobre as experiê\;ncias da angú\;stia\, do medo e da cura\, a partir de diferentes perspectivas da fenomenologia e do existencialismo\, considerando suas dimensõ\;es ontoló\;gicas\, existenciais\, é\;ticas e intersubjetivas.
\nA programaç\;ã\;o reunirá\; pesquisadores de instituiç\;õ\;es brasileiras e estrangeiras\, com apresentaç\;õ\;es e debates que estabelecem interlocuç\;õ\;es com o pensamento de Husserl\, Heidegger\, Merleau-Ponty\, Levinas\, Gadamer\, Edith Stein e Camus\, alé\;m de contribuiç\;õ\;es da filosofia antiga.
\nO seminá\;rio busca favorecer o intercâ\;mbio acadê\;mico e aprofundar a compreensã\;o dessas experiê\;ncias fundamentais da existê\;ncia humana\, considerando tanto seus fundamentos filosó\;ficos quanto suas possibilidades de interpretaç\;ã\;o no mundo contemporâ\;neo.
\nData: 17 de novembro de 2026
Horá\;rio: 8h à\;s 20h (horá\;rio de Brasí\;lia)
Modalidade: On-line
Transmissã\;o: Canal do NTDH/UFRJ no YouTube
Participaç\;ã\;o: O evento está\; aberto à\; participaç\;ã\;o de estudantes\, docentes\, pesquisadores e demais interessados\, na condiç\;ã\;o de ouvintes.
\nInscriç\;õ\;es e programaç\;ã\;o completa:
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:Truth\, Democracy\, and Misinformation (Online Workshop) UID:20261111T175450Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Truth\, Democracy\, and Misinformation | AAPAE Workshop 17 Nov 2026
\nIn an era shaped by accelerating technological change\, social fragmentation\, political polarisation\, and growing distrust in institutions\, questions surrounding truth\, misinformation\, and democratic legitimacy have become some of the defining ethical challenges of our time. From artificial intelligence and algorithmic influence to climate communication\, public health\, energy transitions\, media ecosystems\, and governance\, misinformation (unknowingly shared untruths) and disinformation (deliberate lies) increasingly shape how societies understand reality\, negotiate difference\, and make collective decisions.
\nWhat are the ethical dimensions of misinformation and its implications for democracy\, public trust\, governance\, and social cohesion across diverse sectors and industries?
\nThe AAPAE is a meeting point for practitioners from various fields together with academics with specialist expertise. We welcome submissions from not only academics but also \; practitioners\, policymakers\, industry leaders\, activists\, educators\, artists\, and community organisations to critically examine these questions. \;
\nThe workshop seeks to explore not only the harms associated with misinformation\, disinformation\, and epistemic manipulation\, but also the broader ethical questions surrounding truth\, knowledge\, communication\, responsibility\, and democratic participation in increasingly complex and contested social environments. A public panel discussing misinformation and ethics will precede the workshop.
\nWe welcome interdisciplinary contributions from philosophy\, ethics\, law\, political science\, media and communication\, environmental humanities\, psychology\, sociology\, education\, science and technology studies\, Indigenous studies\, governance\, business\, and related fields
\nPossible themes include:
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \; \; AI\, algorithms\, and social media\, including questions regarding digital ethics\, censorship\, and platform responsibility
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Democracy\, governance\, and institutional trust\, including questions of political polarisation\, democratic resilience\, education\, civic responsibility\, and legitimacy
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Misinformation and conspiracy in critical domains\, including climate\, public health\, science and energy
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The contested roles and responsibilities of gatekeepers\, guardians\, experts and knowledge brokers\, including journalists\, professionals and scholars
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Ethics of persuasion\, influence\, epistemic justice\, and public discourse
\n● \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Indigenous knowledges\, storytelling\, and truth-telling
\nAt a time when misinformation can undermine democratic processes\, social trust\, and collective action\, this workshop aims to foster thoughtful dialogue about how ethical frameworks\, institutions\, and communities might respond constructively to the challenges of our rapidly changing informational landscapes.
\nWe invite papers\, panels\, roundtables\, workshops\, creative practice contributions\, and interdisciplinary conversations that engage critically and constructively with these urgent issues.
\nWorkshop proceedings and contributors will be invited to publish in our series: Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations (REIO).
\nSubmission: Abstracts (500 words) should be submitted to Dr Hugh Breakey (h.breakey@griffith.edu.au) and Dr Jacqueline Boaks (jacqueline.boaks@curtin.edu.au) \;by 1 September 2026.
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To register to attend: \;Dr Hugh Breakey (h.breakey@griffith.edu.au) and Dr Jacqueline Boaks (jacqueline.boaks@curtin.edu.au) by 1 November 2026.
What happens when communities need answers before institutions have them?
\nIn this Q&\;A\, Mike Steer reflects on communicating with South Australian communities during the unprecedented algal bloom\, when rapidly evolving science could offer probabilities rather than definitive answers &ndash\; while communities\, media and political leaders demanded explanations.
\nRather than asking simply how we combat misinformation\, this conversation asks a more difficult question: \;what are the ethical responsibilities of institutions when certainty is impossible?
\n(Note: This session will be held at Australian Eastern Dayligh Time\, which is \;UTC +11)
\nFacilitated by: Dr Larelle Bossi
\nLarelle is CEO and Founder of Ethical Ocean\, a Research Fellow at Griffith University&rsquo\;s Institute for Ethics\, Governance and Law\, and Vice President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. Her research and advisory work focuses on ocean ethics\, biocultural ethics and transformative ocean governance\, drawing on ecofeminist theory and First Nations kinship worldviews. She has developed ethical frameworks for aquaculture\, offshore wind and wave energy\, and works across ocean governance\, place attachment\, cultural licence and the decolonisation of marine spaces. Larelle is also an advisory member of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.
\nProf Mike Steer
\nProfessor Steer brings over two decades of expertise in marine science to his role at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). His expertise spans various fields including fish biology\, fisheries science\, cephalopod ecology\, molecular science\, fishery reform\, gear selectivity\, and fleet dynamics\, providing direction for numerous applied research initiatives that have advanced Australia&rsquo\;s seafood industry.
\nProfessor Steer's strategic leadership centres on forging genuine relationships to facilitate collaborations with stakeholders and industry partners\, ensuring SARDI's work remains pertinent and impactful in fisheries management and sustainable livestock practices. He drives meaningful advancements\, bridging the gap between academia and industry to address critical challenges in South Australia's aquatic ecosystems and livestock industries.
ORGANIZER;CN=Larelle Bossi;CN=Hugh Breakey;CN=Jacqueline Boaks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T100000 SUMMARY:Not Born Yesterday: Why humans are less gullible than we think (Closing Keynote) UID:20261111T175452Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Closing Keynote: AAPAE Symposium 2026
\nIt is often thought that humans are gullible\, easily manipulated by demagogues\, advertisers\, and politicians. I will argue that the opposite is true: humans are equipped with a set of psychological mechanisms that allow them to properly evaluate communicated information\, and to reject information that is false or harmful. I will rely on experimental psychology data\, as well as studies showing the failures of mass persuasion\, from Nazi propaganda to American presidential campaigns. I will also suggest that\, when people do accept false beliefs\, they often do so only in a superficial manner. \;
\n\;(Note: this event will be hosted on Australian Eastern Daylight Time\, which is UTC+11).
\nHugo Mercieris a cognitive scientist working at the Jean Nicod Institute in Paris. He studies human reasoning and communication\, as well as cultural evolution. He is the co-author\, with Dan Sperber\, of The Enigma of Reason\, and the author of Not Born Yesterday: The Science of Who we Trust and What we Believe. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Larelle Bossi;CN=Hugh Breakey;CN=Jacqueline Boaks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T110000 SUMMARY:Anticipatory Obedience: Living in the Autocrat's Reality UID:20261111T175453Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Unlike the dictators of the past\, today's autocrats gain power through democratic elections and then consolidate it by co-opting society's primary institutions\, from the judiciary and business to universities and cultural life. Their central tool isn't force but reality. Autocrats seek to draw everyone into the world they construct\, because that is what secures their control. This talk examines how anticipatory obedience\, or conforming to the autocrat's wishes before being required to do so\, accelerates the rise of autocracy and the erosion of democracy.
\n(Note: this is an online event hosted in Australia. All times are in Australian Eastern Daylight Time. \;Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) is UTC+11\, meaning it is 11 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time)
\n\nJoanne B. Ciulla is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics. Her research focuses on the ethical challenges of leadership. She has also written extensively on topics in business ethics such as meaningful work. Before joining RBS\, she held the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies (University of Richmond)\, where she was one of the school&rsquo\;s founders. Jepson was the first degree-granting liberal arts school of its kind in the world. Ciulla has held academic appointments at Harvard Business School\, The Wharton School\, LaSalle University. Her visiting positions include the UNESCO chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy (Jordan)\, the Gourley Professor of Business Ethics\, University of Melbourne (Australia) and visiting professorships at the University of Fort Hare (South Africa)\, Nyenrode Business School (Netherlands)\, Oxford University (Green College)\, and the Harvard&rsquo\;s Kennedy School. She has also been a Fulbright Specialist.
\nFor her scholarship\, Ciulla has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Society for Business Ethics\, the International Leadership Association\, and the Network of Leadership Scholars at the Academy of Management. In addition\, she is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the field of business ethics from the Society for Business Ethics\, a Master Teacher Award from The Wheatley Institution at Brigham Young University\, an Outstanding Faculty Award from the Virginia State Council of Higher Education\, and a Distinguished Educator Award from the University of Richmond.
\nCiulla sits on the editorial boards of The Business Ethics Quarterly\, The Leadership Quarterly\, and Leadership and edits the New Horizons in Leadership Studies Series (Edward Elgar)\, one of the largest collections of books from the humanities and the social sciences on leadership. She has served as president of The Society for Business Ethics and The International Society for Business\, Ethics\, and Economics. In addition\, Ciulla has also worked with the Aspen Institute\, The Brookings Institution\, and the World Economic Forum. She has been an expert witness\, consulted and given lectures and seminars to business\, government\, and non-profit organizations worldwide.
\n\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Larelle Bossi;CN=Hugh Breakey;CN=Jacqueline Boaks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T120000 SUMMARY:Trustworthy Institutions Stick Their Necks Out: Prediction\, Accommodation\, and the Ethics of Public Health Communication UID:20261111T175454Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This session will be part of &lsquo\;Truth\, Democracy\, and Misinformation&rsquo\;\, the 20206 Symposium of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.
\nThe AAAPE exists to promote awareness of applied ethics and foster relationships between practitioners and academics.
\nThe event will be held on online. The event is free for members and ticketed for non-members. More information\, including the full program\, schedule\, and registration is available at: https://events.humanitix.com/aapae-misinformation-workshop
\n\; Abstract
\nIn February 2020\, US public health authorities advised the public that wearing masks was unnecessary\, only to reverse this guidance a few weeks later\, explaining that the earlier advice had partly reflected concerns about supply shortages. Millions of people noticed. For many of them\, the lesson was not that science self-corrects but that official announcements track something other than the truth. Episodes such as this one\, I&rsquo\;ll argue\, are central to understanding why medical misinformation and conspiracy theories continue to flourish\, and they also suggest how health institutions and medical professionals might best respond.
\nI begin from a claim that has become increasingly plausible in recent philosophy of medicine (Goldenberg 2021\; Levy 2022\; Kelsall 2025): that distrust of health institutions is not (mainly) a failure of individual rationality\, but is instead a reasonable response to the evidence that distrustful people actually possess\, including documented patterns of institutional non-honesty (Brown and Barra 2023) and of experts who meet criticism with derision rather than engagement (Brooks 2025). If we take this seriously\, then the standard toolkit of debunking\, labeling\, and content moderation treats the symptom while feeding the disease.
\nI&rsquo\;ll then offer a diagnosis of what distinguishes trustworthy from untrustworthy communication\, drawing on the distinction between prediction and accommodation in the philosophy of science. The slogan is Popper&rsquo\;s\, but the account is not: what matters is not falsifiability but the confirmational asymmetry defended by weak predictivists (Maher 1988\; Hitchcock and Sober 2004\; Barnes 2008)\, on which successful prediction is evidence about the reliability of the method that produced a claim. Conspiracy theories fail this test not because they never predict\, but because the methods that generate them would have delivered a theory whatever the evidence had been. Institutional communication\, I&rsquo\;ll argue\, can fail it in the same way. Guidance that shifts without acknowledgment\, for example\, or thresholds that move when convenient\, tells reasonable audiences that the process behind the guidance is tracking something other than the evidence\, and they discount it accordingly. On this analysis\, the crucial difference between legitimate expertise and its imitators is not who speaks\, but whose methods have made checkable commitments and survived them.
\nThis diagnosis motivates a constructive ethics of institutional communication\, which I&rsquo\;ll develop in terms of three interlocking professional obligations. 1. Institutions ought to communicate in dated\, checkable predictions whose failure would be recognized as such\, wherever the evidence permits. 2. They should acknowledge uncertainty honestly rather than projecting a confidence they do not have. 3. Labels such as &ldquo\;misinformation&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;conspiracy theory&rdquo\; should be reserved for claims that fail the predictive test\, rather than being deployed against dissent as such.
\nI will conclude by considering both the promise and the (real) limits of predictive communication. Trust\, on this account\, is earned in the way that theories earn confirmation\, since in both cases what is being estimated is the reliability of the process behind the claims. Institutions cannot simply demand it from us\, but can only underwrite it.
\n\nAbout the Author
\nBrendan Shea (PhD\, University of Illinois) teaches philosophy and computer science at Rochester Community and Technical College and is a Resident Fellow of the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. His research spans bioethics\, philosophy of science\, and the ethics of computing and AI\, and he serves as a public member of the Institutional Biosafety Committee at Mayo Clinic. He is the author of several open-access textbooks on logic\, ethics\, and computing\, and of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Karl Popper.
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Larelle Bossi;CN=Hugh Breakey;CN=Jacqueline Boaks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T114500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T124500 SUMMARY:Experts in a Post-Truth World: A Potential Case for Epistemic Injustice UID:20261111T175455Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This session will be part of &lsquo\;Truth\, Democracy\, and Misinformation&rsquo\;\, the 20206 Symposium of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.
\nThe AAAPE exists to promote awareness of applied ethics and foster relationships between practitioners and academics.
\n\nThe event will be held on online. The event is free for members and ticketed for non-members. More information\, including the full program\, schedule\, and registration is available at: https://events.humanitix.com/aapae-misinformation-workshop
\n\nAbstract\nExpertise is not unlike privilege\; it is a power that relies on the social context in which it develops. Understandably\, and for this reason\, it is hard to imagine those traditionally regarded as experts being collectively undermined. This paper will establish that if expert standing continues to be undermined in a post-truth era\, the epistemic injustice field must evolve to include a new species of discrediting to account for the phenomenon.
\nTo justify this as plausible\, I first explore the crumbling stature of experts in a post-truth environment. Their standing has been a source of power\, offering credibility\, resources\, and opportunities for mobility to its members. However\, their influence is increasingly distinct and relevant only to those on the inside due to the following challenges. The social context acting as a vehicle has suddenly moved in a way that defies expectations- expertise is no longer a mark of being dominantly situated\, but a signal to powerful dissenters that these individuals deserve to be relentlessly undermined only for their belonging to an epistemic community.
\nThen\, \; I will explain the harm unique to them that arises from their inability to express the epistemic virtues of humility and honesty. I will demonstrate that experts are distinct from knowledgeable non-experts via these two virtues\, which contribute to the integrity of their discipline\, where knowledge acquired for amusement is no more than a pastime. While both can yield excellence\, only one affords authority through relevant virtues\, experience\, and access to resources. Most importantly\, this will show that preventing experts from exercising their epistemic virtues (by their environment's alienating them from their impact) harms them as knowers. These\, in my view\, are the most important to join\, as they facilitate open\, willful exchanges that best approximate impartiality. In other words\, what non-experts cannot rationally commit to when offered a platform to use or consume.
\nWe must also consider how\, in moving towards or existing in a post-truth time\, authoritative demands prevail\, and we find individuals without expertise censoring expert opinions. Further\, expert attention has become a resource forced to address controversial topics. However\, when non-experts engage with experts in these discussions\, it can create the impression that both parties are equally qualified to discuss or define the relevant concepts.
\n\; \; \; \; Therefore\, I argue that a hermeneutical injustice can occur when identity-reliant and contextually-reliant discrediting are conflated\, granted that conditions enable experts to be harmed as knowers without suffering prejudice. Thus\, avoiding the dismissal of these costly issues as mere conceptual gaps amid rapidly evolving social challenges and technological advancements.
\nAbout the Author:\n\nAlexandra De Las Mercedes Benitez&rsquo\;s education is distinctly Miamian\, as an alumna of both Florida International University and the University of Miami. She currently serves as an adjunct lecturer at the former and at Miami Dade College. Her research interests in social epistemology\, ethics\, and feminism are motivated by long-standing and rapidly evolving concerns in these areas\, which face challenges posed by technology.
\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Larelle Bossi;CN=Hugh Breakey;CN=Jacqueline Boaks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T134500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T144500 SUMMARY:Democratic Understanding UID:20261111T175456Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This session will be part of &lsquo\;Truth\, Democracy\, and Misinformation&rsquo\;\, the 20206 Symposium of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.
\nThe AAAPE exists to promote awareness of applied ethics and foster relationships between practitioners and academics.
\nThe event will be held on online. The event is free for members and ticketed for non-members. More information\, including the full program\, schedule\, and registration is available at: https://events.humanitix.com/aapae-misinformation-workshop
\nAbstract:
\nThis paper is about the value of understanding to democratic politics. It seems obvious that there is something of value to understanding one another in politics. The wheels of our discussions would be oiled\, and decisions would be easier and\, likely\, more just&mdash\;perhaps citizens would be disposed to compromise more\, or make decisions with their fellow citizens&rsquo\; interests in mind&mdash\; if citizens were more willing and able to understand where their fellow citizens were coming from.
\nBut then\, of course\, things are more complicated\, even with something that seems so obviously valuable as understanding. One problem\, which has received attention as of late\, is that it doesn&rsquo\;t always seem valuable&mdash\;for others\, or for us&mdash\; to understand\, particularly with empathy\, those who hold views that we think abhorrent\, for doing so may give credence to such views.
\nHowever\, there is yet another problem\, one which has been severely overlooked by theorists writing on understanding and democracy (see\, e.g.\, Hannon 2025\; Lepoutre 2023\, 2026\; Prescott- Couch 2025a\, 2025b\; see\, relatedly\, Goodin 2000\; Morell 2010\; Scudder 2020). The problem is that\, even if we accept that there is something valuable about understanding others in deliberative democracies\, particularly as a key source of the very justification of democracy\, democracies are made up of millions of people who are limited by time and resources and distance. In these circumstances\, we should reasonably ask: who should citizens be expected to understand? How should one decide\, among the millions that make up a modern democratic polity\, who one ought to spend one&rsquo\;s time and energy trying to understand? I outline a non-ideal approach to political understanding\, and suggest that\, far from being an unattainable ideal that throws into question the justification of democratic rule\, citizens already possess existing\, but different\, forms and degrees of understanding of their fellow citizens\, with particularly informed understandings of those they know personally.
\nAlas\, even with this more realistic approach to understanding and democracy\, one might reasonably ask: How does our actual\, if limited and even deficient\, understanding of certain others scale up to the level of democratic politics writ large? (For more on the &lsquo\;scaling up problem&rsquo\; of deliberative democracy\, see Tanasoca 2020). To address this question\, I first argue that there is particular democratic value in understanding others who understand us\, where such reciprocal processes change us\, and so change what is available to be understood in the process. Second\, I argue there is democratic value in our understanding others who understand others (i.e. those who we don&rsquo\;t know directly). This enables us to have a limited understanding of\, as well as informed deference towards\, those whom we may never know directly. Third\, I argue that this meso-level analysis of how we actually understand others scales up through a daisy-chain model of overlapping connections. Ultimately\, this &lsquo\;scaling up&rsquo\; justifies democracy even amidst the ways in which ordinary citizens fail to live up to ideal of reciprocal understanding.
\nAbout the Author:
\nJaclyn Rekis is a postdoctoral fellow with David Enoch&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;Liberalism Rekindled&rsquo\; Project out of the Department of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She lives in Kingston\, Ontario\, Canada.
\nJaclyn specialises in political philosophy\, particularly at the intersection of ethics\, epistemology\, and religion. Her work is mainly concerned with why citizens\, and persons more generally\, ought to better understand one another\, and how they should do so. Jaclyn has recently been interested in how ordinary and flawed human practices can be good for democracy and liberalism. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Larelle Bossi;CN=Hugh Breakey;CN=Jacqueline Boaks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261111T163653Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T153000 SUMMARY:From Aligned Outcomes to Conditions of Judgment: AI\, Deep Disagreement\, and Democratic Public Discourse (Yifan Li) UID:20261111T175457Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-58d8844b6d-m5ps5 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This session will be part of &lsquo\;Truth\, Democracy\, and Misinformation&rsquo\;\, the 20206 Symposium of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics.
\nThe AAAPE exists to promote awareness of applied ethics and foster relationships between practitioners and academics.
\nThe event will be held on online. The event is free for members and ticketed for non-members. More information\, including the full program\, schedule\, and registration is available at: https://events.humanitix.com/aapae-misinformation-workshop
\n\; \; \; Abstract:
\nAI increasingly mediates democratic disagreement. It recommends what citizens encounter\, ranks competing claims\, moderates speech\, and is beginning to participate directly in deliberation itself. Much of the debate about these systems therefore asks how they might identify misinformation more reliably or better reflect the values of the people affected by them. These are important questions. But they begin too late.
\nAlignment research has often approached normative disagreement through value extraction\, preference aggregation\, or the search for sufficiently shared values (Christiano et al.\, 2017). More recent pluralistic approaches explicitly resist collapsing human values into a single aggregate and seek instead to preserve diverse perspectives (Sorensen et al.\, 2024\; Fazelpour &\; Fleisher\, 2025). Yet disagreement still tends to appear as something a system must represent\, accommodate\, aggregate\, or translate into a usable normative output. The underlying question remains: given that people disagree\, what should the system do?
\nDeep disagreement unsettles this framing. Some political conflicts concern not only competing judgments but the standards by which those judgments are assessed: what counts as relevant evidence\, a good reason\, or a consideration that ought to matter. Where the evaluative framework itself is contested\, there may be no neutral procedure capable of converting disagreement into a uniquely correct answer\, or even an uncontested compromise. Democratic theory confronts a structurally similar problem. Persistent normative disagreement is a normal feature of pluralistic \; political life (Rawls\, 1993)\, yet citizens must still make collective decisions and justify them to one another when substantive agreement remains out of reach (Gutmann &\; Thompson\, 1996).
\nThis matters for alignment becauseAI systems do not merely produceanswers from judgments that people have already formed. They increasingly shape the conditions under which judgment itself develops: which perspectives become visible\, how a disagreement is framed\, what counts as a reason worth answering\, and whether people have opportunities to challenge assumptions and revise their positions. If deep disagreement cannot simply be transformed into the correct normative output\, alignment cannot be concerned only with outputs.
\nI therefore develop an account of alignment as normative coordination. Drawing on Bex-Priestley andShemmer's(2017)accountofdisagreementwithinsharedprojects\,Iarguethattherelevantaim is to sustain practices in which people can exchange reasons\, remain mutually answerable\, contest one another's claims\, and revise their judgments without presupposing eventual consensus. Their account does not itself resolve deep disagreement\; rather\, it helps identify what can remain normatively important when substantive resolution is unavailable.
\nThisreframesthegovernanceofAI-mediatedpublicdiscourse.Truthstillmatters\,andsomefactual claims are simply false. But correcting falsehoods cannot settle the normative disagreements through which citizens decide what matters\, what follows from the facts\, or what they owe one another. The paper therefore develops criteria for evaluatingAI-mediated discourse in terms of visibility\, authority\, mutual answerability\, and opportunities for revision.Alignment should be assessed not only by the outcomes systems produce\, but by the conditions of judgment they help create.
\nAbout the Author:
\nYifan Li recently completed his PhD in Philosophy at the University of Essex. His research focuses on moral responsibility\, agency\, and the ethical and political implications of artificial intelligence. His current work examines AI alignment\, distributed responsibility\, democratic disagreement\, and the conditions under which AI-mediated environments shape human judgment and accountability.
ORGANIZER;CN=Larelle Bossi;CN=Hugh Breakey;CN=Jacqueline Boaks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR