In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance &ndash\; Series III
\nA series of interviews with contributors to The Philosophy of Money and Finance (Hardcover\, OUP 2024\; Paperback\, fall 2025)
\nSchedule
\n"Truth in Financial Accounting"
Author: Christopher J. Cowton (Emeritus\, University of Huddersfield)
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center)
Date and Time: 15 January 2026\, 18:00 CET
"Green Central Banking" \;
Authors: Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria)\; Clé\;ment Fontan (University of Louvain)
Interviewer: Jens van't Klooster
Date and Time: 25 March 2026\, 18:00 CET
"On the Wrongfulness of Bank Contributions to Financial Crises"
Author: \;Richard Endö\;rfer (University of Gothenburg)
Interviewer: Kobi Finestone (Univeresity of San Diego)
Date and Time: 01 June 2026\, 18:00 CET
"Bitcoins Left and Right: A Normative Assessment of a Digital Currency"
Authors: Lars Lindblom and Joakim Sandberg
Interviewer: Violet Victoria
Date and Time: October (TBA) 2026\, 18:00 CET
We're delighted to invite you to the research seminar of the Department of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. These are organized in partnership with CELFIS\, the Center for Logic\, Philosophy and History of Science at UB. Here are talks scheduled so far:
\nFall 2025:
\nOctober 28\, 5pm: Alexandru Dragomir &\; Andrei Mărăşoiu (University of Bucharest\, \;f2f)\, "The Inconstant Moral Expert: the case of LLMs"
\nNovember 25\, 4pm: Nicholas Rimell (Chinese University of Hong Kong\, hybrid via Zoom)\, "A Metaphysics of Despair"
\nNovember 28\, 2pm: Micah Thomas Pimaro\, Jr. (University of Calabar\, \;f2f)\, "Placide Tempels&rsquo\;s Metaphysics: A challenge or a trap for African philosophy?"
\nDecember 2\, 3pm: Nora Grigore (Romanian Academy\, Institute of Philosophy and Psychology\, f2f)\, "Worthiness and Expediency: a Distinction without a Difference?"
\nDecember 19\, 2pm: Alin Olteanu (Shanghai International Studies University\, ICUB\, \;f2f)\, "Iconic Imagination in Modeling: A Semiotic Approach to Scientific Inquiry"
\nJanuary 16\, 2pm: Marco Facchin (University of Antwerp\, hybrid via Zoom)\, \;"Is mental content an illusion?" \;
\nJanuary 22\, 12pm: Sandra Brâ\;nzaru (University of Bucharest\, CELFIS\, FPSE\, \;f2f)\, "Conceptualising Empathy"
\nFebruary 10\, 4pm: Marian Călborean (OPTI Software &\; University of Bucharest\, f2f)\, "The minimal ontology of time" \;
\nSpring 2026:
\nMarch 27\, 2pm: Erik Myin (University of Antwerp\, \;hybrid \;via Zoom)\, &ldquo\;Of a Different Mind&rdquo\;
\nMarch 30: \;Mariona Eiren Miyata-Sturm (University of Oxford\, f2f)\, &ldquo\;The metacognitive account of aesthetics in science&rdquo\;
\nApril 3: \;René\; \;van Woudenberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, \;hybrid \;via Zoom)\, "Are LLMs Authors?"
\nMay 11\, 12pm: Gheorge Ştefanov (U. Bucharest\, f2f)\; "Ce nu pot vedea neuroștiințele? &mdash\; \;Gramatica \;libertății: Wittgenstein\, Anscombe și critica determinismului tare"
\nMay 13\, 3pm: Andrei Moldovan (U. Salamanca\, f2f)\, \;&ldquo\;Between Independence and Guidance: A Dilemma for Intellectual Autonomy&rdquo\;
\nMay 19\, 10am: Daian Bica (Heinrich Heine University\, \;hybrid \;via Zoom)\, \;''How to Tame &lsquo\;Abundance&rsquo\;? Roman Frigg&rsquo\;s User Manual''
\nJune 5\, 2pm: Paula Tomi (National University of Science and Technology 'Politehnica' Bucharest\, \;f2f)\, &ldquo\;LLMs and truth pluralism&rdquo\;
\nJune: Alexandru Nicolae (University of Bucharest\, Faculty of Letters\; Romanian Academy\, Institute of Linguistics\, \;f2f)
\nJune: Cătălin Teoharie (University of Bucharest\, CELFIS\, \;f2f)
\nJune: Ioan Muntean (UT Rio Grande Valley\, UI Urbana\, \;f2f)
\nJuly: Mihai Rusu (Babeş Bolyai University\, ICUB\, hybrid)
\nJuly: Constantin Stoenescu (University of Bucharest\, CELFIS\, \;f2f)\, "Revisiting 'The Normative Structure of Science' \;
\nSeptember: Oana Şerban (University of Bucharest\, CCIIF\, \;f2f)
\nPrevious events \;in the series are available at: \;
\n2021-22: \;https://philevents.org/event/show/93365 \;
\n2022-23: \;https://philevents.org/event/show/105249 \;
\nhttps://filosofie.unibuc.ro/category/seminar-cercetare-dft/ \;
\nhttps://icub.unibuc.ro/2022/06/14/workshop-semantic-cognition-and-truth/ \;
\nFor those of you who would like to join some of the meetings but have overlapping commitments\, we will do our best to record the meetings whenever everyone in attendance consents to it\, and to then upload the recordings on the Department's YouTube channel. Previous talks are available here:
\nhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOgUq3dN8CXI4L6DhZT1f_Q
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrei Mărăşoiu": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261209T170000 SUMMARY:Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026 UID:20260702T093835Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION: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:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics: Online Lecture Series UID:20260702T093836Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm 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:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T170000 SUMMARY:Representations in Minds\, Brains\, and AI UID:20260702T093838Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This series was prompted by a recent wave of fascinating new work on the topic of representations. We are honored and happy that so many authors agreed to participate and we hope to provide a platform for further interdisciplinary discussion. Most papers are already available and you can find links here: \;https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/ii/bewusstsein/lehre.html.en \;
Schedule
22 April\, \;Rosa Cao \;(Stanford): The Scientist in the Machine \;(paper forthcoming)
29 April\, \;Ken Aizawa \;(Rutgers): \;The Evidence for Representation \;
06 May\, \;Corey Maley \;(Purdue): \;Structural Representation is Analog Representation
13 May\, \;Kevin J. Mitchell \;(Dublin): \;The Origins of Meaning: From Pragmatic Control Signals to Semantic Representation
20 May\, \;Eric Hochstein \;(Victoria\, Canada)): \;Neural Representations as Scientific Posits and Metaphysical Entities
10 June\, \;Manolo Martí\;nez \;(Barcelona): \;The Information-Processing Perspective on Representation
17 June\, \;John Krakauer \;(Johns Hopkins/Champalimaud Foundation) &\; \;Bill Ramsey \;(Nevada\, Las Vegas): \;Mental Representation without Neural Representation
24 June\, \;Nina Poth \;(Radboud\, Nijmegen) &\; \;Annika Schuster \;(Dortmund): \;Mental\, Scientific\, and Artificial Representations
01 July\, \;Lotem Elber-Dorozko \;(Jerusalem) &\; \;Devin Gouvê\;a \;(Holy Cross): \;"Neural Representation" is not a Defective Concept
08 July\, \;Zina B. Ward \;(Florida State): \;Directive Representation and the Job Description Challenge
15 July\, \;Krzysztof Dolega \;(Ruhr-University Bochum): The Gloss on the Machine: Egan's Representations in Mechanistic Explanation \;(paper forthcoming)
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\n- May 28th - Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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\nJonida Kodra\, Daniel Mü\;ller and Mathijs Geurts (University of Osnabrü\;ck and \;University of Salzburg)
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonida Kodra;CN=Mathijs Geurts;CN="Daniel Lennart Müller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260605T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:Italian Phenomenology Today 2026 UID:20260702T093841Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Kerpener Str. 30\, Cologne\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Description
\nThis lecture series draws together scholars interested in the rich history and ongoing evolution of phenomenology within the Italian philosophical tradition. It provides a forum for regular discussions where participants can present their latest research or recent publications. Topics will span from the historical and cultural roots of Italian phenomenology and its dialogues with other philosophical traditions&mdash\;including Marxism\, Existentialism\, Pragmatism\, Idealism\, Hermeneutics\, (Post-)Structuralism\, and Neo-Thomism&mdash\;to its intersections with disciplines such as psychology\, psychoanalysis\, sociology\, anthropology\, political theory\, and art. A key objective of the series is also to examine how Italian phenomenological concepts and frameworks can contribute to contemporary debates in fields such as the philosophy of mind\, social and political philosophy\, aesthetics\, and the theory of art and literature. By doing so\, the series fosters dialogue within the phenomenological tradition and across broader philosophical and interdisciplinary contexts.
\nParticipation
\nThe series will be conducted in a \;hybrid format\, both in person at the Husserl Archive in Cologne and online via Zoom. To register\, please email \;italianphenomenology@gmail.comwith the subject &ldquo\;Registration Lecture Series 2026.&rdquo\; The Zoom link will be provided the day before each session.
\nOrganizers: Marco Cavallaro\, Sara Dameno
\nThis series is organized as part of the \;ItaPhen \;project \;and hosted by the Husserl Archive in Cologne.
\nThis lecture series is funded by the \;German Research Foundation (DFG) \;as part of the \;ItaPhen \;project.
\nProgram
\nPlease find the program of the Lecture Series in the PDF attached. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T170000 SUMMARY:The Meaning of Misogyny UID:20260702T093842Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:The University of Manchester\, Manchester\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:The Meaning of Misogyny Conference \;is taking place from the 30th of June to the 1st of July 2026 at the University of Manchester.
\nThis two-day\, hybrid conference aims to look at the work that specifically focuses on the meaning of misogynistic and/or gendered language. The topics will relate\, but are not limited to\, the following questions:
\nWe are excited to confirm that Professor Robin Jeshion will be our keynote speaker for the event. Her work on slurs\, dehumanisation &\; contempt\, reclamation\, and expressivism has been highly influential in Philosophy of Language\, and we are very much looking forward to having her in Manchester.
\nConfirmed speakers:
\nJustina Ber&scaron\;kytė (University of Manchester): \; Hostile and Benevolent Misogyny: On the Expressive Power of Patriarchal Speech
\nVittoria Campisi (Università\; Vita-Salute San Raffaele) &\; Sergio Guerra (Universidad de Granada): \;Presuppositional Obstacles in Sex Negotiation
\nChris Cousens (University of Manchester): \; Names\, Norms\, and Power [invited]
\nRobin Jeshion \;(University of Southern California) [keynote]: \; \;The Language of Misogyny: Slurs\, Stereotypes\, and Rape Threats
\nGrace Li (The University of Hong Kong &\; King&rsquo\;s College London): \; Who&rsquo\;s Afraid when Feminists &ldquo\;Box&rdquo\;? --Reclaiming Anti-Feminist Slurs in China
\nFilipa Melo Lopes (University of Edinburgh): \; Misogynistic Dehumanization: Women as Witches [invited]
\nAmanda McMullen (University of Arkansas): \; The Context-Sensitivity of Extreme Manosphere Language
\nMengyuan Qi (University of Pittsburgh): \; Event Labels [online]
\nAyşe Seda Umul (Independent Researcher): \; The Meaning of Misogynist: An Internal Critique of Manne
\nAlba Moreno Zurita (University of Santiago de Compostela) &\; Dan Zeman (University of Porto \;[invited]: Misogyny Beyond Neutral Counterparts: Gendered Slurs as Norm Enforcement
\nRegistration
\nAttendance is free\, but registration is necessary. To register\, follow this link: \;https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=B8tSwU5hu0qBivA1z6kadw1oO2vAu6FBgwNOb0QPdvNUMDQ0UTlIMFkwUFVENUhZMDUySlpMT0xUWC4u \;
\nFunding
\nThis conference is part of Justina's Early Career Fellowship project titled The Language of Misogyny: Meaning\, Function and Possible Interventions\, funded by the Leverhulme Trust and the University of Manchester.
\nOrganising Committee:
\nJustina Ber&scaron\;kytė\, justina.berskyte@manchester.ac.uk
\nAdelina Valoschi\, adelina-dalia.valoschi@manchester.ac.uk \;
ORGANIZER;CN="Justina Berškytė";CN=Adelina Valoschi: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T234500 SUMMARY:New Perspectives on Evolution\, Teleology\, and Theology UID:20260702T093843Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The workshop investigates new perspectives on the relations of evolution\, teleology\, and theology. Although the topic is much discussed\, new developments in both biology\, philosophy of biology\, and theology/philosophy of religion impact how the relation of evolution and teleology is seen. \;
\nWe ask: \;What is the relationship between evolutionary theory\, teleology\, and theology? How does evolution\, as a scientific theory\, relate to philosophical views of &ldquo\;unguided&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;guided&rdquo\; evolution?
\nWe invite papers focusing on one of the following four themes in relation to the workshop topic: (1) Varieties of Evolutionary Teleological Views\, (2) Explanatory Power and Methodological Considerations\, (3) The Impact of New Scientific Perspectives\, and (4) Theological Perspectives and Worldviews. Contributions can come from scientists\, philosophers\, theologians\, and historians. Please see further details at the event website and contact the organizers\, E. V. Rope Kojonen (Faculty of Theology\, University of Helsinki) or Zachary Ardern (Wellcome Sanger Institute\, Cambridge) if you have questions.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T160000 SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Spinoza: Politics\, Freedom and Imagination UID:20260702T093844Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Philosophy of Spinoza: Politics\, Freedom and Imagination \;
\n(1&ndash\;29 July 2026\, 13 classes\, 25 hours)
\nOnline Summer Course / Luí\;s Krus Centre &ndash\; Lifelong Learning\, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH)\, NOVA University of Lisbon.
\nDeadline: 15 June 2026
\nObjectives
\nThis course explores the thought of Baruch Spinoza (1632&ndash\;1677)\, analysing his seminal works. Spinoza was born and lived in the Dutch Republic and had Portuguese-Jewish origins. Spinoza made significant contributions to modern biblical criticism\, 17th-century rationalism\, and Dutch intellectual culture\, establishing himself as one of the most important philosophers of the early modern period. His thought combines elements of ancient Stoicism\, medieval Jewish rationalism\, and the thought of philosophers such as Moses Maimonides\, Thomas Hobbes\, and René\; Descartes in a highly original system. \;
\nHe received a traditional Jewish education\, learning Hebrew and studying sacred texts within the Portuguese Jewish community. As a young man\, Spinoza challenged rabbinic authority and questioned Jewish doctrines\, which led to his expulsion from the Jewish community in 1656. Following this expulsion\, he distanced himself from all religious affiliations and devoted himself to philosophical research and lens grinding. Spinoza attracted a circle of devoted followers who gathered to discuss his writings.
\nSpinoza published sparingly during his lifetime to avoid persecution and suppression of his works. In his Tractatus Theologico-Politicus\, Spinoza questioned the divine origin of the Hebrew Bible and the nature of God\, arguing that ecclesiastical authority should have no role in a secular\, democratic state. The Ethics advocates a pantheistic view of God and explores the role of human freedom in a world devoid of theological\, cosmological\, and political anchors. Spinoza&rsquo\;s philosophy spans nearly every area of philosophical discourse\, including metaphysics\, epistemology\, political philosophy\, ethics\, philosophy of mind\, and philosophy of science.
\nWithin this framework\, students will develop appropriate critical and analytical skills through reading and discussing philosophical texts on topics related to freedom\, God\, imagination\, politics\, prophecy\, and theology. Furthermore\, students will learn to navigate philosophical thinking by addressing fundamental questions\, including: What is freedom? What is God? How can we conceive of a political order? What is the role of imagination in religion? This course addresses these and other questions by focusing on the works of one of the foremost philosophers of the early modern period.
\nRead more about the Summer course here: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/outros-cursos/the-philosophy-of-spinoza-politics-freedom-and-imagination/
\nThe course will be entirely in English and is intended for undergraduate\, postgraduate\, and doctoral students. It is also open to everyone interested in the intellectual biography of Spinoza
\nTeacher: Dr. Fabio Tononi
\nFor further questions\, contact fabiotononi@fcsh.unl.pt
ORGANIZER;CN=Fabio Tononi: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260702T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:LLMs as Mirror\, Colleague\, Rival UID:20260702T093845Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Locomotiefboulevard 101\, Tilburg\, Netherlands\, 5041 SE DESCRIPTION:CFA &ndash\; LLMs as Mirror\, Colleague\, Rival
\n5th TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium Tilburg School of Humanities &\; Digital Sciences\, Tilburg University
\n2 &\; 3 July\, 2026
\nLarge language models (LLMs) have quickly become a prominent feature of contemporary intellectual and cultural life\, raising distinctive questions for scholars across the digital humanities and related disciplines. We are interested in the multi faceted role of LLMs in academic research. LLMs process and generate language in a way that is both familiar and uncanny\, revealing and opaque. They can write\, translate\, argue\, and create\, but also lead us astray. In their complexity\, they hold up a strange mirror to human thought and culture (to borrow Shannon Vallor&rsquo\;s metaphor).
\nThis symposium takes as its organizing metaphor three roles that LLMs play in (digital) humanities research: as mirror\, colleague\, and rival. As a mirror\, LLMs reflect the values and biases encoded in training data drawn from a large corpus of human-generated text. Studying the output of LLMs (and how it falls short) can teach us about ourselves as well as the technology itself. As a colleague\, LLMs can serve as research tools or co-authors\, raising questions about collaboration\, authorship\, research integrity\, and the evolving nature of scholarly work. As a rival\, LLMs can disrupt and confound\, challenging the epistemic foundations of academic research\, by undermining replicability and evaluation\, and flattening the research landscape.
\nThese three roles are not mutually exclusive\, and the tensions between them are precisely what makes LLMs a productive object of study for digital humanists\, philosophers\, communication scholars\, cultural theorists\, cognitive scientists\, and others working adjacent to the digital humanities alike.
\nGuiding Questions
\nThis symposium aims to deepen our understanding of the role of LLMs in (digital) humanities research\, focusing on questions such as:
\n What can LLMs teach us about human language\, cultural heritage\, knowledge\, and creativity?
\n In what ways do LLMs encode or distort cultural values\, biases\, and worldviews? How can our disciplines help us identify and critique these?
\n How can scholars productively collaborate with LLMs as research tools? What methodological and ethical issues does this raise?
\n What does the rise of LLMs mean for domain expertise and the division of cognitive labor in the (digital) humanities?
\n What normative and political questions are raised by the delegation of linguistic and cognitive tasks to LLMs?
\n How do LLMs functoon as rivals or obstacles in (digital) humanites research? In what ways can they undermine traditional research methods and standards?
\n How do the geopolitics of LLM development and deployment affect their use in academic research (e.g.\, in terms of academic freedom\, conflicts of interest)?
\nWe aim to answer these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. We welcome theoretical\, empirical\, and methodological contributions. We invite speakers to present on a broad range of topics including\, but not limited to the cognitive and AI (e.g.\, modelling of individual and collective cognition\, LLMs as human subjects\, the nature of LLMs more broadly construed)\, arts and media (e.g.\, shifting definitions of authorship\; the potential dispossession of artists from creative industries)\, philosophical (e.g.\, LLMs and value-sensitive design\, cognitive deskilling\, chatbot epistemology and ethics)\, linguistic (e.g.\, modeling language acquisition and processing\, corpus annota on and analysis)\, and communication and information studies (e.g.\, the role and risks of chatbots in domains of health\, information\, and well-being\; the contributioon of LLMs to social and digital inequalities\; the integration of LLMs into communication science methodologies). Submitied abstracts ideally (but not necessarily) feature digital humanities methods or reflect on digital media and technologies.
\nThis 2-day\, hybrid symposium - part on-site in Tilburg\, part online - brings together scholars from a range of disciplines (all represented in the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences) to engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue on these matters.
\nKeynote speakers to be confirmed.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nWe invite interested speakers to submit (i) an anonymized abstract of max. 300 words\, and (ii) a cover sheet including your name\, institutional affiliation\, and whether you would prefer to give a talk in person or online to DHsymposium@lburguniversity.edu by May 1st\, 2026. You&rsquo\;ll be no fied on May the 22nd. \; \;
\nOrganisers: Barend de Rooij\, Mirella De Sisto\, Richard Heersmink\, William Marler\, Sean Smith\, Federico Zamberlan
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260702T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:Postcolonialism\, Postcommunism and Postmodernism - 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20260702T093846Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Conference online (via Zoom)
\nCFP:
\nIn our postmodern world there are a lot of questions that should be re-considered and re-defined. What does it mean to fight against colonialism and racism in the world of migration crisis and xenophobic attitudes towards minorities? What does it mean to be a postcommunist country in the face of the common nostalgia for order and rules? How is it possible to have a national identity being aware of the relative character of every national feature?
We want to examine the notions of postcolonialism\, postcommunism and postmodernism as thoroughly as possible\, from many perspectives and in variable aspects: in politics\, society\, psychology\, culture\, and many more. We also want to devote considerable attention to how these phenomena are represented in artistic practices: in literature\, film\, theatre or visual arts.
We invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: history\, politics\, psychology\, sociology\, anthropology\, philosophy\, economics\, law\, literary criticism\, theatre studies\, film studies\, fine arts\, memory studies\, migration studies\, consciousness studies\, dream studies\, gender studies\, postcolonial studies\, medical sciences\, psychiatry\, psychoanalysis\, cognitive sciences and others.
Different forms of presentations are encouraged\, including case studies\, theoretical investigations\, problem-oriented arguments\, and comparative analyses.
We will be happy to hear from both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers\, as well as doctoral students and undergraduate students. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners\, without giving a presentation.
We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature\, the conference will bring many interesting observations on and discussions about postcolonialism\, postcommunism and postmodernism.
Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to
I. Postcolonialism
\;
postcolonial politics
\npostcolonial philosophy
\npostcolonial societies
\nhistory of (post)colonialism
\npostcolonialism and orientalism
\npostcolonialisim and Islampophobia
\npostcolonialism and anti-Semitism
\npostcolonialism and terrorism
\npostcolonialism and racism
\npostcolonialism and political correctness
\npostcolonialism and cosmopolitism
\npostcolonilism and religion
\n
II. Postcommunism
\;
postcommunism and democracy
\npostcommunism and liberalism
\npostcommunism and capitalism
\nnostalgia for communism
\ncommunism and conformism
\npostcommunism and revolution
\npostcommunist countries in the European Union
\npostcommunist generations
\n
III. Postmodernism
modernism and postmodernism
\npostmodern philosophy
\npostmodern psychology
\npostmodern identity
\npostmodern lifestyle
\npostmodernism and nationalism
\npostmodernism and human rights
\npostmodernism and authority
\nIV. Literature and the Arts
\;
postcolonialism\, postcommunism and postmodernism in literature
\npostcolonialism\, postcommunism and postmodernism in film
\npostcolonialism\, postcommunism and postmodernism in theatre
\npostcolonialism\, postcommunism and postmodernism in fine arts
\npostcolonial narratives
\npostcommunist memoirs
\npostmodern conventions
\nPlease submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations\, together with a short biographical note\, by 15 June2026 to:inconferenceoffice@gmail.com \; \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260705T160000 DTEND;TZID=Pacific/Auckland:20260709T170000 SUMMARY:2026 AAP Conference UID:20260702T093847Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Pacific/Auckland LOCATION:Knighton Road\, Hamilton\, New Zealand DESCRIPTION:Held annually since 1923\, our 2026 Conference will be hosted by \;The University of Waikato \;- Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato\, Hamilton\, New Zealand.
\nThe conference is designed to give professional philosophers and philosophy postgraduate students the opportunity to present and discuss papers in all areas of philosophy. \;
\nThis year's conference is offered fully \;hybrid\, with all sessions streamed.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260706T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260706T093000 SUMMARY:Beyond Enmity: An Introduction to Political Ontology UID:20260702T093848Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:What kind of beings must we be for politics to take the forms it does? This seminar begins from the premise that every political theory rests on an ontology(an account of what beings are and how they relate) and that the dominant ontology of Western political thought is organized around enmity\, self-preservation\, and what Roberto Esposito calls immunitas: the exemption of theself from the obligatory gift (munus) that binds and exposes us to one another.
\nThe munus is an obligatory gift that expropriates the self\, a debt that can never be fully repaid\, a claim the other has on us that undoes our self-possession. For Esposito\, the entire tradition of modern political thought can be understood as an attempt to immunize the subject against this expropriation. The Hobbesian social contract\, the sovereign\, the market\, even revolutionary politics are all are devices for securing the self against the vulnerability that genuine interdependence would require. When the forms and values that once organized existence (religious\, moral\, political) lose their binding force and collapse\, the result is nihilism.
\nThe immunitary tradition is one response to this collapse\, i.e.\, an attempt to secure meaning\, order\, and selfhood through sovereign-enforced forms. But because social forms are themselves groundless (i.e.\, without permanent form)\,immunization deepens the very nihilism it was meant to overcome because the attempts to establish ground leads to various inevitable contradictions of identity
\nAcross six weeks\, we trace this immunitary logic from its founding myth in Hobbes through its political-theological (Schmitt)\, political-economic (Polanyi)\, and biopolitical (Esposito) registers\, and then construct an alternative through the philosophies of Jean-Luc Nancy and Nishitani Keiji. We move toward an ontology of compassion and what I have theorized as a theory of impermanent institutions\, these are political forms grounded not in sovereign self-enclosure but in the lived acceptance of both the munus and impermanence.
\nThe texts in this seminar are difficult. This is partly a matter of vocabulary and partly a consequence of the questions they are asking\, which require us to think at a level of abstraction we are not accustomed to. The framing essays are designed to make these texts accessible without oversimplifying them. Readers are encouraged to sit with difficulty rather than resolving it prematurely\; the seminar is a space for thinking together\, not for arriving at final answers.
ORGANIZER;CN=Joseph Turner;CN=Glenn Wallis: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260706T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260708T170000 SUMMARY:Online Career Development/Training Sessions in Global Philosophy of Religion UID:20260702T093849Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Online \;Career \;Development/Training Sessions
\nIn early July\, the Global Philosophy of Religion 2 project is running a series of online training seminar to support the \;career \;development of scholars from underrepresented geographical regions and traditions. In doing so we aim to expand opportunities\, networks\, and experiences available to such scholars. We have secured fantastic and world-leading panellists to share their advice and expertise.
\nAttendees must register for each session \;separately \;to receive the meeting link. Registration is through the links on our website. In the registration process there is an opportunity to propose questions to the speakers for them to address in their discussion. \;
\n\nMonday 6th July 2026\, 17:00-18:30 BST: \;PUBLISHING.
\nSpeakers:
\; \; Prof Yujin Nagasawa\, editor of Religious Studies and and Cambridge Elements in Global Philosophy of Religion
\; \; Prof Franklin Perkins\, editor of Philosophy East and West
Chair:
\; \; Dr Martin Pickup\, PI Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2
Tuesday 7th \;July 2026\, 15:00-16:30 BST: JOB MARKET.
\nSpeakers:
\; \; Professor Jennifer Morton\, University of Pennsylvania
\; \; Dr Ana Bajzelj\, University of California Riverside
\; \; Dr Martin Pickup\, PI Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2
Chair:
\; \; Dr Marie-Hé\;lè\;ne Gorisse\, Co-PI Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2
Wednesday 8th \;July 2026\, 15:00-16:30 BST: GRANT APPLICATIONS. \;
\nSpeakers:
\; \; Dr Andrea Acri\, PI ERC Consolidator grant MANTRATANTRAM and Lead Researcher ERC Synergy grant MANTRAMS \;
\; \; Dr Ayşenur Ü\;nü\;gü\;r Tabur\, current Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow
\; \; Dr Martin Pickup\, PI Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2
Chair:
\; \; Dr Marie-Hé\;lè\;ne Gorisse\, Co-PI Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2
Twenty-Third Annual Atlantic Canada Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy\,
\nJuly 08 &ndash\; 10\, 2026.
\nHeld in Room 1130\, Marian McCain Arts and Social Sciences Building\, Dalhousie University\, 6135 University Ave.\, Halifax\, Nova Scotia.
\n\nWednesday\, July 08.
\n9:00 am\, ADT (Atlantic Daylight Time)
\nJoseph Adler\, University of Tennessee
\n"Spinoza and Christian Thought: The Case of Christophorous Sandius"
\n10:30 am Erica Ferg and Bryan\, Hall \;Regis University
\n"Spinoza and the Limits of Toleration"
\n12:00\, \;LUNCH\, \;Room 1142\, Dept. Lounge
\n1:00 pm
\nKay Bischof\, University of Jerusalem\,
\n"The Specter of Spinozism in Descartes&rsquo\; Meditations"
\n2:30 pm
\nAntonio Borge\, University of Nottingham
\n"Towards an Objectivist Reading of Spinoza&rsquo\;s Panpsychism"
\n4:00 pm
\nThomas Vinci\, Dalhousie University
\n"Anne Conway&rsquo\;s Theory of Vision: A Modern\, Quantum Theoretical Interpretation"
\n\nThursday\, July 09
\n9:00 am
\nJeff Edwards\, \;SUNY\, Stoneybrook
\n"Kant on Imperfect Duties"
\n10:30 am
\nNicholas Dunn\, University of Lethbridge
\n"Judgment\, Latitude and Kant&rsquo\;s Distinction between Perfect and Imperfect Duties"
\n12:00\, LUNCH\, \;Room 1142\, \;Dept. Lounge
\n1:00 pm
\nRaimundo Cox\, \;University of Pittsburgh
\n"Kant&rsquo\;s Theory of Moral Intelligibility"
\n2:30
\nAman Sakhardande\, \;University of Toronto
\n"Is Time an A Priori Representation: Locke Contra Kant"
\n4:00 pm
\nLiam Dempsey\, \;Kwantlen Polytechnical University
\n"Newton on God\, Space and Matter: Four Spectres of Irreligion"
\n\nFriday\, July 10
\n9:00 am
\nCarl Abrahamsen\, \;New York University
\n"Adam Smith on the Love of Praiseworthiness and the Internalized Other"
\n10:30 am
\nMatthew Leisinger\, \;York University
\n"Cudworth on Indifference"
\n12:00\, \;LUNCH\, \;Room 1142\, \;Dept. Lounge
\n1:00 pm
\nRegina Hurley\, \;SUNY\, \; Buffalo
\n"The Impassioned Intellect: the Practical Aim of Descartes&rsquo\;s Meditations."
\n3:00 pm
\n(Joint with the Philosophy Department&rsquo\;s Friday Seminar)
\nKevin Busch\, \;Claremont McKenna College
\n"A Problem for Humean Modality"
\n\n7:00 pm
\nConference Banquet
\nLocation: TBA
\n\nThe website of the conference is linked to the homepage of the Department of Philosophy\, Dalhousie University. Its&rsquo\; URL is: https://www.dal.ca/sites/acsemp.html .
\nMailing Address:
\nProfessor Tom Vinci (Ret&rsquo\;d)
\nDepartment of Philosophy
\nDalhousie University
\n6135 University Ave\, Rm. 1142
\nHalifax\, NS\, B3H 4R2\, Canada.
\nDept phone: 902 494 3510
\nFax: 902 494-3518
\nCell: \; 902 880 8919
\nEmail address: vinci@dal.ca
\nZoom Link: Contact Professor Vinci
ORGANIZER;CN=Tom Vinci: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260710T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260710T230000 SUMMARY:Algorithmic Randomness and Quantum Mechanics UID:20260702T093851Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Grodzka 52\, Kraków\, Poland DESCRIPTION:The term &ldquo\;randomness&rdquo\; often appears in the context of Quantum Mechanics. The behaviour of quantum systems is said to be random\, the outcomes of quantum mechanical experiments are said to be random\, certain devices based on quantum processes are said to operate in a random way&hellip\; However\, the concept of randomness is rarely made precise in these contexts. Meanwhile\, in another branch of science &ndash\; computability theory\, also called recursion theory &ndash\; a fully precise concept of randomness has been developed\, termed &ldquo\;algorithmic randomness&rdquo\;. How are these two uses of the term &ldquo\;randomness&rdquo\; related? Is the concept of algorithmic randomness relevant to Quantum Mechanics? The aim of this workshop is to address various facets of this question in an interdisciplinary gathering. The event will take place at the Jagiellonian University in Krakó\;w on August 31st and September 1st\, 2026. The format of the workshop will be hybrid: it is possible to participate either in person or online (but the organizers strongly encourage in-person participation).
\nOur keynote speakers are:
\nIn addition to talks by our invited speakers\, we plan a few contributed talks. We invite submissions concerning any aspect of the relationship between algorithmic randomness and Quantum Mechanics\, including (but not limited to) the following questions and topics:
\nAbstracts of about 500 words should be sent to joanna.luc@uj.edu.pl by 10.07.2026.
\nTo participate without giving a talk (either in person or online)\, please register by sending an e-mail to joanna.luc@uj.edu.pl.
ORGANIZER;CN=Joanna Luc;CN=Tomasz Placek: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260710T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260710T234500 SUMMARY:Bodies in Digital Transition: Mapping a topology of digital bodies UID:20260702T093852Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Strand Building\, Strand\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC2R 2LS DESCRIPTION:Machines glow\, pulse\, perform and think through metal\, light\, code\, and living matter. The second Bodies in Digital Transition (BDT) edition traverses the materiality of the mechanical body itself: what embodied gestures and rhythms animate its operations? What moves beneath its surface? What kind of being emerges in the loops of its code? From the lures of the aesthetic surface to the recursive depths of its algorithmic core\, this year BTD aims to dissect the machine&rsquo\;s anatomy across several strata that form a speculative topology of the machinic body\; a descent through appearance\, mechanism\, and ontology toward the thresholds where technology ceases to represent and begins to be. In mapping out the systems of embodiment inhabited by digital beings\, we also open up inquiry into how human agents author\, come into contact with\, and transform machine bodies. There is neither &ldquo\;the technology itself&rdquo\; nor &ldquo\;the aesthetics itself&rdquo\; but rather a method of design in which the two are mutually implicated. To resist interior&ndash\;exterior divides open inquiries of how human agents encounter and transform machinic bodies through the intra-active practice of design. Digital bodies condition human expression and are conditioned by cultural inflections at each strata. The plural and distributed materialities of digital systems span beyond physical objects\, but encompass code\, electromagnetic waves\, and sensory outputs in complex and multiple communicating layers. How does the agency act as this morphing web? Following a post-human stance\, neither digital nor human cognition is assumed to be contained within an algorithmic nucleus. Instead\, it is conceived as emerging through relations across each stratum\, whose analytical isolation is not intended to fix ontologies\, but to map a topology of multiple\, non-linear processes through which agencies coalesce. To move beyond the limits of this configuration and to encourage crossing of boundaries\, we invite trans-disciplinary experimental and highly speculative inquiry and action into the machinic as event\, intra-action\, and formation of being.
ORGANIZER;CN=DiSCo (Digital Studies Collective): METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260711T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260711T153000 SUMMARY:Edith Stein als Briefeschreiberin: ihre innere Rede mit Gott und den Mitmenschen UID:20260702T093853Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Silbergasse 35\, Vienna\, Austria\, 1190 DESCRIPTION: Referentin: Dr. Pia Lilienstein
Vertiefungsnachmittag (der erste Vortrag wird online ü\;bertragen)
Mit unserem verä\;nderten Medienverhalten verliert das Schreiben von Briefen seine Bedeutung. Zu Edith Steins Lebzeiten war es noch eine selbstverstä\;ndliche und nicht aus dem Alltag wegzudenkende Mö\;glichkeit\, ü\;ber Entfernungen hinweg miteinander im Gesprä\;ch zu bleiben. Wenn man die Briefe von Edith Stein liest\, darf man an ihrer Hä\;lfte eines Dialoges teilhaben\, an ihrer inneren Zugewandtheit zu Freunden sowie an ihrer inneren Auseinandersetzung mit vielfä\;ltigsten Themen ihres Lebens. Diese Selbstmitteilungen von Edith Stein berü\;hren durch ihre Authentizitä\;t und lassen Einblicke in ihr damaliges Erleben und in ihre im allgemeinen eher verschlossene Persö\;nlichkeit zu. Kardinal Newman meinte einmal\, dass &bdquo\;das wahre Leben eines Menschen in seinen Briefen steckt&ldquo\;. Edith Stein hat seine Briefe wiederum ins Deutsche ü\;bertragen und selbst regelmä\;ß\;ig Briefe geschrieben\, um ihre Freundschaften und Familienbeziehungen zu pflegen. Der Vortrag mö\;chte dazu anregen\, ü\;ber das Briefeschreiben im Allgemeinen und den innerlichen Bewusstseinszustand beim Schreiben von Briefen im Besonderen nachzudenken sowie ü\;ber Edith Stein als Briefeschreiberin.
\nZeit 14:30 Uhr bis 17:30 Uhr Veranstalter Edith Stein Gesellschaft Ö\;sterreich\; Karmeliten in Wien Ort KarmelZentrum
1190 Wien\, Silbergasse 35 Preisinformation Nachmittag: 15 &euro\; (ermä\;ß\;igt: 10 &euro\;)
Nur Vortrag: 10 &euro\; (ermä\;ß\;igt: 7 &euro\;)
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Call for Participation
\n\nWorkshop: Knowledge on Nature and the Nature of Knowledge
\n\nPlace and date: 24. and 25.09.2026\, Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys)\, Humboldt University Berlin
\n\nIn this workshop we want to explore how knowledge on &ldquo\;Nature&rdquo\;\, environmental destruction and related forms of resistance is produced\, is circulating and translated. We are particularly interested in contributions which focus on the material\, institutional and political context which forms knowledge.
\n\nThis can include quite different foci: the role of indigenous territories\, knowledge born out of environmental struggles and conflicts\, working (conditions) at European Universities\, the rise of authoritarianism and much more.
\n\nHow do these conditions influence the topics studied\, the translations undertaken\, the political commitments made or not made? Why is it important to ask these questions and how to study them? Ultimately: what do we have to know about knowledge production and how do we have to act on this knowledge in order to create knowledge that is apt to answer to the violence brought upon humans and non-humans?
\n\nThe workshop will be the first event of the research project &ldquo\;Looking across Worlds for Environmental Justice&rdquo\;\, where researchers from the Universidad Andina Simó\;n Bolí\;var in Quito\, King&rsquo\;s College London and Humboldt University of Berlin empirically research how environmental knowledge is produced and translated in different contexts in and between Ecuador and Europe.
\n\nIf you are interested in participating\, please send an abstract (max 350 words) of your proposed contribution to mehlhora@hu-berlin.de by 12 July 2026. Proposals can be sent in your language of choice\, the main languages of the event will be English and Spanish\, other languages will be tried to accommodate. Contributions from outside of academia are welcome. If you require financial support to participate\, please let us know when submitting your proposal. Limited funding for travel support may be available.
\n\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260713T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:9th Derrida Today Conference UID:20260702T093855Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:5th Arrondissment Rue d'Ulm\, Paris\, France DESCRIPTION:The Derrida Today Conference will focus on the ongoing value of either Derrida&rsquo\;s work\, or deconstruction\, to the political-ethical\, cultural\, artistic\, public debates and philosophical futures that confront us. The conference is interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic\, disciplinary and cultural contexts. Papers and panel proposals from academics\, independent scholars\, and graduate students are welcomed. The conference encourages contributions on diverse topics and contemporary issues\, and from any discipline in relation to Derrida&rsquo\;s work and/or deconstruction.
\nInformation about Abstract deadlines\, Registrations\, Speakers\, Keynotes\, etc. can be found on the Derrida Today website at: derridatoday.com
\nAbstract submission closes: 15th Jan 2026
\nAll abstracts and enquiries to: conference@derridatoday.com
\nKeynotes: David Farrell Krell\, Isabelle Alfandary\, Elissa Marder\, Marc Crepon
\nSpecial Speakers and Panels to be announced on website
ORGANIZER;CN=Nicole J. Anderson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T090000 SUMMARY:JIS Symposium 2026: The Future of Democracy: Renewing Ordered Liberty UID:20260702T093856Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS\n JIS SYMPOSIUM 2026 \n THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY: RENEWING ORDERED LIBERTY\n PASADENA\, CALIFORNIA\, USA\, 17 October 2026 (Online: Zoom)\n HOSTED BY OMEGA GRADUATE SCHOOL\n Suggested Themes:\nBy its 250th anniversary\, American democracy is at a crossroads. The American experiment in self-government faces a triple challenge. In The Fragility of Order\, George Weigel recounts America’s major twentieth-century challenges whose successes have come into question. Weigel argues that order is a “fragile thing\,” and needs continual renewal\, especially in a postmodern cultural context unsure about the truth of anything. Order rapidly unraveled in the United States on three levels: moral\, cultural\, and political. Skepticism and relativism of the moral order found expression in nihilism in both popular and high culture\, which translated also into increased partisanship in the political order. The question arises how to restore the American Founders’ ideal of a government that invoked “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” that set up a constitutional framework with checks and balances to circumscribe the exercise of political power\, and secure “life\, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” If this “One nation under God\, with liberty and justice for all\,” is to endure\, then its Judeo-Christian cultural roots need to be rediscovered to nurture individuals\, families\, and communities\, reaffirming America’s promise of equality of opportunity\, in contrast to quasi-Marxist “equity” as leveling egalitarianism or “equal outcomes\,” a democratic temptation that Alexis de Tocqueville warned against in his Democracy in America. The neo-Freudian obsession with sex and its perversions needs to yield to the imago Dei vision of human dignity (Gen 1:27)\; the un-American emphasis on race and gender in education and public policy (affirmative action/DEI) replaced by merit as the best criterion for gauging individual effort\; while politics need the leaven of respect for all. In brief\, can America find its soul and redeem the American Dream?\n JIS Symposium 2026 endeavors to bring together scholars from a wide range of disciplines and denominations for an exciting international conference which takes both scholarship and faith seriously. JIS Symposium 2026: The Future of Democracy: Renewing Ordered Liberty (Online: Zoom) is co-sponsored by IIR-ICSA-JIS. All conference participants must pre-register. Abstracts (250 words) due: July 15\, 2026: c/o Dr. O. Gruenwald\, JIS Editor\, 1065 Pine Bluff Dr.\, Pasadena\, CA 91107\, USA\, per e-mail (no attachments) to: info@jis3.org. Include: Paper Title\, First & Last Name\, department\, institution\, mailing address\, telephone & e-mail. Fully-developed papers will be considered for publication in the refereed Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies XXXIX 2027. Web: ttps://www.jis3.org/symposium2026. ORGANIZER;CN=Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies;CN=Oskar Gruenwald: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:UK XPHI Online: 2026 Series UID:20260702T093857Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce a call for abstracts for 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). This call is for a series starting in October 2026. To submit\, 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:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality UID:20260702T093858Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality\nCall for Papers and Presentations\nDetails\nThe Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites proposals for an online conference entitled \;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality. \;The proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nThis conference investigates how beliefs\, paranoia\, and conspiratorial modes of knowing shape a contemporary cognitive battlespace in which actors struggle to define truth\, authority\, and reality itself. Drawing on Michel Foucault&rsquo\;s \;Lectures on the Will to Know \;and Julia Kristeva&rsquo\;s \;This Incredible Need to Believe \;(2024)\, we focus on practices of selective fact use and &ldquo\;truth-selecting&rdquo\; that construct alternative epistemic orders while claiming privileged access to what is &ldquo\;really&rdquo\; going on.
\nRather than treating conspiracy thinking as merely political or psychological\, the conference foregrounds its religious dimensions: faith in hidden powers\, moral dualism\, apocalyptic expectation\, and hermeneutical struggle over revelatory access to the real. Conspiracy cultures routinely reproduce theological structures of knowing&mdash\;visions of salvation and corruption\, truth and deception\, initiation and blindness. At the same time\, new forms of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; reframe these religious energies within state and platform attempts to govern perception\, attention\, and trust. Artificial intelligence\, algorithmic media\, and strategic information campaigns do not only deliver messages\; they create digital ecologies in which suspicion becomes faith-like and revelation is continual.
\nThe conference organizers are seeking proposals of high academic quality that take a reflective and analytical approach to both general and specific topics with international appeal or focus. We encourage contributions from scholars of religious studies\, philosophy\, communication\, sociology\, security studies\, psychology\, media\, and related fields. Submissions should engage religion as a dynamic force&mdash\;conceptually\, historically\, or materially&mdash\;within the cognitive battlespaces of our time. We encourage contributions from a spectrum of perspectives\, approaches\, and methodologies.
\nWe are not interested in papers that simply rehearse or promote particular conspiracies\, or that use the conference as a platform for calling out disliked groups. We are not interested in polemics\, jeremiad\, or de facto advocacy pieces. Instead\, we welcome theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous work that takes the religious and epistemic dimensions of cognitive conflict seriously as objects of critical inquiry.
\nTopics and Guiding Questions\nProposals may address\, but are not limited to\, the following subthemes and questions:
\n1. Paranoid Styles and Truth-Selecting\nReligious narratives have always negotiated the boundary between revelation and delusion\, authority and transgression. This subtheme explores how conspiratorial and paranoid styles echo older religious hermeneutics&mdash\;selective citation\, esoteric interpretation\, claims to hidden truth&mdash\;while retooling them in secular or digital forms. How do religious movements or quasi-religious publics narrate their privileged access to hidden realities? What theological and philosophical resources&mdash\;including the Foucauldian genealogy of the &ldquo\;will to truth&rdquo\;&mdash\;sustain these modes of &ldquo\;truth selection&rdquo\; and suspicion?
\n2. Zionism\, Antisemitism\, and Global Conspiracy Imaginaries\nReligious symbols and myths remain central to global conspiracy thinking\, and Judaism occupies a particularly charged position in these narratives. This subtheme invites analyses of antisemitic conspiracies past and present\, from classical &ldquo\;hidden ruler&rdquo\; myths to their algorithmic reprints in digital culture. How do such imaginaries convert theological motifs into political paranoia? What criteria can scholars use to distinguish legitimate critique of religion or state policy from conspiratorial reinscriptions of sacred enmity and eschatological blame?
\n3. AI\, Platforms\, and Paranoid Infrastructures\nTechnological systems now mediate belief and belonging in ways that rival traditional religious institutions. As artificial intelligence curates information and personalizes experience\, it also reconfigures how suspicion\, revelation\, and trust are produced and distributed. This subtheme asks whether algorithmic systems function as &ldquo\;paranoid infrastructures&rdquo\;&mdash\;digital environments that reinforce particular patterns of attention and faith. How do these systems become sites of religious projection\, and how do AI-generated and synthetic media intersect with conspiracy\, extremism\, and religious imaginary?
\n4. Cognitive Warfare and the Expanded Battlespace\nThe concepts of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;cognitive domain operations&rdquo\; increasingly shape strategic and policy discourse\, yet they resonate with deeply theological questions about will\, truth\, and freedom. When states and institutions seek to &ldquo\;weaponize&rdquo\; belief or perception\, they enter into the same struggle for reality long theorized within religious and philosophical traditions. How might religious studies and critical theory help decode the sacred undercurrents of this emerging battlefield&mdash\;its rituals\, its eschatologies\, its doctrines of purified mind and corrupted reason?
\n5. Ethics of Information Control and Scholarly Responsibility\nReligious communities have always wrestled with the ethics of teaching\, interpretation\, and secrecy&mdash\;questions that return urgently in the academy&rsquo\;s role as arbiter of truth amid disinformation. This subtheme invites reflexive discussion of how scholars navigate the line between critique and amplification when studying conspiratorial or extremist movements. What responsibilities accompany the act of curating knowledge&mdash\;or withholding it&mdash\;in an age when information itself is the battlefield?
\n6. Esoteric and Speculative Knowledge\nReligious and occult traditions offer rich precedents for contemporary speculative and conspiratorial epistemologies. Drawing on Michael Barkun and related theorists of stigmatized knowledge\, this subtheme investigates how claims to esoteric or speculative truth function as alternative forms of knowing and meaning-making\, challenging empiricist and positivist paradigms. What ethical and epistemic possibilities emerge when the speculative is taken seriously as an object of inquiry? Where are the boundaries between credible revelation\, creative speculation\, and dangerous delusion\, and how do such claims sustain communities seeking Reality amid uncertainty?
\nSubmission of Proposals\nContributors should send an abstract of 300&ndash\;500 words outlining their proposal and its relevance to the conference theme. All proposals should be submitted as email attachments to the editor at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com \;with the subject line header: &ldquo\;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare &ndash\; [Paper Title].&rdquo\;
\nAbstracts of papers\, drafts of papers\, or complete papers are welcome\, as well as proposals for oral presentations\, panel discussions\, or short workshops. Accepted presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review and possible inclusion in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nPublication\nAs the \;Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory \;works toward a special issue on Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare\, our goal is to create an interdisciplinary forum for rigorous examination of these pressing issues. All conference presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review. Selected articles will be published in a forthcoming special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nQueries\nFor questions regarding the conference or submissions\, please contact the JCRT editorial office at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com.
\nSponsored by the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) in Collaboration with the University of Denver
\njcrt.org/religioustheory \; - \; \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Adam DJ Brett;CN=Carl Raschke;CN=Kev Grane: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Fourth Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology UID:20260702T093859Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Austrian Society for Phenomenology launches its fouth international summer school. Our objective is to promote the research of young scholars (bachelor\, master\, and doctoral students) that sheds new phenomenological light on current debates in epistemology\, metaethics\, and metaphysics. The descriptive analysis of lived experience\, the eidetic study of the various modes of intentionality\, and the epistemic role and normative dimensions ascribed to experience constitute the cornerstones of phenomenological research. In particular\, Husserl&rsquo\;s conceptions of originary givenness\, evaluative experience\, and eidetic intuition are among the various seminal contributions we find in the phenomenological tradition. Currently\, promising research is done that utilizes such conceptions in order to develop phenomenological perspectives on experiential justification\, the debate between epistemic internalism and externalism\, the theory of value\, (moral) emotions\, moral epistemology\, issues surrounding metaphysical realism and anti-realism\, as well as the epistemology and metaphysics of essence\, modality\, and metaphysical dependence relations. We would like to encourage students to develop phenomenological insights and teachings systematically and in view of contemporary debates in philosophy. Our ambition is to promote such phenomenological research by providing a platform to connect with\, discuss with\, and receive feedback from peers and experts. Each conference day is devoted to one of the subtopics of the event.
\nThe conference will be an \;online event. \;If you wish to participate in the summer school but not to give a talk\, please provide a short statement of motivation (not more than 150 words) and specify your name\, affiliation\, and research interests.
\nCall for Papers
\nIf you wish to participate in the summer school and give a talk\, please apply with an (extended) abstract of the paper you wish to present. Submissions should not exceed 500 words\, must be written in English (conference language)\, and should be prepared for blind review.
\nThe submission deadline is July 15\, 2026.
\nPlease send your applications/submissions and general inquiries to: laurentia[dot]adam[at]uni-graz[dot]at
\nWomen and members of other traditionally underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
\nPreliminary schedule
\nSeptember 1
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Metaethics
\nNicolas de Warren (Penn State University): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (University of Graz)
\nSeptember 2
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Epistemology
\nMirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Philipp Berghofer (University of Graz)
\nSeptember 3
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Metaphysics
\nKit Fine (New York University): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Michael Wallner (University of Graz)
ORGANIZER;CN=Philipp Berghofer;CN=Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl;CN=Michael Wallner: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Concordia GPSA Conference 2026 UID:20260702T093900Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Room GN-MR-18 1175 St-Mathieu St.\, Montréal\, Canada\, H3H 2L4 DESCRIPTION:CONCORDIA GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY STUDENT CONFERENCE 2026 \;
\nCall for Abstracts
\nHeld on: September 26th &\; 27th
\nConcordia University / Hybrid
\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE
\nJuly 15\, 2026
\nApplicants will be informed of the decision by
\nAugust 15\, 2026
\nThe conference returns after a year's absence with a renewed commitment to promoting graduate research that pushes the boundaries of philosophical inquiry. We invite work that addresses our return in its broadest sense&mdash\;a return to questions\, traditions\, and forms of thought\, as well as departures and transformations that arise from them&mdash\;instead of a set theme for the issue. To uphold the conference's dedication to rigorous and innovative research\, we encourage submissions from all branches of philosophy as well as interdisciplinary work that interacts with the philosophical tradition.
\nInvited areas include (but are not limited to):
\nSpeakers should prepare a presentation longer than 15 minutes and not exceeding 20 minutes\, followed by a 10-minute Q&\;A session. Proposals should include a 250-500 word abstract\, submitted through email as a .pdf or .docx document to gpsaconference@outlook.com. In a separate cover sheet\, please include the following information:
\nJOURNAL LAUNCH
\nThe return of the graduate conference accompanies the return of our student journal. Join us in celebrating the amazing work of our editors and authors at the conference. Copies of the journal will be available for distribution.
\nCONFÉ\;RENCE DES É\;TUDES SUPÉ\;RIEUR EN PHILOSOPHIE 2026 À\; CONCORDIA
\nAppel aux Communiqué\;s
\nDate: 26 &\; 27 septembre
\nUniversité\; Concordia/ Hybride
\nDATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION
\n15 juillet 2026
\nLes pré\;sentateurs sé\;lectionné\;s seront contacté\;s avant le
\n15 aoû\;t 2026
\nL&rsquo\;appel aux communiqué\;s pour la confé\;rence des é\;tudes supé\;rieures en philosophie de l&rsquo\;Université\; Concordia est maintenant ouvert. La confé\;rence fait son retour avec un engagement renouvelé\; à\; la promotion de la recherche en é\;tudes supé\;rieures qui repousse les frontiè\;res du questionnement philosophique. Nous vous invitons à\; soumettre des travaux qui abordent notre retour &mdash\; un retour aux questions\, aux traditions\, aux formes de pensé\;e\, mais aussi aux é\;carts et aux transformations qui en é\;mergent &mdash\; de multiples faç\;ons\, sans thè\;me pré\;cis. Dans le but d&rsquo\;offrir une confé\;rence consacré\;e à\; une recherche\, qui est non seulement rigoureuse\, mais aussi innovante\, nous encourageons la soumission d&rsquo\;articles de toutes les branches de la philosophie\, ainsi que de travaux interdisciplinaires qui entrent en dialogue avec la tradition philosophique.
\nSujet invité\; (non limité\; à\; ce qui suit):
\nLes participant.e.s auront un minimum de 15 minutes et un maximum de 20 minutes pour leurs pré\;sentations\, suivies d&rsquo\;une courte pé\;riode de questions. Les propositions doivent inclure un ré\;sumé\; de 250 à\; 500 mots\, soumis par courriel sous forme de document .pdf ou .docx à\; l&rsquo\;adresse gpsaconference@outlook.com. Sur une page de couverture distincte\, veuillez inclure les informations suivantes :
\nLANCEMENT DU JOURNAL
\nLe retour de notre confé\;rence accompagne le lancement de la nouvelle é\;dition de notre journal é\;tudiant. Venez cé\;lé\;brer avec nous le travail exemplaire que nos auteurs et é\;diteurs ont fait pour faire naî\;tre ce beau projet. Des exemplaires du journal seront distribué\;s durant la confé\;rence.
ORGANIZER;CN=Zacharie Michaud: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Anti-Democratic Communication UID:20260702T093901Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Waterloo\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Manipulative language has played a vital role in the rise of authoritarian regimes and the undermining of democracy worldwide. This topic will be the focus of a two-day networking workshop to be held at the University of Waterloo (November 28-29\, 2026)\, on Anti-Democratic Communication. \; \;Confirmed speakers include Esa Diaz Leon\, Jonathan Ichikawa\, Tim Kenyon\, Anna Klieber\, Neri Marsili\, Mari Mikkola\, and Jason Stanley. \; \;The workshop is intended to be the founding event of an international network in social and political philosophy of language. \; \;It will be followed by a special journal issue including papers from the workshop. \; \;Six travel bursaries of up to $1000 CAD are available for presenters of accepted papers. (The event is sponsored by SSHRC\, the University of Waterloo\, Brock University\, and the University of Toronto.)
\n\nAbstracts of 500-750 words are invited on any topic in social and political philosophy of language. \; \;We are especially interested in papers addressing issues related to threats to democracy\, and to papers addressing topics related to Canadian politics. Please send your abstract\, prepared for anonymous review\, to Eric Devall at edevall@uwaterloo.ca. \; \;
\n\nDEADLINE: July 15\, 2026. \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Jennifer Saul: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260716T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit and the Principle of Sufficient Reason: On the Metaphysics of Ground in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period UID:20260702T093902Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Jungiusstr. 11C\, Hamburg\, Germany DESCRIPTION:In this conference\, we wish to trace the history of two of the most famous principles of metaphysics\, the ex nihilo nihil fit principle (NIF for short) and the principle of sufficient reason (PSR). We will discuss their interrelation\, beginning with medieval metaphysics through to early modern metaphysics\, and approach the theme from historical\, systematic\, analytic\, comparative\, and contextual perspectives. We will ask how representatives of the NIF and the PSR in the Medieval and Early Modern period legitimized\, restricted\, and applied these principles. In this context\, we will examine the concepts of reason\, nothing\, being\, becoming\, and ground. Is there such a thing as nothing\, and what do we mean by &ldquo\;nothing&rdquo\;? Could nothing ever be something? Could we say something comes from nothing? Is all of existence and every being intelligible in terms of a reason or ground\, and if so\, in what sense? When posing these questions\, we will discover that the different conceptions of the NIF and the PSR circle around a determination of what is intelligible and what is not. As a common thread running through the conference\, we will thus ask which accounts of the NIF and the PSR remain philosophically compelling today\, and why?
\nSpeakers: Fatema Amijee ·\; Kü\;bra Bahç\;i ·\; Sebastian Bender ·\; Julia Borcherding ·\; Jon Bornholdt ·\; Clara Carus ·\; Michael Della Rocca ·\; Samuel Levey ·\; Jeffrey McDonough ·\; Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra ·\; Sonja Schierbaum
\nFor the full program and registration (by 14 July 2026\, 23:59 CEST)\, please visit: https://shorturl.at/3o33o
\nThe conference is generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
\nWe warmly invite you to attend in Hamburg in person or virtually.
\nOrganized by Clara Carus (Heidelberg) and Stephan Schmid (Hamburg).
\nAssociated CFP: We're pleased to announce that we will edit a special issue of the journal History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis on the same topic. For further information and to submit a paper\, please visit: https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/hpla-overview.xml?contents=editorialContent-135986
ORGANIZER;CN=Stephan Schmid;CN=Clara Carus: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260716T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260716T223000 SUMMARY:Acquaintance Network Online Seminar: L.A. Paul on “Value by Acquaintance” UID:20260702T093903Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:ACQUAINTANCE NETWORK ONLINE SEMINAR
\n\n"Value by Acquaintance"\nL.A. Paul (Yale)\n\n\nThursday\, July 16\n3:00 - 4:30 PM (Eastern Time)\n\nThe Acquaintance Network is a newly formed international philosophy research group devoted to the study of acquaintance: the relation of conscious awareness that we bear to the things we experience most directly. The network brings together researchers working on the metaphysics\, epistemology\, value\, and history of acquaintance\, with the aim of supporting current research and promoting future work on the topic. \;
\nAbstractThe SMS will host a summer school this summer over Zoom. There will be two streams available this year:
\n(A) Michael J. Raven (University of Victoria) and Asya Passinsky (Central European University) will focus on Essentialism in Metaphysics and Social Ontology.
\n&rarr\; Sessions held on Saturday July 18th and Monday July 20th.
\n(B) Heather Demarest (University of Colorado\, Boulder) and Travis McKenna (North Carolina State) will focus on Laws Beyond the Humean/Non-Humean Debate.
\n&rarr\; Sessions held on Thursday July 23rd and Friday July 24th.
\nEach stream will consist of two three-hour workshops\, each designed to introduce participants to the state of play in the given sub-discipline.
\nScholars at any stage of their career are welcome to attend. Level of instruction is at an advanced graduate level.
\nIn order to apply\, submit a C.V. toJenn McDonald (jrc2266@columbia.edu) and include which stream(s) you would like to attend. There is no official deadline for applications\, but attendance is capped at 20 participants.
\nA registration fee of $20 per stream ($35 for both) is required\, which will be used to offset expenses. Accepted applicants will be asked to submit their registration fees via the society's Registration Page.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jennifer McDonald;CN=Ken Aizawa: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Caracas:20260718T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/Caracas:20260718T200000 SUMMARY:VII Simposio Internacional Ilusión\, Autoengaño y Verdad UID:20260702T093905Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm 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 time\, the symposium will examine\, from various philosophical disciplines\, the impact of the interactions or indeterminacies established between illusion\, self-deception\, and truth in contemporary philosophy and the world.
\nAmong 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.
\nApproaches and Presentation Blocks:
\n1. Ontological and Phenomenological Conceptions
\n2. Cultural\, Ethical\, and Sociopolitical Conceptions
\n3. Epistemological Conceptions
\n4. Aesthetic\, Artistic\, and Social Conceptions
ORGANIZER;CN=Miguel Cabrera Machado: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260720T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260731T170000 SUMMARY:Critical Theory Workshop's 18th Annual Summer School UID:20260702T093906Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:54 Bd Raspail\, Paris\, France\, 75006 DESCRIPTION:The primary objective of the CTW&rsquo\;s Summer School is to provide an international forum for trans-disciplinary and politically relevant research that contributes to a coherent and systematic elucidation of the contemporary world. Participants are exposed to the work of contemporary thinkers and engage with current debates with leading scholars from around the globe. Special attention is paid to traditions of thought that have been sidelined or suppressed in the academy\, including critical theory from the global South\, Marxism\, the black radical tradition\, anticolonial theory\, socialist feminism\, and radical ecological thought. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260720T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260720T180000 SUMMARY:Chains-of-Thought\, Inner Speech\, and Artificial Epistemic Agency UID:20260702T093907Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce our monthly \;online \;talk series on "Inferences &\; Capacities."
Our next speaker is:
Cameron Buckner \;(University of Florida)
"Chains-of-Thought\, Inner Speech\, and Artificial Epistemic Agency"
July 20: \;11am (Buenos Aires)\, 10am (New York)\, 4pm (Berlin).
Abstract: \;The frontier of AI is being pushed forward now by &ldquo\;Large Reasoning Models&rdquo\; (LRMs) that self-generate long textual &ldquo\;Chains-of-Thought&rdquo\; (CoTs) before answering user queries. The role of these CoTs in generating final answers was inspired by and generates obvious allusions to the roles played by inner speech in human reasoning and metacognition. In both cases\, we might wonder whether access to causally relevant streams of linguistic representations might reveal the structure of the agent&rsquo\;s rational inferences or the way they construe their evidence as supporting their conclusions. I argue that there is a degree of negative epistemic parity in both cases: inner linguistic representations require interpretation in both cases\, which limits the role such representations might play in rational explanations of inferences or luminous access to inferential grounds. However\, in both cases inner linguistic representations might play a role in more forward-directed metacognitive control&mdash\;though there are still important disanalogies in the epistemic architecture of humans and current artificial agents\, especially involving epistemic feelings and the stable adjustment of inferential policies over time. These disanalogies limit the sense in which even frontier AI models possess the kind of individual perspective on the world through which such notions obtain their distinctive explanatory import\, though this suggests less in-principle limitations than ambitious targets for near-term AI research.
\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): TBA \;
\nJuly 20: \;Cameron Buckner \;(University of Florida): "Chains-of-Thought\, Inner Speech\, and Artificial Epistemic Agency."
\nSeptember 7: \;Ulf Hlobil \;(Concordia University): TBA \;
\nOctober 19: \;Eva Schmidt \;(TU Dortmund): TBA \;
\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": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260722T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260724T170000 SUMMARY:28th Annual international nursing philosophy conference in association with the International Philosophy of Nursing Society UID:20260702T093908Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:854 Health Sciences Road\, Irvine\, United States DESCRIPTION:Join the UC Irvine Sue &\; Bill Gross School of Nursing Center for Nursing Philosophy in association with the International Philosophy of Nursing Society (IPONS) for the 28th International Nursing Philosophy Conference.
\nThe HYBRID conference will take place physically at the University of California\, Irvine in sunny\, coastal Southern California\, USA\, as well as virtually via Zoom. \;
\nThe theme is &ldquo\;Listening and Speaking Otherwise: Encounters at the Edge of Nursing and Philosophy&rdquo\;
\nAbstract submission portal is open from October 31 2025 &ndash\; March 1 2026
ORGANIZER;CN=Miriam Bender;CN=Jess Dillard-Wright: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260724T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Edmonton:20260725T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophical Insights from New Religious Movements & Alternative Spiritualities UID:20260702T093909Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Edmonton LOCATION:Concordia University of Edmonton\, Edmonton\, Canada\, T5B 4E4 DESCRIPTION:Dear Colleagues:
\nWe are pleased to announce an open call-for-abstracts for our conference on \;Philosophical Insights from New Religious Movements &\; Alternative Spiritualities\, to be held at the Concordia University of Edmonton campus July 24-25 of 2026.
\nWe welcome brief abstracts (300 words or less) for papers that fit within the conference theme. Abstracts must be received by \;May 1\, and should be sent as PDF documents to: \;travis.dumsday@concordia.ab.ca \; \;and to \;navidp@athabascau.ca
\nAccepted abstracts will be notified by May 10. \;Each presenter will receive a $400 CDN honorarium for their participation. \;Additionally\, after the conference presenters will have the opportunity to submit a polished version of their full paper for inclusion in a peer-reviewed anthology volume arising out of the conference. We especially welcome abstracts from graduate students and early career scholars.
\nThis will be primarily an in-person event\, though a small number of virtual presentations may be included in the program for the benefit of those unable to travel to Edmonton. \;
\nThe rationale behind the conference: within analytic philosophy of religion there is a commonly expressed concern that the boundaries of the discipline are too narrow. The large majority of work produced remains focused on Christian theism and its principal rival in the modern west\, namely\, metaphysical naturalism. And though important work has been done to bring other traditions into the dialogue over the past twenty years\, nearly all of that literature has dealt with other major world religions (especially Hinduism\, Buddhism\, and Islam). By contrast\, little has been done to explore potential insights arising specifically out of new religious movements [NRMs] and alternative spiritualities [ASPs]. This is unfortunate\, in part because NRMs and ASPs boast tens of millions of adherents worldwide\; moreover they are of considerable interest amongst our students (the &lsquo\;Gen Z&rsquo\; cohort) who by and large do not adhere to major world religions but are also not secular. The aim of this project is to promote and expand philosophical work on NRMs and ASPs\, and to do so in a manner that will be accessible to those very students and to interested laypeople generally. (Examples of NRMs and ASPs would include: the Bahá\;&rsquo\;í\; faith\, CaoDaism\, Eckankar\, Est\, Falun Gong\, ISCKON\, Mormonism\, Neopaganism\, Neoshamanism\, Subud\, Thelema\, Theosophy\, Umbanda\, Wicca\, etc.)
\n\nSome sample questions of the sort we hope to see broached by participating scholars:
\n(a) What are the most common arguments offered in favour of polytheism by contemporary Neopagan thinkers\, and how should those arguments be assessed?
\n(b) What are the axiological implications of polytheism as compared with Christian theism or naturalism?
\n(c) How is the notion of &lsquo\;energy&rsquo\; understood and employed by key New Age thinkers? What arguments are available to support those notions?
\n(d) How is the epistemology of revelation understood within the Bahá\;&rsquo\;í\; faith\, and what are the best arguments in favour of that distinctive understanding?
\n(e) Does the \;prima facie \;materialist ontology of Mormonism undermine standard formulations of metaphysical naturalism?
\n(f) CaoDaism is often classed as an eclectic or syncretic tradition\; what exactly does that mean in a religious context? Is this a fair characterization? And if so\, what (if any) are the epistemological
\nimplications of syncretism within religion? What (if any) are the axiological implications? (I.e.\, is
\nsyncretism in religion something prima facie admirable or questionable?)
\n(g) How should we understand the esoteric/exoteric divide within religions? How is that distinction understood and implemented within Wicca? What is the meaning and value of &lsquo\;hiddenness&rsquo\; within religious practice?
\n(h) What are the boundaries (if any) between spiritual experiences and the paranormal? What insights on this divide emerge from NRMs classed as &lsquo\;UFO faiths&rsquo\;\, such as Vale do Amanhecer? \;
\n(i) Can careful engagement with NRMs and ASPs shed new light on longstanding debates concerning the conceptual boundaries of &lsquo\;religion&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;spirituality&rsquo\;? E.g.\, does Falun Gong properly count as a religion? Does the New Age movement properly count as a religious movement? Examining these and other case studies may prove illuminating for larger issues of conceptual taxonomy.
\n(j) Ceremonial magic constitutes an important part of Wicca and many Neopagan groups. What are the competing ontologies of magic operative at present within these groups\, and what are the principal arguments they use to support them? What are the divergent axiological implications of distinct conceptions of magic? What are the conceptual dividing lines between ceremonial magic and other forms of religious ritual (e.g.\, sacrifice\, sacrament\, liturgy)?
\n(k) What work still needs to be done on the very concept of &lsquo\;newness&rsquo\; in this context? For instance\, some prominent groups commonly classified as NRMs would not self-identify in this way\, viewing themselves instead as reviving ancient traditions (e.g.\, reconstructionist Neopagan groups)\, or as reforming older movements (e.g.\, Ahmadiyya or Mormonism)\, or as the novel manifestation or exemplification of what is actually a perennial tradition (e.g.\, the Bahá\;&rsquo\;í\; faith or Oomoto-kyo). What then are the conceptual boundaries of NRMs? Does Mormonism still properly count as an NRM even though it is roughly 200 years old?
\n(l) Problematizing the notion of &lsquo\;newness&rsquo\; in this context may also help to clarify the reasons why the younger generation (&lsquo\;Gen Z&rsquo\;) shows so much interest in NRMs and APSs &mdash\; e.g.\, perhaps there is a simultaneous yearning for deep tradition and for something accessible to modern life and contemporary concerns. Relatedly\, interest in NRMs and ASPs may be interlinked with the much-discussed growth of interest in alternative social/political forms among members of Gen Z. \;
\nQuestions about the event can be sent to the co-organizers\, Dr. Travis Dumsday and Dr. Navid Pourmokhtari:
\ntravis.dumsday@concordia.ab.ca
\nnavidp@athabascau.ca
\nThis conference is being organized with the generous financial assistance of the Global Philosophy of Religion Project 2 (in turn supported by the John Templeton Foundation and the Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham)\, Athabasca University\, and Concordia University of Edmonton (with supplementary funding from CUE&rsquo\;s Research Cluster in Christian Philosophy &\; Theology). \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Travis Dumsday: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214037Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260727T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260823T170000 SUMMARY:School of Materialist Research Summer Institute 2026 UID:20260702T093910Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Athens LOCATION:Olympiada Halkidiki (near Stavros\, ancient Stagira)\, Thessaloníki\, Greece\, 57014 DESCRIPTION:&ldquo\;Political&rdquo\; in the contemporary sense\, and as bound by its disciplinary definitions in political science and political philosophy\, assigns societal categories\, forms of law and moralities to the edges or beyond the limits of what is political. Yet again\, these excluded categories are both legislated by the Political within its limits of &ldquo\;discursive legibility\,&rdquo\; in Judith Butler&rsquo\;s parlance\, and relegated to the realms of the pre-political (including anti-political\, non-political). The &ldquo\;beyond political&rdquo\; serves to constitute the political as its Other\, to be subjugated or negated by it\, but also to be kept at bay as the source of elemental revolt\, i.e.\, &ldquo\;prepolitical.&rdquo\; (27 July-31 July 2026)
\n"Realism\, Materialism\, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought?\," is the title of a summer school\, part of the SMR Summer Institute in Stagira/Olympiada (Greece)\, scheduled for August 17&ndash\;23\, 2026. It will explore the 21st century provocations and challenges to the dominance of the poststructuralist epistem across the humanities\, social sciences\, political philosophy\, and beyond. \;
\nThe School of Materialist Research is pleased to announce the third edition of its Advanced Design Practices Summer Institute\, Living Design: Ontological Design Redux. The program is aimed at graduate students (Master&rsquo\;s and doctoral) and early-career researchers who wish to expand their creative and critical research on questions related to design\, calling for a fundamental rethinking and redoing of design praxis. The school is taught by internationally renowned faculty in design and the arts from Goldsmiths\, University of London (UK)\, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)\, Arizona State University (USA)\, and Sandberg Instituut (Netherlands).
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Katerina Kolozova;CN=Adam Nocek: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260727T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260731T170000 SUMMARY:Libori Summer School 2026 - The History of Women Philosophers and Scientists UID:20260702T093911Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Pohlweg 57\, Paderborn\, Germany\, 33098 DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce the Libori Summer School 2026\, dedicated to the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The Summer School offers an interdisciplinary forum for critical inquiry into women&rsquo\;s intellectual contributions across historical periods\, cultural contexts\, and disciplinary boundaries.
\nThe Libori Summer School invites applications from Bachelor&rsquo\;s\, Master&rsquo\;s and graduate students\, as well as post-doctoral researchers interested in exploring the rich\, diverse\, and often overlooked histories of women philosophers and scientists. We particularly welcome contributions that adopt innovative perspectives\, engage with neglected figures or traditions\, or challenge established narratives through interdisciplinary approaches.
\nPossible areas of interest include (but are by no means limited to):
\nThe Libori Summer School strongly encourages interdisciplinary dialogue\, welcoming submissions that bridge philosophy\, history\, science studies\, literature\, theology\, economics\, environmental studies\, and related fields. Comparative\, cross-cultural\, and transhistorical approaches are especially encouraged.
\nJoin us for an inspiring 5-day Summer School dedicated to the rich and diverse Histories of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The program combines intellectual depth\, collaborative exchange\, and a vibrant social atmosphere.
\nProgram highlights include:
\nThis Summer School offers a unique opportunity to deepen your research\, broaden your perspectives\, and become part of an international network committed to exploring women&rsquo\;s intellectual histories\, in scholarship and in life.
\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Ruth Edith Hagengruber;CN=Jil Muller: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260727T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260727T234500 SUMMARY:Computational Social Philosophy of AI Seminars (CSPAIS 2026) UID:20260702T093912Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm 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.
\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.
\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:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T234500 SUMMARY:The 4th annual conference of the The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind UID:20260702T093913Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts \;
The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on any science of the mind (broadly construed) to submit an abstract for a paper or a symposium. We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups in the field\, including members of the LGBTQIA+ community and those based in the global south\, as part of our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion practices in philosophy and beyond. \;
What is the mind\, and how does it work? These questions have led to centuries of philosophical and empirical investigations\, and still lack definitive answers. We thus invite submissions from all disciplines that leverage insights from the use of different techniques\, methodologies\, and research questions to shed light on the nature and functioning of the mind. \;
In this fourth web conference\, we seek again to bring together many of these perspectives to build a common ground\, a comprehensive and multi-scale conceptual landscape of the mind. We accept submissions from a broad range of perspectives\, including - but not limited to - philosophy of psychology\, philosophy of psychiatry\, philosophy of neuroscience\, philosophy of cognitive science\, philosophy of mind\, philosophy of artificial intelligence &\; robotics\, philosophy of linguistics\, philosophy of ethology\, philosophy of (cognitive) anthropology\, philosophy of biology\, philosophy of the social sciences and consciousness studies. \;
We are delighted to already have a number of excellent keynote speakers confirmed for 2026\, including: \;
Devon Bailey University of Johannesburg\, Republic of South Africa \;
Louise Barrett University of Lethbridge\, Canada \;
Ali Boyle LSE\, United Kingdom \;
Melina Gastelum Vargas UNAM\, Mexico \;
Michael Kirchhoff University of Wollongong\, Australia \;
\nYukie Nagai University of Tokyo\, Japan \;
\nPractical Information \;
\nWhen: 4-6 November 2026
\nWhere: Online
\nFees: The conference is fully online\, and no fee is required
\nFurther Inquiries: ispsmofficial@gmail.com \; \; \;
\nInformation for submission \;
\nAbstracts for single papers (about 30 minutes each including Q&\;A) should be anonymized PDFs of maximum 500 words\, and should include references and 3-5 keywords (both excluded from the wordcount). To submit an abstract\, please use the following link: \;
\n\; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnep5cuix6t3NbLY6J9fE3Yul-bk5afwzDQ7y-x-EbJ0jAhw/viewform \;
\nProposals for symposia (2 hours including Q&\;A\, maximum 4 papers) should be PDF files between 1500 and 2000 words\, excluding references and 3-5 keywords. Unlike papers\, they should not be anonymized: speakers' affiliations and contacts should be included in the main text. To submit a symposium proposal\, please use the following link:
\n\; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeC3XMR-0A9Pw0A_Xm1f3ZCoinJ0mUW3cGwvQKdKoA_I014ZQ/viewform \;
\nDeadline for submissions: 31/07/2026 \;
\nBest meme prize \;
\nMany scientific societies have prizes for the best paper. As an online-based society\, we instead launch a contest for the best graphic meme regarding the philosophy of the sciences of the mind. We are interested in memes formed by static images + text and GIFs. \; The contest is open to all those who submit a paper or a symposium at the conference: to participate\, simply add up to a .GIF or .JPEG file entitled "ISPSM2026 Best Meme Contest." Memes should aim to elicit a laugh and then a thought (similarly to the Ig Nobel prize) and should abide by the ISPSM code of conduct (https://www.ispsmind.com/). The winning meme will be selected by the participants through a vote\, and hosted on the society&rsquo\;s homepage and social media. \; \; \; \;
\n\nOrganizing committee \; \;
\nMarco Facchin\, Universiteit Antwerpen
\nValeria Becattini\, IUSS Pavia
\nLiberty Severs\, Ruhr-Univesitä\;t Bochum\, the University of Lisbon and the Konrad Lorentz Institute
\nClavel Vá\;zquez\, Jimena - Tilburg University
\nNegro\, Niccolò\; - School of Psychological Sciences\, Tel Aviv University
\nCarlos Barth - Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology (FAJE)
\nLaura Oppi - Center for Subjectivity Research\, University of Copenhagen
\nApril Owens - University of Cambridge
ORGANIZER;CN=Marco Facchin;CN=Valeria Becattini;CN=Liberty Severs;CN=Niccolo Negro;CN="María Jimena Clavel Vázquez";CN=Carlos Barth;CN=Laura Oppi;CN=April Owens: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260801T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260801T090000 SUMMARY:Foundations in Science and Religion: Boundaries of Theory & Practice UID:20260702T093914Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Conference Dates TBC\; CFP open (deadline may move later in August dependent on conference dates)
\nThe "Foundations" Conference is The Forum's dedicated space for early‑career researchers exploring the rich\, complex intersections between scientific inquiry and religious thought. This event provides an intellectually supportive environment where emerging scholars can develop foundational skills\, exchange ideas\, and engage critically with the theoretical and practical dimensions of the field. This conference explores the dynamic and sometimes contested borders between scientific understanding and religious interpretation\, asking how these two influential domains shape&mdash\; and are shaped by&mdash\; one another in contemporary thought and practice.
\nWe welcome submissions which engage with other issues at the intersection of natural and/or social science science and (any) religion. Whilst continuing to value the Christian origins of the Forum\, we particularly welcome papers that engage with science and religion from Eastern Orthodox\, and non-Christian perspectives which are historically under-represented at our conferences.
\nKey questions guiding this year's conference include:
\nWhere do theoretical boundaries between scientific models and theological frameworks lie&mdash\;and how porous should they be?
\nWhat role does practice play in shaping or challenging theoretical commitments in science and religion?
\nHow do scientific advances influence religious beliefs\, rituals\, and moral decision‑making?
\nWe welcome submissions which engage with other issues at the intersection of natural and/or social science science and (any) religion. Whilst continuing to value the Christian origins of the Forum\, we particularly welcome papers that engage with science and religion from Eastern Orthodox\, and non-Christian perspectives which are historically under-represented at our conferences.
\nThe Cavendish Collective Virtual Workshop:
Call for Submissions
Submission Deadline: May 1\, 2026
\nThe Cavendish Collective is a virtual reading group dedicated to investigating the philosophical writings of Margaret Cavendish\, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Our participants are primarily early career scholars working on Margaret Cavendish and adjacent authors in the early modern period. We are excited to host our fourth annual virtual workshop to promote collaboration among researchers interested in the philosophical writings of Margaret Cavendish.
\nThe event will be held virtually on \;Saturday\, August 1\, 2026 \;and will consist of a series of presentations arranged thematically by topic. Each participant will receive 20 minutes of presentation time followed by 20 minutes of discussion. Since research on Margaret Cavendish is expansive and interdisciplinary\, we encourage submissions from researchers in any discipline. All topics relevant to Cavendish&rsquo\;s writings are welcome\, including but not limited to:
\nAffect\, Emotion\, and Passion
Epistemology
Fame and Fortune
Feminism
Gender and Queerness
Genre and Literary Forms
History of Science
Imagination and Fancy
Materialism
Metaphysics
Mind and Mentality
Religion
Social and Political Philosophy
Women&rsquo\;s Writings
We welcome submissions from researchers at any career stage. We ask that interested participants submit either abstracts of around 150-300 words or papers of about 2800-3000 words for review. To send your submission\, please use the Google form available on our website:
https://thecavendishcollective.weebly.com/workshop2026.html
The deadline for submissions is \;May 1\, 2026\, and presenters will be notified of acceptance by the end of the month. Upon acceptance\, we ask that participants prepare papers of about 2800-3000 words in length (or slides suitable for 20 minute presentations).
\nWe look forward to hearing from you! To register for the event\, please submit your e-mail address using the registration form on our website. Please direct any questions to: \;thecavendishcollective@gmail.com
\nA full schedule for the event will be posted after the submission deadline has passed.
ORGANIZER;CN=Kevin Lower;CN=Brooke Sharp;CN=Tessa Brunnenmeyer;CN=Yining Wu;CN=Claudia Aguilar: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260801T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260801T234500 SUMMARY:2nd Tulane Undergraduate Philosophy Conference UID:20260702T093916Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:New Orleans\, United States DESCRIPTION:Tulane University invites all undergraduate students to submit for our second upcoming philosophy conference! Students are free to submit on any philosophical topic.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\n- Any undergraduate from any university may submit.
\n- Students must submit an abstract (of any length) and a paper which will be promptly considered.
\n- Papers may be on any philosophical topic and must be between 2\,000 and 3\,000 words.
\n- Accepted undergraduate students will be invited to give a 30 minute presentation of their paper\, followed by a 10 minute Q&\;A session.
\nSubmission Deadline: August 1st\, 2025.
\nPlease send your submissions to: \;ejack1@tulane.edu. Include your full name and university in the body of the submission email and have your abstract attached as either a .pdf\, .doc\, or .docx file. Accepted students will be notified by the 1st of August. Feel free to email the included email with any questions you may have.
ORGANIZER;CN=Evan Jack: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260804T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260806T170000 SUMMARY:Energy Ethics 2026: Infrastructures of Energy UID:20260702T093917Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Younger Hall\, Saint Andrews\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Confronted with the climate crisis coupled with ambitions for first-mover positions in new Net Zero markets\, many countries have embarked on energy transitions that move away from a reliance on fossil fuels towards more decarbonised energy systems. At the same time\, we are seeing policy u-turns on climate policies and targets\, societal challenges to energy transitions\, and investors&rsquo\; return to fossil fuel prospects.
\nEnergy transitions have now become intense and urgent topics for debate.
\nWhile fossil fuels and nuclear have long been associated with the deepening of structural inequalities and injustices\, there is also a growing critical engagement with renewables\, due to their continued reliance on resources\, capitalist circuits of investment\, and links to mining via the critical minerals they require. Some scholars emphasise how the language of &lsquo\;transition&rsquo\; unhelpfully communicate a fallacious idea of a break\, moving from one kind of energy source to another. Other scholars highlight how our infrastructures of energy embed choices and decisions\, value and values.
\nAt the same time\, the political positionings of anthropologists have become stronger\, perhaps related to heightening political polarisation\, the vulnerabilities laid bare by Covid-19\, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza\, the enrolment of social scientists into large energy infrastructure projects\, popularist politics\, and much more. Recognising infrastructures of energy&rsquo\;s extensive and multi-dimensional entanglements in contemporary life\, it is ever-more urgent that we reflect on our interlocutors&rsquo\; and our own ethical imaginations and politics of energy.
\nEE2026 asks: What is at stake in our infrastructures of energy? How can change come about? What visions of human and other flourishing are favoured in our infrastructures of energy?
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260805T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260805T170000 SUMMARY:2026 Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals Mini-Conference UID:20260702T093918Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Denver LOCATION:Eaton Hall\, University of Colorado Boulder\, Boulder\, United States DESCRIPTION:The SSEA is excited to announce a one-day mini-conference\, to be held on August 5\, 2026\, immediately prior to the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress (RoME) at the University of Colorado Boulder.
\nThe mini-conference is intended as a forum for rigorous philosophical work on animal ethics\, broadly conceived. We invite proposals for individual talks and 3-5-person colloquia on any topic in animal ethics.
\nFor individual talks\, please send abstracts of 300-400 words (all included). Include your name and talk title in the body of your email\, and attach an anonymized PDF abstract suitable for blind review. Speakers should prepare talks of 30 minutes.
\nFor colloquium proposals\, please send a PDF with a detailed description (400-500 words\, all included) of the colloquium theme as well as the names of speakers. All speakers must have confirmed their participation by the time the proposal is submitted.
\nThe deadline for abstracts is June 5\, 2026. Decisions will be announced by June 19.
\nThe mini-conference will be held in person at CU Boulder. We will\, however\, consider submissions for remote talks by those who cannot attend in person. If you would only be able to present online\, please indicate this in the main text of your email.
\nAll submissions should be sent to ethicsanimals@gmail.com. Please include the words &ldquo\;2026 conference submission&rdquo\; in the subject line. Please contact Avram Hiller at ahiller@pdx.edu if you have any questions.
\nPlease share this with anyone who might be interested! \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Avram Hiller: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260808T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260808T073000 SUMMARY:Does it Really Matter if AI Systems Exhibit Autonomy? UID:20260702T093919Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:EJSMONDA 2\, Gdynia\, Poland DESCRIPTION:Historically\, the development of artificial intelligence (AI) has been targeted\, in part\, at creating autonomous AI systems. Paradigmatic autonomous systems carry out their functions independently of human guidance. The requirements for capturing the autonomy criterion (i.e.\, independent function) utilized by AI theorists are at odds with the ways philosophers typically designate the term. There is a tension\, then\, with how autonomy is represented in philosophical literature\, and thus\, according to several philosophers\, paradigmatic autonomous AI should not be considered autonomous systems. This tension has recently been extended to the philosophical literature on the development and deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs)\, which behave rather differently than traditional autonomous AI systems. I argue that the autonomy tension breaks down when considering behaviors of LLMs\, including typical behaviors (e.g.\, learning\, reasoning\, planning\, memory retention\, problem solving\, etc.)\, and atypical behaviors (as in the documented cases of alignment faking in certain model instances). I show that LLMs are already exhibiting the characteristics of autonomous systems accepted under multiple philosophical frameworks\, and that they circumvent various problems leveled against the general possibility of developing autonomous artificial systems. Then\, I turn the conversation over to the question of whether these foundational questions about AI systems really matter when considering various practical issues. I elucidate why the autonomy question initially arises but argue that it is not particularly fecund. Instead\, I argue that philosophers should look more precisely at the comparative measurable dynamics of various systems when making practical decisions (e.g.\, decisions about policy\, pursuit-worthiness of model development\, etc.). LLMs are rapidly evolving and are already being implemented in social institutions. As such\, I argue it is more promising to look at the apparent implications of these instances\, rather than bother with foundational issues such as whether systems are really autonomous.
ORGANIZER;CN=Torgeir Fjeld: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260808T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260809T170000 SUMMARY:Artifices: technology\, thought\, art UID:20260702T093920Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:EJSMONDA 2\, Gdynia\, Poland DESCRIPTION:Our contemporary world is increasingly enamored by artificiality\, yet the Artificial Intelligence moniker of the latest dot-com bubble triggers profound anxieties. The idea that we can create an artificial intelligence by way of machinic technology is by no means novel in the history of culture. In the Iliad\, for example\, Homer speaks of Hephaestus&lsquo\; &ldquo\;handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids&rdquo\;\, characteristic by their intelligence\, speech and strength. To Aristotle\, technê\; \;was a craft grounded in knowledge\, and in this sense AI is precisely a product of practice\, an art. Thus\, it can be argued that artificial is our use of encyclopedias\, as much of our use of chatbots who in turn perform database searches on our behalf. Should not thinking machines\, wrought by our own technological mastery\, be a solace and relief?
\nClearly\, our concerns with AI and the potential chaos brought about by Large Language Models (LLMs) are significant and diverse. We know that LLMs can have environmental\, social\, juridical\, and economic effects that are poorly understood\, but potentially cataclysmic in force. artifices\, the 6th Ereignis Conference\, seeks to bring together thinking from across philosophy\, social theory\, and psycho-analysis to shed light on the complex emergence of AI. We approach artifice in its broadest sense: as that which is derived\, non-originary\, or external to traditional notions of the authentic. Relevant areas of examination and contestation are whether AI should be considered as generating a novel kind of alterity\, prompting us to ask whether the Other is being reduced to a zero degree of algorithmization or manifesting as a radical new ethical encounter. Further\, we can ask whether LLMs should be viewed not merely as models of cognition but as schizoanalytic desiring-machines that actively reorganize the circuits of human affect\, labor\, and planetary life. This necessitates a fundamental questioning of the natural/artificial distinction itself\; by deconstructing this binary\, we reveal how our anxieties regarding the cyborg reflect a deeper lack\, forcing us to confront the structural brokenness of a humanity that has always been technologically mediated.
\nThis conference invites new ways of positioning &ldquo\;thinking machines&rdquo\; in relation to humans through the lenses of alterity\, psychoanalysis\, and schizoanalysis. We seek to explore AI not as a mere model of cognition\, but as a machinic assemblage that reorganizes desire\, labor\, and planetary forms of life. Drawing on the tension between the Other as a source of alienation (Sartre) and a source of creation (Levinas)\, we ask how AI functions as a Big Other or as an instansiation of the symbolic order. Beyond simple ethics or regulation\, we aim to address the &ldquo\;cyborging&rdquo\; of humanity and the political task of philosophy -- moving toward a post-Lacanian and Deleuzian understanding of how modes of life and care can be composed within the shadow of the machinic earth.
\nKey Questions
\nWe invite papers from across disciplines that engage one or more of these questions: \;
\nInvitation
\nWe invite papers from all traditions and schools of philosophy and adjoining discipline (critical and social theory\, psycho-analysis and schizoanalysis\, media studies and arts\, literary theory and comparative literature\, etc.) to address any of the topics and questions above. Submissions should be structured\, well-argued\, and show evidence of rigorous scholarship. Include an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short author bio (max. 50 words). \;
\nSubmit abstracts by June 15\, 2026 \;(extended) through our online submission engine at ereignis.no. We will return to you with a notification on acceptance. Registration is required.
\nHybrid format
\nThe conference will be held on-site in Gdynia\, Poland\, on August 8 and 9\, 2026\, and on-line on the Zoom videoconferencing platform for those unable to attend in person. More information about travel and accommodation is available on the conference page. For accepted papers\, registration will be required by July 1\, 2026.
\nConfirmed keynote speaker
\nSessions
\nPapers are timed to 20 minutes and followed by a Q&\;A with the audience. Each session is moderated.
\nPublishing opportunities
\nAll authors are encouraged to submit essay-versions of their presentation to a themed issue of our peer-reviewed journal\, Inscriptions. Deadline for submitting full-text essays will be October 15\, 2026. Note that this journal has its own criteria for submission\, review and publication. For more information\, see the journal&lsquo\;s about page. \;
\nConference fee
\nScholastic committee
\nOrganisers
\nThis event is hosted by Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts and Inscriptions &mdash\; a journal for contemporary thinking on art\, philosophy and psycho-analysis.
\nMore information about travelling to Gdynia\, Poland\, visa requirements\, accommodation\, and some information for those travelling with families is available on the conference page.
ORGANIZER;CN=Torgeir Fjeld: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260630T214038Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260808T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260808T090000 SUMMARY:The Seven Cs UID:20260702T093921Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are proud to announce the very first meeting of the &ldquo\;Sailing the The Seven Cs&rdquo\; Conference!
The Seven Cs:
Chaff: Philosophy of the Body\, Medicine\, and Biology.
\nChuff: Philosophy of Emotions &\; Political Rage.
\nChud: Political Philosophy.
\nChad: Philosophy of Gender &\; Sexuality.
\nChopped: Philosophy of Fashion and Food.
\nChess: Philosophy of Games &\; Mathematics
\nChocolate: Philosophy of Economics &\; Global Exploitation
We are currently accepting abstracts on any of the above topics\, and while not preferred\, we also accept talks relating to Cartography\, broadly construed. Submissions must not exceed 1000 words\, and can be emailed to alec@philosophyforthedemos.com. \;
This is a real and light-hearted but philosophically rich conference. Website is currently under-construction.
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.
We ask the authors of accepted papers to try their best to attend at least half of the talks in the semester in which they will present\, and more if possible. We recognize that circumstances may vary\, but we encourage speakers to meet this goal when possible in order to help foster a sense of familiarity among the participants and to help build a sense of community among group members more generally.
The CFA for Fall 2026 will be open until August 10th\, 2026 (EOD). We will evaluate submissions with the aim of responding within 2 weeks.
Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words for consideration. We especially welcome submissions by early-career philosophers and by members of under-represented groups.
Submission link: \;https://forms.gle/GBmg7UKyP4YHfWXs7
Contact: inquirynetworkgroup@gmail.com \;