The relationship between war and peace is complex and uneasy. Sometimes\, war and peace are understood as opposites &ndash\; war is bad and peace is good\, war is destructive and peace is constructive. Sometimes\, the relationship between the two is seen as much more sympathetic\, such as when we justify going to war so that we might have peace. War is seen\, then\, not the opposite of peace\, but a means of producing peace. The relationship between war and peace has become even more fraught\, in the age of forever wars\, and stands in even greater need of examination and theorization.
\nWe invite submissions for an interdisciplinary symposium\, which will bring together academics from the humanities and social sciences to present new scholarship on how to achieve and maintain peace in the age of forever wars. The hope is to reexamine old frameworks and to bring to light new ones\, to understand more deeply the core questions of peace and conflict in historical and transnational context. The symposium is organized under the auspices of Temple&rsquo\;s Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD). We will cover the cost of travel and accommodations for all participants.
\nQuestions of interest may include:
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; What is the aim of forever wars? Can forever wars aim at or produce peace?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; Does understanding peace require a separate and distinct framework from war?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; Can war still be defended as a means for promoting a stable international order? For example\, as the EU pledges to increase its military spending\, should we predict a corresponding increase in stability?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; How does the examination of historical precedents of peace processes (both failures and successes) help us to understand what a viable peace process might look like in Israel/Gaza and in Russia/Ukraine?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; What are the conditions\, if any\, under which victory in war can produce peace? What are the conditions\, if any\, under which losing a war can produce peace?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; Why has peace acquired a bad reputation &ndash\; as a weak position\, as akin to appeasement\, as utopian?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; What kinds of mechanisms can international law and global human rights organizations develop to promote peaceful cooperation among states?
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Lee-Ann Chae: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T075801Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260430T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260502T170000 SUMMARY:Climate Ethics: Prospects and Retrospectives UID:20260404T132607Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Asia/Shanghai LOCATION:Kunshan\, China DESCRIPTION:CLIMATE ETHICS: PROSPECTS AND RETROSPECTIVES
\nA Workshop and Special Issue
\n\;
\nThe Journal of Ethics \;will publish a special issue on Climate Ethics: Prospects and Retrospectives and seeks proposals from a wide variety of perspectives.
\n\nSpecial Issue editors and workshop organizers: Prof. Kyle Fruh (Duke Kunshan University) and Dr. Marcus Hedahl (Annapolis\, Maryland).
\n\nClimate ethics is a relatively young field\, but nonetheless a lot has changed &ndash\; both in the area and in the world &ndash\; since climate change first started showing up in philosophy discussions. Some early and highly influential entries are now 30 years old. Meanwhile\, 2024 was the first calendar year to exceed the much-discussed 1.5⁰ C increase in global average temperature over pre-industrial baselines. This special issue invites scholars to revisit early\, influential work in climate ethics\, or assess the evolution of a theme of interest in climate ethics in light of what&rsquo\;s happened in the intervening period &ndash\; in terms of advancing climate change\, in terms of evolving climate policies\, and in terms of critical response and uptake of earlier work. This special issue aims to provide a way station in the development of climate ethics\, looking back for insights in order to more productively look toward its future.
\n\nConfirmed contributors include:
\nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
\n\nProposals for consideration should address the special issue theme and consist of an abstract \;750-1\,000 \;words in length (citations not counted).
\n\nAll submissions should be prepared for blind review. Please remove all identifying information from the submission.
\n\nPlease submit your abstracts to \;climateethicsretrospectives@gmail.com \;no later than \;11:59 PM August 31st\, 2025 (EDT).
\n\nAccepted proposals will need to adhere to the following timeline for the full development of the paper:
\nPossible topics might include but are in no way limited to:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;The intersection of climate ethics and climate governance through Kyoto\, Paris\, and the present and future.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;The dichotomy between emphasis on individual behaviors related to reducing greenhouse gas production and political activism as the fulfillment of individual moral obligations related to climate change.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Other themes of interest over the years of climate ethics and into the future\, such as:
\no \; \; \;responsibility to future generations
\no \; \; \;common but differentiated responsibilities
\no \; \; \;the evolving relationship between ethical considerations and IPCC reports\, or climate science more generally
\no \; \; \;the trajectory of ethical positions and questions regarding geoengineering
\no \; \; \;ethical questions and positions concerning climate activism
\no \; \; \;emerging new voices in climate ethics
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Specific\, early\, highly influential publications that are in some clear and distinctively interesting way worth revisiting at this pivotal time.
\n\nCONTACT
For more information please contact the editors at
climateethicsretrospectives@gmail.com
\n\nKyle Fruh holds a B.A. from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University. He has published in areas such as climate ethics\, promissory obligation\, philosophy of sport\, and moral exemplarity. His \;Moral Heroism without Virtue \;is due out with Cambridge University Press in October\, 2025. \;
\n\nMarcus Hedahl holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Notre Dame\, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Georgetown University. He previously served as a Dahrendorf Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Grantham Research \;Institute on Climate Change and the Environment\, London School of Economics and Political Science and as an Environmental Justice Fellow at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He now serves as a Professor of Philosophy.
\n\nAuthors of accepted proposals will need to submit their final manuscript in the fall of 2026 through \;The Journal of EthicsEM manager. All submissions will go through the standard \;The Journal of Ethics \;review procedure (publication only on the basis of an editorial decision based on at least two double blind reviews). At that time\, all manuscripts should be prepared according to the \;journal&rsquo\;s guidelines \;provided on \;The Journal of Ethics \;website. The \;Special Issue \;will follow all Springer Journal Policies\, including \;Peer Review Policy\, Process and Guidance \;and \;peer review selection policy. \;This journal offers the option to publish Open Access. You are allowed to publish open access through Open Choice. Please explore the OA options available through your institution by referring to our list of OA Transformative Agreements.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T075801Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260514T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260514T170000 SUMMARY:NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE UID:20260404T132608Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Kazimierza Wóycickiego 1/3\, Warsaw\, Poland\, 01-938 DESCRIPTION:In the face of the dynamic development of protobiology\, evolutionary biology\, and astrobiology\, traditional answers to questions about the origin\, evolution\, and essence of life require constant deepening and updating. \;The question of the nature\, origin\, and dynamics of life's evolution \;has been one of the most fascinating and yet most challenging problems facing the human intellect. Although the natural sciences provide increasingly precise data on the mechanisms of prebiotic and bioevolutionary processes\, \;philosophy remains an indispensable tool for synthesizing this knowledge and understanding its deeper implications and worldview consequences. In an era of groundbreaking discoveries in prebiotic chemistry\, evolutionary biology\, and ongoing astrobiology research programs\, we are on the threshold of a new era in understanding the phenomenon of life. Is life merely a rare coincidence of physicochemical circumstances\, or is it an inevitable consequence of the laws governing the universe? Is the increase in biological complexity a process inherent in the structure of the universe\, or merely a statistical accident? What consequences for our worldview would the discovery of extraterrestrial organisms with completely different biochemistry have?
\nOur goal is to \;create a space for interdisciplinary debate that combines philosophical (and theological) perspectives with the latest achievements in the natural sciences. We want this meeting to be a catalyst for new ideas that will shed light on the ontological\, epistemological\, and methodological challenges associated with studying the phenomenon of life: its nature\, origin\, and evolution.
\nWe hope that our \;conference will be an interdisciplinary platform for the exchange of ideas between protobiologists\, biologists\, astrobiologists\, philosophers\, and theologians\, focusing on issues such as:
\nthe transition from inanimate to animate matter (abiogenesis) from a natural and philosophical perspective\;
\ncontemporary redefinitions of the concept of &ldquo\;life&rdquo\;\;
\nthe philosophy of evolution and\; evolutionism: mechanisms and directions\;
\nastrobiology and the cosmic perspective of life
\nworldview and religious contexts of the origin and evolution of life.
\nThis conference is a continuation of the previous 14. editions of the conference series entitled \;Philosophical and scientific components of the worldview\, which took place between 1997 and 2011\, and a series of publications under the same title\, in which eight volumes containing the contents of conference presentations were published.
\nWe would be honored if you would share the results of your research and join the discussion on the philosophy of the origins and evolution of life.
\nOrganizing Committee
ORGANIZER;CN="Adam Świeżyński": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T075801Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260703T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:Progress under Pressure UID:20260404T132609Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Frohburgstrasse 3\, Luzern\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:The 1st Swiss PPE Conference will take place at the University of Lucerne on 3 July 2026. This student-led event brings together PPE students as well as students specializing in \;one of the three disciplines.
\n'Progress under Pressure' addresses what we perceive as one of the most significant and urgent challenges of our time. Progress is commonly understood as a movement towards an improved state. While there is an ongoing debate about whether humanity is continually striving towards such a state\, we nonetheless continue to use the idea of progress as a normative guideline for designing many assumptions\, models and systems. However\, the many intersecting and growing crises of our time are putting this normative principle of progress under increasing pressure. Ideas\, paradigms and methods from all three PPE fields can help us rethink the meaning of human progress and recalibrate our assumptions\, models and systems accordingly.
\nThe conference will discuss questions such as:
\nWe believe that PPE is not only a programme of study\, but also a way of relating to the world. It is a crossroads where multiple perspectives on various issues are given the opportunity to develop and come together\, enabling us to see the bigger picture. We hope that\, with the help of your work and ideas\, this PPE conference may contribute to this crossroads.
For questions and clarifications\, feel free to contact us via email (ppe-conference@unilu.ch). \;
Schedule
\nDetails will follow. \;
\nWorkshops
\n1. Rethinking progress: What is progress and development and where should it lead? Is humanity continually striving towards progress or not? How should we rethink progress particularly in relation to poverty\, developing countries and non-Western perspectives? \;
\n2. Systems: The intersecting and growing crises of our time increasingly expose the limits of political\, economic\, and ecological systems. In what ways are our institutions and structures (not) able to withstand this systemic stress? And what is needed to reinforce resilient systems? \;
\n3. Work and Meaning: Today&rsquo\;s labour market increasingly causes competition\, burnout and alienation\, while also excluding integral parts of the sphere of work such as care work. Yet\, work can also satisfy essential needs such as recognition\, meaning and self-realization. How\, then\, should progress in the sphere of work be measured?
\nKeynotes
\nLisa Herzog (online)
\nJo Wolff (in person) \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T075801Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260723T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260726T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy in the Wild 2026 - Wisconsin UID:20260404T132610Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Langlade\, United States DESCRIPTION:Philosophy in the Wild conferences are outdoor\, low-tech events focused on fostering philosophical community and engagement. They are motivated by the idea that a shift in environment can engender a shift in perspective. Doing philosophy outside affords new relations and new avenues for thought and action. We welcome a wide range of presentation types\, including experimental presentations or other creative proposals.
\nFrom July 23 to July 26\, participants will camp at the Wolf River Refuge in Langlade\, WI. Activities will include (though will not be limited to) presentations\, discussions\, and several opportunities for outdoor excursions such as hiking\, swimming\, and biking. No prior camping experience is necessary&ndash\;we welcome both first-timers and seasoned outdoorspeople.
\nThis conference will bring together professional philosophers and grassroots environmental activists\, with the aim to catalyze collaboration and to integrate environmental ethical theory with practice. We are especially excited to include an opportunity for a field trip designed to increase participant knowledge of the local socio-ecological context.
\nThe conference will be held on the banks of the Wolf River and the ancestral land of the Ojibwe and Menominee peoples. In the 1970s\, Exxon proposed a metallic-sulfide mine on the headwaters of the Wolf River. This triggered an ultimately successful state-wide coalitional resistance movement that the sociologist Al Gedicks later dubbed &ldquo\;Wisconsin&rsquo\;s Standing Rock.&rdquo\; The waters that run past our campsite flow on to the Menominee reservation\, where it becomes a nationally protected &ldquo\;Wild and Scenic&rdquo\; waterway snaking through a forest that has been logged sustainably by the Menominee for 170 years.
\nKeynote speakers will be Anahkwet (Guy Reiter)\, Director of the Menominee Organization Menīkānaehkem\, and Cynthia Belmont\, Writer and former professor of English\, Gender &\; Women&rsquo\;s Studies at Northland College.
\nNote that this is one of two Philosophy in the Wild event this year. \;We also encourage submissions for our workshop\, "Philosophy of Academic Philosophy\," taking place at Ridley Creek State Park\, Pennsylvania\, in July. The CFA for that event is here: \;https://philevents.org/event/show/147065.
ORGANIZER;CN=Arthur Obst;CN=Linde De Vroey;CN="Maja Sidzińska";CN=Mike Gadomski: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR