Skepticism is usually understood as a view or stance in epistemology: the skeptic raises a set of challenges to our beliefs and claims to knowledge. But doubt has always had ethical and political implications. Ancient Pyrrhonists saw suspension of judgement as a path to tranquility. Early modern thinkers used skeptical arguments against religious and political authority. In more contemporary debates over expertise\, trust\, and the "crisis of knowledge"\, questions of what we can know are inseparable from political questions.
\nThis conference explores the ethics and politics of skepticism and doubt. How does skepticism interact with politics--does skepticism undermine or enable certain political arrangements\, ideologies\, or ethical stances? What are the ethical and political implications of different skeptical views or stances? What can we say about specific contexts where doubt may be productive or perilous\, such as in democratic deliberation\, or challenges to scientific consensus?
ORGANIZER;CN=Christopher Ranalli;CN=Robin McKenna: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260623T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260624T170000 SUMMARY:Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries UID:20260625T091632Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Dublin LOCATION:Newman Building\, Dublin\, Ireland DESCRIPTION:Prejudice in Hume and His Contemporaries University College Dublin\, 23-24 June 2026
Confirmed speakers:
\nAmy Schmitter (University of Alberta)
\nJacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)
\nRoss Carroll (Dublin City University)
\nElena Gordon (University College Dublin)
\nDescription: The early modern concept of prejudice is currently receiving renewed attention along two dimensions. First\, rising interest in early modern social and non-ideal epistemology has turned to theories of prejudice for explanations of group irrationality and group ignorance and\, more generally\, for early modern vice epistemologies. Second\, theories of prejudice are interesting for how they intersect with emerging theories of social\, racial\, gender and national identity. Despite the centrality of prejudice to long-established narratives about the Enlightenment and the rise of the &lsquo\;new science&rsquo\;\, these &lsquo\;social&rsquo\; aspects of the concept remain understudied. \;
David Hume's views on prejudice strikingly express these social dimensions. \;His central discussion of prejudice (Treatise 1.3.13) connects it to unreflective generalizations of humans based on perceived group membership. He couples this discussion with sophisticated socio-constructivist accounts of many kinds of social identity\, that are at the same time limited by objectionable sexist and racist beliefs. \;
This conference aims to investigate Hume&rsquo\;s theory of prejudice along the lines indicated above\, but it will also look at his possible inspirations and at his own influence on later authors in the Scottish Enlightenment and beyond. Thus\, spreading outward from Hume\, the conference aims to produce a more comprehensive and sophisticated understanding of the social aspects of prejudice in the broad context in which he was writing.
Program (Irish times):
\nTuesday\, 23 June
\nLocation: O'Connor Building L1.14
From 9:00 \; \; \;
Welcome
9:15-10:15 \;
Jacqueline Taylor (San Francisco): &lsquo\;Prejudices: Moral and Immoral&rsquo\;
10:30-11:30 \;
Jim Chamberlain (Sheffield): &lsquo\;Correcting for General Rules: Hume on Implicit Bias and Prejudice&rsquo\;
12:00-13:00 \;
Bianca Monteleone (Rome La Sapienza): &lsquo\;Reforming Gendered Prejudices: Women\, Virtue\, and Social Constraints in Hume&rsquo\;s Essays&rsquo\;
14:15-15:15 \;
Allauren Samantha Forbes (McMaster): &lsquo\;&ldquo\;Prejudices at War with Nature and Reason&rdquo\;: Emotion and Motivated Reasoning in Hume\, Wollstonecraft\, and Amo&rsquo\;
15:30-16:30
Mark G. Spencer (Brock): &lsquo\;Irish Prejudices in David Hume&rsquo\;s History of England?&rsquo\;
17:00-18:00
Ross Carroll (DCU): &lsquo\;Hume and the Prejudice against Posterity&rsquo\;
Wednesday\, 24 June
Location: Newman Building D422
9:30-10:30 \; \; \;
Elena Gordon (UCD): &lsquo\;Moral Education and Prejudice&rsquo\;
10:45-11:45 \; \;
Filippo Iorillo (Indiana University Bloomington): &lsquo\;Prejudice as a Distortion of Reactive Sentiments in Hume&rsquo\;
12:15-13:15 \; \;
Ruben Noorloos (UCD): &lsquo\;Hume&rsquo\;s Theory of Prejudice in Its Logical Context&rsquo\;
14:15-15:15 \; \;
Wesley Hill and Benjamin Hill (Western Ontario): &lsquo\;From Corruption to Custom: Hume on Malebranche and Pré\;jugé\;&rsquo\;
15:30-16:30 \; \;
Andre Willis (Brown): &lsquo\;Footnotes and Faultlines: Hume\, History and Prejudice&rsquo\;
17:00-18:00 \; \;
Amy Schmitter (Alberta): \; &lsquo\;&ldquo\;Why so Sticky?&rdquo\;: Hume and some Predecessors on the Tenacity of Prejudice\, Volition\, and Reform&rsquo\;
Registration is free but required due to limited seating. If you plan to attend\, please register at this link\, or contact the organizer.
Contact: ruben.noorloos@ucd.ie \;
The event is generously supported by the British Society for the History of Philosophy\, the Mind Association\, \;Taighde É\;ireann - Research Ireland\, and the \;UCD School of Philosophy. \;It is organised as part of the project 'Hume and the Prejudiced Self'\, funded by Taighde É\;ireann - Research Ireland (grant number GOIPD/2025/1772).
ORGANIZER;CN=Ruben Noorloos: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260624T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:III International Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Semantics of Fiction UID:20260625T091633Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:III International Colloquium on the Metaphysics and Semantics of Fiction
\nKeynote speakers:
\nAndreas Stokke (Uppsala Universitet)
\nElisa Paganini (Università\; degli Studi di Milano)
\nEdward Zalta (Stanford University)
\nManuel Garcí\;a-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona)
\nMerel Semeijn (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
\nSara Uckelman (Durham University)
\nThe event is free of charge and will be held \;online on June 24\, 25\, and 26\, 2026. Abstract submissions will be accepted until May 15.
\nFor further information: \;https://metasemafiction.wixsite.com/phil
ORGANIZER;CN=Italo Lins Lemos;CN=Jerzy Brzozowski: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260626T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260627T170000 SUMMARY:The BEYOND LANGUAGE 2026 Conference UID:20260625T091634Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Universitätsring 1\, Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:BEYOND LANGUAGE \;is an international conference that aims at integrating international young researchers of language\, literature and culture understood as pivotal social human behavioral patterns. Conference organizers wish to address\, among other issues\, the need of investigating minority speech communities\, endangered and vanishing languages\, literatures and cultures\, small languages\, pidgins and creoles\, as well as narrowing down the scope of study of cultural practices performed by the means of language and studies through the scope of contact linguistics and anthropological linguistics.
\nThis year the Young Scholars Conference &ndash\; BEYOND LANGUAGE 2026 &ndash\; for the first time invites scientists from biological\, medical\, and experimental sciences!
\nThe scope of the conference seeks to establish a ground for new research in the following areas:
\n&ndash\; endangered and vanishing languages\, literatures and cultures\,
\n&ndash\; anthropological linguistics\,
\n&ndash\; studies of cultures and societies\,
\n&ndash\; cultural patterns in discursive practices\,
\n&ndash\; folk-linguistics and folk-anthropology\,
\n&ndash\; mechanisms of language change (and language death)\,
\n&ndash\; the ethnography of communication\,
\n&ndash\; studies of small languages and linguistic vitality\,
\n&ndash\; field linguistics\,
\n&ndash\; translation/interpretation studies\,
\n\;&ndash\; non-confessional theology\,
\n&ndash\; public and critical theology\,
\n&ndash\; philosophy of religion\,
\n&ndash\; political epistemology\,
\n&ndash\; studies of identity\, borders\, and cultural transformation\, broader interdisciplinary humanities\,
\n&ndash\; current research problems and challenges in contemporary biology\, medicine and experimental sciences in all their dimensions.
\nHonorary patronage &\; publication opportunity:
\nÆ\; \;Academic Publishing\, San Diego\, USA
\nAcademic Journal of Modern Philology
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20260629T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:Nature of Law and Legal Reality (IVR Special Workshop) UID:20260625T091635Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Istanbul LOCATION:Cibali\, Kadir Has Cd.\, 34083 Cibali / Fatih/Fatih/İstanbul\, Турция\, İstanbul\, Turkey DESCRIPTION:The workshop &ldquo\;Nature of Law and Legal Reality&rdquo\; explores how contemporary legal philosophy and jurisprudence understand what law is and how legal phenomena exist in social and empirical reality. It is designed as an intensive discussion where participants reconsider classical debates in the philosophy of law in light of new empirical\, ontological\, and interdisciplinary developments.
\nThe workshop aims to bring together philosophers of law\, legal theorists\, doctrinal scholars to articulate more refined accounts of both the nature of law and the structure of legal reality. By confronting traditional jurisprudential questions with contemporary disputes about ontology\, pluralism\, and empirical method\, participants will seek to map promising directions for future research and to clarify what is at stake in ongoing controversies.
\nTopics for discussion include\, among others:
\n(1) Concept and nature of law
\n&ndash\; What do we mean when we claim that law has a &ldquo\;nature&rdquo\;: are we identifying essential properties\, common patterns\, or merely theoretical constructs?
\n&ndash\; Is it still plausible to think that philosophy of law must provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of legal systems\, or should we adopt more modest\, pluralistic\, or practice‑oriented frameworks?
\n&ndash\; How should we understand the relationship between law and morality today: as strict separation\, necessary connection\, or context‑sensitive interaction between moral and institutional facts?
\n(2) Legal Reality and Ontology
\n&ndash\; In what sense do legal entities&mdash\;rights\, duties\, persons\, corporate bodies\, or digital assets&mdash\;&ldquo\;exist\,&rdquo\; and how does their mode of existence differ from that of physical objects or social conventions?
\n&ndash\; How do courts and other legal actors exercise &ldquo\;ontological discretion&rdquo\; when they choose among competing ways of construing the reality of contested objects such as death\, incapacity\, or intoxication?
\n&ndash\; Can we speak of multiple\, overlapping legal realities generated by different legal orders and epistemic communities\, and if so\, how do these realities interact in transnational or pluralist settings?
\n(3) Legal Methodology and Interdisciplinarity
\n&ndash\; What is the proper role of conceptual analysis in contemporary legal theory when empirical\, sociological\, and psychological research increasingly shape our understanding of law in action?
\n&ndash\; How can philosophy of law integrate insights from empirical legal studies\, new legal realism\, and social ontology without losing its distinctive normative and analytical focus?
\n&ndash\; To what extent should theories of the nature of law be evaluated not only on their internal coherence\, but also on their explanatory power regarding actual institutional practices and disputes about legal reality?
\n\;Prospective participants are invited to submit abstracts (500&ndash\;1000 words) by 15 May to a_didikin@kazguu.kz and abdidikin@mail.kz.
\nTo facilitate discussion\, participants are warmly encouraged to circulate a final paper by 1 June 2026.
ORGANIZER;CN=Anton Didikin: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260630T010000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260630T010000 SUMMARY:Asian Epistemology Network Meeting 2026 UID:20260625T091636Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Asia/Shanghai LOCATION:Yuhangtang Road 866\, Hangzhou\, China DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the inaugural meeting of the Asian Epistemology Network\, to be held on November 14&ndash\;15\, 2026\, at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou\, China. This meeting aims to bring together epistemologists working in and with the Asian region to foster collaboration\, exchange ideas\, and advance research in all areas of epistemology.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nTimothy Williamson (University of Oxford)
\nLei Zhong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
\nJennifer Nado (University of Hong Kong)
\nSimon Goldstein (University of Hong Kong)
\nConfirmed Speakers:
\nNikolaj Pedersen (Yonsei University)
\nJing Zhu (Xiamen University)
\nBo Chen (Wuhan University)
\nRu Ye (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
\nWeng Hong Tang (National University of Singapore)
\nMasashi Kasaki (Nagoya University)
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nWe invite submissions of abstracts in English\, prepared for blind review. Abstracts of 400-500 words should be sent to submission@asianepistemology.com\, by June 30\, 2026.
Contact:
\nFor any inquiries\, please contact: submission@asianepistemology.com \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Jie Gao;CN=Davide Fassio;CN=Nikolaj Jang Lee Linding Pedersen;CN=Masashi Kasaki;CN=Weng Hong Tang: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T090000 SUMMARY:Consciousness and Its Limits UID:20260625T091637Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: Consciousness and Its Limits
\n\nBelgrade Philosophical Annual
\n\nInstitute for Philosophy\, University of Belgrade
\nISSN: 0353-3891
\n\nBelgrade Philosophical Annual invites submissions for a special issue on Consciousness and Its Limits.
\nThe philosophical debate about the nature of consciousness is far from being settled. Questions such as &ldquo\;What is it like to have an experience?&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;How does subjective awareness relate to cognition and the brain?&rdquo\; remain among the most persistent and theoretically significant problems in contemporary philosophy of mind. Consciousness lies at the intersection of metaphysics\, epistemology\, cognitive science\, and ethics\, and continues to generate extensive discussion across a wide range of philosophical approaches. Moreover\, the rapid development of artificial intelligence has brought renewed urgency to long-standing philosophical questions concerning cognition\, subjectivity\, and the possibility of consciousness in artificial systems.
\nThis special issue aims to provide a broad forum for current debates on the nature\, structure\, and explanatory status of conscious experience. While the primary focus will be on fundamental philosophical questions concerning phenomenal consciousness\, access consciousness\, and the relationship between consciousness and representation\, argumentative discussions of competing theoretical frameworks\, as well as responses to recent influential contributions in the literature\, are also welcome.
\nPossible topics include (but are not limited to):
\n&bull\; What is consciousness\, and how should it be characterized?
&bull\; Phenomenal consciousness and its relation to access consciousness
&bull\; The explanatory gap and the &ldquo\;hard problem&rdquo\; of consciousness
&bull\; Representational theories of conscious experience
&bull\; Higher-order theories and self-consciousness
&bull\; Debates about cognitive access\, attention\, and the scope of phenomenal experience
&bull\; Consciousness and attention
&bull\; The metaphysics of qualia
&bull\; Consciousness and physicalism: reductionism vs. anti-reductionism
&bull\; The epistemology of consciousness: introspection and first-person authority
&bull\; The unity of consciousness and the structure of experience
&bull\; Neuroscience and the philosophical limits of empirical explanation
Consciousness beyond the human mind:
&bull\; Consciousness in non-human animals and artificial systems
&bull\; Artificial intelligence and the prospects of machine consciousness
&bull\; Computational and functionalist approaches to consciousness
&bull\; Recent AI systems and their implications for theories of mind and consciousness
&bull\; The ethical and moral implications of artificial consciousness
Invited Contributions
\nWilliam G. Lycan (University of Connecticut)
Peter Carruthers (University of Maryland)
Daniel Stoljar (Australian National University)
Submission Deadline
\nJune 30\, 2026
\nAll inquiries can be directed to the managing editor: petar.nurkic@f.bg.ac.rs.
\n\nGeneral Notes
\nSubmitted papers should be prepared for anonymous review. All other relevant information should be sent in a separate document containing the author&rsquo\;s name and affiliation\, the title of the paper\, an abstract of no more than 250 words\, and 4&ndash\;5 keywords. Documents should be submitted in *.doc\, *.docx\, or .pdf format.
\nSubmissions should not be longer than 10\,000 words\, including notes. Authors will be notified of the editorial decision.
\nBelgrade Philosophical Annual is an open access journal published by the Institute for Philosophy\, University of Belgrade\, committed to the double-blind peer reviewing process. Previous issues of the journal\, including previous special issues with downloadable papers and other relevant information\, can be accessed at \;https://www.f.bg.ac.rs/bpa.
\n\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Lima:20260630T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Lima:20260630T234500 SUMMARY:CAELO 1: First Andean Congress for Epistemology and Logic UID:20260625T091638Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/Lima LOCATION:Lima\, Peru DESCRIPTION:The Society for Epistemology and Logic of Peru (SEPLO) is pleased to announce CAELO 1: First Andean Congress for Epistemology and Logic*\, to be held in Lima\, Peru\, from 22 to 28 February 2027.
\nThis inaugural congress marks the beginning of a planned series of meetings dedicated to the study of epistemology and logic\, bringing together scholars\, researchers\, and students from diverse backgrounds. The event offers a space for rigorous discussion and exchange on topics including logic\, epistemology\, philosophy of science\, analytic philosophy\, metaphysics\, social philosophy\, empirically informed approaches\, and both philosophically and scientifically oriented studies.
\nTopics and Suggested Sessions
\nSubmissions are welcome on all topics in epistemology\, logic\, and related areas. Proposed thematic sessions include\, but are not limited to:
\nSubmission CategoriesWe invite submissions for talks and thematic sessions (including round tables and workshops). \;
\nIndividual Paper Abstracts:
\nAuthors are invited to submit abstracts for individual papers.
\nThematic Sessions (Including Round Tables and Workshops)
\nWe invite proposals for thematic sessions of various formats\, including standard paper sessions\, round tables\, and workshops.
\nAll thematic session proposals should include:
\nSession proposals should not be anonymised.
\nSubmission Instructions
\nAll submissions should be sent in English or Spanish to: \;epilog@seplo.org
\nPlease indicate the submission category (talk or thematic session) in the subject line of your email. If you propose a talk\, you may suggest a session for it.
\n\n*This event was formerly called Epilog 1: 1st Congress of Epistemology and Logic.
ORGANIZER;CN=Luis F. Bartolo Alegre: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260701T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:Acquaintance: Kick-Off Workshop of the Acquaintance Network UID:20260625T091639Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Av. Blasco Ibañez\, 30\, Valencia\, Spain\, 46010 DESCRIPTION:\nKick-Off Workshop of the Acquaintance Network
\nJuly 1-3\, 2026
\nValencia Philosophy Lab
\nUniversity of Valencia\, Department of Philosophy
\nRoom F11
\n(ONLY IN PERSON)
\nThe Acquaintance Network is a newly formed international philosophy research group working on the metaphysics\, epistemology\, value\, and history of acquaintance.
\nAcquaintance is the relation of conscious awareness that we bear to the things we experience most directly. The notion of acquaintance has the potential to explain a wide range of important facts in philosophy of mind\, epistemology\, metaphysics\, aesthetics\, ethics\, and other domains.
\nThe Acquaintance Network aims to support current work on acquaintance and to promote future work on acquaintance. More information about the Acquaintance Network here.
\nThis is the inaugural workshop of the Acquaintance Network. We&rsquo\;ll discuss fundamental issues concerning the nature and epistemology of acquaintance\, both from a contemporary and a historical perspective.
\nProgram
\nWednesday\, July 1
\n10 &ndash\; 11:30 Donovan Wishon\, &ldquo\;How Transparent is Experience?: Reassessing Diaphaneity in Early Analytic Philosophy&rdquo\;
\n Coffee break
\n12 &ndash\; 13:30 Sharon Casu\, &ldquo\;Acquaintance and Mediation&rdquo\;
\n \;Lunch
\n15 &ndash\; 17 \; \; \; \; Roundtable: SEP on Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description (by Ali Hasan). \;Discussants: Emad Atiq\, Sharon Casu\, Sam Coleman\, Matt Duncan\, Anna Giustina\, Ali Hasan\, Michael Markunas\, Jacopo Pallagrosi\, Chris Ranalli\, Donovan Wishon
\nThursday\, July 2
\n10 &ndash\; 11:30 \;Sam Coleman\, &ldquo\;Phenomenal Concepts\, Qualia\, and Acquaintance - Issues Arising&rdquo\;
\n Coffee break
\n12 &ndash\; 13:30 Michael Markunas\, &ldquo\;Acquaintance with Abstract Objects&rdquo\;
\nLunch
\n15:30 &ndash\; 17 Anna Giustina and Jacopo Pallagrosi\, &ldquo\;Knowledge by Acquaintance and the Conceptual Mind&rdquo\;
\nFriday\, July 3
\n12:00 &ndash\; 13:30 Matt Duncan\, &ldquo\;I Think\, Therefore ... Presentism is False&rdquo\;
\nLunch
\n15:30 &ndash\; 17:30 Roundtable: The Normativity of Knowledge by Acquaintance. Discussants: Sharon Casu\, Sam Coleman\, Matt Duncan\, Anna Giustina\, Ali Hasan\, Michael Markunas\, Jacopo Pallagrosi\, Chris Ranalli\, Donovan Wishon
\nOrganization and contact
\nAnna Giustina (anna.giustina@outlook.com)
\nJacopo Pallagrosi
\nMatt Duncan
\nSpecial thanks to Jorge Guardiola for the invaluable logistic support.
\nFunding
\nKnow Yourself: The Importance\, the Nature\, and the Applications of Introspective Self-Knowledge \;(PID2023-151949NA-I00)\, funded by Ministerio de Ciencia\, Innovació\;n y Universidades.
\nThis is a Valencia Philosophy Lab event.
ORGANIZER;CN=Matt Duncan;CN=Anna Giustina;CN=Jacopo Pallagrosi: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260702T170000 SUMMARY:Trust\, Trustworthiness\, and AI UID:20260625T091640Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:The Diamond\, Sheffield\, Sheffield\, United Kingdom ORGANIZER;CN=Yonatan Shemmer;CN=Paul Faulkner: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260701T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:Knowledge in Crisis: Knowledge\, Power and Social Life UID:20260625T091641Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:University of Vienna Sky Lounge\, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1\, Vienna\, Austria\, 1090 DESCRIPTION:How can epistemology help us to better understand and overcome the crisis of knowledge? The aim of this conference is to showcase cutting edge work on knowledge: its nature and norms as well as its social and political dimensions. We want to foster exchange between different approaches to knowledge and the crisis it finds itself in. At the heart of the crisis of knowledge are philosophical problems about the relationship between knowledge\, truth\, science\, ethics and politics&mdash\;and ultimately our relationship to reality itself.
ORGANIZER;CN=Paulina Sliwa;CN=Katalin Farkas;CN=Tim Crane;CN=Camilo Martinez;CN="Denis Džanić";CN=Tuomo Tiisala;CN=Keith Raymond Harris;CN="Anni A. Räty": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023316Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260701T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260701T234500 SUMMARY:1st Critical AI Safety Workshop UID:20260625T091642Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Copenhagen\, Denmark DESCRIPTION:The discourse around the existential risks of artificial intelligence (AI) has reached a point where organisations\, private individuals\, and groups are spending millions on speculative research\, safety centres are investing large sums in lobbying governments in the name of saving humanity\, and the AI safety discourse is frequently popping up in mainstream media and academic venues. In short\, AI safety has acquired considerable institutional and financial power and is backed by some of the largest donors and technology companies in the world. Meanwhile\, basic disciplinary standards that established research fields take for granted remain far from settled. The definitions of AGI vary significantly\, the differences in expert-given likelihoods of an existential catastrophe are so vast as to be meaningless\, the formal methods to think about cognition\, agency\, and deception stem from a very narrow set of philosophical assumptions that don&rsquo\;t necessarily hold in real-world contexts\, and publishing in non-peer-reviewed venues and forums remains a best practice.
\nBut there is more. With early proponents like Elon Musk\, Peter Thiel\, and Jaan Tallinn\, as well as billion-dollar companies that allegedly promote the future of humanity\, the field is situated within an Ivy League-educated\, white\, male\, Western culture at the heart of Silicon Valley. It has been accused of promoting eugenics\, classist thinking\, and hypercapitalism. This raises serious questions about the alleged altruism: if predominantly privileged individuals operate at the center of the movement\, which future do they envision\, and whose problems are they focusing on?
\nA few scholars have started researching this complex network of theories\, actors\, world views\, and assumptions that arise at the intersection of transhumanism\, rationalism\, and\, again\, Silicon Valley capital. However\, these critiques are scattered across political thought\, philosophy\, media studies\, anthropology\, sociology\, theology\, and many more disciplines. This workshop is among the first to bring these threads together in a dedicated forum. We aim to investigate attempts to understand\, map\, and critique AI safety and AI existential risk as a research field\, community\, and ecosystem. Some of the core questions are the following.
\nWhat is the landscape of AI safety and existential risk communities and research\, and what are the tensions within those?
\nCan AI safety or AI existential risk be described as an ideology?
\nWhat assumptions about cognitive science\, economics\, sociology\, society\, or power\, amongst others\, underlie and confound AI Safety? \;
\nWhat are the formal methods of the field\, and how can they be improved?
\nWhat are the funding flows in the field? How easy is it for individuals to receive funding\, and what factors are considered in funding decisions?
\nWhat policy proposals does the AI safety community lobby for\, and through what channels?
\nHow is the community established\, what are their recruiting strategies\, and what makes them so successful?
\nHow tightly interlinked is the research philosophy with other non-scientific fields\, like science fiction\, hype\, speculation\, and imagination?
\nIf you&rsquo\;re interested in submitting\, please send an abstract (ca. 300-500 words) and a short bio (max. 150 words) of all presenters to niol@hum.ku.dk with the subject line "SUBMISSION CAIS [NAME]". Submission deadline is the 1st of July\, notifications of acceptance are sent out on July 21st.
\nLink to event: https://philevents.org/event/show/149733
\n \; ORGANIZER;CN=Ninell Oldenburg;CN=Nina Rajcic;CN="Anders Søgaard";CN=Bokar N'Diaye;CN=Filippos Stamatiou: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260702T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:5th Luxembourg Workshop on AI and Epistemology UID:20260625T091643Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:2\, place de l’Université\, Esch-sur-Alzette\, Luxembourg DESCRIPTION:The general goal of this workshop is to explore philosophical issues lying at the intersection of AI and epistemology. In our experience\, such issues typically do not stay within the borders of epistemology\, but also touch on themes from\, for example\, the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind. Accordingly\, the thematic scope of the workshop is broad. Thus\, questions of interest include\, but are certainly not limited to\, the following:
\n(i) How (if at all) is it possible to understand\, explain and gain knowledge about black-box AI systems given the complexity and opacity of their internal operations and training history?
\n(ii) How might AI technologies be used to supplement and improve our own human epistemic capacities?
\n(iii) When (if ever) is it rational to rely on AI technologies whose internal operations we do not fully understand when forming beliefs?
\n(iv) What fixes the content of the outputs of Neural Networks? When (if ever) should we attribute contents to internal parts/processes of Neural Networks?
\n(v) To what extent\, and in what ways\, are the linguistic outputs of Large Language Models similar or dissimilar to Human Testimony?
\nThis workshop is part of the FNR funded project &lsquo\;The Epistemology of AI Systems&rsquo\; (EAI) which is wrapping up in 2026. It is also the 5th in a series of workshops on Artificial Intelligence and epistemology. Three of these took place in Luxembourg (in 2022\, 2024\, 2025) and one in Hangzhou (in 2023).
\nInvited speakers:
\nUp to 4 contributing speakers will be selected through an open call. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Aleks Knoks;CN=Thomas Raleigh: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260703T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260704T170000 SUMMARY:The practical self: authors meets critics graduate workshop UID:20260625T091644Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Wächterstr. 30\, Leipzig\, Germany\, 04107 DESCRIPTION:This is a graduate workshop that is organised as part of our Young Researcher MA philosophy module. Anil Gomes evening lecture will be held on July 1 at 5pm. Attendance is free and open to anybody who is interested\, but please register at the email address above. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Kristina Musholt: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Budapest:20260706T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Budapest:20260710T170000 SUMMARY:Collective Moral and Intellectual Virtues - Summer Course UID:20260625T091645Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Budapest LOCATION:Nádor utca 9.\, Budapest\, Hungary\, 1051 DESCRIPTION:Collectives and other groups have the capacity to do more than any of their individual members could accomplish alone. Groups can achieve great accomplishments and benefits\, but they can also commit evil at scale. Likewise\, through the division of cognitive labor and with the support of technologies of communication and inference\, collectives can learn things that no individual could achieve in a lifetime. However\, collectives can also spread misinformation\, disinformation\, unwarranted conspiracy theories\, and propaganda at hitherto-unimagined speed and scale. \;
\nThis course addresses both the promise and the peril that attend our increasingly connected\, global community. It offers participants the chance to think through the ethical difficulties of existence within contemporary communities\, and consider how to construct those communities in ways that enable us to flourish together as moral\, epistemic\, and political agents. We will begin with an introduction to individual virtue theory (both ethical and epistemic)\, then expand to a consideration of collective virtue theory.
\nPhilosophers have developed accounts not only of the virtues but also detailed accounts of the vices that oppose and undermine them. The fields of both vice ethics and vice epistemology have grown in recent years. Many of these vices only exist in collective contexts because they presuppose various forms of complex sociality. Interdisciplinary scholars have also developed more thorough accounts of not only individual but also collective virtues and vices\, as well as the relationship between individual and collective virtues and vices. The resulting understanding of cognitive technologies and the forms that cognitive conflict can take informs our thinking about what virtue is up against\, and what it consists of. \;
\nThe team of teachers of this course has experience with both theorizing and conducting empirical studies\, using methods from psychology\, cognitive science\, and artificial intelligence.
\nFinancial aid is available. \;
\nApplication deadline: 2026 March 1.
ORGANIZER;CN=Mark Alfano: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260707T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260709T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Explainable AI: New Directions UID:20260625T091646Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Aarhus\, Denmark DESCRIPTION:We invite abstracts for our forthcoming workshop\, Philosophy of Explainable AI: New Directions\, to be held at Aarhus University on \;July 7 - 9\, 2026. The workshop aims to bring together scholars working on the philosophical dimensions of explainability/interpretability/transparency in machine learning\, to share recent work and discuss future directions for the field. We have invited a number of keynotes to be announced in due course.
\nThe conference is part of the TREAT project (https://projects.au.dk/treat). Towards Responsible Explainable AI Technologies (TREAT) examines the benefits and risks of so-called &ldquo\;Explainable AI&rdquo\; technologies for creating and using AI in an ethically responsible manner. One of the main ethical concerns regarding complex AI systems is that they risk becoming unintelligible black boxes. In response\, a subfield within AI research\, known as explainable AI (XAI)\, seeks to develop tools for generating explanations of AI systems. Such explanations are important in order to enable people to understand and think critically about AI systems. However\, explanations are not just an ethical good: they also risk creating a false sense of understanding\, which can be exploited to mislead or even manipulate. To resolve this dilemma\, TREAT seeks to philosophically grounded theories of representational adequacy\, explanatory honesty\, and legitimacy for XAI technologies.
\nWe welcome abstracts addressing any philosophically salient issue relating to explainability\, interpretability or transparency in machine learning. This includes (but is not limited to) papers drawing on ethics\, epistemology\, philosophy of science or political philosophy. We hope to have a diverse programme\, representing a broad range of exciting new philosophical work engaging with XAI technologies\, broadly construed.
\nWe especially encourage applications from junior scholars and those from underrepresented backgrounds. Travel and accommodation costs for successful applicants will be covered\, and there will be no registration fees for the event. To apply\, please send an abstract of 300-400 words (excluding references) to treat@au.dk no later than Wednesday 1st April.
\nIf you are have any questions\, feel free to contact us on treat@au.dk
\nWe look forward to hearing from you.
\nRune Nyrup\, Torben Agergaard\, and Molly Powell
ORGANIZER;CN=Molly Powell: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260709T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260711T170000 SUMMARY:The Armchair on Trial: A Graduate Conference on Philosophical Methodology UID:20260625T091647Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Univeristätsstraße 7\, Vienna\, Austria\, 1010 DESCRIPTION:Topic:
This year'sannual WFAP graduate conference is devoted to debates around philosophical methodology. It is centered around the question of whether philosophy is best done from the philosophical armchair or whether it can and should be done using empirical methods. The conference is focused on the extent to which the emergence of naturalistic approaches and of experimental philosophy (&ldquo\;X-Phi&rdquo\;) pose a problem to &lsquo\;traditional&rsquo\; armchair methods (e.g. consulting intuitions\, conceptual analysis\, reflective equilibrium\, conceptual engineering). We are interested both in work that focuses on individual methods or on the relations between them (e.g. their compatibility).
We aim to bring together early career and advanced researchers in order to discuss questions such as: \;
\nWe welcome submissions that apply these methodological issues to other philosophical debates as case studies.
\nIf you wish to align your talk with the WFAP's reading circle in preparation for the conference\, feel free to check out our readings here:
https://wfap.philo.at/reading-schedule-25-26/
You can take a look at our past graduate conferences here:
https://wfap.philo.at/conferences
Workshop: Rational Action and Belief &ndash\; Recognising and Responding to Reasons
\nDo rational actions and beliefs require us to recognise reasons as reasons? If so\, what does such recognition consist in\, and what role does it play in responding rationally to reasons? \;
\nWe invite submissions of abstracts for a workshop on these and related questions. \;
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\nKey Information
Date &\; Location: October 29&ndash\;30\, 2026\, Heidelberg University
Invited speakers: Carlotta Pavese (Oxford)\, Kurt Sylvan (Southampton)
Funding: travel expenses up to &euro\;600 and accommodation in Heidelberg will be covered
Contributed slots: up to six
Abstract length: ca. 1000 words
Submission email: \;rational_action_belief@protonmail.com
Submission deadline: July 12\, 2026
Notification: by the end of July
\;
\nWorkshop Themes
\nDoes forming an intention or belief in a rational manner require recognising that the corresponding action or belief enjoys some form of rational support? Many action theorists and epistemologists answer this question affirmatively. For a doctor&rsquo\;s belief that the patient has measles to be rational\, it must be based on a suitable reason. That the patient has Koplik spots is such a reason. But it seems insufficient to rationalise the belief that the patient has measles\, unless the doctor recognises that Koplik spots support that belief. Similar examples for actions abound.
\nOn this view\, rational belief and rational action respond not only to reasons but also to their being reasons for those beliefs or actions. This idea is often captured by appeals to a \;taking condition\, or by the requirement that rational reasons must be \;treated as normative reasons. While such views have gained prominence in recent epistemology and action theory\, they raise pressing questions about the nature of responding to normative reasons. \;
\nWe invite contributions that explore the role of recognising\, taking\, or appreciating reasons in rational belief and action\, including critical perspectives.
\nTopics include (but are not limited to):
\n·\; \; \;Do rational action and belief require the recognition that the action or belief enjoys support\, for example that the evidence supports a particular conclusion?
\n·\; \; \;What does this recognition require? Does it require a doxastic state\, for example\, that the evidence supports p\, or is the recognition condition non-doxastic?
\n·\; \;If the recognition condition is non-doxastic\, then how does it operate? Does it involve the exercise of some non-doxastic skill\, is it a form of rule following\, or something else entirely? \;
\n·\; \; \;If the recognition condition is doxastic\, then how does it avoid regress problems? Can an appeal to additional non-doxastic factors block such regresses?
\n·\; \; \;Is recognising normative support sufficient for rational action or belief\, or does responding to that recognition introduce additional constraints?
\n·\; \;Can the basing of action or belief on reasons be analysed into constituent psychological states\, or does such analysis generate explanatory regresses? \;
\n·\; \;What is the correct semantic theory for linguistic expressions of acting and believing for reasons\, such as &ldquo\;therefore&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;because&rdquo\;?
\nPlease send your submission\, prepared for blind review\, together with a separate title page containing the author&rsquo\;s details (name\, title\, affiliation\, and email address) to \;rational_action_belief@protonmail.com. Please direct all queries to the organisers Andreas Mü\;ller (andreas.mueller.philosophie@em.uni-frankfurt.de) and Tobias Wilsch (tobias.wilsch@gmail.com). Queries sent to the submission email may be overlooked.
ORGANIZER;CN=Tobias Wilsch;CN=Andy Mueller: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260713T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:Trust & Cooperation UID:20260625T091650Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Universitätstrasse 7\, Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Over the course of five days participants will have the opportunity to engage with renowned experts in discussions on the topic of trust and cooperation on the interpersonal and institutional level\, as well as within the contexts of climate change and immigration. Trust and cooperation have become front and center issues in today&rsquo\;s world. The nature of global \; challenges - from refugees seeking asylum to the ecological \; crises of climate change and biodiversity loss - renders cooperation ever more crucial to overcoming them. Key questions revolve around the nature of trust and the nature of cooperation respectively\, as well as around the relationship between trust and cooperation\, intersecting the fields of social and political philosophy\, as well as applied ethics and political epistemology.
\nConfirmed instructors: \;
\nLeah Henderson (University of Groningen)
\nBenjamin McMyler (University of Minnesota)\,
\nKieran Oberman(The London School of Economics and Political Science)
\nGuest speakers:
\nKeith Harris (University of Vienna)
\nMore to be confirmed!
\nTrust &\; Cooperation: Vienna Summer School 2026
\nWe welcome applications from PhD students (prioritized)\, advanced MA students and postdoctoral researchers in philosophy and related disciplines.
\nParticipants will explore current research in these fields\, attend keynote lectures\, thematic discussions and interactive workshops\, as well as present their own work\, and receive valuable feedback from invited scholars. The goal of this Summer School is to provide doctoral students with direct access to leading researchers whose work&mdash\;whether directly or indirectly&mdash\;relates to these themes.
\nApplication &\; Fees \; \;
We welcome applications from PhD students (prioritized)\, advanced MA students and postdoctoral researchers in philosophy and related disciplines. Two modes of participation are possible: 1) attendance\, 2) presentation &ndash\; if they would also like to give a presentation.
To apply for participation\, please send the following documents to Joachim Raich (joachim.raich@univie.ac.at): \;
\nThe maximum number of participants at the summer school will be 25.
\nThe \;summer school fee is 75 Euros. The fee includes the student union fee of 25 Euros\, which is required by Austrian law to register at the University of Vienna and to receive a certificate of completion of the summer school. \;
\n4ECTS can be accreditted by the University of Vienna to all students who complete the summer school.
\nPlease\, \;submit your application by April 14\, 23.59 CET.
Contact Email: \;joachim.raich@univie.ac.at
We will notify you of the decision by April 16.
Diversity Statement \;
We strongly encourage applications from members of disadvantaged and underrepresented groups. \;
Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s work is permeated by investigations into the forms and structures of human knowledge: our propositional knowledge of facts articulated in meaningful sentences\, the unarticulated and inarticulable know-how of our language games\, the &ldquo\;Now I know!&rdquo\; of rule-following\, my practical knowledge of what I want\, intend\, and do\, the &ldquo\;knowledge what it&rsquo\;s like&rdquo\; of lived experience\, my second-person knowledge of the mental states of others\, the inescapable certainties of our forms of life that are beyond doubt. How these forms of knowledge are constitutively distinct from and yet mutually dependent on one another is the theme of the 8th Wittgenstein Forum of the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. How do the diverse language games of knowledge relate to one another\, how are they interconnected? How are different forms of knowledge acquired and transmitted\, in what ways do they manifest themselves\, and how can they be questioned\, doubted\, and developed? The presentations at the forum are intended as contributions to a perspicuous presentation of the grammar of knowledge according to Wittgenstein.
ORGANIZER;CN=David Lauer;CN="Yara Windmüller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260715T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260715T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy\, Evidence and Policymaking UID:20260625T091652Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Rijnstraat 50\, Den Haag\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:This workshop brings together researchers working on the theory and philosophy of science and evidence in policymaking as well as practitioners such as knowledge-brokers\, policymakers and policy advisors. It is organised by researchers at University of Antwerp\, University of Groningen and the VU Amsterdam in collaboration with the Science for Policy project at the Netherlands&rsquo\; Ministry of Education\, Culture &\; Science.
\nThe workshop is aimed at both early-career and senior researchers who are interested in the theory and the practice of evidence generation for and use in policymaking and the interaction between science and policy. This field of research addresses questions such as: What type of evidence should one use to develop policies? What should the role of scientific advisors be in policymaking? Does it make sense to rank evidence in hierarchies? How should policymakers deal with scientific expert disagreement? What does an appropriate role for non-epistemic values look like in evidence and science for policy?
\nWe invite you to send abstracts on the abovementioned topics\, as well as on related ones. Abstracts should:
\nNot exceed 300 words (references excluded)\;
\nBe sent in an anonymised document to the following email address: ebpolicy.network@gmail.com\;
\nBe suitable for a 30-minute presentation (+15 minutes of Q&\;A)\;
\nBe sent by the deadline: 15 July 2026 (notification of acceptance on 1 August 2026)\;
\nParticipation in the workshop without sending an abstract is possible by filling out the registration form no later than 15 August 2026. \;
\nThe first part of the workshop will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Donal Khosrowi (University of Hannover) and\, after\, presentations of the selected abstracts. After the lunch break\, the second part of the workshop will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Jaakko Kuosmanen (Finnish Academy of Science and Letters) and structured dialogues in break-out groups with practitioners\, aimed at making participants reflect together on various topics related to evidence and policy.
\nMoreover\, the workshop aims to encourage interaction between researchers and practitioners. Therefore\, the workshop will also include sessions in which there is structured dialogue between participating researchers and practitioners from the Netherlands&rsquo\; government.
\nQuestions can be sent to \;ebpolicy.network@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Geertjan Holtrop;CN=Kato Van Roey;CN=Helena R. Slanickova: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Fourth Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology UID:20260625T091653Z-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:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260720T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260720T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop on Emily Adlam’s “Saving Science from Quantum Mechanics” UID:20260625T091654Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:University of Leeds\, Leeds\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Schedule:
\n11.00 &ndash\; 11.10 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Welcome &ndash\; Alastair Wilson
\n11.10 &ndash\; 12.10 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; &ldquo\;Ways of Closing the Circle&rdquo\; &ndash\; Margherita Moro and Alastair Wilson
\n12.10 &ndash\; 13.30 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Lunch
\n13.30 &ndash\; 14.30 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Comments on Adlam &ndash\; Lina Jansson
\n14.30 &ndash\; 15.30 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; &ldquo\;Epistemic Solutions for Epistemic Problems?&rdquo\; &ndash\; Lucy Mason
\n15.30 &ndash\; 16.00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Break
\n16.00 &ndash\; 17.00 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; &ldquo\;Future directions in Epistemology of QM&rdquo\; &ndash\; Emily Adlam
\n17.00 &ndash\; 18.30 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Drinks outside Botany House
\n18.30 \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;Dinner
ORGANIZER;CN=Margherita Moro;CN=Alastair Wilson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20260721T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20260721T170000 SUMMARY:Heart of Science: Book Workshop UID:20260625T091655Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Asia/Singapore LOCATION:Jurong Town\, Singapore DESCRIPTION:In his latest book\, Heart of Science: A Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo257658927.html)\, Jacob Stegenga\, professor of philosophy at Nanyang Technological University\, and author of Medical Nihilism and Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine\, argues for a novel epistemology of science that contends that good science need not attain its aims\, but it must justify its claims.
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The workshop will feature discussions and comments on the book by Axel Gelfert\, Catarina Dutilh Novaes\, Wendy Parker\, Angela Potochnik\, Silvia de Toffoli\, and Peter Vickers\, with graduate student commentaries by Yuang Chen\, Luca Molinari\, and Anish Seal\, and a round-table discussion featuring Jacob and the invited speakers.
This event precedes the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural meeting and is part of a week of events related to the philosophy of science at NTU Singapore. To find out more\, please visit: \;https://www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-events/conferences/apsa-2026. \;
TIME WORK.
Debt\, inheritance\, and intergenerational practice.
Let&rsquo\;s call it &ldquo\;time work&rdquo\;: Those practices that negotiate the relations between the living and the dead. Time work is not merely conducted by archivists and historians\, but by grave diggers and undertakers\, documentary filmmakers and memoirists\, knowledge bearers\, politicians\, war journalists\, practitioners of living traditions\, speakers of dead languages\, as well as by any and all who keep something &ndash\; a story\, a trinket\, an heirloom\, a song &ndash\; holding onto it to remember. Time work is not easily done without feeling\; It is driven by the weight of mattering\, it is attention called by the fact that now &ndash\; this\, &lsquo\;our&rsquo\; now &ndash\; is in-part composed by the shadows of what and who came before. Time work is haunting work\, it whispers of recurrences (&ldquo\;this happened before&rdquo\;)\, and implicitly describes the present as a thing pushed to the surface of existence by the collective force of innumerable spent lives\, over centuries\, over millennia.
\nIn the summer 2026 Studies in Remoteness symposium\, we explore the ways that time work might destabilize the remoteness of history &ndash\; its absence\, distance\, and neglect. How might we describe the work that transforms time into a weighted force that accumulates\, persists\, and can be carried forward\, often across generations? Through what actions is one accountable to the past? What does it mean to hold or carry an inheritance? In what ways are people indebted to those who came before\, and how might the living &ldquo\;pay the debts&rdquo\; that have accumulated over generations? What kinds of temporalities do different approaches to time work produce\, and what social relations are then enabled or foreclosed? Through these questions\, the symposium reflects on the entanglement of debt and history\, exploring debt as an enduring paradigm that variously informs intergenerational relations\, systems of oppression\, and historical justice.
\nWe particularly invite proposals that engage with voices and worldviews often marginalized or erased in dominant knowledge systems.
\nThat place of bad debt\, the invaluable thing
Economy is one of the technologies that captures time. Timework (or Zeitarbeit) is also a term for wage labour. Since the early 20th century\, Taylorism maximized the efficiency of labouring bodies\, in part\, by transforming work into monotonous\, repeatable tasks. In &ldquo\;Time\, Work-Discipline\, and Industrial Capitalism&rdquo\; (1967)\, E.P. Thompson analysed the industrial imposition of precise\, clock-based time measurements on human labour. In models of industrial labour\, debt accrues around &ldquo\;wasted time&rdquo\;.
Within time-as-economy\, time work can also be rendered into the kind of labour that expedites and standardizes\, and thus administrates of the past as the debts and inheritances of the present. But what does it mean to account for history as countable value? In The Undercommons (2013)\, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten provide a model for thinking about remoteness as an anti-efficient site of refuge within the economic capture of time where the &ldquo\;debtor seeks refuge among other debtors\,&rdquo\; engaging in practices that work in time to accumulate indebtedness without resolution. They write that\, &ldquo\;[t]his refuge\, this place of bad debt\, is what we call the fugitive public&rdquo\;. Harney and Moten draw from a history of debt wielded a tool of oppression to argue that refuge from debt informs black study and other practices of fugitive planning that first emerged among self-liberated slaves\, or maroon communities. And yet\,
\n[t]o creditors it is just a place where something is wrong\, though that something wrong &ndash\; the invaluable thing\, the thing that has no value &ndash\; is desired. Creditors seek to demolish that place\, that project\, in order to save the ones who live there from themselves and their lives.
\nExtractive states\, corporations\, and developers claim that communities are indebted to them for progress delivered and infrastructures that too often devalue precisely what is invaluable to those communities. While the economising of the past as debt informs important reparations processes\, heritage work\, and protections\, remoteness can also point us in another direction &ndash\; following in the footsteps of the fugitive. \;
\nHistorical Remoteness: Marooned and unmoored
At the seaside fishing village of Saulkrasti\, Latvia\, the ruins of the 1960s modernist catering establishment Restaurant Vārava stands marooned amidst the trees in a seaside forest. World War II refugees from Pskov and Leningrad\, who settled around Saulkrasti after Germans had driven them out of their homes\, are shown in photographs digging trenches for the Nazis in that same forest in 1944. An EU-funded project on Baltic military heritage has identified a German WWII bunker in a farmer&rsquo\;s field\, built with timber cut by refugee hands. Excavations flooded the bunker with groundwater and were reversed.
Saulkrasti&rsquo\;s ruins are perhaps not so monumental as Latvia&rsquo\;s famous Karosta Northern Forts\, falling into the sea\, but they speak just as eloquently to histories of loss\, survival\, forced migration\, fascism\, war\, and economic struggle within Europe&rsquo\;s Baltic &ldquo\;peripheries&rdquo\;. Like many communities along the North Sea and Baltic Rim\, Saulkrasti has been historically shaped by movements over water and its beach has since time immemorial provided a thoroughfare for fish\, trade\, language\, culture\, violence\, exchange\, and upheaval.
How can our time work engage with Saulkrasti as a place where time work is already going on? Hosted within the Nordic Summer University\, a mobile institution which holds symposia for interdisciplinary research at different sites throughout the Nordic and Baltic regions\, Studies in Remoteness invites proposals from all fields to our summer 2026 symposium\, and explicitly encourages practice-based and community-inclusive research that takes up the challenge of engaging directly with the site and the seaside\, and thus to thoughts that slip into the water with the maroon to contemplate and critique historical narratives of moorage\, abandonment\, and the uncertainty of being unmoored. What poetic and material threads connect Saulkrasti and Latvian histories to wider emotional and material legacies of remoteness as they flow across time and partake in the patterns of dependency\, exploitation\, and exclusion structured by legal and economic systems? We are particularly interested in work that draws the site into relations with the long and layered histories of the Baltic rim through ruptures and disruptions and in pasts that remain present &ndash\; not as something stable or settled &ndash\; but as partial\, affective\, and unresolved.
DETAILED INFORMATION ON SUMMER SESSION PRACTICALITIES
Place: Minhauzen Unda\, Ainažu iela 74\, Saulkrasti\, Latvia
Dates: 24 July &ndash\; 31 July 2026
The 2026 Summer Session gathers all study circles of the Nordic Summer University.
Participants arrive in the afternoon/evening on 24 July.
Summer session prices include housing and food (full room and board) for the week.
Cost for participants without institutional support (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
100 &euro\;: \; \; NSU Scholarship price for full room and board for the week in shared 4-bed rooms
700 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board\, bed in double room (shared with one other participant)
950 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board\, single room (not shared)
500 &euro\;: \; \; Camping with access to shared bathrooms with showers + breakfast\, lunch\, dinner\, and
\; \; \; \; \; \; snacks for the week.
Studies in Remoteness is working hard to fund the participation of those with financial need. Participants who need funding support should send in their proposal as early as possible and express this in their applications. Nordic Summer University also offers limited scholarships (by application). Additionally\, there are a number of travel/conference grants we can recommend to participants to apply to independently.
Cost for participants with institutional support (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
900&euro\;: \; \; Institutional price for PhDs/any room type
1250&euro\;: \; Institutional price for employed scholars/any room type
Participants with families (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
1000 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a double room for 1 adult and 1 child
1200 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a family room for 1 adult and 2 children
1500 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a family room for 2 adults and 1 child
1800 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board in a family room for 2 adults and 2 children
Attending children aged 4+ are welcome to join the Children&rsquo\;s circle\, with two circle coordinators who plan activities for the kids running the course of the week.
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Read more about Study Circle 1:
Studies in Remoteness is coordinated as a study circle within the Nordic Summer University by dance historian Dr. Lindsey Drury and artist Helena Hildur W\, in cooperation with &ndash\; among others &ndash\; team members Theol. Dr. Shiluinla Jamir\, Essi Nuutinen and Tinka Harvard.
Studies in Remoteness does foundational theoretical\, artistic\, and historical work toward initiating a new field of interdisciplinary research in critical remoteness studies. To unpack the geopolitical\, environmental\, and cultural dimensions of &lsquo\;remoteness&rsquo\; &ndash\; particularly\, in the circumpolar North &ndash\; we will center Indigenous scholarship and critiques of extractive colonialism\, as well as artistic and embodied approaches\, in a series of six symposia across the Baltic rim between 2026-2028.
The project turns its attention to the notion of &ldquo\;a place far away&rdquo\;&ndash\; be it the regional peripheries or cartographic borderlands between nation states\; the residential areas of Indigenous/minoritized communities\; historical testimonies and lacunae\; sub-cultural meeting spots or your neighbour&rsquo\;s kitchen. Theorizing modernity by turning to its so-called outskirts\, the project inquires sensoria of absence\, distance\, and neglect that have blossomed along the frontiers of colonial empires and sedimented among the margins of modern infrastructures of &ldquo\;global connectivity&rdquo\;. With lingering attention\, Studies in Remoteness intends to unsettle conditions of obscuring or exoticising &ndash\; resolutely acknowledging histories\, topographies and epistemologies with an eye to how these might come into &ldquo\;intense proximity&rdquo\;\, as coined by Okwui Enwezor. \;
As a three-year collaborative research project\, Studies in Remoteness brings together a network of scholars\, artists\, and activists to engage in community-based research practices. By establishing a co-creative space for community building and artistic practices &ndash\; open for the sharing of facts\, questions\, concerns and practices &ndash\; we believe that our work will prove enduringly relevant.
Studies in Remoteness Userblog at Freie Universitä\;t Berlin:
https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/remoteness/
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:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T180000 SUMMARY:Philosophia Reformata special issue "Faith\, Philosophy\, and AI" UID:20260625T091658Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers Special Issue Philosophia Reformata
\nJournal: \;Philosophia Reformata (www.brill.com/phir)
\nSpecial issue: Faith\, Philosophy\, and Artificial Intelligence
\nGuest editors: Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken (Eindhoven University of Technology\; The Netherlands Defence Academy) and Maaike Harmsen (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
\nDeadline: Papers (5\,000&ndash\;9\,000 words) may be submitted through the journal&rsquo\;s website until 31 July 2026
\nArtificial intelligence (AI) has received much attention over the last decade\, not only from those working in computer science\, who saw a swift advancement in existing AI models and architectures\, but also from investors who spur the development and uptake of AI in various professions\, as well as from ethicists seeking to address ethical issues relating to AI development and use. Typical approaches include the listing of principles for responsible use and development of AI\, principles such as fairness\, transparency\, explainability\, and accountability.
\nLess attention\, however\, has been paid to philosophical issues as they relate to reasoning about AI\, including the religious assumptions that inform normative positions toward its use and development. What do we mean when we say we are developing or using &ldquo\;artificial intelligence&rdquo\;? What existential need gives rise to the demand for AI ethics and regulation? Rather than adding to the multiplicity of existing definitions and ethical stances\, this special issue seeks to unpack philosophical presuppositions\, metaphysical assumptions\, and religious commitments that explicitly or implicitly inform AI debates. We invite authors who discuss AI from either Christian or other religious philosophical perspectives. Relevant topics include ontological\, epistemological\, metaphysical\, and other philosophical questions and issues regarding AI in general&mdash\;for example:
\nIn addition\, authors may discuss specific &ldquo\;manifestations&rdquo\; of AI\, such as large or small language models\, AI decision support systems\, AI vision detection and classification tools\, video-generating AI\, agentic AI\, and GenAI.
\nFor more information\, please contact the editorial assistant\, Mathanja Berger: mathanja@bergeracademicediting.nl.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T234500 SUMMARY:Nonsense in Language and Thought UID:20260625T091659Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Title:
\nNonsense in Language and Thought
\nGuest editor:
\nKrystian Bogucki (Polish Academy of Sciences)
\nJournal:
\nStudia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies)
\nhttps://studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/
\nDeadline for submissions:
\nthe 1st of May 2026
\nDescription
\nStudia Semiotyczne \;(Semiotic Studies) \;invites submissions for a special issue of the journal. Papers should be written in English and prepared for blind review.
\nAn interest in nonsense was a hallmark of the early analytic philosophy. Bertrand Russell (1908) thought that a theory of nonsense could help us avoid some daunting paradoxes in logic. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1922\, 1953) and Rudolf Carnap (1931) recognised nonsense as a fundamental concept for philosophical criticism. They claimed that much of philosophical discourse is defective in the most fundamental way: it is neither true nor false\, it does not consist of thoughts and propositions &ndash\; it is nonsense. According to the early Wittgenstein\, philosophers want to describe the nature of the world\, thought\, language and ethics\, but they unwittingly fall into nonsense. The \;Tractatus \;was supposed to free us from this troublesome position by presenting a perspicuous notation. On the other hand\, the later Wittgenstein claimed that we should compare deceptive philosophical images with our ordinary ways of thinking and speaking in order to avoid nonsense. Philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday\, so we must always remember the everyday use of concepts. For Carnap\, propositions should be reducible to sense data and constructed according to the rules of logical syntax in order to be meaningful.
\nLater\, the topic of nonsense was discussed by Alfred Ayer\, Gilbert Ryle\, Willard V. O. Quine\, Arthur Prior\, Richard Routley and Georg H. von Wright\, among others. Since the late 1970s\, however\, the interest in nonsense has faded. Only recently\, some important works have been published. The first important stimulus came from foundational works on theories of nonsense (Cappelen 2012\, 2013\; Camp 2004\; Glock 2015\; Magidor 2009\, 2013). The second source of the revival of interest in nonsense was Wittgenstein scholarship on the austere and substantial conceptions of nonsense (Conant 2001\; Diamond 1995\, 2005\; Glock 2004\; Hacker 2003\; Moore 2003\; Sullivan 2003). Some works also examined the relation of nonsense to other phenomena (Gotham 2017\, Keller and Keller 2021\, Shaw 2015\, Sorensen 2003).
\nThe important questions to be addressed in the forthcoming volume are (to name but a few): What are the sources of nonsense? Are some parts of philosophical and non-philosophical discourse nonsense? What is the relation between nonsense and figurative speech? Is it at all possible to be wrong whether our own thoughts are meaningful? We hope that the special issue of \;Studia Semiotyczne \;will further strengthen and deepen the scholarly interest in nonsense.
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nTheories of nonsense
\nNonsense and logical syntax
\nNonsense and category mistakes
\nNonsense and figurative speech (e.g. metaphor\, metonymy)
\nNonsense and fiction
\nHistory of the concept of nonsense (in particular Wittgenstein's and the Vienna Circle's views on nonsense)
\nNonsense and understanding
\nNonsense and illusions of sense
\nNonsense and quantification
\nNonsense and linguistics
\nNonsense and ineffability
\nNonsense\, knowledge-how and knowledge-that
\nLogics of nonsense
\nNonsense and semantic paradoxes
\nHow to diagnose philosophical nonsense?
\nMetaphilosophical and methodological issues concerning nonsense
\nIn order to submit the paper\, one is kindly asked to submit the manuscript by sending it to:
\nkrystian.bogucki@ifispan.edu.pl \;and \;studiasemiotyczne@pts.edu.pl
\nAll submitted papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
\nAbout the journal:
\nStudia Semiotyczne \;(Semiotic Studies) is a journal founded in 1970 by Jerzy Pelc\, its editor-in-chief until 2015. Between 1970 and 2015\, \;Studia Semiotyczne \;was published non-periodically (during that period\, 29 volumes were published). In December 2015\, \;Studia Semiotyczne \;was transformed into a six-monthly print and Internet publication. Papers accepted for publication in the journal revolve around various aspects of semiotics (conceived in the Morris-Carnap sense) and philosophy. Papers submitted as articles are subject to a double-blind peer review. \;Studia Semiotyczne \;is an open-access journal published by The Polish Semiotic Society (Polskie Towarzystwo Semiotyczne).
\nThe journal is present in \;Academica\, \;BazHum\, \;CEEOL\, \;CEJSH\, \;DOAJ\, EBSCO Discovery Service\, \;ERIH Plus\, \;Index Copernicus\, \;Library of Science\, Philosopher&rsquo\;s Index\, \;PhilPapers\, \;Polona\, \;Scopus \;and Web of Science. The journal is also ranked by the following national agencies for scholarly evaluation:
\n- ANVUR (Italy): both as a scientific journal and as an A-Class (area 11)\,
\n- MEiN (Poland).
\nhttps://studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T234500 SUMMARY:13th Biennial Graduate Epistemology Conference\, University of Rochester UID:20260625T091700Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Rochester\, United States DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speaker
\nMichael G. Titelbaum\, University of Wisconsin-Madison
\nConference Details
\nThe University of Rochester Department of Philosophy invites graduate students to submit to the 13th Biennial Graduate Epistemology Conference. We welcome submissions in the field of analytic epistemology\, broadly construed. Such submissions can include papers that address epistemological issues in philosophy of science\, ethics\, philosophy of mind\, philosophy of language\, philosophy of religion\, or metaphysics.
\nSubmission Details
\nPaper length: 3\,500 words\, excluding notes and references.
\nPapers should be prepared for 30 minute presentations.
\nAbstract: 200 words or fewer.
\nFormat: PDF only.
\nPapers should be suitable for blind review: please omit any self-identifying marks within the body of the paper.
\nSubmission Deadline: July 31\, 2026\, 11:59 PM
\nSubmission can be made using this form: https://forms.gle/Co4MLMugM6b8C12u6
\nWe plan to send out notices of acceptance to the conference by Sept. 2\, 2026.
\nContact
\nFor questions\, comments\, and concerns\, please message the organizers at rochestergec@gmail.com.
ORGANIZER;CN=Harry Golborn;CN=Adam DeDobbelaere;CN=Evan Lopes;CN=Zane Duzant: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260827T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260828T170000 SUMMARY:Just Theorising 2026 UID:20260625T091701Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Leeds\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Main Event: \;27th \;August 2026
\nOptional \;Additional Session: \;28th \;August 2026
\nCall for participants deadline: \;Sunday 10th \;May \;23:59 GMT
\nTheme
\nMany of us theorise about groups to which we do not belong\, and about issues which seriously impact groups to which we do not belong. In this workshop we will explore questions around how this theorising should be done\, and whether/when such research should be avoided. \;
\nJust Theorising is a reading workshop on responsible and responsive philosophical research. Participants will discuss the epistemological and methodological issues surrounding theorising across social difference.
\nParticipants will discuss texts from social epistemology\, applied ethics\, and by marginalised people writing outside academia &ndash\; all \;of which suggest ways to approach (or not to approach) \;theorising across social difference. \;
\nOur aim is to improve our \;philosophical \;practice by thinking together. \;By approaching these questions collaboratively and openly\, we hope to improve the philosophical and ethical quality of \;our \;future work. \;
\nFormat
\nThis workshop involves one full day of discussions\, and an optional collaborative session the following morning. \;
\nThe main event \;will involve a series of \;reading-group-style sessions\, where participants discuss existing texts on workshop themes. \; \;
On the second day\, the organiser will be holding an optional session\, where we will design an online resource to aid others who want to investigate these issues themselves or organise similar events.
How to participate
\nBecause this workshop is discussion-based\, we are limited to 20 attendees. This means that if we have more than 20 interested \;applicants \;we will need to say &lsquo\;yes&rsquo\; \;to some applicants and &lsquo\;no&rsquo\; to others. \;We hope that we \;won&rsquo\;t \;have to turn anyone away\, but if we do\, this will be decided \;based on \;who will get the most out of the workshop \;(not \;who is the most successful philosopher!). \;Therefore\, we ask applicants to \;state \;why the workshop is appealing to them\, and how they feel it will be useful to them. \;We are looking for an honest statement of how the workshop might support your work\, we are not looking for \;competitive statements of \;academic credentials. \;
\nWe \;realise that while most participants are likely to be people \;doing \;theorising across social difference\, \;some participants might be writing on the issue of theorising across social difference \;itself. \;Therefore\, please let us know \;if \;you&rsquo\;d \;be interested in a work-in-progress session \;for this kind of research\, either as part of this event or as a future event.
\nAccess Information
\nThis event was made possible by the Leverhulme Trust\, thanks to them for funding \;an \;Early Career Research Fellowship which includes this project. This event \;revives the approach and goals of a 2018 event of the same name\, organised by Nadia Mehdi and Rosa Vince. \;Thank you to Nadia for her hard work in the original workshop.
\nOrganising team: Rosa Vince\, Alethea Choo\, Anne-Marie McCallion\, Leonie Smith
\nIf you have any questions about this workshop\, please contact Dr Rosa Vince at r.vince@leeds.ac.uk
ORGANIZER;CN=Rosa Vince;CN=Leonie Smith;CN=Anne-Marie McCallion: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260831T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260831T120000 SUMMARY:Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical UID:20260625T091702Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Rämistr. 71\, Zürich\, Switzerland\, 8006 DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts on Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical (University of Zurich\, 18th-20th February 2027)
\nWe invite the submission of extended abstracts (but no longer than 1000 words) for presentations at the international conference on &ldquo\;Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical&rdquo\; that takes place at the University of Zurich from 18th to 20th February 2027. The abstracts should be sent to sebastian.schmidt@uzh.ch until August 31st 2026.
\nThe conference will host a series of renowned experts from ethics and epistemology to discuss the role of relational normativity across philosophical disciplines. If your talk gets accepted\, travel expenses\, including up to three nights at a central hotel in Zurich\, flight and train tickets\, as well as lunch and dinner\, will be covered. We also plan a follow-up project such as an edited volume with a major publisher or a special issue for an academic journal. Accepted talks will be invited as contributions to this follow-up project.
\nA recent trend in epistemology is to borrow ethical concepts to think about epistemic normativity. Maybe most notably\, the concept of epistemic injustice is meant to track the wrong that is done to someone in their capacity as a knower (Fricker 2007). More recently\, the idea that there is something we epistemically owe to each other (cf. Basu 2019) is taking hold. Epistemologists defend the idea that there is a distinctively epistemic kind of accountability and blame (Kauppinen 2018\; Brown 2020\; Boult 2020\; 2024)\, that we expect each other to meet our epistemic obligations to believe or know (Goldberg 2018)\, and that we owe epistemic redress (Hull 2019)\, atonement (Woodard 2023)\, or reparations (Altanian 2022\; Lackey 2022) to those we epistemically wronged\, who might then decide to epistemically forgive us (Green 2024). This has led some epistemologists to propose more fundamentally social meta-epistemologies (Dyke 2022\; Fleisher 2024\; Hannon &\; Woodard 2025)\, even proposing that epistemic normativity has relational foundations (Boult 2024).
\nWhile epistemologists take inspiration from the work of ethicists to develop their ideas on epistemic relationality\, the above literature develops largely in isolation from broader engagement with the recent ethical discussions on the relational structure of morality. Relational ethics has focused mostly on the explanation of our moral obligations to one another\, where obligations are typically understood as the correlates of rights or similar claims. To be under a moral obligation\, on this view\, is to be under a directed or second-personal duty to another person which is constitutively connected to the claim-right that this person has on you (e.g. Darwall 2006\, Wallace 2019\, Zylberman 2021). The relational understanding of morality illuminates the social significance of morality and the commonly held assumption that morality is grounded in relations of accountability and that moral wrongness warrants blame.
\nThe pioneering work and ongoing research by ethicists should be studied closely for the transposition of ethical concepts into epistemology to be intelligible and bear philosophical fruit. The aim of this conference is to bring together these two perspectives with a focus on discussing foundational issues surrounding relational normativity. Questions that will be discussed may include the following:
\nSpeakers who accepted our invitation to present at the conference include:
\nWe are very much looking forward to receiving your abstracts\,
\nJonas Vandieken (LMU Munich) &\; Sebastian Schmidt (University of Zurich)
\nThis conference is part of the Swiss National Science Foundation project on Relational Epistemology (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/223891).
\n\;Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical &ndash\; ZEGRa
ORGANIZER;CN=Sebastian Schmidt;CN=Jonas Vandieken: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260903T170000 SUMMARY:Fourth Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology UID:20260625T091703Z-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:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260902T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260904T170000 SUMMARY:British Society for the Theory of Knowledge Biennial Conference 2026 UID:20260625T091704Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Walton St\, Oxford\, United Kingdom\, OX1 2HG DESCRIPTION:The British Society for the Theory of Knowledge is a registered charity (SC050235) dedicated to furthering philosophical research in epistemology.
\nEvery two years\, the British Socitey for the Theory of Knowledge holds a major conference on themes in epistemology. For more information about the BSTK and previous conferences\, see here: \;https://bstk.org.uk/events.html \;
\nCall for Abstracts
\nBSTK invites contributions to the conference.
\nEligibility
\nThe call for abstracts is open to philosophers at all career stages. \;
\nSubmission details
\nPlease submit a title and abstract (400-500 words\, \;suitable for blind review) \;to \;info@bstk.org.uk.
\n\;Abstract submission deadline:
\n30 April 2026
\n\;Notification of result:
\n30 May 2026
\nRegistration
\nOpen. Participation in the conference is conditional on paying a registration fee of £\;240. Payments can be made via this link: https://bstk.org.uk/bstk-biennial-conference.html Deadline: August 15 2026. The registration fee covers coffee/tea\, lunches\, and drinks receptions for all conference days\, as well as the conference dinner (September 2nd\, Dining Hall\, Exeter College\, Turl Street). Registered participants also benefit from access to booking College accommodation in Oxford as special\, low rates (approx. £\;80/night). \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Bernhard Salow;CN=Mona Simion: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023317Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260902T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260904T170000 SUMMARY:MANCEPT Workshop - Epistemic Injustice and Backlash UID:20260625T091705Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Manchester\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:MANCEPT Workshop - Epistemic Injustice and Backlash: Call for Abstracts \; Recent years have been characterized by significant backlash to progressive social movements and social changes such as the #MeToo movement\, the Black Lives Matter movement\, and the increased visibility of trans people in public life. Dimensions to this backlash include the electoral &ndash\; i.e.\, the rise of far-right political parties\; the legal &ndash\; legislation\, executive orders and judicial decisions e.g. overturning rights to abortion and gender-affirming healthcare\, banning affirmative action and DEI initiatives\, and excluding trans people from participation in sport\; and the necropolitical &ndash\; e.g. the misogynistic murder of René\;e Good and the rising tide of anti-trans violence. A further important dimension to this backlash is the epistemic &ndash\; e.g. the widespread repudiation of the testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Amber Heard\, the ridiculing of slogans such as &lsquo\;defund the police&rsquo\;\, and the growing dissemination of myths and disinformation concerning trans people. This dimension to the backlash has recently begun to receive philosophical attention\, with aspects of it being theorized variously as 'hermeneutical backlash' (George &\; Goguen 2021)\, 'hermeneutical sabotage' (Edgoose 2024)\, and 'hermeneutical disarmament' (Morgan 2025) &ndash\; all phenomena thought either to constitute or to result in epistemic injustices. It has also been argued that previously proposed strategies for preventing epistemic injustices are frequently ineffective when confronted by backlash\, prompting a search for other strategies which might be pursued more effectively towards this end (Clanchy forthcoming). Much work on epistemic injustice and backlash remains to be done\, however &ndash\; especially in light of the epistemic injustice literature&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;methodological commitment to the primacy of the nonideal&rsquo\; (Medina 2013: 11). The aim of this workshop is to provide a space for the development of such work.
We invite submissions of abstracts of up to 500 words to a MANCEPT workshop on this topic. Abstracts should be submitted by \;May 1st \;and should be sent to \;han.edgoose@glasgow.ac.uk
Questions that papers may address include\, but are not limited to:
&bull\;How is the epistemic dimension related to other dimensions of backlash?
&bull\;To what kinds of epistemic injustice does backlash give rise? What strategies can be most effectively pursued to prevent epistemic injustices in times of backlash? What kinds of epistemic agency can be exercised by members of targeted groups (Pohlhaus 2020)?
&bull\;Does 'epistemic injustice' (Fricker 2007) in fact provide an adequate framework for thinking about these issues? What about these issues might this framework miss or distort but the frameworks provided by e.g. 'epistemic oppression' (Dotson 2014) or 'epistemologies of ignorance' (Mills 2007) capture?
&bull\;How should previous work on epistemic injustice and e.g. the #MeToo movement (e.g. Jackson 2018) or the Black Lives Matter movement (e.g. Anderson 2017) be developed or rethought in light of the current backlash?
&bull\;What practical lessons can be drawn for the present moment from a study of the epistemic dimension of previous backlashes (e.g. Faludi 1991)?
&bull\;Who bears responsibility\, in both backward- and forward-looking senses (Young 2011)\, for the epistemic dimension of backlash?
&bull\;How can thinking about epistemic injustice and backlash inform methodological debates concerning the relative merits of ideal and nonideal theory? \; The panel will take place in-person at the University of Manchester\, between September 2nd \;and September 4th \;2026. Further details about the MANCEPT workshops can be
found here: \;MANCEPT Workshops 2026 - Research Explorer The University of Manchester \; Han Edgoose and Nick Clanchy (organisers) \;
While both Hume and Spinoza have been claimed as paradigmatic naturalists\, it is far from clear that they are naturalists in the same sense. Further\, it is not obvious that the label applies to either without qualification. Spinoza&rsquo\;s and Hume&rsquo\;s projects moved in markedly different directions\, so we propose a workshop with the aim of examining what is at stake in calling either thinker a naturalist.
\nBy placing Spinoza and Hume in conversation on this topic\, the conference seeks to illuminate two distinct (purported) strands of early modern naturalism: one expansive and metaphysical\, the other cautious and anthropological. Are these differences merely a matter of emphasis and scale\, or do they represent fundamentally incompatible conceptions of nature and its significance? Does calling them naturalists collapse their distinct philosophies into a single tradition? And what\, if anything\, is gained by framing the early modern naturalist field in terms of &ldquo\;Spinozist&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;Humean&rdquo\; trajectories rather than the more traditional &ldquo\;rationalist&rdquo\; vs. &ldquo\;empiricist&rdquo\; divide?
\nWe want to revisit early modern naturalism\, not merely as a retrospective label\, but as a philosophical option characterised by contested outlines. Contributors are invited to explore these and related questions for the purpose of critically reevaluating the categories through which early modern thought is often organised\, and reimagining naturalism as a central thread both connecting and dividing the period&rsquo\;s major figures.
ORGANIZER;CN=David Harmon;CN=Tamas Demeter: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260910T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260911T170000 SUMMARY:The Given UID:20260625T091707Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Karen Blixens Plads 8\, Copenhagen\, Denmark\, 2300 DESCRIPTION:Perceptual experiences seem to present\, make manifest\, or &lsquo\;give&rsquo\; the world to us. Such experiences have &lsquo\;presentational phenomenology&rsquo\;\, or &lsquo\;presentational feel&rsquo\;\; they seem to offer &lsquo\;scene immediacy&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;givenness in-the-flesh&rsquo\;. And perhaps perceptual experiences are not unique in this regard: similar expressions have been used to articulate\, for instance\, mathematical intuitions\, and certain religious experiences. However\, most attempts to characterize presentational phenomenology revolve around striking yet unexplained metaphors. The aim of this conference is to move beyond metaphor\, exploring presentational phenomenology in a variety of different contexts and from a variety of different perspectives\, including epistemology\, philosophy of perception\, philosophy of religion\, psychopathology\, and VR research.
ORGANIZER;CN="Søren Overgaard";CN=Laura Oppi;CN="Kasper Møller Nielsen";CN=Mads G. Henriksen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260911T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop “What is Good Reasoning?” UID:20260625T091708Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Bern\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:The aim of the workshop is to investigate the nature of good reasoning and its place within the normative domain. We will explore how good reasoning should be understood and how it relates to other central normative notions\, such as reasons\, ought\, value\, and fittingness. The workshop seeks to foster discussion of questions including: What are the norms and aims of reasoning? Can we explain what it means to reason well in terms of other normative or non-normative notions? And what roles do normative reasons play in good reasoning?
ORGANIZER;CN=David Lussi;CN="Andreas Müller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260911T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260911T090000 SUMMARY:Special Issue of the Journal of Philosophy in Schools: Aesthetic Education UID:20260625T091709Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Journal of Philosophy in Schools (JPS) is seeking articles for inclusion in a special issue entitled Aesthetic Education and Philosophy in Schools.
\nAesthetic education is often treated as a concern of the arts curriculum alone &mdash\; a matter of what happens in the music room\, the drama studio\, or the visual arts classroom. Yet the claim that education has an aesthetic dimension is older and broader than this narrower usage suggests. From Schiller's argument that beauty is the condition under which the human being becomes whole\, to Dewey's insistence that aesthetic experience is not a separate domain but the consummatory quality of any experience undergone with attention\, to Maxine Greene's reminder that imagination is the passport to the "as if\," the tradition has long held that the aesthetic is implicated wherever learners are asked to perceive carefully\, feel responsively\, and judge with discernment.
\nThis raises questions that sit close to the heart of philosophy in schools. What is the relationship between aesthetic experience and the formation of judgment? Can the school\, which often prioritizes reasoning and dialogue\, also be understood as a site of aesthetic formation &mdash\; a place where attention\, receptivity\, and imaginative response are cultivated alongside argument? If so\, how might practitioners understand what they are already doing\, and what further possibilities might open up? Finally\, how might these questions be addressed using philosophical pedagogies?
\nThis special issue invites contributions that examine the intersection of aesthetic education and philosophy with school-aged children\, across and beyond the arts curriculum. We welcome submissions from various philosophical traditions\, as well as historical recoveries of figures whose work remains generative for contemporary practice. We particularly welcome scholars who approach aesthetics in a crossdisciplinary way &ndash\; calling upon figures from various traditions to formulate their philosophical argument. \;
\nPapers could address the following questions or pursue additional lines of inquiry:
\nThe Facilitator as Artist: How might the role of the teacher or facilitator in a philosophical inquiry be understood as an aesthetic practice or performance?
\nEmbodiment &\; Environment (Place &\; Play): What is the relationship between aesthetic experience\, physical play\, and embodied cognition in philosophical inquiry? How do the physical classroom environment\, outdoor settings\, or digital spaces influence the aesthetic dimension of philosophical inquiry with children?
\nThe Role of Attention\, Perception\, and/or Imagination: What role does aesthetic attention\, perception\, or imagination play in philosophical inquiry with children\, and how might this be cultivated? How can the school be a place for aesthetic philosophical practice\, and what would such a reframing change in pedagogical terms?
\nEducative Aesthetic Experience: What distinguishes an aesthetic experience that is genuinely educative from one that is merely pleasant\, passive\, or even distracting within the context of philosophical inquiry? How can aesthetics be engaged without instrumentalizing works of art?
\nEducating the Aesthetic Dimension: What does it mean to educate the aesthetic dimension of a young person's experience or cultivate aesthetic sensibility\, and how does this differ from\, or complement\, the cultivation of critical reasoning?
\nCreative Thinking and Aesthetics: How does "creative thinking" function within philosophical inquiry with children\, and what is its relationship to critical and caring thinking? How might an aesthetic perspective illuminate the distinctiveness of creative thinking and its compatibility with critical reasoning in philosophical dialogue?
\nAesthetics and Flourishing: In what ways do aesthetic experiences in the philosophy classroom foster a sense of meaning\, connection\, and student growth? What specific qualities\, structures\, or pedagogical conditions must an aesthetic experience possess to facilitate philosophical learning and student growth? How does engaging the aesthetic dimension within philosophical inquiry contribute to student well-being\, eudaimonia\, and the holistic flourishing of the child?
\nTheoretically-Grounded Aesthetic Intuition: What theoretical resources are needed to make sense of practitioner intuitions that the best philosophy classrooms have an aesthetic quality that exceeds their argumentative content?
\nEmpirical Research and Implications: How do aesthetic considerations bear on ethical\, civic\, and epistemic education\, and what are the implications for classroom practice? How might empirical research illuminate the presence and significance of aesthetic experience in classroom philosophical dialogue? \;
\nDiverse Aesthetic Traditions: What can non-Western aesthetic traditions or Indigenous perspectives on beauty and experience bring to philosophy in schools? What aesthetic injustices have occurred because of the emphasis on beauty and other Western aesthetic traditions? What barriers to entry are generated by the perceived &ldquo\;gatekeeping&rdquo\; of Western concepts of aesthetics? \;
\nWe invite extended abstracts (500-700 words) to be considered for inclusion in this special issue. Please include a brief bio indicating any relevant affiliations.
\nProcedures and Timelines
\nYour extended abstract and proposed title\, along with your name\, affiliation\, and bios\, should be submitted via email to the guest editors: Rebecca Taylor (rt2904@tc.columbia.edu) and Michael Quinn (m.quinn2@research.gla.ac.uk).
\nAbstracts due: Friday\, September 11\, 2026. Authors will be notified by early October 2026 as to whether their submission has been accepted.
\nFull papers (4000-6000 words)will be due February 1\, 2027\, for double-blind peer review. \;
\nAuthor Guidelines can be found here:https://jps.bham.ac.uk/about/submissions/
\nJPS is a peer-reviewed\, open-access online journal dedicated to research in philosophy with school-aged children. This special issue will be published in the June/July or \; November/December 2027.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260911T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260912T170000 SUMMARY:18th Midwest Epistemology Workshop UID:20260625T091710Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:The Ohio State University\, Columbus\, United States ORGANIZER;CN=Declan Smithies: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260915T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260917T170000 SUMMARY:Critical Political Epistemology UID:20260625T091711Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Freiburg\, Germany\, 79098 DESCRIPTION:International conference organized by \;the Professorship for Epistemology &\; Theory of Science (University of Freiburg)\, in collaboration with the Critical Political Epistemology Network (CPEN).
\nQuestions about the political and social dimensions of knowledge production have been ubiquitous throughout the history of philosophy. In recent years\, they have regained prominence under the label of &ldquo\;political epistemology.&rdquo\; Most recently\, much of the work explicitly framed as political epistemology has emerged from analytic philosophy\, with the underlying assumption that contemporary political issues can be reduced to analytic questions regarding the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge. This literature often failedto engage appropriately with feminist epistemology and philosophy of science\, critical theory\, de-colonial/post-colonial theory\, and Foucauldian approaches &ndash\; traditions that have long explored political-epistemological questions from diverse and influential perspectives. This conference aims to recentre these approaches within contemporary debates in political epistemology. We explicitly invite work that explores political epistemology from an empirically-grounded inter- and transdisciplinary perspective\, engaging with critical knowledge projects that question arbitrary hierarchies and work towards liberatory epistemological theories\, epistemic practices and systems.
\nConfirmed keynote speakers include:
\nMore details TBA \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260925T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260925T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy\, Evidence and Policymaking UID:20260625T091714Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Rijnstraat 50\, Den Haag\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:This workshop brings together researchers working on the theory and philosophy of science and evidence in policymaking as well as practitioners such as knowledge-brokers\, policymakers and policy advisors. It is organised by researchers at University of Antwerp\, University of Groningen and the VU Amsterdam in collaboration with the Science for Policy project at the Netherlands&rsquo\; Ministry of Education\, Culture &\; Science.
\nThe workshop is aimed at both early-career and senior researchers who are interested in the theory and the practice of evidence generation for and use in policymaking and the interaction between science and policy. This field of research addresses questions such as: What type of evidence should one use to develop policies? What should the role of scientific advisors be in policymaking? Does it make sense to rank evidence in hierarchies? How should policymakers deal with scientific expert disagreement? What does an appropriate role for non-epistemic values look like in evidence and science for policy?
\nWe invite you to send abstracts on the abovementioned topics\, as well as on related ones. Abstracts should:
\nNot exceed 300 words (references excluded)\;
\nBe sent in an anonymised document to the following email address: ebpolicy.network@gmail.com\;
\nBe suitable for a 30-minute presentation (+15 minutes of Q&\;A)\;
\nBe sent by the deadline: 15 July 2026 (notification of acceptance on 1 August 2026)\;
\nParticipation in the workshop without sending an abstract is possible by filling out the registration form no later than 15 August 2026. \;
\nThe first part of the workshop will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Donal Khosrowi (University of Hannover) and\, after\, presentations of the selected abstracts. After the lunch break\, the second part of the workshop will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Jaakko Kuosmanen (Finnish Academy of Science and Letters) and structured dialogues in break-out groups with practitioners\, aimed at making participants reflect together on various topics related to evidence and policy.
\nMoreover\, the workshop aims to encourage interaction between researchers and practitioners. Therefore\, the workshop will also include sessions in which there is structured dialogue between participating researchers and practitioners from the Netherlands&rsquo\; government.
\nQuestions can be sent to \;ebpolicy.network@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Geertjan Holtrop;CN=Kato Van Roey;CN=Helena R. Slanickova: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 SUMMARY:Argumenta: THE EPISTEMIC INJUSTICE RESEARCH PROGRAMME: DEGENERATIVE OR PROGRESSIVE? UID:20260625T091715Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The notion of epistemic injustice introduced by Miranda Fricker in 2007 raised interest in the harmful effects of prejudice within analytic philosophy and beyond. It inspired various projects linking ethics and epistemology. The notion\, originally used to capture the epistemic disadvantage that people experience for their race or gender\, has been applied to an increasing number of domains.
\nIn recent years\, several objections have been raised to the application of epistemic injustice. Here are some of the issues discussed in the literature:
\nIn this topical collection\, we gather contributions to the debate about the strengths and limitations of the epistemic injustice research programme.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261002T170000 SUMMARY:1st Critical AI Safety Workshop UID:20260625T091716Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Copenhagen\, Denmark DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to bring together scholars from different disciplines who are working to characterize\, map\, and critique the field of AI Safety and AI Existential Risk research. \;
\nMain questions include\, but are not limited to:
- What is the landscape of AI safety and existential risk communities and research\, and what are the tensions within those?
- Can AI safety or AI existential risk be described as an ideology?
- What assumptions about cognitive science\, economics\, sociology\, society\, or power\, amongst others\, underlie and confound AI Safety?
- What are the formal methods of the field\, and how can they be improved?
- What are the funding flows in the field? How easy is it for individuals to receive funding\, and what factors are considered in funding decisions?
- What policy proposals does the AI safety community lobby for\, and through what channels?
- How is the community established\, what are their recruiting strategies\, and what makes them so successful?
- How tightly interlinked is the research philosophy with other non-scientific fields\, like science fiction\, hype\, speculation\, and imagination?
\; For more information\, please see the CfP: \;https://philevents.org/event/show/149737
ORGANIZER;CN=Ninell Oldenburg;CN=Nina Rajcic;CN="Anders Søgaard";CN=Bokar N'Diaye;CN=Filippos Stamatiou: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261002T170000 SUMMARY:Future of Forecasting: Collective and Artificial Intelligence UID:20260625T091717Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Terminal 2\, Rijeka\, Croatia\, 51000 DESCRIPTION:Future of Forecasting: Collective and Artificial Intelligence Workshop
\nThe workshop brings together experts across multiple disciplines &mdash\; cognitive science\, social science\, behavioural economics\, and the humanities &mdash\; to explore the evolving role of forecasting in the coming age of artificial intelligence.
\nA central theme is the concept of collective intelligence and wisdom of crowd &mdash\; the idea that the aggregated judgments of groups can outperform individuals\, even the experts. This underpins modern applications such as prediction markets\, political forecasting\, and large-scale decision systems.
\nA key topic of the workshop will be the integration of AI into forecasting processes as well as decision-making processes in general. While AI has the potential to democratize forecasting and decision-making tools and enhance predictive accuracy\, it also raises important questions about information diversity\, bias\, and reliability. The workshop will feature distinguished researchers\, including:
\nThe workshop will also feature a keynote by Themistoklis P. Sapsis\, MIT &mdash\; William I. Koch Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering\; Director of the Center for Ocean Engineering.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261005T113000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261130T170000 SUMMARY:Computational Social Philosophy of AI Seminars (CSPAIS 2026) UID:20260625T091718Z-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:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261006T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261007T170000 SUMMARY:The Nature of Social Identities: Metaphysics\, Epistemology\, and Politics UID:20260625T091719Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Arna Nováka 1\, Brno \, Czech Republic\, 60200 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Philosophy\, Faculty of Arts\, Masaryk University in Brno\, Czech Republic\, invites submissions for a conference on the metaphysical and epistemological foundations of social identities\, organised within the research project Identity Politics: Metaphysics and Epistemology.
\nConference Theme
\nIn recent decades\, political and social debates have increasingly focused on identity-based groups defined by characteristics such as race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, disability\, class\, religion\, or age. These developments have generated extensive discussion in political philosophy and social theory. However\, many of the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions underlying identity politics remain insufficiently examined.
\nThis conference aims to investigate the nature\, constitution\, and epistemic role of social identities. In particular\, we seek to explore the mechanisms through which identities emerge as robust social and political entities\, and the ways in which identity-related features&mdash\;such as lived experience\, self-identification\, social recognition\, and shared narratives&mdash\;contribute to their formation and persistence. \;
\nAnother central aim is to examine whether different identities (for example\, race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, or class) are constituted through similar or distinct metaphysical and epistemic mechanisms. Comparative approaches that analyse similarities and differences across identities are especially welcome. \;
\nThe conference will also address the epistemological aspects of social identities\, including questions concerning situated knowledge\, epistemic authority\, intersectionality\, and conflicts among different socially situated perspectives.
\nTopics
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nMetaphysics of Social and Political Identities
\nEpistemology of Social Identity
\nSubmissions from metaphysics\, epistemology\, social philosophy\, feminist philosophy\, philosophy of race\, and related areas are welcome.
\nKeynote speaker: Kristina Rolin (Tampere University)
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPlease submit an anonymous abstract of 400&ndash\;500 words.
\nThe submission should be attached to the email in .pdf format and prepared for blind review. Please include the following information separately in the body of the email: your name(s)\, affiliation(s)\, contact information\, the title of your talk.
\nImportant Dates
\nConference Details
\nSubmission
\nPlease send submissions to: belohrad@phil.muni.cz
\nContact
\nFor inquiries\, please contact: Radim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. (belohrad@phil.muni.cz)
\nOrganizing committee
\nRadim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. \;
\nZdeňka Jastrzembská\;\, Ph.D. \;
\nMarek Picha\, Ph.D.
\nDagmar Pichová\;\, Ph.D.
ORGANIZER;CN=Radim Belohrad: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260624T023318Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 SUMMARY:Arkete: Philosophy of Perception: Representation\, Reality\, and Cognitive Structure UID:20260625T091720Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Arkete
\nSpecial Issue 2025
\nPhilosophy of Perception: Representation\, Reality\, and Cognitive Structure
\nEditors: Mariano Bianca (University of Siena) and Paolo Piccari (University of Siena)
\nPhilosophical reflection on perception has returned to the centre of contemporary debates in philosophy of mind\, epistemology\, and metaphysics. Questions concerning perceptual content\, representational structure\, and the relation between experience and reality have gained renewed prominence in light of current discussions on cognition\, conceptual capacities\, and the epistemic role of perception.
\nAt the same time\, the field remains divided between competing models: representationalist accounts\, relational theories\, disjunctivism\, and naturalistic approaches that attempt to explain perception through cognitive or computational frameworks. These debates raise a deeper philosophical question: whether perception should be understood primarily as an internal mental state or rather as a structured form of access to an objective world.
\nThis special issue aims to gather contributions that investigate perception as a cognitive and conceptual phenomenon with epistemic and metaphysical implications. Particular attention will be devoted to approaches that combine analytic rigour with broader theoretical ambition\, exploring how perceptual experience contributes to the constitution of knowledge and to the articulation of reality.
\nWe welcome contributions addressing these questions\, preferably grounded in concrete cases and/or examples that help clarify and support philosophical analysis.
\nTopics for Submission (including\, but not limited to)
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nSubmissions must be original and unpublished\, written in English or Italian\, and formatted according to the journal&rsquo\;s editorial guidelines. All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
\nThe 2025 issue of Arkete will be dedicated to these questions. The volume will include articles selected through this Call for Papers as well as invited contributions by national and international scholars.
\nAll submissions must be sent no later than 30 September 2026 to the Editors at:
\nmariano.bianca@unisi.it
paolo.piccari@unisi.it
Manuscripts must conform to the editorial guidelines available at:
https://www.arkete.it
Accepted languages: English and Italian.
\nMaximum length: 40\,000 characters (including spaces\, footnotes\, references\, and abstract).
\nEach submission must include:
\nIn a separate file attached to the same email\, authors must provide:
\nA philosophy of imagination conference to commemorate the 10th anniversary of The Junkyard blog. In addition to the invited speakers\, there will be a number of contributed sessions.
\nCall for Papers
\nJAM will include parallel sessions for submitted papers selected via an open call. Papers should be anonymized and no more than 3000 words (not including references). Philosophical papers on all topics concerning imagination are welcome. The submission deadline is October 15. Notification of paper status will be provided by December 1. A limited number of partial travel stipends are available for early career researchers and scholars residing outside the United States.
\nCall for Symposium Proposals
\nJAM also has limited spots for submitted symposia selected via an open call. Symposia on all philosophical themes concerning imagination are welcome. The submission deadline is October 15. Notification of proposal status will be provided by December 1. A symposium should contain 3 papers and may also include up to two discussants and a chair (if you do not specify a chair\, one will be assigned to you). \; \;Symposium proposals should be anonymized\, and they should \;explain the theme of the symposium and include extended abstracts of each of the three symposium papers (1000 words each). \; \;
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