We are happy to announce another season of the online Inner Speech colloquium starting next month\, with a new list of speakers: \;
\n- May 28th - Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
\n- June 25th - \;Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge)
\n- July 16th - \;Romain Bourdoncle (Collè\;ge de France) &\; Axel Baptista (Institut Jean Nicod)
\n- August 20th - Aleksandr Fadeev (University of Leuven)
\n- September 24th - Keith Frankish (University of Sheffield) \;
\nTimes are all 16:30 CEST
\nMore info about the first talk coming soon. We hope to see many of you there next month! For more information or to subscribe to the mailing list\, contact: jonida.kodra@uni-osnabrueck.de
\nBest regards\,
\nJonida Kodra\, Daniel Mü\;ller and Mathijs Geurts (University of Osnabrü\;ck and \;University of Salzburg)
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonida Kodra;CN=Mathijs Geurts;CN="Daniel Lennart Müller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260729T183000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260729T200000 SUMMARY:Against Intelligence UID:20260727T081245Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Arts West Building (Building 148)\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3010 DESCRIPTION:Alan Turing&rsquo\;s famous 1950 paper\, Computing Machinery and Intelligence\, is one of the foundational texts of the discipline of Artificial Intelligence (AI). But what does Turing actually say about intelligence? The surprising answer is - almost nothing. The word &lsquo\;intelligence&rsquo\; occurs only twice in the paper\, and &lsquo\;intelligent&rsquo\; only once. So what was Turing really talking about\, if not intelligence? And what has this got to do with today&rsquo\;s AI?
\nJoin Professor Tim Crane\, a leading British philosopher\, as he answers these questions by defending the view that\, contrary to what many theorists argue today\, the concept of intelligence does not itself refer to a specific cognitive capacity. Instead\, it mainly serves as a concept to evaluate and describe cognitive capacities. If this is right\, Professor Crane argues the attempt to make progress in AI by replicating human intelligence is misguided\, since in a sense there is no such thing to replicate. The fundamental question for AI is not &lsquo\;when can AI machines achieve human-level intelligence?&rsquo\; but rather\, &lsquo\;what tasks can computers actually perform?&rsquo\;.
\nIn this Barry Taylor and David Lewis Philosophy Lecture\, discover Professor Crane&rsquo\;s insights on how the philosophy of AI can help us tackle the real\, practical problems that today's AI presents.
ORGANIZER;CN=Kyle H. Blumberg: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T090000 SUMMARY:4th ISPSM Online Conference UID:20260727T081246Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Details Here \;https://www.ispsmind.com/international-conference/
ORGANIZER;CN=Marco Facchin: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T234500 SUMMARY:Special Issue on Imagination\, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence (Philosophical Psychology) UID:20260727T081247Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: Special Issue on Imagination\, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence (Philosophical Psychology)
\nManuscript Deadline: 31 July 2026
\nSpecial Issue Editors
\nKengo Miyazono\, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies\, Hokkaido University\, Japan
\nFiora Salis\, Department of Philosophy\, University of York\, UK
\nThe aim of this special issue is to explore the relation between imagination\, creativity and artificial intelligence through interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of philosophy\, psychology and artificial intelligence. Many areas where human creativity has been crucial in the past are now being transformed by machines. Creativity is often associated with imagination\, but the cognitive relationship between imagination and creativity in humans is still poorly understood\, and no account of the role of imagination in computational creativity has been developed\, yet.
\nAppropriate topics for submission are\, among others:
\nThe nature of human and machine creativity
\nThe nature of human and machine imagination
\nThe prospects of machine creativity in the arts and the sciences
\nThe implications of machine creativity for human agency
\nThe methods for evaluating and measuring computational creativity
\nThe differences between human creativity and imagination and their machine counterparts
\nThe implications of machine creativity for our notions of imagination and creativity
\nThe potential impacts of machine imagination and creativity on philosophical practices
\nInvited contributors include:
\nAllison Hills (University of Oxford) and Alexander Bird (University of Cambridge)
\nDustin Stokes (LMU Munich)
\nElliot Samuel Paul (Queen&rsquo\;s University)
\nKatsunori Miyahara (University of Hokkaido)
\nSebastian Sunday Gré\;ve (University of Peking)
\nInformal queries should be directed at: Dr Fiora Salis (fiora.salis@york.ac.uk)
\nSpecial Issue URL:https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/imagination-creativity-artificial-intelligence/
\nSubmission Instructions
\nContributors are invited to submit papers that examine the relation between the three elements of imagination\, creativity and artificial intelligence.
\nPapers should be original research articles\, 7000-8000 word long (excluding bibliography).
\nCase reports that are relevant to the philosophical debate in this area are also welcome.
\nWhen submitting your paper\, please select "Imagination\, Creativity and Artificial Intelligence" as the title of the special issue in the drop-down menu.
\nIt is our policy that only papers that have been through peer review and have attracted two positive reports from independent reviewers are accepted for publication.
\nPapers will be published online as they become available but they will only be assigned to an issue when all papers in the special issue will have completed production.
\nWe encourage submissions from members of underrepresented groups in philosophy\, psychology\, and artificial intelligence.
\nCall for Abstracts \;
The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind (ISPSM) is happy to invite all philosophers working on any science of the mind (broadly construed) to submit an abstract for a paper or a symposium. We particularly encourage submissions from underrepresented groups in the field\, including members of the LGBTQIA+ community and those based in the global south\, as part of our ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion practices in philosophy and beyond. \;
What is the mind\, and how does it work? These questions have led to centuries of philosophical and empirical investigations\, and still lack definitive answers. We thus invite submissions from all disciplines that leverage insights from the use of different techniques\, methodologies\, and research questions to shed light on the nature and functioning of the mind. \;
In this fourth web conference\, we seek again to bring together many of these perspectives to build a common ground\, a comprehensive and multi-scale conceptual landscape of the mind. We accept submissions from a broad range of perspectives\, including - but not limited to - philosophy of psychology\, philosophy of psychiatry\, philosophy of neuroscience\, philosophy of cognitive science\, philosophy of mind\, philosophy of artificial intelligence &\; robotics\, philosophy of linguistics\, philosophy of ethology\, philosophy of (cognitive) anthropology\, philosophy of biology\, philosophy of the social sciences and consciousness studies. \;
We are delighted to already have a number of excellent keynote speakers confirmed for 2026\, including: \;
Devon Bailey University of Johannesburg\, Republic of South Africa \;
Louise Barrett University of Lethbridge\, Canada \;
Ali Boyle LSE\, United Kingdom \;
Melina Gastelum Vargas UNAM\, Mexico \;
Michael Kirchhoff University of Wollongong\, Australia \;
\nYukie Nagai University of Tokyo\, Japan \;
\nPractical Information \;
\nWhen: 4-6 November 2026
\nWhere: Online
\nFees: The conference is fully online\, and no fee is required
\nFurther Inquiries: ispsmofficial@gmail.com \; \; \;
\nInformation for submission \;
\nAbstracts for single papers (about 30 minutes each including Q&\;A) should be anonymized PDFs of maximum 500 words\, and should include references and 3-5 keywords (both excluded from the wordcount). To submit an abstract\, please use the following link: \;
\n\; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnep5cuix6t3NbLY6J9fE3Yul-bk5afwzDQ7y-x-EbJ0jAhw/viewform \;
\nProposals for symposia (2 hours including Q&\;A\, maximum 4 papers) should be PDF files between 1500 and 2000 words\, excluding references and 3-5 keywords. Unlike papers\, they should not be anonymized: speakers' affiliations and contacts should be included in the main text. To submit a symposium proposal\, please use the following link:
\n\; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeC3XMR-0A9Pw0A_Xm1f3ZCoinJ0mUW3cGwvQKdKoA_I014ZQ/viewform \;
\nDeadline for submissions: 31/07/2026 \;
\nBest meme prize \;
\nMany scientific societies have prizes for the best paper. As an online-based society\, we instead launch a contest for the best graphic meme regarding the philosophy of the sciences of the mind. We are interested in memes formed by static images + text and GIFs. \; The contest is open to all those who submit a paper or a symposium at the conference: to participate\, simply add up to a .GIF or .JPEG file entitled "ISPSM2026 Best Meme Contest." Memes should aim to elicit a laugh and then a thought (similarly to the Ig Nobel prize) and should abide by the ISPSM code of conduct (https://www.ispsmind.com/). The winning meme will be selected by the participants through a vote\, and hosted on the society&rsquo\;s homepage and social media. \; \; \; \;
\n\nOrganizing committee \; \;
\nMarco Facchin\, Universiteit Antwerpen
\nValeria Becattini\, IUSS Pavia
\nLiberty Severs\, Ruhr-Univesitä\;t Bochum\, the University of Lisbon and the Konrad Lorentz Institute
\nClavel Vá\;zquez\, Jimena - Tilburg University
\nNegro\, Niccolò\; - School of Psychological Sciences\, Tel Aviv University
\nCarlos Barth - Jesuit Faculty of Philosophy and Theology (FAJE)
\nLaura Oppi - Center for Subjectivity Research\, University of Copenhagen
\nApril Owens - University of Cambridge
ORGANIZER;CN=Marco Facchin;CN=Valeria Becattini;CN=Liberty Severs;CN=Niccolo Negro;CN="María Jimena Clavel Vázquez";CN=Carlos Barth;CN=Laura Oppi;CN=April Owens: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260801T170000 SUMMARY:Computational Consciousness Science UID:20260727T081249Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:5 Washington Pl\, New York\, United States\, 10003 DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce a one-day meeting (a CCN 2026 satellite event) on 1st August 2026 in New York:
COMPUTATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE
A recent explosion of interest in computational models of consciousness comes both from our attempts to extend computational models of perception and cognition to their subjective aspects and from the importance of consciousness to the ethical implications of AI models.
This satellite meeting examines computational approaches from the points of view of philosophy\, psychology\, and neuroscience\, with keynotes from David Chalmers (philosophy)\, Marisa Carrasco (psychology)\, and Biyu He (neuroscience).
There will also be research talks from faculty\, postdocs\, and PhDs highlighting the contribution of computational models to our understanding of change-blindness\, iconic memory\, spatial perception\, and visual illusions\, as well as helping us to develop new measures of conscious awareness.
A closing panel discussion will explore new and future directions for the emerging discipline of computational consciousness science.
Date: Saturday\, August 1\, 2026
Location: NYU Department of Philosophy\, 5 Washington Place\, New York\, NY 10003
Registration: Free but please register because we have to give a list of attendees to security.
Link for details and registration:
This workshop is a collaboration between philosophers from the University of Vienna and several Chinese universities (primarily Fudan). It is the second installment of an event that we organized last year at Fudan University in Shanghai.
\n\nThis event is funded by and part of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) projects Truth is Grounded in Facts (PI: Prof. B. Schnieder\, DOI: 10.55776/P36713) and Explanatory Gaps as a Guide to Reality (PI: D. Aleksiev\, DOI: 10.55776/ESP318).
ORGANIZER;CN=Damian Aleksiev;CN=Benjamin Schnieder;CN=Zhiwei Gu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260808T090000 SUMMARY:15th Annual Florida State University Free Will\, Moral Responsibility\, and Agency Conference UID:20260727T081251Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Tallahassee\, United States\, 32304 DESCRIPTION:The Philosophy Graduate Student Association (PGSA) of Florida State University is now accepting submissions for their graduate conference on free will\, moral responsibility\, and agency.
\nThe conference will take place at Florida State University on October 16-17 2026.
\nKeynote speakers will be:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Zoë\; Johnson King\, Harvard University
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; David Shoemaker\, Cornell University
\nThe conference will be held in Dodd Hall Auditorium. Conference participants can access the auditorium via either stairs or ramps\, and wheelchair accessible tables as well as theater-style seats are available in the auditorium. Microphones will be available for presenters. The conference is currently planned to be held in-person.
\nThose interested in submitting papers related to free will\, moral responsibility\, or the wider notion of agency should email their submissions to fsupgsa@gmail.com. Papers should be submitted along with a cover page. The criteria for the paper submission and cover page are as follows:
\n \;
Paper Requirements:
·\; \; \; \; \; \; Prepared for anonymous review
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; No more than 4\,000 words
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Suitable for 25-minute presentation
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Preceded by an abstract of 150-250 words
\nCover Page Requirements:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Presenter&rsquo\;s name
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Institutional affiliation
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Contact information (email address or phone number)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Title of paper
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;150-250 word abstract of the paper \;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Word count of the paper
\nThe deadline for submissions is August 8th\, 2026. We will notify those whose papers have been accepted no later than September 16\, 2026.
\nFor questions or further information\, please contact Justice Cabantangan (jac24m at fsu.edu). You may also visit the conference website at https://philosophy.fsu.edu/free-will-conference. (The website is currently under maintenance.)
ORGANIZER;CN=Justice Cabantangan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260907T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260907T180000 SUMMARY:Inference and Object UID:20260727T081252Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce our monthly \;online \;talk series on "Inferences &\; Capacities."
Our next speaker is:
Ulf Hlobil \;(Concordia University)
Inference and Object
Sep 7: \;11am (Buenos Aires)\, 10am (New York)\, 4pm (Berlin).
\nAbstract: \;I present an account of names and predicates in terms of assertoric sentences and their inferential roles. The account can be translated into an account of objects and properties in terms of worldly propositions (which are things that are made true or false by states) and the alethic modal relations among them. The account exploits symmetries of modal structures. In a slogan: properties are what is common among symmetric points in modal space\; objects are what differs among symmetric points in modal space.
\nHow to participate: \;Please\, send an email to Alfredo Vernazzani at: \;
\nalfredo-vernazzani AT protonmail.com
\n_______
\nThe series brings together work on inferential capacities\, rationality\, normativity\, and cognition &mdash\; across both human and non-human animals &mdash\; with the aim of fostering discussion on the nature and limits of the cognitive sphere. \;
\n2026 line-up: \;
April 27: \;Angelica Kaufmann \;(University of Milan): "Mind Blanking as Mental Imagery." \;
\nMay 18: \;Federico Burdman \;(Universidad Alberto Hurtado) "Constrained choices: addiction\, attention\, and reasons-responsiveness." \;
\nJune 22: \;Susanna Schellenberg \;(Rutgers): "Reflection and Self-Governance in Human and Machine Intelligence" \; \;
\nJuly 20: \;Cameron Buckner \;(University of Florida): "Chains-of-Thought\, Inner Speech\, and Artificial Epistemic Agency."
\nSeptember 7: \;Ulf Hlobil \;(Concordia University): "Inference and Object"
\nOctober 19: \;Eva Schmidt \;(TU Dortmund): TBA \;
\nNovember 16: \;Hans-Johann Glock \;(University of Zü\;rich): "Is Ascribing Inferences to Brains or Non-human Animals a Fallacy?" \;
\nDecember 14: \;Emma Borg \;(SAS\, University of London): "Twitches\, Fidgets\, Habits\, Skills: The Scope of Common-Sense Psychology." \;
Each talk lasts c. 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes open Q&\;A. \;
\nThe series is co-organized by:
\nMariela Aguilera \;(University of Có\;rdoba)
\nMatí\;as Osta-Vé\;lez \;(Universidad de la Repú\;blica)
\nAlfredo Vernazzani \;(TU Dortmund\; University of Pittsburgh).
\nVisit our website: \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Alfredo Vernazzani;CN=Mariela Aguilera;CN="Matías Osta": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260909T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260911T170000 SUMMARY:AISC 2026 - Natural and Artificial Intelligence: between Skills and Biases UID:20260727T081253Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Palazzo Campana\, Torino\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Intelligent systems display a striking combination of competence and limitation\, regardless of their biological\, artificial\, or social origin. These systems can acquire sophisticated skills\, coordinate complex actions\, and adapt to changing environments\; at the same time they suffer systematic biases and pitfalls. Therefore\, understanding intelligence today requires accounting not only for what cognitive systems do well\, but also for how and why they fail.
\n\nThe 22nd Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences (AISC 2026) focuses on this dichotomy\, proposing a reflection on natural and artificial intelligence between skills and biases. From embodied motor abilities and practical know-how to decision-making under uncertainty\, from artificial learning systems to collective dynamics in networked environments\, the conference aims to bring together perspectives that address both the upper and lower bounds of intelligent behaviour across different systems\, methodologies\, and levels of analysis. \;
\n\nWithin this broad framework\, AISC 2026 welcomes contributions from all areas of cognitive science\, including theoretical\, experimental\, computational\, and philosophical approaches to cognition in biological\, social\, and artificial systems. We particularly encourage work that fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and connects traditionally distinct domains of cognitive science.
ORGANIZER;CN=Marco Viola;CN=Fabrizio Calzavarini;CN=Vincenzo Crupi;CN=Alessandro Demichelis: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260910T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260911T170000 SUMMARY:The Given UID:20260727T081254Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 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:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260910T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260912T170000 SUMMARY:Faces of Subjectivity. A workshop on inner awareness in the context of monistic theories of phenomenal consciousness UID:20260727T081255Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Jilska 361\, Praha\, Czech Republic DESCRIPTION:Keynote speakers: \;
\nRobert J. Howell (Rice)
\nAnna Giustina (Valencia)
\nSam Coleman (Birkbeck)
\nWhile the debate about phenomenal consciousness so far has mainly focused on the nature of the qualitative features one encounters in being conscious (e.g. the bitterness of espresso\, the feel of mental effort\, etc.)\, our workshop will focus on the nature of this encounter itself\, i.e. of the special &lsquo\;inner&rsquo\; awareness (Brentano\, Kriegel) one seems to be afforded of one&rsquo\;s own qualitative states\, due to which these states are &lsquo\;for&rsquo\; their subject\, instantiating what Joseph Levine has called &lsquo\;subjectivity&rsquo\;. Since it&rsquo\;s unclear whether and how this subjectivity of conscious states can be accounted for reductively\, we view its existence as an important challenge for the main forms of monism\, i.e. physicalism and Russellian monism. The aim of our workshop is to bring together leading thinkers working on inner\, or &lsquo\;subjective&rsquo\;\, awareness\, with those who defend various forms of monism\, and address the &lsquo\;subjectivity challenge&rsquo\; in a systematic manner\, examining its viability and significance in the broader context of consciousness studies.
\nWe aim to examine the following questions\, among others:
\nPresentations on other\, closely related topics are also welcome. The workshop is intended to be \;in-person \;and discussion-oriented &ndash\; presenters of contributed papers are given time slots of 45 minutes (including discussion). \;The workshop will result in an edited volume published with an international publisher\, featuring\, in particular\, the contributions of the keynote speakers\, as well as papers by other participants and by experts in the field.
\nIf you&rsquo\;re interested in participating in the workshop\, please send an anonymized \;700-word abstract \;of your paper to \;subjectivity@flu.cas.cz \;by the end of May 2026. (This e-mail address can also be used for enquiries regarding the workshop).
\nNotifications of acceptance: June 20th 2026.
\nThere is \;no registration fee \;for the workshop.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260915T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260915T120000 SUMMARY:Primo Convegno della Società Italiana di Fenomenologia: "Fenomenologia\, logica e psicologia" UID:20260727T081256Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici\, Via Porta di Massa 1\, Napoli\, Italy\, 80133 DESCRIPTION:«\;Dal ripudio della psicologia empirica in nome di una logica pura Husserl passerà\;\, attraverso un lungo e tormentato cammino\, alla psicologia pura o trascendentale»\;.
\nA partire da queste parole di Aldo Masullo\, scritte nel 1961\, il convegno intende indagare un tema che\, per molta filosofia del Novecento\, ha rappresentato uno dei principali limiti della fenomenologia e che\, negli ultimi anni\, si è\; invece rivelato uno dei suoi aspetti più\; fecondi: il rapporto tra logica e psicologia.
\nCostitutivo della formazione filosofica di Husserl e decisivo per l&rsquo\;evoluzione del suo pensiero\, il confronto tra logica e psicologia ha orientato gran parte dello sviluppo del movimento fenomenologico. La fenomenologia\, infatti\, non si è\; limitata alla critica delle diverse forme di psicologismo &ndash\; logico\, gnoseologico ed etico &ndash\; ma ha elaborato una nuova concezione delle relazioni tra validità\; logica\, intenzionalità\; e soggettività\;.
\nSi può\; sostenere che\, per comprendere le diverse fasi del pensiero husserliano\, così\; come per distinguere le principali stagioni della tradizione fenomenologica\, sia necessario chiarire le differenti concezioni di logica e di psicologia che vi sono implicate. In questa prospettiva\, il rapporto tra questi due ambiti non costituisce soltanto una questione interna alla fenomenologia\, ma rappresenta una chiave interpretativa essenziale per comprendere il suo sviluppo storico e teorico.
\nAl di là\; del perimetro strettamente fenomenologico\, la relazione tra logica e psicologia occupa oggi una posizione centrale nel dibattito filosofico contemporaneo: dalla teoria della conoscenza alla teoria dei concetti\, dall&rsquo\;etica all&rsquo\;antropologia\, dalla filosofia delle scienze cognitive alla filosofia della mente\, dalla filosofia della logica alla psicopatologia.
\nIn questo quadro\, si invitano studiose e studiosi a presentare contributi di carattere storico o teorico sui seguenti temi:
\n1. Fenomenologia e psicologia\;
\n2. Fenomenologia e psicopatologia\;
\n3. Fenomenologia e logica\;
\n4. Etica fenomenologica tra logica e psicologia\;
\n5. Fenomenologia\, scienze cognitive ed epistemologia\;
\n6. Fenomenologia e teoria delle emozioni\;
\n7. Fenomenologia e antropologia\;
\n8. Fenomenologia e trascendentale.
\nGli abstract\, di massimo 2500 caratteri più\; 1000 di bibliografia\, \;andranno inviati a Lorenzo Cavallo (lorenzo.cavallo2@unina.it) e a Claudio Fabbroni (claudio.fabbroni@unina.it)
Scadenze
\nInvio degli abstract: 15 settembre 2026
\nComunicazione degli esiti: 1°\; ottobre 2026
\nComitato scientifico:
\nAnna Donise\, Felice Masi\, Anna Pia Ruoppo
\nComitato organizzativo:
\nGiovanni Battista Armenio\, Francesco Bevilacqua\, Lorenzo Cavallo\, Claudio Fabbroni\, Francesca Maffettone\, Giulia Salzano
ORGANIZER;CN=Anna Donise;CN=Felice Masi;CN=Anna Pia Ruoppo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260917T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260918T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophica II - Words and Language UID:20260727T081257Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4\, Lublin\, Poland\, 20-031 DESCRIPTION:Philosophica is an analytic philosophy conference series hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. The theme of this edition of the conference is words and language\, engaging with philosophical work addressing the nature of expressions\, meaning\, and natural language more broadly construed.
\nWe invite contributions on topics like the ontology of words\, word individuation\, pragmatic features of expressions\, meaning in natural language (metasemantics)\, or the relationship between words and language\, among others.
\nTopics broadly related to natural language are welcome\; contributions do not need to place special emphasis on words as such\, though this is welcome.
\nInterdisciplinary perspectives drawing on linguistics\, semantics\, metaphysics\, and other relevant areas are also welcome.
\nThe event will take place exclusively in person\; it is open to both regular faculty and students.
\nThe conference will run from 17/09/2026 to 18/09/2026. \;
\nSubmissions through EasyChair (see also our CFP for details): \;https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=philosophica2
ORGANIZER;CN=Kamil Lemanek: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260918T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260918T180000 SUMMARY:What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine? A Philosophy of Addiction UID:20260727T081258Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Gore Hall\, Newark\, United States\, 19716 ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260921T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260921T170000 SUMMARY:PTK26 Conference: Young Researchers Workshop UID:20260727T081259Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 4\, Lublin\, Poland\, 20-801 DESCRIPTION:In an attempt to engage a new generation of cognitive scientists\, we invite proposals for oral presentations as part of the Young Researchers Workshop\, a special event to be held on \;September 21st. We therefore invite undergraduate and graduate (BA and MA) students to submit abstracts that either address the special topic of the conference or present the results of their inquiries more broadly. We would also like to encourage academic teachers and supervisors to motivate and support their students in the process of preparing submissions. YRW abstracts will be reviewed separately. Specialists&rsquo\; comments on each accepted contribution makes the workshop a unique opportunity to receive expert feedback.
\nSubmission info: \;https://ptk26.umcs.lublin.pl/index.php/young-researchers-workshop/
ORGANIZER;CN=Piotr Konderak;CN=Alexandra Mouratidou: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260921T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260923T170000 SUMMARY:PTK26: 15th Meeting of the Polish Association for Cognitive Science UID:20260727T081300Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Pl. Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej 5\, Lublin\, Poland\, 20-031 DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the first call for abstracts for the \;15th Biennial Meeting of the Polish Association for Cognitive Science \;(PTK26)\, hosted by the Institute of Philosophy\, Maria \;Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin\, from \;September 21 \;to \;23\, 2026.
\nSpecial conference topic: Making Sense of Meaning-Making
ORGANIZER;CN=Piotr Konderak: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260930T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260930T230000 SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence and The Philosophy of Technology/Künstliche Intelligenz und die Philosophie der Technik UID:20260727T081301Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Brüggener Weg 6\, Düsseldorf\, Germany\, 40547 DESCRIPTION:Symposium
\nArtificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Technology
\nMarch 5&ndash\;7\, 2027
\nEKŌ Center of Japanese Culture\, Dü\;sseldorf
\nAbout the Symposium:
\nThe EKŌ Center of Japanese Culture in Dü\;sseldorf is hosting a symposium on the topic of &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Technology&rdquo\; on March 5-7\, 2027.
\nToday\, artificial intelligence has become an indispensable part of people's daily lives\; examples include search engines\, ChatGPT\, navigation and traffic management systems\, voice assistants\, facial recognition\, personalized advertising\, and more. In this context\, AI attempts&mdash\;by means of algorithms&mdash\;to mimic human thought\, to optimize it\, and perhaps\, one day\, to replace it.
\nThis symposium aims to shed light on the philosophy of AI and technology. It is designed to be both intercultural and interdisciplinary in scope. At its center lie the following questions: What is AI\, and how does it function? What are its ethical implications? Is the term &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo\; a contradiction in terms? Will AI one day attain consciousness? To what extent will it shape our future lives? To what degree is AI an expression of &ldquo\;Western thought and Western culture&rdquo\;\, and how do other cultures or religions&mdash\;such as Buddhism&mdash\;view technology? In this context\, the symposium will also explore the place of AI within Japanese culture.
\nThe following sections are planned:
\n- \;Intercultural Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Technology
\n- \;AI and Consciousness
\n- \;Western Technology and Buddhism
\n- \;AI and Technology in Japan
\nWe welcome submissions from established scholars as well as early-career researchers (doctoral candidates\, postdocs) in the fields of Philosophy (Philosophy of Technology\, Philosophy of Mind\, Philosophy of Language\, Ethics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophy of Religion\, etc.)\, Japanese Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and related disciplines.
\nCall for Papers:
\n·\; Interested scholars are invited to submit abstracts (in German or English) of 300&ndash\;500 words by September 30\, 2026\, to: hantke@eko-haus.de
\n·\; Notification of acceptance will be sent in mid-October 2026.
\n·\; Limited financial support for travel and accommodation expenses is available for selected speakers.
\n·\; The presentations will subsequently be published in Hô\;rin. Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur (Hô\;rin. Comparative Studies on Japanese Culture) by the Iudicium Verlag:
\nhttps://eko-haus.de/sonstiges/publikationen/#j2
\nAbstracts and Registration to:
\nDr. Myriam-Sonja Hantke: hantke@eko-haus.de
\nFurther information will be available at:
\n\nOrganization:
\nProf. Dr. Hisao MATSUMARU
\nDr. Myriam-Sonja HANTKE
\nBrü\;ggener Weg 6 &bull\; 40547 Dü\;sseldorf &bull\; Germany
\n----------------------------------------------------------------------
\nSymposium
\nKü\;nstliche Intelligenz und die Philosophie der Technik
\n05.03.-07.03.2027
\nEKŌ-Haus der Japanischen Kultur e.V. in Dü\;sseldorf
\nÜ\;ber das Symposium:
\nDas EKŌ-Haus der Japanischen Kultur e.V. in Dü\;sseldorf veranstaltet vom 05.03. bis zum 07.03.2027 ein Symposium zum Thema &bdquo\;Kü\;nstliche Intelligenz und die Philosophie der Technik&ldquo\;.
\nKü\;nstliche Intelligenz ist heutzutage aus dem Alltag der Menschen nicht mehr wegzudenken\, Beispiele sind Suchmaschinen\, ChatGPT\, Navigation und Verkehrsmanagement\, Sprachassistenten\, Gesichtserkennung\, personalisierte Werbung etc. Die KI versucht dabei mittels Algorithmen menschliches Denken nachzuahmen\, dieses zu optimieren und vielleicht eines Tages zu ersetzen.
\nBei diesem Symposium soll die Philosophie der KI und der Technik nä\;her beleuchtet werden. Das Symposium soll dabei interkulturell und interdisziplinä\;r ausgerichtet sein. Im Zentrum stehen die Fragen: Was ist KI und wie funktioniert sie? Welche ethischen Implikationen besitzt sie? Ist der Begriff &bdquo\;Kü\;nstliche Intelligenz&ldquo\; ein Widerspruch in sich? Wird die KI eines Tages Bewusstsein erlangen? Wie sehr wird sie unser zukü\;nftiges Leben bestimmen? Inwieweit ist die KI Ausdruck des &bdquo\;westlichen Denkens und der westlichen Kultur&ldquo\; und wie betrachten andere Kulturen bzw. Religionen wie beispielsweise der Buddhismus Technik? Auch soll in diesem Zusammenhang nach dem Ort der KI in der japanischen Kultur gefragt werden.
\nFolgende Sektionen sind geplant:
\n- Interkulturelle Philosophie der Kü\;nstlichen Intelligenz und der Technik
\n- KI und Bewusstsein
\n- Westliche Technik und Buddhismus
\n- KI und Technik in Japan
\nWir freuen uns ü\;ber Beiträ\;ge von Wissenschaftlern/Innen und auch von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern/Innen (Doktoranden/Innen\, PostDocs) aus der Philosophie (Philosophie der Technik\, Philosophie des Geistes\, Sprachphilosophie\, Ethik\, Metaphysik\, Religionsphilosophie etc.)\, Japanologie\, Kulturwissenschaften sowie aus angrenzenden Disziplinen.
\nCall for Papers:
\n·\; Interessierte sind aufgerufen\, Abstracts (Deutsch oder Englisch) mit einem Umfang von 300-500 Wö\;rtern bis zum 30.09.2026einzureichen an: hantke@eko-haus.de
\n·\; Die Benachrichtigung ü\;ber die Annahme der Beiträ\;ge erfolgt Mitte Oktober 2026.
\n·\; Es besteht die Mö\;glichkeit einer begrenzten finanziellen Unterstü\;tzung fü\;r Reise- und Unterkunftskosten ausgewä\;hlter Vortragender.
\n·\; Die Vorträ\;ge werden anschließ\;end in Hô\;rin. Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur im Iudicium-Verlag verö\;ffentlicht:
\nhttps://eko-haus.de/sonstiges/publikationen/#j2
\nAbstracts und Anmeldungen an: \;
\nDr. Myriam-Sonja Hantke: hantke@eko-haus.de
\nWeitere Informationen folgen auf:
\n\nOrganisation:
\nProf. Dr. Hisao MATSUMARU
\nDr. Myriam-Sonja HANTKE
\nBrü\;ggener Weg 6 &bull\; 40547 Dü\;sseldorf &bull\; Germany
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T000000 SUMMARY:Persistence: The Annual Print/Ebook of the Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing UID:20260727T081302Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers &mdash\; Persistence\, Volume 1 (2026)
\nPersistence is the annual peer-reviewed journal of the Institute for Complexity Science and Advanced Computing (ICSAC)\, published as a curated print and ebook volume (ISBN-registered\; distributed via Amazon and Ingram). It is independent and diamond open access: no submission or publication fees of any kind\, and authors retain full copyright (CC BY 4.0 default\, author's choice).
\nScope. Persistence publishes rigorous\, foundational\, and cross-disciplinary work in complexity science broadly construed: nonlinear dynamics and complex systems\; information theory and the geometry of information\; and computational or theoretical approaches to cognition\, consciousness\, and intelligence\, biological and artificial. We welcome contributions from physics\, biology\, neuroscience\, cognitive science\, computer science\, mathematics\, and philosophy &mdash\; and we especially value work that crosses disciplinary lines or interrogates foundations and methods.
\nFor this audience: we particularly welcome philosophical and foundational work &mdash\; philosophy of mind and cognitive science\, philosophy of physics and computation\, formal epistemology\, and conceptual or methodological critique &mdash\; within that interdisciplinary scope.
\nRigorous heterodox and independent research is read on equal terms with institutionally affiliated work.
\nReview &mdash\; and why you can trust it. Every submission is evaluated through a structured multi-reviewer process\, with a human curator signing off on each decision and submissions blinded beforehand. Our entire editorial pipeline &mdash\; rubrics\, blinding procedure\, and citation checks &mdash\; is open source and public\, so you can read exactly how your paper will be judged before submitting:
\nhttps://github.com/ICSAC/editorial-system
Terms. No fees to submit or publish. Authors keep full copyright. Accepted papers are eligible to appear in the print/ebook volume and receive a DOI and a public review record. ICSAC has already produced a peer-reviewed scholarly print volume (LCCN-registered) &mdash\; an established pipeline\, not a first attempt.
Submission. Details and portal: https://icsacinstitute.org/submit ·\; Deadline: 01 October 2026.
\nCurator: N. M. Thornhill ·\; Contact: submissions@icsacinstitute.org
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261012T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:Models of Consciousness 7 UID:20260727T081303Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Copenhagen\, Denmark ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261019T170000 SUMMARY:Covert Consciousness UID:20260727T081304Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Crans Montana\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:Covert Consciousness: Detection and Treatment \;
\nNeuroscience Strategic Intelligence\, Grand Challenge Workshop
\nhttps://neurosas.org/strategic-intelligence/challenge-workshops/the-workshops/covert-consciousness%20detection-and-treatment/ \;
\nOctober 15-19\; Crans-Montana\, Switzerland \; \; \;
\nOver the past decade\, it has become clear that a significant number of behaviourally unresponsive patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are covertly conscious\, as shown by complex and/or voluntary cortical response patterns. The realisation that behaviourally unresponsive patients are not necessarily unconscious changes the way brain-injured and critically ill patients must be assessed and treated\, and how families are counselled. \;This Challenge Workshop will focus on the latest advances in detecting and managing covert consciousness in both ICU and sub-acute settings\, supporting functional recovery through pharmacological or neurotechnological interventions\, restoring communication via brain-machine interfaces\, and navigating philosophical and ethical implications. \;
\nOpen to clinicians\, researchers\, patient advocates\, ethicists\, philosophers\, and technologists. \; Participation is limited to 20 individuals\, selected on the basis of merit and relevance to the workshop. \; \;
\nApplications are reviewed on a rolling basis until all 20 available spots are filled. \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Christof Koch;CN=Michael J. Young: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 SUMMARY:Arkete: Philosophy of Perception: Representation\, Reality\, and Cognitive Structure UID:20260727T081305Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 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:
\nThere are two opposed perspectives on AI consciousness. Computational functionalism says computational improvements will lead to conscious AI whereas biological naturalism says that biological aspects of animals are necessary for consciousness. \; \;This talk concerns the pros and cons of these two points of view.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T170000 SUMMARY:JAM (Junkyard Anniversary Meeting) - Philosophy of Imagination Conference UID:20260727T081307Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:The Kravis Center\, Claremont\, United States\, 91711 DESCRIPTION:A 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). \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Amy Kind: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261016T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:15th Annual Florida State University Free Will\, Moral Responsibility\, and Agency Conference UID:20260727T081308Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Tallahassee\, United States\, 32304 DESCRIPTION:The conference will take place at Florida State University on October 16-17\, 2026. The conference is open to any who is interested in attending. \;If you would like to attend and require further information\, please email \;Justice Cabantangan (jac24m at fsu.edu). The conference website (https://philosophy.fsu.edu/free-will-conference) \;is currently under maintenance.
\nhttps://philosophy.fsu.edu/free-will-conference ORGANIZER;CN=Justice Cabantangan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261016T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:The Architecture of Propositional Thought: From Cognitive Maps to Language and Reasoning UID:20260727T081309Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Columbia\, United States DESCRIPTION:One of the most promising routes to understanding the architecture of propositional thought&mdash\;and cognition more broadly&mdash\;is to begin with the mammalian navigation system and its associated neural machinery (cognitive maps\, place cells\, grid cells\, path integration\, sequence generation\, hippocampal replay\, and related control mechanisms). Rather than treating navigation as a domain-specific specialization\, this approach treats it as an evolutionarily ancient and well-characterized architectural template that may have been replicated\, extended\, and abstracted to support a wide range of cognitive capacities.
\nA growing body of work suggests that the hippocampus&ndash\;entorhinal cortex system is not merely a spatial navigation system\, but a general system for managing structured representations and sequences\, supporting planning\, memory\, inference\, imagination\, and offline simulation. At the same time\, complementary research highlights the role of frontoparietal control systems in maintaining\, selecting\, and flexibly manipulating these representations under task demands. Together\, these findings motivate an architectural perspective in which navigation-like mapping and replay mechanisms interact with control\, valuation\, imagery\, and language to support higher cognition.
\nAccordingly\, the guiding idea behind this conference is to explore whether propositional thought itself&mdash\;across linguistic and non-linguistic forms&mdash\;can be understood as emerging from the reuse and extension of navigation-like architectures for offline control\, simulation\, and problem solving.
\nThe conference is also aimed at producing an edited volume on the same topic and foster future research collaborations among participants.
ORGANIZER;CN=Gualtiero Piccinini: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261019T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261019T180000 SUMMARY:TBA UID:20260727T081310Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce our monthly \;online \;talk series on "Inferences &\; Capacities."
Our next speaker is:
Eva Schmidt \;(TU Dortmund)
TBA
Oct 19: \;11am (Buenos Aires)\, 10am (New York)\, 4pm (Berlin).
Abstract: TBA
\n\nHow to participate: \;Please\, send an email to Alfredo Vernazzani at: \;
\nalfredo-vernazzani AT protonmail.com
\n_______
\nThe series brings together work on inferential capacities\, rationality\, normativity\, and cognition &mdash\; across both human and non-human animals &mdash\; with the aim of fostering discussion on the nature and limits of the cognitive sphere. \;
\n2026 line-up: \;
April 27: \;Angelica Kaufmann \;(University of Milan): "Mind Blanking as Mental Imagery." \;
\nMay 18: \;Federico Burdman \;(Universidad Alberto Hurtado) "Constrained choices: addiction\, attention\, and reasons-responsiveness." \;
\nJune 22: \;Susanna Schellenberg \;(Rutgers): TBA \;
\nJuly 20: \;Cameron Buckner \;(University of Florida): "Chains-of-Thought\, Inner Speech\, and Artificial Epistemic Agency."
\nSeptember 7: \;Ulf Hlobil \;(Concordia University): TBA \;
\nOctober 19: \;Eva Schmidt \;(TU Dortmund): TBA \;
\nNovember 16: \;Hans-Johann Glock \;(University of Zü\;rich): "Is Ascribing Inferences to Brains or Non-human Animals a Fallacy?" \;
\nDecember 14: \;Emma Borg \;(SAS\, University of London): "Twitches\, Fidgets\, Habits\, Skills: The Scope of Common-Sense Psychology." \;
Each talk lasts c. 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes open Q&\;A. \;
\nThe series is co-organized by:
\n\nMariela Aguilera \;(University of Có\;rdoba)
\nMatí\;as Osta-Vé\;lez \;(Universidad de la Repú\;blica)
\nAlfredo Vernazzani \;(TU Dortmund\; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg).
\n\nVisit our website: \;
\nCfP: \;Rethinking Agency under Non-Ideal Conditions
\n\nThe notion of agency plays a central role across many areas of philosophy\, including philosophy of action\, ethics\, political philosophy\, epistemology\, feminist philosophy\, and phenomenology. \;While traditionally conceptualized in terms of intentional action\, rational control\, and autonomy\, our understanding of agency has recently come under intense scrutiny and is now being increasingly transformed. \;Feminist and phenomenological approaches\, in particular\, have emphasized the need for a richer and more fine-grained conception of agency&mdash\;one that takes seriously the social\, historical\, and relational contexts in which agents are situated. From this perspective\, agency cannot be adequately understood without acknowledging that agents are not only rational decision-makers\, but also emotional\, embodied\, desiring\, creative\, and affective beings.
\n\nThis conference invites new investigations into agency as it is lived and exercised under non-ideal conditions\, such as vulnerability\, dependency\, uncertainty\, coercion\, structural injustice\, affective ambivalence\, or crisis. Rather than presupposing idealized models of action and rational control\, the conference aims to analyze how agency isreconfigured \;under such conditions. We also particularly welcome contributions that examine how rational and virtuous agency should be rethought under non-ideal conditions and in times of crisis.
\n\nPossible questions include (but are not limited to):
\n\nIn addition to contemporary approaches\, we explicitly welcome historical-philosophical work\, including contributions engaging with the phenomenological tradition\, as well as those that critically engage with accounts of agency from marginalized figures and traditions in the history of philosophy.
\n\nContributions from early-career researchers are especially encouraged.
\n\nConfirmed \;speakers: Maria Alvarez\, Havi Carel\, Hanne Jacobs\, Quill Kukla\, Kristina Musholt and \;Caleb Ward.
\n\;
\nWe invite you to submit an anonymized abstract of up to 500 words \;by \;October 31\, 2026 \;to \;laurentia.adam@uni-graz.at
\n\nPlease include a separate file with your name\, email address\, the title of your talk\, and your affiliation (if any) and put &lsquo\;Rethinking Agency Graz 2027&rsquo\; in the subject line.
\n\;
\nOrganizing Team: Emanuela Carta\, Denis Dzanic\, and Daniel Neumann.
ORGANIZER;CN="Denis Džanić";CN=Emanuela Carta;CN=Daniel Neumann: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261104T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:The 4th annual conference of the The International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind UID:20260727T081312Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:What is the mind\, and how does it work? These questions have led to centuries of philosophical and empirical investigations\, and still lack definitive answers. We thus invite submissions from all disciplines that leverage insights from the use of different techniques\, methodologies\, and research questions to shed light on the nature and functioning of the mind.
\nIn this fourth web conference\, we seek again to bring together many of these perspectives to build a common ground\, a comprehensive and multi-scale conceptual landscape of the mind. We accept submissions from a broad range of perspectives\, including - but not limited to - philosophy of psychology\, philosophy of psychiatry\, philosophy of neuroscience\, philosophy of cognitive science\, philosophy of mind\, philosophy of artificial intelligence &\; robotics\, philosophy of linguistics\, philosophy of ethology\, philosophy of (cognitive) anthropology\, philosophy of biology\, philosophy of the social sciences and consciousness studies.
\nWe are delighted to already have a number of excellent keynote speakers confirmed for 2026\, including:
\nDevon Bailey
University of Johannesburg\, \;Republic of South Africa
Louise Barrett
University of Lethbridge\, \;Canada
Ali Boyle
LSE\, \;United Kingdom
Melina Gastelum Vargas
UNAM\, Mexico
Michael Kirchhoff
University of Wollongong\, \;Australia
Yukie Nagai
University of Tokyo\, Japan
Practical Information
\nWhen: 4-6 November 2026
Where: Online
Fees: The conference is fully online\, and no fee is required
Further Inquiries: \;ispsmofficial@gmail.com
«\;Dal ripudio della psicologia empirica in nome di una logica pura Husserl passerà\;\, attraverso un lungo e tormentato cammino\, alla psicologia pura o trascendentale»\;.
\nA partire da queste parole di Aldo Masullo\, scritte nel 1961\, il convegno intende indagare un tema che\, per molta filosofia del Novecento\, ha rappresentato uno dei principali limiti della fenomenologia e che\, negli ultimi anni\, si è\; invece rivelato uno dei suoi aspetti più\; fecondi: il rapporto tra logica e psicologia.
\nCostitutivo della formazione filosofica di Husserl e decisivo per l&rsquo\;evoluzione del suo pensiero\, il confronto tra logica e psicologia ha orientato gran parte dello sviluppo del movimento fenomenologico. La fenomenologia\, infatti\, non si è\; limitata alla critica delle diverse forme di psicologismo &ndash\; logico\, gnoseologico ed etico &ndash\; ma ha elaborato una nuova concezione delle relazioni tra validità\; logica\, intenzionalità\; e soggettività\;.
\nSi può\; sostenere che\, per comprendere le diverse fasi del pensiero husserliano\, così\; come per distinguere le principali stagioni della tradizione fenomenologica\, sia necessario chiarire le differenti concezioni di logica e di psicologia che vi sono implicate. In questa prospettiva\, il rapporto tra questi due ambiti non costituisce soltanto una questione interna alla fenomenologia\, ma rappresenta una chiave interpretativa essenziale per comprendere il suo sviluppo storico e teorico.
\nAl di là\; del perimetro strettamente fenomenologico\, la relazione tra logica e psicologia occupa oggi una posizione centrale nel dibattito filosofico contemporaneo: dalla teoria della conoscenza alla teoria dei concetti\, dall&rsquo\;etica all&rsquo\;antropologia\, dalla filosofia delle scienze cognitive alla filosofia della mente\, dalla filosofia della logica alla psicopatologia.
\nIn questo quadro\, si invitano studiose e studiosi a presentare contributi di carattere storico o teorico sui seguenti temi:
\n1. Fenomenologia e psicologia\;
\n2. Fenomenologia e psicopatologia\;
\n3. Fenomenologia e logica\;
\n4. Etica fenomenologica tra logica e psicologia\;
\n5. Fenomenologia\, scienze cognitive ed epistemologia\;
\n6. Fenomenologia e teoria delle emozioni\;
\n7. Fenomenologia e antropologia\;
\n8. Fenomenologia e trascendentale.
\nGli abstract\, di massimo 2500 caratteri più\; 1000 di bibliografia\, andranno inviati a Lorenzo Cavallo (lorenzo.cavallo2@unina.it) e a Claudio Fabbroni (claudio.fabbroni@unina.it)
Scadenze
\nInvio degli abstract: 15 settembre 2026
\nComunicazione degli esiti: 1°\; ottobre 2026
\nComitato scientifico:
\nAnna Donise\, Felice Masi\, Anna Pia Ruoppo
\nComitato organizzativo:
\nGiovanni Battista Armenio\, Francesco Bevilacqua\, Lorenzo Cavallo\, Claudio Fabbroni\, Francesca Maffettone\, Giulia Salzano
ORGANIZER;CN=Anna Donise;CN=Felice Masi;CN=Anna Pia Ruoppo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Biological Naturalism about Consciousness UID:20260727T081315Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:390 Portola Plaza\, Los Angeles\, United States ORGANIZER;CN=Josh Armstrong;CN=Hayley Clatterbuck;CN=Bob Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Budapest:20261112T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Budapest:20261113T170000 SUMMARY:Non-intentional modes of consciousness in phenomenology: affectivity\, imagination\, unconscious\, embodiment UID:20260727T081316Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Budapest LOCATION:Múzeum krt. 4/i\, Budapest\, Hungary\, 1088 DESCRIPTION:Non-intentional modes of consciousness in phenomenology: affectivity\, imagination\, unconscious\, embodiment
\nThroughout the long history of phenomenology\, alongside intentional modes of consciousness\, so-called non-intentional forms of consciousness have played an increasingly significant role: affectivity\, fantasy\, unconscious\, embodiment\, etc. The main aim of the conference is to provide an overview of past and contemporary research of non-intentional forms of conscious functioning.
\nSuggested topics:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; embodiment\, bodily existence\, bodily memory
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; affectivity\, emotions\, existential moods
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; phenomenological unconscious\, association\, passive syntheses
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; psychology\, psychoanalysis and phenomenology
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; phenomenology and cognitive sciences
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; intersubjectivity\, culture\, sociality
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; understanding\, interpretation\, narrativity
\nThe conference is organized by the "Research Group on Non-Intentional Modes of Consciousness" at the Institute of Philosophy\, Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University\, Budapest.
\nConfirmed plenary speakers:
\nNatalie Depraz
\nSarah Heinä\;maa
\nThiemo Breyer
\nThomas Fuchs (online)
\nDieter Lohmar
\nDermot Moran (online)
\nNicolas de Warren (online)
\nDan Zahavi (online)
\nConference venue: Budapest\, Eö\;tvö\;s Lorá\;nd University\, Institute of Philosophy (Mú\;zeum krt. 4.)
\nConference dates: November 12&ndash\;13\, 2026.
\nThe conference website with all the necessary information:
\nhttps://phil.elte.hu/content/non-intentional-modes-of-consciousness-in-phenomenology-call-for-papers.t.53079?m=11091
\nWe are accepting submissions with abstracts of up to 500 words until July 31\, 2026 at the following email address: phenomenology.conf2026@gmail.com
\nPlease send a brief introduction\, including your affiliation\, in a separate document.
\nWe will send notifications regarding accepted presentations by August 10\, 2026.
\nThere is no registration fee.
\nWe warmly welcome all interested parties:
\nThe organizers
\nTamá\;s Ullmann\, Professor of Philosophy
\nCsaba Olay\, Professor of Philosophy
\nBence Pé\;ter Marosá\;n\, Associate Professor
ORGANIZER;CN=Bence Marosan;CN="Tamás Ullmann";CN=Csaba Olay: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261116T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261116T180000 SUMMARY:Is ascribing inferences to brains or non-human animals a fallacy? UID:20260727T081317Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce our monthly \;online \;talk series on "Inferences &\; Capacities."
Our next speaker is:
Hans-Johann Glock \;(University of Zü\;rich)
"Is ascribing inferences to brains or non-human animals a fallacy?"
Nov 16: \;12am (Buenos Aires)\, 10am (New York)\, 4pm (Berlin).
Abstract: TBA
\nHow to participate: \;Please\, send an email to Alfredo Vernazzani at: \;
\nalfredo-vernazzani AT protonmail.com
\n_______
\nThe series brings together work on inferential capacities\, rationality\, normativity\, and cognition &mdash\; across both human and non-human animals &mdash\; with the aim of fostering discussion on the nature and limits of the cognitive sphere. \;
\n2026 line-up: \;
April 27: \;Angelica Kaufmann \;(University of Milan): "Mind Blanking as Mental Imagery." \;
\nMay 18: \;Federico Burdman \;(Universidad Alberto Hurtado) "Constrained choices: addiction\, attention\, and reasons-responsiveness." \;
\nJune 22: \;Susanna Schellenberg \;(Rutgers): TBA \;
\nJuly 20: \;Cameron Buckner \;(University of Florida): "Chains-of-Thought\, Inner Speech\, and Artificial Epistemic Agency."
\nSeptember 7: \;Ulf Hlobil \;(Concordia University): TBA \;
\nOctober 19: \;Eva Schmidt \;(TU Dortmund): TBA \;
\nNovember 16: \;Hans-Johann Glock \;(University of Zü\;rich): "Is Ascribing Inferences to Brains or Non-human Animals a Fallacy?" \;
\nDecember 14: \;Emma Borg \;(SAS\, University of London): "Twitches\, Fidgets\, Habits\, Skills: The Scope of Common-Sense Psychology." \;
Each talk lasts c. 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes open Q&\;A. \;
\nThe series is co-organized by:
\nMariela Aguilera \;(University of Có\;rdoba)
\nMatí\;as Osta-Vé\;lez \;(Universidad de la Repú\;blica)
\nAlfredo Vernazzani \;(TU Dortmund\; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg).
\nVisit our website: \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Alfredo Vernazzani;CN=Mariela Aguilera;CN="Matías Osta": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261120T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261120T170000 SUMMARY:Boundaries of Artificial Intelligence: From Computational Models to Mind Emulation and Superintelligent Systems UID:20260727T081318Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Podchorążych 2\, Kraków\, Poland DESCRIPTION:The rapid development of artificial intelligence is reshaping our understanding of cognition\, consciousness\, and the nature of the mind. Advances in computational modeling\, neuroscience\, and neurotechnology raise fundamental questions about the possibility of Whole Brain Emulation (WBE)\, understood as the reconstruction and simulation of the human brain in silico.
\n\;At the same time\, progress in artificial intelligence brings increasing attention to the potential emergence of advanced and possibly superintelligent systems. These developments raise critical questions concerning controllability\, safety\, and the long-term trajectory of human civilization. In this context\, issues of AI alignment\, strategic timing of technological development\, and global coordination become central.
\nThis conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary platform for researchers working at the intersection of artificial intelligence\, neuroscience\, computer science\, philosophy\, and the social sciences. We welcome contributions addressing theoretical foundations\, technical feasibility\, as well as philosophical\, ethical\, and strategic implications of the transition from computational models to artificial and emulated minds.
ORGANIZER;CN=Andrzej Dabrowski;CN=Magdalena Reuter;CN="Stanisław Ruczaj";CN=Olga Qq;CN=Marcin Urbaniak;CN=Anna Sarosiek: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261125T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261127T170000 SUMMARY:Simposio Internacional MemoriEs 2026 UID:20260727T081319Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Simposio Internacional Online MemoriEs 2026
MemoriEs propone un espacio de diá\;logo interdisciplinario en torno a las relaciones entre memoria\, corporalidad y gé\;nero\, con el objetivo de problematizar los supuestos teó\;ricos que han separado estos á\;mbitos en tradiciones de investigació\;n diversas. Desde las ciencias cognitivas\, la neurociencia\, la fenomenologí\;a\, la filosofí\;a feminista\, los estudios de gé\;nero y las ciencias sociales\, el simposio busca examinar có\;mo los cuerpos recuerdan\, có\;mo las experiencias corporales configuran la memoria y có\;mo las diná\;micas de gé\;nero influyen en lo que se recuerda\, se olvida o se silencia. Daremos especial atenció\;n a los procesos de inscripció\;n material\, afectiva y social de la memoria\, así\; como a las desigualdades estructurales que moldean las trayectorias mné\;micas individuales y colectivas.
Convocatoria: Se invita a investigadores\, activistas\, doctorandos y profesionales en Filosofí\;a\, Neurociencias\, Antropologí\;a\, Estudios de Gé\;nero\, Ciencias cognitivas\, Psicologí\;a y á\;reas afines a participar como ponentes (45 min: 20&ndash\;25 de exposició\;n + 15&ndash\;20 de discusió\;n).
\nLí\;neas temá\;ticas:
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;Inscripció\;n corporal del recuerdo
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;El cuerpo como memoria
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;Afectividad\, trauma y memoria somá\;tica
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;Gé\;nero y configuració\;n de la experiencia mné\;mica
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;El rol de la memoria en narrativas de gé\;nero
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;Socializació\;n del gé\;nero y narrativas autobiográ\;ficas
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;Memoria\, identidad y performatividad
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;Diferencias generizadas en las prá\;cticas de recordar
\n- \; \; \; \;- \;Dañ\;os episté\;micos en contextos de injusticias de gé\;nero
\nInteresados\, favor de enviar un resumen (300 palabras en españ\;ol) antes del 30 de septiembre de 2026
\nEnví\;o de resú\;menes: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePf_EsviiWCXvsWgdilnrT2M2Nc-eS0m5RIvQIKqrQXoT_Rw/viewform
\n\nWebsite: https://memories.lat/simposio-2026-2/
ORGANIZER;CN="Alberto Guerrero-Velázquez";CN=Elena Ostos;CN=Lucienne Huby;CN="Alba Marcela Zárate Rochín": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261214T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261214T180000 SUMMARY:Twitches\, Fidgets\, Habits\, Skills: Exploring the scope of common-sense psychology UID:20260727T081320Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce our monthly \;online \;talk series on "Inferences &\; Capacities."
Our last speaker for 2026 is:
Emma Borg \;(SAS\, University of London)
"Twitches\, Fidgets\, Habits\, Skills: Exploring the scope of common-sense psychology"
December 14: \;12am (Buenos Aires)\, 10am (New York)\, 4pm (Berlin).
\nAbstract: A standard philosophical view holds that human action is typically intentional\, i.e. reasons-responsive\, driven by what a subject believes\, desires\, and intends. This picture of human action seems crucial to many things we care about (e.g. underpinning reactive moral attitudes). However\, recently questions have been asked about the scope of what Fodor 1987 called &lsquo\;good old common sense belief/desire psychology&rsquo\;: is the assumption that human behaviour is typically reasons-responsive right? According to various scope-based challenges\, although the reasons-based approach holds for occurrently considered\, consciously-willed actions\, most of what humans do is not like this. In particular\, fidgets\, habits\, and skills have all been argued to fall beyond the reach of the common-sense framework. Yet if this is right\, then the reasons-based model turns out to be less interesting or impressive than we might once have thought\, since it accounts for only a tiny sliver of human action\, ignoring vast swathes of what people do. My aim in this talk is to defend common-sense psychology from various incarnations of the scope challenge. I&rsquo\;ll argue that\, at heart\, the challenge rests on a background picture of different\, fully encapsulated systems for thought and action\, a picture we have reason to resist.
\nHow to participate: \;Please\, send an email to Alfredo Vernazzani at: \;
\nalfredo-vernazzani AT protonmail.com
\n_______
\nThe series brings together work on inferential capacities\, rationality\, normativity\, and cognition &mdash\; across both human and non-human animals &mdash\; with the aim of fostering discussion on the nature and limits of the cognitive sphere. \;
\n2026 line-up: \;
April 27: \;Angelica Kaufmann \;(University of Milan): "Mind Blanking as Mental Imagery." \;
\nMay 18: \;Federico Burdman \;(Universidad Alberto Hurtado) "Constrained choices: addiction\, attention\, and reasons-responsiveness." \;
\nJune 22: \;Susanna Schellenberg \;(Rutgers): TBA \;
\nJuly 20: \;Cameron Buckner \;(University of Florida): "Chains-of-Thought\, Inner Speech\, and Artificial Epistemic Agency."
\nSeptember 7: \;Ulf Hlobil \;(Concordia University): TBA \;
\nOctober 19: \;Eva Schmidt \;(TU Dortmund): TBA \;
\nNovember 16: \;Hans-Johann Glock \;(University of Zü\;rich): "Is Ascribing Inferences to Brains or Non-human Animals a Fallacy?" \;
\nDecember 14: \;Emma Borg \;(SAS\, University of London): "Twitches\, Fidgets\, Habits\, Skills: The Scope of Common-Sense Psychology." \;
Each talk lasts c. 40 minutes followed by 40 minutes open Q&\;A. \;
\nThe series is co-organized by:
\nMariela Aguilera \;(University of Có\;rdoba)
\nMatí\;as Osta-Vé\;lez \;(Universidad de la Repú\;blica)
\nAlfredo Vernazzani \;(TU Dortmund\; Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg).
\nVisit our website: \;
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Alfredo Vernazzani;CN=Mariela Aguilera;CN="Matías Osta": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 SUMMARY:Fiction and Lies: the ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress UID:20260727T081321Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Edinburgh\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Scots Philosophical Association
\nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS
\n--Professor Eileen John (Philosophy\, University of Warwick)
--Professor Pierre Bayard (Literature\, Université\; Paris 8 - Saint-Denis)
From Plato&rsquo\;s indictment of the tragic poets as misrepresenting the truth\, to Sir Philip Sidney&rsquo\;s famous claim in the Defence of Poesy that &lsquo\;the Poet\, he nothing affirms\, and therefore never lieth&rsquo\;\, to current debates about fictionality and factuality\, the relationship between \;fiction \;and \;lies \;has been a focus of scholarly attention. Both \;fiction-makers and liars make things up and misrepresent the truth. But it is traditionally assumed that with \;fiction\, the invention is non-deceptive. As Margaret Macdonald (1954\, 170) put the point\, &lsquo\;The conviction induced by a story is the result of a mutual conspiracy\, freely entered into\, between author and audience. A storyteller does not \;lie\, nor is a normal auditor deceived&rsquo\;. Macdonald proposed that instead\, \;fiction-makers engage in a non-deceptive pretence of assertion\; but other approaches also distinguish between fictionality and deception\, from philosophers who associate \;fiction \;with an invitation to make-believe rather than to believe to narratologists who treat fictionality as a rhetorical mode of communication that overtly signals fabrication. If \;lies \;are assertions aimed at deception\, perhaps \;fictions \;are incapable of \;lying.
Yet a sharp distinction between fictionality and deception confronts numerous challenges. Scholars across disciplines have considered the many ways in which \;fictions \;can affect our beliefs\, for good or ill. Even if \;fictions \;cannot \;lie \;in some technical sense\, they can certainly mislead\, insinuate\, obfuscate and so on. Works of \;fiction \;may be instances of propaganda which misrepresent the facts\; think of Oliver Stone&rsquo\;s film JFK (1991) or Michael Crichton&rsquo\;s \;novel \;State of Fear (2004). And the distinctions between the \;fictional \;and factual are under increasing pressure in the current culture of disinformation and &lsquo\;fake news&rsquo\; &ndash\; a category not so easy to distinguish from &lsquo\;fictional \;news&rsquo\;.
This three-day international conference aims to explore the relationship between \;fiction \;and \;lies \;from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives\, including philosophy\, literary history and theory\, narratology\, film and media studies\, psychology and cognitive science. Proposals may address fiction in general\, or any historical period or cultural tradition. We also encourage studies of fictional works in a variety of media (including video games\, comics\, film\, and television series).
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
\n&bull\;The possibility of lying in/through fiction
\n&bull\;Other modes of deception and dissimulation in fiction (in particular works\, in different media\, etc.)
\n&bull\;Fiction and fictionality as (tools for) propaganda
\n&bull\;The relationship between fiction and fake news
\n&bull\;Differing historical or cultural conceptions of the relationship between fiction and lies
\n&bull\;Representations of deception within fiction (e.g.\, unreliable narrators\, lying protagonists\, forgers)
\n&bull\;Fictions that (seem to) deceive about their own status (e.g.\, mockumentary)\, and more generally\, questions of &lsquo\;framing&rsquo\;
\n\nPlease note: There may be a conference registration fee (discounted for students) depending on the outcome of grant funding applications.
\n\nSubmission guidance
\n&bull\;All submissions should be sent by attachment in Word or pdf to fictionlies2026@gmail.com by 15 December 2025. \;
\n&bull\;Papers: Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words\, in English or French. Bear in mind that sessions scheduled for paper presentations will be 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation\, 10 minutes questions and answers). \;
\n&bull\;Symposia: Proposals\, in English or French\, should be no longer than 500 words and should include a description of the topic/theme\, the names/affiliations of participants and brief abstracts of the papers. Sessions for symposia will be 1.5 hours or 2 hours depending on the schedule and thus should typically have no more than three speakers. \;
\n&bull\;We encourage submissions from\, and symposia including\, members of groups underrepresented in their disciplines\, including women in philosophy. Symposia in philosophy should ensure that the proposal follows the Good Practice Policy of the British Philosophical Association and the Society for Women in Philosophy (see bpa.ac.uk/resources/women-in-philosophy/good-practice). Please also take note of the BPA&rsquo\;s Environment/Travel Guideline Scheme (bpa.ac.uk/policies).
\n&bull\;Funding may be available towards the cost of arranging childcare for speakers who may require it. Please ask for details.
\n&bull\;Participants in the conference will be expected to become members of the Association if they are not already (www.fictionstudies.org).
\nEarly career prize
\nThe ASIFF/SIRFF will offer a prize for the best paper by an early-career scholar (doctoral student or scholar who has received their PhD within the last 3 years)\, to be presented at the conference. The winner will receive a monetary award of &euro\;1\,000 (euros). If you would like to be considered for this award\, please submit your completed conference paper (no more than 3\,500 words/20\,000 characters) by 28 February 2026 to fictionlies2026@gmail.com. The article must be unpublished.
\n \; ORGANIZER;CN=Stacie Friend: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20270128T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20270130T170000 SUMMARY:Collective Agency in Classical and Continental Philosophy (Vilnius\, 2027) UID:20260727T081322Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:Conference description
\nIt is commonly assumed that individuals\, rather than collectives\, are the primary agents of action. According to ontological individualism\, social phenomena and collective actions are ultimately reducible to the actions and mental states of individuals. In recent decades\, however\, \; philosophers have developed a vibrant debate around collective agency\, noting for instance that certain mutual obligations cannot be reduced to individual duties and that groups can exhibit a unity of intention and action beyond the sum of their members. Much of this discussion has taken place within the analytic tradition.
\nThis conference asks what new insights can be gained by turning to classical and continental philosophy to enrich our understanding of collective agency. We believe that these traditions offer rich\, as yet underexplored\, conceptual resources that can open up fruitful new perspectives on questions of collective intentionality\, action\, and identity. In doing so\, the conference seeks to bridge philosophical traditions that often work in isolation\, bringing continental\, classical\, and analytic thinkers into dialogue around a shared theme. This will be one of the first forums to put figures from phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, personalism\, ancient and classical philosophy in direct conversation with analytic approaches to collective agency &ndash\; a creative synthesis we hope will break new theoretical ground.
\nWe invite contributions from scholars in continental philosophy (especially phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, existentialism\, personalism\, critical theory etc.)\, classical philosophy (e.g. ancient Greek and Roman thought\, medieval philosophy\, Neo-Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic traditions)\, political and social theory\, and related areas. Submissions from analytic philosophers that engage with the aforementioned traditions are also welcome.
\nPossible questions and topics that conference papers might address include\, but are not limited to\, the following themes:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; &ldquo\;We&rdquo\; in the individual identity
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Relational nature of personhood
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Collectives and ontological unity
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Categorisation of group agency
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Group intentions\, beliefs\, minds
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Collective emotions
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Individual duties and virtues in relation to groups
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Collective justice
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Groups and moral responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; Acting together in politics (solidarity\, civil disobedience\, collective movements)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Institutions\, corporations\, states as unitary agents and minds
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Collective identity and play\, art\, culture
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; &ldquo\;We&rdquo\; in the aesthetic experience
\nConfirmed keynote speakers:
\nThornton Lockwood (University of Florida)
\nSophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt)
\n\nSubmission guidelines
\nSubmission deadline and acceptance notification
\nThe abstracts must be submitted by Monday 1st June 2026.
\nThe acceptance notifications might be expected after Tuesday 30th June 2026.
\nSubmission procedure
\nWe invite proposals from researchers at every stage of their career and particularly welcome submissions from PhD students and early-career researchers. Abstracts should be submitted as .pdf or .docx files and should not exceed 500 words (without references). Abstracts should contain the title and a short outline of the paper\, specifying the main problem\, thesis\, and the intended line of argument.
\nPlease write &lsquo\;Conference Abstract Submission&rsquo\; in the subject line of your email and include in the email your name\, departmental affiliation\, email address\, short bio.
\nThe abstract must be submitted via email:cola.conference2026@gmail.com
\nPaper delivery
\nAll the authors of the accepted papers will be expected to submit their full papers before the conference. Presentations will be 45 minutes long\, including discussion. The papers will have to be sent for the conference organizers by Monday 11th January 2027.
\nOther practicalities
\nPlease note that this is an in-person conference held at Vilnius University\, Lithuania.
\nLunch and dinner will be provided throughout the conference. Unfortunately\, we are unable to cover travel and accommodation costs.
\nOrganisers
\nThis conference is part of the research project &ldquo\;Collective Agency: Towards A Three-Part Philosophical Theory&rdquo\; (No. S-MIP-25-108)\, funded by the Lithuanian Research Council. Project implementers and conference organisers are Vilius Bartninkas\, Simas Čelutka\, and Aistė Noreikaitė.
ORGANIZER;CN=Vilius Bartninkas: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270131T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270131T090000 SUMMARY:Clinical Pragmatics and the Cognitive Sciences UID:20260727T081323Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR CHAPTERS
\nCLINICAL PRAGMATICS AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Language\, Mind\, and Communication Across the Lifespan
Edited by Paola Pennisi
University of Messina\, Italy
Proposed for the Springer series
Perspectives in Pragmatics\, Philosophy &\; Psychology
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\nABOUT THE VOLUME
\nClinical pragmatics offers a privileged perspective on the relationships between language\, meaning\, cognition\, and social interaction.
\nThis edited volume will bring together clinical\, linguistic\, philosophical\, psychological\, neuropsychological\, and cognitive-scientific approaches to pragmatic communication across the lifespan.
\nWe particularly welcome contributions that begin with the description or analysis of clinical and atypical pragmatic-linguistic profiles and use this evidence to develop\, refine\, or challenge broader theories of language\, meaning\, cognition\, and interaction.
\nThere are no submission or publication fees for contributors.
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\nTOPICS MAY INCLUDE
\n&bull\; Autism and other neurodevelopmental conditions
&bull\; Social and pragmatic communication disorders
&bull\; Developmental language disorder and intellectual disability
&bull\; Genetic and rare syndromes
&bull\; Schizophrenia\, psychosis\, and psychiatric conditions
&bull\; Aphasia and right-hemisphere communication disorders
&bull\; Traumatic brain injury
&bull\; Parkinson&rsquo\;s disease\, dementia\, and other neurodegenerative conditions
&bull\; Hearing loss\, visual impairment\, and multimodal communication
&bull\; Pragmatic development and pragmatic changes across the lifespan
&bull\; Theory of mind\, mentalizing\, and social cognition
&bull\; Executive functions\, memory\, attention\, emotion\, and cognitive flexibility
&bull\; Pragmatic inference\, implicature\, presupposition\, and speech acts
&bull\; Metaphor\, irony\, humour\, sarcasm\, and indirect language
&bull\; Narrative\, discourse\, conversation\, prosody\, gesture\, and gaze
&bull\; Embodied\, enactive\, phenomenological\, ecological\, and interactional approaches
&bull\; Pragmatic assessment\, diagnosis\, intervention\, and rehabilitation
&bull\; Cross-linguistic\, cross-cultural\, and multilingual perspectives
&bull\; Digital technologies\, computational methods\, and artificial intelligence
Related proposals are also welcome.
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\nTYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS
\nThe volume welcomes:
\n&bull\; Experimental and observational studies
&bull\; Descriptions of pragmatic-linguistic profiles
&bull\; Qualitative\, quantitative\, and mixed-method studies
&bull\; Conversation\, discourse\, narrative\, and multimodal analyses
&bull\; Clinical case studies and case series
&bull\; Comparative and transdiagnostic studies
&bull\; Assessment and intervention studies
&bull\; Methodological contributions
&bull\; Theoretical and philosophical papers
&bull\; Systematic\, scoping\, and narrative reviews
&bull\; Meta-analyses and interdisciplinary position papers
Contributions may address any age group\, from early childhood to older adulthood.
\n────────────────────────────────────────
\nSUBMISSION
\nPlease submit:
\n&bull\; A provisional title
&bull\; An abstract of approximately 300&ndash\;500 words
&bull\; Five keywords
&bull\; Authors&rsquo\; names\, affiliations\, and contact details
&bull\; A short biographical note
&bull\; The proposed type of contribution
Abstracts should be sent to:
\nPaola Pennisi
University of Messina
paola.pennisi@unime.it
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\nIMPORTANT DATES
\nAbstract submission: 31 January 2027
Notification of acceptance: 14 February 2027
Full chapter submission: 7 January 2028
Peer-review reports: 28 February 2028
Final manuscript submission to Springer: June 2028
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\nAll chapters will undergo scholarly peer review. Acceptance of an abstract does not automatically guarantee publication of the final chapter.
\nProspective contributors are welcome to circulate this call among interested colleagues.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Lima:20270222T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Lima:20270228T170000 SUMMARY:CAELO 1: First Andean Congress for Epistemology and Logic UID:20260727T081324Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/Lima LOCATION:Lima\, Peru DESCRIPTION:CAELO 1: First Andean Congress for Epistemology and Logic*\, organised by Peru&rsquo\;s \;Society for Epistemology and Logic \;(SEPLO)\, will take place in Lima\, Peru\, from \;22 to 28 February 2027.
\nThis inaugural congress marks the beginning of a planned series 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. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in talks and workshops that foster interdisciplinary dialogue and critical reflection. Contributions from all levels of experience are welcome\, from established researchers to early-career scholars and students. Proposed sessions and workshops include:
\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:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270301T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270301T000000 SUMMARY:Mind without Inner Representation? Psychological Discourse\, Rationality\, and Mental Anti-Representationalism (Special Issue of JCCP) UID:20260727T081325Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: Mind without Inner Representation?
\nPsychological Discourse\, Rationality\, and Mental Anti-Representationalism
\nSpecial Issue of \;Journal of Contemporary Chinese Philosophy (JCCP)
\nGuest Editor: Rusong Huang
\nContact: rusongh@gmail.com
\nSubmission deadline: March 1\, 2027
\nTopic areas: Philosophy of Mind\; Philosophy of Language\; Metaphysics\; Normativity\; Philosophy of Psychology
\nDescription
\nWhen we attribute beliefs\, desires\, intentions\, fears\, memories\, imaginings\, sensations\, or experiences to someone\, what are we doing?
\nMuch of modern philosophy of mind has assumed that psychological sentences are representational: they describe mental states\, properties\, events\, or processes belonging to a subject. This assumption generates familiar metaphysical pressures. If psychological sentences represent mental facts\, then we must explain how such facts fit into the physical world. This gives rise to what has been variously called the location problem\, the placement problem\, the accommodation problem\, or the problem of how mind can be at home in nature.
\nThis special issue invites papers that examine whether the representational assumption about psychological discourse should be rejected\, revised\, or defended. It focuses on a family of views that challenge\, in different ways\, the idea that psychological sentences primarily function to represent inner mental facts. These include fictionalism\, eliminativism\, error theory\, illusionism\, and mental anti-representationalism &mdash\; what we may call\, for convenience\, the FEEL theories and MAR. The issue welcomes both sympathetic and critical treatments of these views\, as well as papers that defend more traditional representationalist approaches.
\nA central aim of the issue is to explore the relations among these positions. Are the FEEL theories and MAR competing alternatives\, or can they be combined? Does MAR collapse into one of the FEEL theories\, or does it offer a distinct way of rejecting inner-fact representationalism? Can these approaches preserve the explanatory\, rational\, and normative roles of psychological discourse while avoiding the metaphysical burdens of inner-object models of mind?
\nPossible topics
\nSubmissions may address\, but are not limited to:
\nPapers may be sympathetic\, critical\, historical\, systematic\, or comparative.
\nSubmission instructions
\nSubmissions should be original articles not currently under consideration elsewhere.
\nManuscripts should be prepared for anonymous review and should not exceed 10\,000 words\, including quotations and footnotes but excluding reference lists.
\nPlease submit manuscripts in the Editorial Manager for JCCP: \; https://www.editorialmanager.com/jccp/default.aspx \;
\nYou may see submission instructions here.
\nPlease indicate that the paper is intended for the special issue &ldquo\;Mind without Inner Representation? Psychological Discourse\, Rationality\, and Mental Anti-Representationalism.&rdquo\;
\nSubmission deadline: March 1\, 2027
\nExpected publication: Fall 2027 / early 2028
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270301T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270301T090000 SUMMARY:Special issue of Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion: "Philosophy of Mind Meets Philosophy of Religion" UID:20260727T081326Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: Philosophy of Mind Meets Philosophy of Religion
\nSpecial issue on &ldquo\;Philosophy of Mind Meets Philosophy of Religion&rdquo\;
\nDeadline: 1 March 2027
Editors: Prof. Andrei A. Buckareff and Dr. Mikael Leidenhag
The philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion were largely siloed sub-disciplines for much of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Insofar as the sub-disciplines made connections\, it was mostly in work by traditional theists considering the implications of the ontological commitments of theism for how to think about persons and the afterlife. To the extent that philosophy of mind had an influence on debates in the philosophy of religion\, much of the work centered around theists arguing that theistic supernaturalism enjoys an advantage over atheistic naturalism with respect to the hard problem of consciousness. Again\, there have been exceptions. For instance\, some panentheistic models of the divine mind offered in the 1990s and 2000s were influenced by work on emergentism in the philosophy of mind. And William Alston&rsquo\;s work on religious experience borrowed heavily from his own work and the work of others on direct realism about perception.
\nIn the last twenty years\, there has been growing interest in alternative conceptions of an ultimate. Along with this growing interest\, we have witnessed a growing body of research exploring how work in the philosophy of mind can bear not only on models of the ultimate\, but help shed light on other problems in the philosophy of religion.
\nThis special issue is devoted to essays that explore the intersection between the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. Examples of some topics that may be explored include\, but are not limited to\, the following:
\nWe welcome submissions on the foregoing topics and any other topics that explore the boundaries of the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion for this special issue.
\nTo submit\, please visit https://publicera.kb.se/aejpr/about/submissions. Name the file &ldquo\;Special Issue PoMPoR&rdquo\;.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20270303T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20270305T170000 SUMMARY:Rethinking Agency under Non-Ideal Conditions UID:20260727T081327Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Graz\, Austria\, 8010 ORGANIZER;CN="Denis Džanić";CN=Emanuela Carta;CN=Daniel Neumann: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20270305T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20270307T170000 SUMMARY:Artificial Intelligence and The Philosophy of Technology/Künstliche Intelligenz und die Philosophie der Technik UID:20260727T081328Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Brüggener Weg 6\, Düsseldorf\, Germany\, 40547 DESCRIPTION:Symposium
\nArtificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Technology
\nMarch 5&ndash\;7\, 2027
\nEKŌ Center of Japanese Culture\, Dü\;sseldorf
\nAbout the Symposium:
\nThe EKŌ Center of Japanese Culture in Dü\;sseldorf is hosting a symposium on the topic of &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence and the Philosophy of Technology&rdquo\; on March 5-7\, 2027.
\nToday\, artificial intelligence has become an indispensable part of people's daily lives\; examples include search engines\, ChatGPT\, navigation and traffic management systems\, voice assistants\, facial recognition\, personalized advertising\, and more. In this context\, AI attempts&mdash\;by means of algorithms&mdash\;to mimic human thought\, to optimize it\, and perhaps\, one day\, to replace it.
\nThis symposium aims to shed light on the philosophy of AI and technology. It is designed to be both intercultural and interdisciplinary in scope. At its center lie the following questions: What is AI\, and how does it function? What are its ethical implications? Is the term &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo\; a contradiction in terms? Will AI one day attain consciousness? To what extent will it shape our future lives? To what degree is AI an expression of &ldquo\;Western thought and Western culture&rdquo\;\, and how do other cultures or religions&mdash\;such as Buddhism&mdash\;view technology? In this context\, the symposium will also explore the place of AI within Japanese culture.
\nThe following sections are planned:
\n- \;Intercultural Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence and Technology
\n- \;AI and Consciousness
\n- \;Western Technology and Buddhism
\n- \;AI and Technology in Japan
\nWe welcome submissions from established scholars as well as early-career researchers (doctoral candidates\, postdocs) in the fields of Philosophy (Philosophy of Technology\, Philosophy of Mind\, Philosophy of Language\, Ethics\, Metaphysics\, Philosophy of Religion\, etc.)\, Japanese Studies\, Cultural Studies\, and related disciplines.
\nCall for Papers:
\n·\; Interested scholars are invited to submit abstracts (in German or English) of 300&ndash\;500 words by September 30\, 2026\, to: hantke@eko-haus.de
\n·\; Notification of acceptance will be sent in mid-October 2026.
\n·\; Limited financial support for travel and accommodation expenses is available for selected speakers.
\n·\; The presentations will subsequently be published in Hô\;rin. Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur (Hô\;rin. Comparative Studies on Japanese Culture) by the Iudicium Verlag:
\nhttps://eko-haus.de/sonstiges/publikationen/#j2
\nAbstracts and Registration to:
\nDr. Myriam-Sonja Hantke: hantke@eko-haus.de
\nFurther information will be available at:
\n\nOrganization:
\nProf. Dr. Hisao MATSUMARU
\nDr. Myriam-Sonja HANTKE
\nBrü\;ggener Weg 6 &bull\; 40547 Dü\;sseldorf &bull\; Germany
\n----------------------------------------------------------------------
\nSymposium
\nKü\;nstliche Intelligenz und die Philosophie der Technik
\n05.03.-07.03.2027
\nEKŌ-Haus der Japanischen Kultur e.V. in Dü\;sseldorf
\n\;
\nÜ\;ber das Symposium:
\nDas EKŌ-Haus der Japanischen Kultur e.V. in Dü\;sseldorf veranstaltet vom 05.03. bis zum 07.03.2027 ein Symposium zum Thema &bdquo\;Kü\;nstliche Intelligenz und die Philosophie der Technik&ldquo\;.
\nKü\;nstliche Intelligenz ist heutzutage aus dem Alltag der Menschen nicht mehr wegzudenken\, Beispiele sind Suchmaschinen\, ChatGPT\, Navigation und Verkehrsmanagement\, Sprachassistenten\, Gesichtserkennung\, personalisierte Werbung etc. Die KI versucht dabei mittels Algorithmen menschliches Denken nachzuahmen\, dieses zu optimieren und vielleicht eines Tages zu ersetzen.
\nBei diesem Symposium soll die Philosophie der KI und der Technik nä\;her beleuchtet werden. Das Symposium soll dabei interkulturell und interdisziplinä\;r ausgerichtet sein. Im Zentrum stehen die Fragen: Was ist KI und wie funktioniert sie? Welche ethischen Implikationen besitzt sie? Ist der Begriff &bdquo\;Kü\;nstliche Intelligenz&ldquo\; ein Widerspruch in sich? Wird die KI eines Tages Bewusstsein erlangen? Wie sehr wird sie unser zukü\;nftiges Leben bestimmen? Inwieweit ist die KI Ausdruck des &bdquo\;westlichen Denkens und der westlichen Kultur&ldquo\; und wie betrachten andere Kulturen bzw. Religionen wie beispielsweise der Buddhismus Technik? Auch soll in diesem Zusammenhang nach dem Ort der KI in der japanischen Kultur gefragt werden.
\nFolgende Sektionen sind geplant:
\n- Interkulturelle Philosophie der Kü\;nstlichen Intelligenz und der Technik
\n- KI und Bewusstsein
\n- Westliche Technik und Buddhismus
\n- KI und Technik in Japan
\nWir freuen uns ü\;ber Beiträ\;ge von Wissenschaftlern/Innen und auch von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern/Innen (Doktoranden/Innen\, PostDocs) aus der Philosophie (Philosophie der Technik\, Philosophie des Geistes\, Sprachphilosophie\, Ethik\, Metaphysik\, Religionsphilosophie etc.)\, Japanologie\, Kulturwissenschaften sowie aus angrenzenden Disziplinen.
\nCall for Papers:
\n·\; Interessierte sind aufgerufen\, Abstracts (Deutsch oder Englisch) mit einem Umfang von 300-500 Wö\;rtern bis zum 30.09.2026einzureichen an: hantke@eko-haus.de
\n·\; Die Benachrichtigung ü\;ber die Annahme der Beiträ\;ge erfolgt Mitte Oktober 2026.
\n·\; Es besteht die Mö\;glichkeit einer begrenzten finanziellen Unterstü\;tzung fü\;r Reise- und Unterkunftskosten ausgewä\;hlter Vortragender.
\n·\; Die Vorträ\;ge werden anschließ\;end in Hô\;rin. Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur im Iudicium-Verlag verö\;ffentlicht:
\nhttps://eko-haus.de/sonstiges/publikationen/#j2
\nAbstracts und Anmeldungen an: \;
\nDr. Myriam-Sonja Hantke: hantke@eko-haus.de
\nWeitere Informationen folgen auf:
\n\nOrganisation:
\nProf. Dr. Hisao MATSUMARU
\nDr. Myriam-Sonja HANTKE
\nBrü\;ggener Weg 6 &bull\; 40547 Dü\;sseldorf &bull\; Germany
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270402T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270404T170000 SUMMARY:JAM (Junkyard Anniversary Meeting) - Philosophy of Imagination Conference UID:20260727T081329Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:The Kravis Center\, Claremont\, United States\, 91711 DESCRIPTION:A philosophy of imagination conference to commemorate the 10th anniversary of The Junkyard blog. In addition to the invited speakers\, there will be also be a book symposium on Luke Roelofs' \;Empathic Reason\, with commentaries from Heidi Maibom\, Colin Marshall\, and Eric Peterson. \; There will also be contributed papers selected via a CFP.
ORGANIZER;CN=Amy Kind: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20270601T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20270601T000000 SUMMARY:Collective Agency in Classical and Continental Philosophy (Vilnius\, 2027) UID:20260727T081330Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:Conference description
\nIt is commonly assumed that individuals\, rather than collectives\, are the primary agents of action. According to ontological individualism\, social phenomena and collective actions are ultimately reducible to the actions and mental states of individuals. In recent decades\, however\, \; philosophers have developed a vibrant debate around collective agency\, noting for instance that certain mutual obligations cannot be reduced to individual duties and that groups can exhibit a unity of intention and action beyond the sum of their members. Much of this discussion has taken place within the analytic tradition.
\nThis conference asks what new insights can be gained by turning to classical and continental philosophy to enrich our understanding of collective agency. We believe that these traditions offer rich\, as yet underexplored\, conceptual resources that can open up fruitful new perspectives on questions of collective intentionality\, action\, and identity. In doing so\, the conference seeks to bridge philosophical traditions that often work in isolation\, bringing continental\, classical\, and analytic thinkers into dialogue around a shared theme. This will be one of the first forums to put figures from phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, personalism\, ancient and classical philosophy in direct conversation with analytic approaches to collective agency &ndash\; a creative synthesis we hope will break new theoretical ground.
\nWe invite contributions from scholars in continental philosophy (especially phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, existentialism\, personalism\, critical theory etc.)\, classical philosophy (e.g. ancient Greek and Roman thought\, medieval philosophy\, Neo-Aristotelian and Neo-Platonic traditions)\, political and social theory\, and related areas. Submissions from analytic philosophers that engage with the aforementioned traditions are also welcome.
\nPossible questions and topics that conference papers might address include\, but are not limited to\, the following themes:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; &ldquo\;We&rdquo\; in the individual identity
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Relational nature of personhood
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Collectives and ontological unity
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Categorisation of group agency
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Group intentions\, beliefs\, minds
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Collective emotions
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Individual duties and virtues in relation to groups
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Collective justice
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Groups and moral responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; Acting together in politics (solidarity\, civil disobedience\, collective movements)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Institutions\, corporations\, states as unitary agents and minds
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Collective identity and play\, art\, culture
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; &ldquo\;We&rdquo\; in the aesthetic experience
\nConfirmed keynote speakers:
\nThornton Lockwood (University of Florida)
\nSophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt)
\n\nSubmission guidelines
\nSubmission deadline and acceptance notification
\nThe abstracts must be submitted by Monday 1st June 2026.
\nThe acceptance notifications might be expected after Tuesday 30th June 2026.
\nSubmission procedure
\nWe invite proposals from researchers at every stage of their career and particularly welcome submissions from PhD students and early-career researchers. Abstracts should be submitted as .pdf or .docx files and should not exceed 500 words (without references). Abstracts should contain the title and a short outline of the paper\, specifying the main problem\, thesis\, and the intended line of argument.
\nPlease write &lsquo\;Conference Abstract Submission&rsquo\; in the subject line of your email and include in the email your name\, departmental affiliation\, email address\, short bio.
\nThe abstract must be submitted via email:cola.conference2026@gmail.com
\nPaper delivery
\nAll the authors of the accepted papers will be expected to submit their full papers before the conference. Presentations will be 45 minutes long\, including discussion. The papers will have to be sent for the conference organizers by Monday 11th January 2027.
\nOther practicalities
\nPlease note that this is an in-person conference held at Vilnius University\, Lithuania.
\nLunch and dinner will be provided throughout the conference. Unfortunately\, we are unable to cover travel and accommodation costs.
\nOrganisers
\nThis conference is part of the research project &ldquo\;Collective Agency: Towards A Three-Part Philosophical Theory&rdquo\; (No. S-MIP-25-108)\, funded by the Lithuanian Research Council. Project implementers and conference organisers are Vilius Bartninkas\, Simas Čelutka\, and Aistė Noreikaitė.
ORGANIZER;CN=Vilius Bartninkas: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260726T000706Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20300531T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20300531T090000 SUMMARY:Phenomenologies of Religious Experience UID:20260727T081331Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:1cd5:3aff:fe47:30db%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This series invites proposals in classical phenomenology\, French phenomenology\, pre- and post-phenomenologies\, and in methodologies that bridge phenomenology and analytic philosophy. The relation between phenomenology and religious experience can be considered in a variety of modes: epistemic (phenomenology as a "rigorous science" of religious experience in Husserl's sense)\; ontic (phenomenology as a way to access the core motive\, or regulative ideal\, of religion)\; analogical (phenomenological experience as a secular version of religious experience)\; generalizing (religious experience turning into phenomenological experience when stripped from its dogmatic frame)\, etc. Proposals can take critical\, descriptive\, theoretical\, comparative\, historical\, or other approaches\, and they can focus on the interplay between religious or spiritual experience and assorted theoretical approaches\, or proceed from such experience towards building a new theory. In accord with Husserl&rsquo\;s original intent\, the series welcomes attempts to locate spiritual or religious experience within a broader theory of the sciences (Wissenschaftslehre) and to expand phenomenology towards transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
The series covers five areas:
1) Clarifications of religious and spiritual experience\, its formal phenomenological research\, and its relationships to art\, textuality\, culture\, anthropology\, politics\, and comparative religion\;
2) Metaphysical extensions of the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience\;
3) Existential and psychological analyses\, in different traditions\, of religious and spiritual experience\;
4) Theologies of religious experience\, with or beyond a specific focus on ritual and liturgy\, including liberation theologies\, feminist theologies\, theologies at the intersection of religious experience and race\, social status\, etc.\;
5) The phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience as applied to and/ or examined within medicine\, nursing\, and the health sciences and the natural and social sciences.
The series is published in cooperation with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience\, \;www.sophere.org.
Editors: \;Michael Barber (michael.barber@slu.edu)\, Peter Costello (PCOSTELL@providence.edu)\, Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (founding editor\, \;olouch@ucdavis.edu)\, and Martin Nitsche (nitsche@flu.cas.cz)
Advisory Board: \;Jason Alvis (University of Vienna)\, Angela Ales Bello (Pontifical Lateran University)\, Michel Bitbol (The French National Center for Scientific Research)\, Carla Canullo (University of Macerata)\, David Ciavatta (Ryerson University)\, Crina Gschwandtner (Fordham University)\, Neal DeRoo (The King&rsquo\;s University)\, Thomas Fuchs (University of Heidelberg)\, James G. Hart (University of Indiana)\, Richard Kearney (Boston College)\, Jeff McCurry (Duquesne University)\, Felix O&rsquo\;Murchadha (National University of Ireland\, Galway)\, Dermot Moran (Boston College)\, Tom Nenon (The University of Memphis)\, Ryōsuke Ōhashi (Universities of Kyoto and Osaka)\, Vincent Pastro (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Aquinas Institute of Theology\, St Louis)\, Hans Rainer Sepp (Charles University)\, Michel Staudigl (University of Vienna)\, Claudia Welz (Aarhus University)
Staff editorial contact: \;Jana Hodges-Kluck (jhodges-kluck@rowman.com) \;
*Please note that this event has officially been postponed. More information will be made available asap in the near future*
\nMany human cognitive capacities and processes may be deployed creatively\, from unique choices made for oneself up through novel cultural shifts. Similarly\, large swaths of our daily lives are taken up with performing spontaneous\, on-the-fly\, and unplanned activities that are\, in a word\, improvised. \; Charting out the nature of both creativity and improvisation\, taken individually or together\, remains an open and pressing issue. In this conference\, we will delve into various philosophical\, theoretical\, empirical\, and interdisciplinary issues that are related to creativity and improvisation. A non-exhaustive list of related questions and themes for this topic include:
\n- What is the relationship between improvisation and creativity?
\n- What is the relationship between creative activity and well-being?
\n- What is the best way to model individual and collective creativity?
\n- Is creativity in the arts the same thing as in other domains\, such as in science or business?
\n- What are the pros and cons of different scientific operationalizations of creativity and improvisation?
\n- Provide a conceptual analysis of creativity and/or improvisation.
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