In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance &ndash\; Series III
\nA series of interviews with contributors to The Philosophy of Money and Finance (Hardcover\, OUP 2024\; Paperback\, fall 2025)
\nSchedule
\n"Truth in Financial Accounting"
Author: Christopher J. Cowton (Emeritus\, University of Huddersfield)
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center)
Date and Time: 15 January 2026\, 18:00 CET
"Green Central Banking" \;
Authors: Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria)\; Clé\;ment Fontan (University of Louvain)
Interviewer: Jens van't Klooster
Date and Time: 25 March 2026\, 18:00 CET
"On the Wrongfulness of Bank Contributions to Financial Crises"
Author: \;Richard Endö\;rfer (University of Gothenburg)
Interviewer: Kobi Finestone (Univeresity of San Diego)
Date and Time: 01 June 2026\, 18:00 CET
"Bitcoins Left and Right: A Normative Assessment of a Digital Currency"
Authors: Lars Lindblom and Joakim Sandberg
Interviewer: TBA
Date and Time: September (TBA) 2026\, 18:00 CET
This is a zoom series on the value of consciousness\, taking place every first Tuesday of the month at noon Eastern time in the US/6pm in Europe. The program is below. The zoom link is this:
\nhttps://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/93096236283?pwd=s6SO6NqrM5mnGpqjFtKNfTNoxaHGUg.1
\nProgram:
\nSept. 2: Takuya Niikawa\, &ldquo\;Consciousness Aesthetics&rdquo\;
Oct. 7: Anna Giustina\, &ldquo\;Prospects for an Aesthetics of Consciousness&rdquo\;
Nov. 11: Emad Atiq\, ""Agency\, Normativity\, and Acquaintance"
Dec. 2: Lé\;a Salje\, &ldquo\;Feeling Like Oneself&rdquo\;
Jan. 6: David Builes\, &ldquo\;Four Views of the First Person&rdquo\;
Feb. 3: Adrià\; Moret\, &ldquo\;No Welfare without Sentience&rdquo\;
Mar. 3: Gwen Bradford\, &ldquo\;Dreams and Incommunicable Aesthetic Value&rdquo\;
Apr. 7: Enrico Terrone\, "The Type-Token Dilemma for the Aesthetics of Consciousness"
May 5: Leonard Dung\, &ldquo\;Varieties of Sentientism About Moral Standing&rdquo\;
New Generation Research Exchange
\n\;Call for Applications \;
\nSummary \;
\nThe Humane Philosophy Society\, in collaboration the Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Warsaw\, Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford\, and Faculty of Philosophy\, Zagreb University invite applications for the New Generation Research Exchange programme. The Exchange programme will give young scholars in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) working on Big Questions of fundamental human importance the opportunity to participate in three fully funded workshops taking place at the Universities of Warsaw\, Zagreb and Oxford. Participants will have the further opportunity to apply to continue the research during a term of funded supervised research at the University of Oxford on the Marek Matraszek Fellowship. Participants&rsquo\; research projects will be assessed by an external committee after the final workshop takes place to determine possible supervisors for research visits to Oxford. The Fellowship will conclude with an alumni workshop in the summer of 2026 to take place in Trogir\, Croatia. \;
\nAn introductory video can be viewed here: \;
\nhttps://youtu.be/vfaPrP2W2Hs
\nEligibility
\nApplicants will normally be MA or early PhD students at Central and Eastern European research institutions\, including universities\, research academies and seminaries\, or young scholars from CEE on equivalent degree programmes outside the region. The programme is intended to support research projects of successful candidates during the final year of their MA course\, or developing their MA research topics for publication\, or with a PhD application in mind\, as well as those beginning to work on a PhD. Proposed projects should broadly fall under the project themes\, which are outlined below. \; It is expected that most applications will be submitted by natural scientists\, theologians and philosophers\, but there are no disciplinary restrictions and applicants with academic backgrounds in other areas are also welcome. Applications are welcome from researchers working in any religious tradition\, and from researchers working in no religious tradition.
\nFor the purposes of the project\, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is defined as: Albania\, Armenia\, Azerbaijan\, Belarus\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Bulgaria\, Croatia\, Czechia\, Estonia\, Georgia\, Hungary\, Kosovo\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, Moldova\, Montenegro\, North Macedonia\, Poland\, Romania\, Serbia\, Slovakia\, Slovenia and Ukraine.
\nActivities
\nSuccessful candidates will participate in a series of three masterclasses during the course of the programme. The meetings will take place over three days each at the Universities of Zagreb\, Warsaw\, and Oxford. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their work as a group and with invited mentors\, as well as participate in seminars led by prominent visiting speakers. The Fellowship will cover all the costs of participating in each masterclass including travel and accommodation. The fellowship will conclude with an alumni workshop in the summer of 2026 which will cover all participant costs except travel. The total value of the Fellowship is 4000 USD. \;
\nSelected participants will have a further opportunity to receive the Marek Matraszek Oxford Fellowship to complete their work during a term at Oxford University\, where they will be able to work closely with a secondary supervisor to advance their research. The funding for research visits at Oxford University will cover accommodation\, living costs\, college fees\, and supervision and have a total value of 3000 USD. \;
\nSupported Research Themes
\nThe programme will support research which engages with Big Questions of universal human importance. We are especially interested in research into fundamental issues which straddle boundaries between disciplines including philosophy\, psychology\, physical sciences\, social sciences\, theology\, literature and cultural studies. Applicants will be expected to engage with recent developments in their disciplines\, and demonstrate a high standard of academic rigor. Suitable topics include\, but are not limited to:
\n▪ The significance of theological traditions for scientific practice today\;
\n▪ The relations of brains\, minds and human persons\;
\n▪ Whether physical cosmology can explain the origin of the cosmos\;
\n▪ The role of religion in the historical development of science\;
\n▪ The place of values in the natural world\;
\n▪ The relevance of literary works and traditions for understanding and interpreting Big Questions\;
\n▪ Phenomenology of human life and interpersonal relations\;
\n▪ Intellectual traditions in CEE and their import for Big Questions\;
\n▪ Free will and scientific determinism and/or divine foreknowledge\;
\n▪ Empirical psychology and the second person perspective\;
\n▪ Phenomenological approaches to religion\;
\n▪ Understanding notions of God\, good and evil in a scientific age.
\nFor further example areas that explore Big Questions applicants are strongly encouraged to visit the Humane Philosophy Society&rsquo\;s website where example areas of interest are listed.
\nFor more information on the NGRE fellowship programme as well as on NGRE alumni visit: \;https://www.humanephilosophy.com/ngre
\nApplication process
\nApplications for Exchange Fellowships must be submitted no later than 1 August 2025 for the cycle of the programme starting October 2025. Applications must include the following documents. \; \;
\n▪A proposal describing the research the candidate is carrying out\, how far the research is advanced\, and an outline of the work the candidate expects to complete during the course of their final year. \;
\n▪A full curriculum vitae\, and a statement saying how the candidate expects to benefit from participating in the programme
\n▪Two academic references including a reference from the candidate&rsquo\;s supervisor if the research project is part of an MA degree. \;
\n▪A confirmation from the candidate&rsquo\;s institution stating that they are allowed to participate in the programme during the academic year 2025&ndash\;6. \;
\nAll application materials should be submitted via email to info@humanephilosophy.com stating in the subject line: &ldquo\;NGRE application&rdquo\;. The results of the competition will be announced in September 2025.
\nBy submitting an application for the New Generation Research Exchange candidates accept and acknowledge the terms of processing their personal data for the purpose of the application process. For further information concerning the processing of personal data by the University of Warsaw see the personal data information sheet. If you have any questions please contact Dr Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode: m.slawkowski-rode@uw.edu.pl \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode;CN=Marija Selak;CN=Ralph Stefan Weir: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260201T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T170000 SUMMARY:Inquiry Network WIP Talks (Spring 2026) UID:20260417T210829Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Inquiry Network WIP Talks feature presentations of work in progress related to inquiry\, broadly understood. For example\, presentations might discuss (but are not limited to): the epistemology of inquiry\, the metaphysics of inquiry\, ethical norms of inquiry\, historical perspectives on inquiry\, or the structure of scientific inquiry.
We aim to foster the sharing of ideas in an inclusive\, welcoming and low-pressure environment. Papers that are already accepted for publication will not be accepted. We aim to be sensitive to the needs of early-career scholars.
The group meets biweekly on Zoom during each of the Fall and Spring semesters. Meeting times are determined shortly before the beginning of each semester with the goal of finding a time that works for as many members as possible. Special consideration is given to finding a meeting time that works for presenters of accepted papers.
The workshop aims to bring together scholars who have been developing a Humean approach to virtue ethics. This is a topic that has started to attract more and more attention over the past few years. The idea behind this movement is that Hume&rsquo\;s moral philosophy offers philosophical material to develop a form of non-teleological\, sentimentalist virtue ethics that can rival the mainstream neo-Aristotelian approaches. This event is generously co-sponsored by The Leverhulme Trust and \;The Scots Philosophical Association.
ORGANIZER;CN=Enrico Galvagni;CN=Michael B. Gill: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T170000 SUMMARY:Varieties of Harmony in Greek and Chinese Philosophy UID:20260417T210832Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/New_York LOCATION: Smith Warehouse\, Bay 4\, Room C105\, Ahmadieh Lecture Hall\, Durham\, United States DESCRIPTION:The workshop\, \;&ldquo\;Varieties of Harmony in Greek and Chinese Philosophy\,&rdquo\; \;will take place at Duke University on \;April 16&ndash\;17\, 2026\, with sessions running \;9:00 AM&ndash\;5:00 PM \;each day. It is an interdisciplinary workshop that brings together scholars of ancient Greek philosophy and early Chinese philosophy to explore different conceptions of interpersonal harmony\, including family relationships\, friendship\, civic cooperation\, ethical cultivation\, and social/political relations. The event aims to foster comparative dialogue across traditions and to highlight both convergences and important differences in how interpersonal harmony is understood and cultivated. \;The workshop is organized by Wenjin Liu and David Wong.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260416T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260417T170000 SUMMARY:Ethics Medicine Innovation (EMI) UID:20260417T210833Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Houston\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Ethics Medicine Innovation Conference (EMI) brings together leading experts to explore groundbreaking medical technology and their ethical implications. Join us for two days of insightful discussions\, presentations and networking opportunities.
\nKey Topics: \; &bull\; AI in healthcare &bull\; Patient Representation and Protected Groups in Research &bull\; Current State of Medical Research and Policy &bull\; Medical Innovation in Clinical Practice &bull\; Mental Health Treatment Technology &bull\; Economics and Advanced Medicine
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260416T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T170000 SUMMARY:Climate Change and Global Justice UID:20260417T210834Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:1410 NE Campus Way\, Seattle\, United States\, 98195 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington\, Seattle is proud to announce a graduate conference titled Climate Change and Global Justice to be held on the UW Seattle campus on April 16th and 17th\, 2026. This conference will focus on how to best respond to global challenges such as climate change\, centering on questions of justice\, legitimacy\, and transformation of political institutions. We are enthusiastic to share that Dr. Jamie Draper from Utrecht University will be joining us in Seattle as our keynote speaker. Professor Draper is known for his work on migration\, climate displacement\, and political philosophy\, including the book Climate Displacement (OUP 2023) and an edited volume The Political Philosophy of Internal Displacement (OUP 2024\, with David Owen). His research currently focuses on topics such as the spatial dimensions of inequality\, the ethics of green industrial policy\, and the regulation of labour migration. For more information\, please visit his website: https://www.jamie-draper.com/ \; \;
\nGraduate students are invited to submit abstracts on projects relevant to Professor Draper&rsquo\;s ongoing research\, but we also welcome submissions on any aspects of social and political philosophy. Abstracts should be prepared for blind review by including a detachable cover page with the paper&rsquo\;s title\, author&rsquo\;s name\, mailing address\, email\, phone number\, institutional affiliation\, and word count. Please omit any self-identifying remarks within the body of the abstract. Abstracts should be between 250-500 words in length.
\nTo apply for this conference\, email your abstract to uw.philgrad.conference@gmail.com by Friday\, February 13th\, 2026. Submission acceptances will be announced by the end of February 2026. The conference will have a pre-read format\, and by March 26th\, 2026 you will be expected to provide a full paper\, which will be circulated to other presenters. Your conference presentation should focus on the core ideas of the paper without presenting it in its entirety. Papers should be between 4\,000-8\,000 words. \;
\nWe especially recommend submissions addressing topics such as:
\nMigration and displacement \;
\nGlobal justice
\nIntergenerational ethics and institutions for the future
\nEnvironmental ethics and justice \;
\nClimate change as a challenge to the protection of human rights
\nPlease note that the conference will be in-person\, with accepted participants being expected to come to the UW Seattle campus! Participants are expected to cover their own travel expenses. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Kade Cicchella;CN=Natalie Dorfman;CN=Julia Pelger: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T170000 SUMMARY:Confronting the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence UID:20260417T210835Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:800 Linden Street\, Scranton\, United States\, 18510 DESCRIPTION:The University of Scranton\, a Catholic and Jesuit University with a strong liberal arts tradition\, invites scholars\, practitioners\, students\, and professionals to participate in a National Interdisciplinary Conference on Confronting the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence\, scheduled for April 16\, 17\, and 18\, 2026.
\nArtificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping every dimension of our lives. It has clear impacts on social\, economic\, educational\, scientific\, artistic\, and ecological spheres. The potential for AI is immense\, but its adoption and use raise critical ethical questions. Ranging from algorithmic bias\, ambient surveillance\, labor displacement\, the future of education\, and its impact on human creativity and fulfillment. As it stands\, the AI landscape demands discernment and ethical reflection.
\nThis conference seeks to bring together diverse voices to explore\, critique\, and reimagine AI through the lens of ethics\, understood broadly to include philosophical\, religious\, cultural\, legal\, medical\, environmental\, artistic\, and social perspectives.
ORGANIZER;CN=George Aulisio: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260417T094500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260417T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy and Emotion at Nottingham UID:20260417T210836Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Humanities Building\, University Park\, Nottingham\, United Kingdom\, NG7 2RD DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the upcoming \;Philosophy and Emotion \;Conference \;at Nottingham\, to be held in person on the \;17th of \;April 2026.
\nThis event is generously funded by The MIND Association\, seeking to \;bring together philosophers \;and scholars \;who are interested in \;exploring \;the \;significance \;of emotion both \;within philosophical enquiry and across a range of \;other \;disciplines. \;
\nTopics \;
\nOur invited speakers will present their work on a range of topics:
\nPablo Fernandez Velasco (University of Oxford) - Ecological Grief and Transformative Experience
\nEugenia Stefanello (University of Padua) - Empathy and Affective Injustice: The Case for Empathic Ignorance \;
\nWanda von Knobelsdorff (University of Oxford) - Afraid of the Other: A Sartrean Account of Ordinary Social Anxiety
\nThe finalised speaker schedule and additional information will be provided at a later date. We warmly welcome you to register for this event by following this link and registering by 17th March 2026: \;https://forms.office.com/e/W37a0mnPd0?origin=lprLink
\nContact \;
\nGrace Huxter - apygh2@nottingham.ac.uk \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Lydia Farina;CN=Grace Huxter;CN=Ian James Kidd;CN=Richard Keen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T170000 SUMMARY:Princeton University Graduate Conference in Political Theory UID:20260417T210837Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Princeton\, United States DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce that Princeton University&rsquo\;s 18th Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory will be held on Friday\, April 17 and Saturday\, April 18\, 2026. We welcome submissions related to any topic in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory\, including projects that are methodologically innovative or center voices traditionally marginalized in the discipline.
Our conference offers graduate students a unique opportunity to present and receive feedback on works in progress. Each session focuses exclusively on one paper\; after receiving feedback from a discussant\, each author will engage in a question and answer period with Princeton faculty\, students\, and guests.
We are thrilled that Professor Shatema Threadcraft\, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Philosophy\, and Political Science at Vanderbilt University\, will deliver the conference&rsquo\;s keynote address on Friday\, April 17.
Please see our call for papers to apply. \;
Join us for \;philoSOPHIA 2026: Time in Feminist Philosophy\, hosted at \;Villanova University \;on \;April 17&ndash\;18\, 2026. This conference \;features a keynote address "Temporalities of Revolt: or\, how to begin an ending" by Dr. Jill Stauffer of Haverford College on Friday\, April 17\, at 6:30 PM in the Driscoll Auditorium. The program includes panels and workshops on topics such as the phenomenology of temporality\, feminist philosophy of age and aging\, crip\, queer studies on time\, ecofeminist thought on future\, \; decolonial discussion of time\, Black feminism and intersectional approaches to time. \; The conference will be hybrid. Please follow the links for \;registration\, \;program\, \;and \;more information. \;For questions\, please contact Chris Ma at jingchao.ma@villanova.edu. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Chris Jingchao Ma: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260417T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260419T170000 SUMMARY:New Work on Discrimination UID:20260417T210839Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Yale\, New Haven\, United States DESCRIPTION:Discrimination remains a largely neglected topic in philosophy. This is surprising in several respects. Discrimination is of central relevance to a wide range of subdisciplines in philosophy. \;But since the emergence of anti-discrimination law in the \;late twentieth century\, almost all scholarship on discrimination theory has taken place in law journals\; these works mainly focus on matters of legal doctrine. Moreover\, several recent developments&mdash\;political changes (such as the recent weaponization of anti-discrimination norms and law)\, technological progress (such as the explosive growth of machine learning and AI in reshaping our social world)\, and theoretical developments (such as new work that presses on the conceptual boundaries of discriminatory action)&mdash\;make the topic more philosophically significant than ever. In light of this\, we are hosting a workshop for new work on discrimination theory. \;
\nAlong with the eight talks listed above\, there will be comments by:
- Shalom Chalson
- Hugo Cossette-Lefebvre
- Katie Creel
- Myracka D&rsquo\;Leeuwen
- Ying Huang
- Zinhle Mncube
- Christian Nakazawa\, and
- Meredith Sheeks.
Please see the link to the program below.
ORGANIZER;CN=Daniel Wodak;CN=Lily Hu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260417T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260418T170000 SUMMARY:1st UChicago WAMIP Philosophy Graduate Conference: Practical Philosophy & Philosophy’s Practicalities UID:20260417T210840Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Chicago\, United States\, 60637 DESCRIPTION:UChicago&rsquo\;s Women in Philosophy (WIP) and Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) invites abstracts for the first WAMIP (Women &\; Minorities in Philosophy) Philosophy Graduate Conference\, taking place on April 17-18\, 2026 at the University of Chicago.
\nThis conference brings together graduate students and scholars working on moral philosophy\, broadly construed\, coming from a wide variety of philosophical backgrounds to discuss issues in philosophy and academia. In addition to discussing research\, it is our conference&rsquo\;s explicit aim to make tacit institutional knowledge about academia more explicit\, foster community\, and just generally help each other excel.
\nLocation University of Chicago
Dates April 17-18\, 2026
CFA Deadline February 2\, 2026
Keynotes
Zoë\; Johnson King (Harvard)
Annette Martí\;n (UIC)
Mikayla Kelley (UChicago)
The first day of the event is a topical conference on moral philosophy (see below for more info). It includes two keynotes and two graduate panels. On the graduate panels\, each graduate student has 15-20 minutes to present their work. After each one has presented\, there will be an open Q&\;A for all panelists.
\nThe second (half-)day will include a panel discussion where we invite our keynotes to talk about pragmatics in academia\, with a particular focus on supporting and highlighting the experiences of minorities in philosophy. The point of this is really to make tacit knowledge about these things more widely available.
\nApril 17
9-10.30 Annette Martí\;n (UIC)
11-12.30 Graduate Student Panel
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15 Graduate Student Panel
15.30 - 17 Zoë\; Johnson King (Harvard)
April 18
9-10.30 Mikayla Kelley (UChicago)
11-12.30 Keynote Panel Discussion on the Pragmatics of Academia
In 1965\, Simone de Beauvoir wrote that the art of &lsquo\;literature is the privileged site of inter-subjectivity&rsquo\;. \;Just a few years later\, writing in the \;British Journal of Aesthetics\, R. K. Elliott affirmed that &lsquo\;we are required to assume the possibility of a universal community of taste and to do what is in our power to bring it into being&rsquo\;. In a related Kantian tradition\, but across the ocean\, in New York\, Hannah Arendt argued that \;only in aesthetics &lsquo\;did [Kant] consider men in the plural\, as living in a community&rsquo\;. \;
\nThis is not a work of the past\, or merely a 20th-century conviction. \;The idea of a community that holds together by members&rsquo\; attachment to art and beauty has been the focus of attention in the last few years in academic writings on aesthetics as much as it has been in the 20th \;century. On the face of it\, this is because the notion of a community that holds together on aesthetic terms is intuitively appealing. \;Yet\, there is also much to debate. Therefore\, \;with support from the \;American Society for Aesthetics\, a \;2-day workshop at Auburn University will consider the nature \;and importance \;of \;aesthetic \;community. Some \;of \;the questions to be explored \;at the workshop \;are:
\nWhat is needed to sustain a community of taste? Is agreement in taste required? Is taste the right conceptual focus with respect to aesthetic community\, or is it outdated and limited? What is the potential for diversity within aesthetic communities? \;How can aesthetic modes of presentation and activity constitute meaningful relationships? How do aesthetic communities simultaneously both include and exclude\, and what is the aesthetic and ethical significance of these functions? How should we think about the public nature of aesthetic and artistic objects of attention and their potential to give us access to reality\, including the reality of other minds? What are the intersecting and differing roles of reasons and norms for conversations within aesthetic communities? What is the role of art and beauty in destabilizing community? \;Broadly\, what is good\, problematic\, or unclear in various appeals to aesthetic community?
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260418T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260418T170000 SUMMARY:Inteligența artificială: perspective filosofice (Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical Perspectives) UID:20260417T210842Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Bucharest\, Romania DESCRIPTION:For any information\, you can send a message to: paula_pompilia.tomi@upb.ro
\nCONFERINȚA VA FI HIBRID:
\n
FIZIC: Clădirea PRECIS (UNSTPB - Bulevardul Iuliu Maniu\, 6D)\, Sala PR 003
Online Zoom: \;https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88426741167?pwd=8c91pb4VjqaGafMp0mCjvC67bdswKl.1 \;
\nMeeting ID: 884 2674 1167 \;
\nPasscode: 092146
\nProgram:
\n9.30 - 11.00
\nInvitat de onoare: \;
\nMIRCEA DUMITRU (Universitatea din București\; Academia Româ\;nă)
\nTitlu: Cum este sa fii X? Implicații ale experienței conștienței subiective pentru IA
\nModerator: Paula Tomi
\nModerator: Andrei Mărășoiu
\n11.10 - 11.35
\nIoan Biriș (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara)
\nTitlu: Inteligența umană și inteligența artificială: analiză conceptuală
\n11.35 - 12.00
\nMarian Călborean (Universitatea din București)
\nTitlu: AI și infinitul nenumărabil. O matrice ontologică pentru filosofia computației
\n12.00 - 12.25
\nClaudiu Mesaroș (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara)
\nTitlu: Descartes și inteligența substanței î\;ntinse
\n12.25 - 12.50
\nTomi Paula (Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București)
\nTitlu: Avem nevoie de o teorie a adevărului? - Adevăr și IA
\n12.50 - 13.05
\nPauză de cafea
\nModerator: Mircea Toboșaru
\n13.05 - 13.30
\nAdrian Răzvan Deaconescu (Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București)
\nTitlu: AI î\;n educație (IT) - O oportunitate?
\n13.30 - 13.55
\nȘtefan Trăușan-Matu (Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie POLITEHNICA București\; Institutul de Cercetări î\;n Inteligența Artificială al Academiei Româ\;nești)
\nTitlu: Limbaj\, Sens și Alteritate. O critică din perspectivă dialogică a inteligenței artificiale generale (AGI)
\n13.55 - 14.20
\nSandra Brâ\;nzaru (Universitatea din București)
\nTitlu: Unele riscuri ale utilizării Reperului î\;nțelegerii științifice (SUB) (Some risks of benchmarking scientific understanding)
\n14.20 - 15.00
\nPauză de prâ\;nz
\nModerator: Ioan Biriș\, Tomi Paula
\n15.00 - 15.25
\nFlorin Lobonț (Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara)
\nTitlu: Colapsul materiei: IA\, informația integrată și argumentul pentru o ontologie mentală (The Collapse of Matter: AI\, Integrated Information\, and the Case for a Mental Ontology)
\n15.25 - 15.50
\nMaria Oprea (Universitatea de Vest &lsquo\;Vasile Goldiș&rsquo\; Arad)
\nTitlu: Problema identității de sine și provocările inteligenței artificiale
\n15.50 - 16.15
\nGheorghe Ioan Mihalaș (Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie &lsquo\;Victor Babeș&rsquo\; Timișoara)
\nTitlu: Intuiția &ndash\; o perspectivă interdisciplinară î\;ntre epistemologie\, medicină și inteligența artificială
\n16.15 - 16.25
\nPauză de cafea
\nModerator: Tomi Paula
\n16.25 - 16.50
\nMircea Toboșaru (Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București)
\nTitlu: Amprenta noologică a utilizării inteligenței artificiale
\n16.50 - 17.15
\nMaria Sinaci (Universitatea &lsquo\;Aurel Vlaicu&rsquo\; Arad)
\nTitlu: Fără față\, fără qualia: Poate fi inteligența artificială un agent moral? Conștiința fenomenologică și limitele eticii mașinilor \;
\n17.15 - 17.40
\nAdrian Marcu \; \;(Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie &lsquo\;Victor Babeș&rsquo\; Timișoara)
\nTitlu: De la datul imediat la algoritm: regâ\;ndirea agenției etice î\;n era inteligenței artificiale prin consilierea pentru donarea de organe (From Givenness to Algorithm: Rethinking Ethical Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence through Organ Donation Counselling)
\n17.40 - 18.05
\nAndrei Mărășoiu (Universitatea din București)
\nTitlu: Ieșirea din rol: câ\;nd situațiile î\;ntâ\;lnesc rolurile (Out-of-character: situations meet roles)
\n18.05 - 18.30
\nRamona Ardelean (Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București)
\nTitlu: &bdquo\;Lecția despre cub&rdquo\;. Failibilitate\, infailibilitate și inteligență artificială
\n18.30- 18.55
\nRăzvan Catrișcău (Universitatea de Artă și Design Cluj-Napoca) - student
\nTitlu: Despre eventualitatea creativității artistice a modelelor de inteligență artificială
\n18.55 - 19.20
\nIani Irașcu \; \;(Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București\; Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai) - student
\nTitlu: Anatomia unei iubiri artificiale. Valoarea romantică a companionilor artificiali
ORGANIZER;CN=Paula Tomi: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260418T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260419T170000 SUMMARY:TOMATO² UID:20260417T210843Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Georgetown\, United States DESCRIPTION:General Information
\nTOMATO²\;&mdash\;pronounced &ldquo\;tomāto\, tomɑto&rdquo\;&mdash\;is Talks On Morality Across The Ocean\, a workshop aimed at promoting professional engagement between ethicists on both sides of the Atlantic.
\nTOMATO²\; takes place on alternating years at Georgetown University in Washington\, DC\, US and Durham University in Durham\, UK. The workshop features a main program(me) of 7 talks by philosophers from the non-hosting side of the Atlantic\, with commentary by philosophers from the hosting side. An 8th talk will be given by the winner of the GISME Prize in Markets and Ethics (which is open to everyone).
\nWe aim to provide travel\, lodging and meals for all speakers and commentators.
\nThe second TOMATO²\; is scheduled for 18-19 April 2026 in Washington\, DC. Please see below for the general CFA as well as the CFP for the GISME Prize.
\nQuestions to mailto:tomato2organizers@gmail.com.
\nPlease note that registration is currently open only to speakers and invited participants. \;
\nCFA: \;TOMATO²\; \;Main Program(me)
\nWe invite submission of English-language abstracts of 500-800 words on any topic in ethics (broadly construed to include applied\, normative and metaethics\, as well as history of moral philosophy\, moral psychology\, political philosophy and cognate topics concerning non-moral normativity or normativity itself).
\nWe invite submissions from faculty\, post-docs and (post)graduate students who have advanced to the ABD stage\, whose permanent residence is not in the Americas.
\nIn order to faciliate an initial round of blind review\, we ask that submissions be made through this form: https://forms.gle/EREhzcXmZfXepp2G8
\nThe deadline for submissions is 1 November 2025.
\nCFP: GISME Prize in Markets and Ethics
\nWe invite submission of unpublished\, English-language papers of up to 12\,000 words on any topic concerning markets and ethics (broadly construed).
\nWe invite submissions from faculty\, post-docs and (post)graduate students who have advanced to the ABD stage from anywhere in the world.
\nSubmissions should be made to tomato2organizers@gmail.com. In order to faciliate blind review\, please remove all identifying information from the body of your submission and save it as a PDF\, using a generic filename like &lsquo\;GISME Prize Submission&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;TOMATO Submission&rsquo\;. Please do not include either your name or the title of the paper in the filename.
\nThe author of the winning paper will present their paper at TOMATO²\; and will receive an award of $500.
\nThe deadline for submissions is 1 December 2025.
\nPlease note that submissions for the GISME Prize are not automatically considered for the main TOMATO²\; progam(me). If you would like to be considered for both\, and your permanent residence is in the Americas\, please submit a separate abstract as outlined above.
ORGANIZER;CN=David Faraci;CN=Brian Berkey;CN=Peter Jaworski: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260419T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260419T000000 SUMMARY:Phenomenologies of Unique Value (Duquesne Studies in Phenomenology) UID:20260417T210844Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Duquesne Studies in Phenomenology
Special Issue: Phenomenologies of Unique Value
Editor-in-Chief:
Dr. Jeffrey McCurry (Duquesne University\, Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center)
Issue Editors:
Dr. Eric J. Mohr (Saint Vincent College)
Dr. Sarah Borden Sharkey (Wheaton College)
If it is the case that each individual person is unique\, then a related question is whether individuality implies a unique value of individuals. Does every individual have some distinctive value in their own right? And if so\, what sort of value is it\, what is its source\, and what is its evidence? The idea relates to both historical and contemporary philosophical contexts related to personal identity\, philosophical anthropology\, personalism\, value theory\, and ethical (and meta-ethical) considerations. \;
\nWe invite scholars to submit abstracts taking a phenomenological approach to the question of the unique value that persons potentially possess as individuals and areas related to this question\, both supporting and critical perspectives. \;
\nHistorically\, Kant \;claimed that what it means that persons possess dignity is to possess irreplaceable value or incomparable worth that &ldquo\;does not admit of an equivalent.&rdquo\; Later\, Scheler challenges Kantian &ldquo\;personalism&rdquo\; as failing to account for personal individuality and the &ldquo\;individual value-essence.&rdquo\; Scheler&rsquo\;s work was influential for twentieth-century personalism generally\, including the work of Edith Stein\, Emmanuel Mounier\, Jose Ortega y Gasset\, and Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II). \;
\nWhile the personalist tradition in phenomenology is a key area\, we are interested in submissions drawing from the whole phenomenological tradition broadly\, and treatments that offer phenomenological engagement with non-phenomenological thinkers. \;
\nSome contemporary philosophers\, outside of the phenomenological tradition\, have taken up this theme in different ways. Certain analytic value theorists have given attention to the notion of &ldquo\;irreplaceable value&rdquo\; as a type of &ldquo\;intrinsic value&rdquo\; (e.g. G. Bradford\, C. Gowans\, A Kadlac\, E. H. Matthes\, etc.). Others consider connections between unique value and love (e.g.\, C. Grau\, A. Iacona\, N. Kolodny\, N. Kreft\, J. D. Velleman\, etc.)\, for example\, with respect to the idea of &ldquo\;attachment&rdquo\; and its relation to value (e.g.\, J. Raz). Linda Zagzebski has written exploratory pieces on the &ldquo\;value of uniqueness&rdquo\; in relation to dignity. And Rebecca Newberger Goldstein has a book (2026) on the adjacent idea of &ldquo\;mattering.&rdquo\; Contributors are welcome to engage with aspects of this scholarship in relation to phenomenology. \;
\nThe deadline for abstract submission is April 19\, 2026
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nImportant Dates:
\nAlgorithmic Bias\, Phallicism &\; Counter-Insurgency: Understanding the Racialized Male Target
\nHosted by the Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy\, Technology\, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC) in collaboration with the Algorithmic Bias Project in Canada &\; Centre for Ethics\, University of Toronto
\nWorkshop (in-person &\; online): Summer 2026
\nConference (University of Toronto): Winter 2027
\nEdited Anthology (same title): 2027&ndash\;2028
\nOverview
\nThe Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy\, Technology\, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC)\, in collaboration with the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto\, invites abstract submissions for an interdisciplinary workshop and subsequent international conference addressing how racism is being reproduced through AI and how AI technologies can be located within the long history of slavery and colonization.
\nThis initiative situates algorithms\, data infrastructures\, and AI-enabled systems of surveillance within longer genealogies of colonial militarism\, genocide\, racial capitalism\, and counterinsurgency doctrine. We are especially interested in work that theorizes and historicizes the racialized male body as a primary site of technological targeting\, focusing on how Black and racialized men have been repeatedly constructed as objects of risk\, control\, expendability\, and elimination across colonial\, military\, and data-driven regimes. This project develops what we call the technologization of counterinsurgency: the translation of racialized fear\, militarized governance\, and tactical logics into algorithmic systems of prediction\, classification\, and surveillance.
\nWe seek 10&ndash\;12 contributors whose work will form the basis of:
\n&bull\; a Summer 2026 in-person workshop
\n&bull\; a Winter 2027 conference at the University of Toronto
\n&bull\; an edited anthology by the same title
\nCore Themes &ndash\; Submissions should engage one or more of the following themes:
\nAlgorithmic Targeting and the Racialization of Risk
\nPhallicism\, Gendercide\, and the Political Construction of the &ldquo\;Dangerous Male&rdquo\;
\nCounterinsurgency Logics in Contemporary AI Systems
\nGenocide Studies and Slow Violence: From Camps to Code
\nNecro-Being\, Social Death\, and Digital Ontologies of the Racialized Male
\nMilitarized Data and the War Origins of Artificial Intelligence
\nMapping the Racialized Body: Computer Vision and the Politics of Recognition
\nStatistical Objects and the Colonial Invention of Populations
\nPhilosophy of Technology and the Myth of Neutral Systems
\nPredictive Policing\, &ldquo\;Pre-Crime\,&rdquo\; and Temporal Violence
\nResistance\, Refusal\, and Counter-Surveillance Practices
\nArt\, Visualization\, and the Algorithmic Imagination
\nWe particularly encourage work that:
\n&bull\; Connects AI technologies to colonial\, genocidal\, and military histories
\n&bull\; Engages Black Male Studies\, Africana philosophy\, Black Power thought\, and especially Phallicism
\n&bull\; Analyzes facial recognition\, predictive policing\, gang databases\, drone warfare\, biometric surveillance\, risk modeling\, or &ldquo\;pattern-of-life&rdquo\; technologies
\n&bull\; Employs philosophical\, historical\, ethnographic\, legal\, technical\, artistic\, or data-driven methods
\nSubmissions may be traditional academic papers or include creative\, visual\, or experimental components.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPlease submit the following materials by April 15\, 2026:
\n&bull\; Abstract (300&ndash\;500 words)
\n&bull\; Short bio (max 150 words)
\n&bull\; Institutional affiliation (if any)
\n&bull\; Contact information
\nSend submissions to: \;miron.claygilmore@utoronto.ca
\nSubject line: \;Algorithmic Bias/CG-IPTC CFP &ndash\; [Your Last Name]
\nWe strongly encourage submissions from:
\n&bull\; Early-career researchers
\n&bull\; Black\, Indigenous\, and racialized scholars
\n&bull\; Scholars from the Global South
\n&bull\; Independent researchers and artists
\n&bull\; Community\, abolitionist\, and activist practitioners
\nLimited travel support will be available for selected participants when possible.
\nTimeline
\nAbstract deadline: April 15\, 2026
\nDecisions announced: May 15\, 2026
\nWorkshop (selected participants): July 2026
\nFull paper drafts due: December 2026
\nConference: March 2027 (University of Toronto)
\nFinal revised papers due: May 2027
\nEdited anthology publication: 2027&ndash\;2028
\nAbout the Hosts
\nThe Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy\, Technology\, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC) \;is an independent research institute dedicated to examining the connections between of artificial intelligence\, liberal humanism\, racialization\, and militarized state power. Through philosophical inquiry\, historical analysis\, and data-driven research\, it investigates the technological infrastructures that govern life\, death\, and social control. Website: \;https://www.cg-iptc.org
\nThe Centre for Ethics\, University of Toronto \;is a leading interdisciplinary research center engaged in critical inquiry into emerging technologies\, governance\, and public life. It supports innovative scholarship at the intersection of ethics\, science\, and society.
\nTogether\, this collaboration responds to the urgent need to interrogate the role of AI in the reproduction of racialized violence\, population control\, and the management of life and death in the contemporary world. Website: \;https://algorithmicbias.ca
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260420T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260420T150000 SUMMARY:From Disciples to Followers: Questioning the Digital Experience of Religions Online UID:20260417T210846Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Koningstraat 2\, Antwerpen\, Belgium\, 2000 DESCRIPTION:The 2026 edition of the UCSIA Summer School is titled &ldquo\;From Disciples to Followers: Questioning the Digital Experience of Religions Online&rdquo\;\, and marks the final year of UCSIA&rsquo\;s three-year cycle on &ldquo\;Religion &\; Politics: (Dis)Entanglements in Communities and Societies&rdquo\;.
\nThis summer school invites early-career scholars to critically examine how digital technologies\, online platforms\, and political economies are reshaping religious practices\, publics\, authorities\, and forms of belonging.
\nCall for papers
\nWe welcome paper proposals from PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers working in the humanities\, social sciences\, or law\, whose research engages with religion in relation to digital media\, online publics\, theology\, ritual\, ethics\, or (theo)politics.
\nContributions may address\, among other themes:
\n&rarr\; \; \;the transformation of religious authority\, authenticity\, and community in online environments
&rarr\; \; \;the interaction between digital religion and political imaginaries
&rarr\; \; \;historical and comparative perspectives on media and religion
&rarr\; \; \;questions of power\, representation\, racialization\, and moral vocabularies in digital religious spaces
Selected participants will join an intensive one-week mentoring programme combining expert lectures\, interdisciplinary discussions\, paper presentations\, and individual tutorials.
\nThe Faculty
\nTwo experts have already confirmed their attendance:
\nYasmin Moll (University of Michigan) is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose work explores the intersections of religion\, media\, politics\, and ethics in the Middle East and North Africa.
\nAlessandra Vitullo (Sapienza University of Rome) is a sociologist specializing in digital religion\, online mediation of belief\, and the transformation of religious authority and belonging in digital cultures.
\nSubmit your abstract by 20 April 2026\, and be part of this enriching academic experience!
ORGANIZER;CN=University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp Ucsia: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260420T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260420T230000 SUMMARY:Chiasma Journal Volume 11: The Question of Sovereignty UID:20260417T210847Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Theme and Scope:
\nSovereignty\, often imagined as the fixed and self-contained authority of the modern state is historically inseparable from colonization\, which transforms it into a technology of conquest that divided populations into those protected by law and those rendered exploitable outside it. Citizenship for the metropole\, subjugation for the colony exposed sovereignty as a project of territorial expansion rather than a universal political form. A dynamic that persisted after formal decolonization through economic dependency\, Cold War geopolitics\, and the global financial institutions that disciplined postcolonial states.
\nWith the rise of neoliberalism\, sovereignty was further hollowed out as states ceded power to markets\, transnational capital\, and technocratic bodies\, transforming governments from sites of popular will into managers of competitiveness\, debt\, and austerity. Today\, we can say that the nation-sate faces a crisis in which borders tighten as neoliberal sovereignty disperses across supply chains\, privatization\, and supranational agreements\, producing a paradoxical condition: some states amplify coercion and nationalist rhetoric invoking &ldquo\;the people&rdquo\; or the &ldquo\;popular&rdquo\;\, while the populations invoked experience sovereignty less as a democratic self-rule than as a fragmented apparatus of exclusion.
\nIn this conjuncture\, the governed are left behind\; they are excluded from decision-making centers. Fed up with this logic\, some of them become ready to exclude others to simulate their inclusion within the state. Even educational institutions are affected\, becoming a battleground&mdash\;a terrain to be conquered by different sides of the current political spectrum. This opened different questions that can need to be addressed: Is there a way to understand sovereignty as a universal right to self-determination? Can we\, as citizens\, propose a practice to exercise autonomy in individual and communal spheres? What has happened to the common or communal identity constitution in our present paradox? Can we still think of cultural phenomena such as folklore\, rituals\, religion\, traditions\, and forms of discourse as forms of cohesion\, common forms of governmentality\, or governance?
\nTo address these questions\, we propose Canada as an occasion and a site for theorizing sovereignty and challenging established genealogies. Its historical-political positioning toward the U.S. empire\, its colonial history\, and its Indigenous theory that seeks to build alternative epistemes in the face of colonialism and neoliberalism\, together with its struggle for sovereignty\, can be extremely useful for grounding our theoretical thought. That is why we invite different disciplines (but not limited to) like \;philosophy\, cultural studies\, indigenous theory\, political science\, marxism\, gender and sexuality studies\, postcolonial studies\, sociology\, anarchism and anti-anarchism\, to think with us the role of sovereignty in our current historical bloc.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nChiasma \;accepts any and all manuscripts related to the topic at hand. That being said\, submissions should be theoretically rigorous and diverse\, in keeping with the trans-disciplinary nature of the journal. We ask for complete papers between 6\,000&ndash\;10\,000 words that conform to a slightly modified version of the Chicago Manual of Style with footnotes and no bibliography (see our \;Style Guidelines). If there are original works of art that you think might fit within the theme\, please get in contact via the email below. When submitting your manuscript\, please include two documents:
\nPlease submit your manuscript via our submission page \;here. The deadline for submissions is \;April 20th\, 2026.
\nShould you have any questions\, comments\, or concerns\, please don&rsquo\;t hesitate to get in touch with us at \;chiasma@uwo.ca
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260421T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260421T203000 SUMMARY:Hard Choices in Life\, Law\, and LLMs UID:20260417T210848Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/Dublin LOCATION:Trinity College Dublin\, Dublin\, Ireland\, D02 PN40 DESCRIPTION:The Donnellan Lectures return to Trinity College Dublin in April 2026. Delivered over three evenings by Professor Ruth Chang of the University of Oxford\, and organised by the Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin\, \;Hard Choices in Life\, Law\, and LLMs \;examines how we reason\, decide\, and take responsibility in situations where standard models of rational choice fall short. \;Spanning practical decision-making in everyday life\, hard cases in legal reasoning\, and emerging challenges in artificial intelligence\, the series invites an audience comprised of philosophers\, other academics\, and members of the public\, to follow a single philosophical theme as it unfolds across three nights.
\nSpeaker: Professor Ruth Chang\, Chair and Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford\, and Professorial Fellow at University College\, Oxford
\nDates: Tuesday 21\, Wednesday 22 and Thursday 23 April 2026
\nTime: 7.00PM - 8.30PM
\nLocation: Synge Theatre\, Arts Building\, Trinity College Dublin
\nAdmission: Free to attend. Registration required.
\nLocal Organiser: Farbod Akhlaghi\, Assistant Professor in Moral Philosophy
\n***Schedule of Talks***
\n**Lecture 1: Hard Choices in Life**
\nTitle: \;Which Choice Situation?
\nHuman life is structured by choice situations. Yet a neglected question concerns what determines&mdash\;and\, more importantly\, what justifies&mdash\;an agent&rsquo\;s being in one choice situation rather than another. At a given moment\, one might be deciding whether to continue reading an abstract or to make a cup of tea\, but one might instead have been in a choice situation in which one is deciding whether to donate to Oxfam or to the Red Cross. In this lecture\, Professor Chang will discuss the problem of explaining and justifying being in one choice situation instead of another\, criticize several debunking approaches to the problem\, and propose a candidate solution. The proposed solution highlights an underexplored dimension of how agents can be the authors of their lives.
\n**Lecture 2: Hard Choices in Law**
\nTitle: \;Hard Cases and Law&rsquo\;s Rationality
\nHard cases in law arise when existing legal materials appear to underdetermine how a judge or legislator should decide a case. Standard accounts treat such cases in one of two ways: either the indeterminacy is merely apparent and a uniquely correct legal answer awaits discovery\, or the law genuinely runs out and the decision-maker must appeal to extra-legal considerations or sheer stipulation. Both approaches\, Professor Chang will argue\, rest on an overly static picture of legal rationality. This talk offers an alternative account of hard cases\, one that understands legal reasoning as a form of practical rationality that is neither exhausted by the application of rules or principles nor displaced when they fall silent. On this view\, hard cases are not pathologies but moments in which the law&rsquo\;s rational structure is actively developed. They reveal law not as a fixed system\, but as a living\, evolving practice whose rationality is exercised&mdash\;rather than suspended&mdash\;precisely when legal determination is most difficult.
\n**Lecture 3: Hard Choices in LLMs**
\nTitle: \;Hard Choices and Value Alignment in Artificial intelligence
\n&lsquo\;Value alignment&rsquo\;\, roughly the problem of ensuring that the outputs of Artificial Intelligence and other machine systems align with human values\, has become an urgent problem as computer technologies begin to encroach on central domains of human decision-making. Existing strategies for alignment make no allowance for the possibility of &lsquo\;hard choices&rsquo\; &ndash\; distinct from cases of uncertainty\, incompleteness\, and indeterminacy &ndash\; but assume that in a choice between A and B\, machine outputs must fall into one three categories: choose A\, choose B\, or arbitrarily select between them. But human life is not so neat. If we are to achieve value alignment\, we need a different approach to AI design that makes room for the existence of hard choices. In this talk\, Professor Chang will present an alternative framework for AI design that allows machines to recognize hard choices and puts humans &lsquo\;in the loop&rsquo\; in a novel way. Progress in building such systems is underway.
\nHistory of The Donnellan Lectures
\nThe Donnellan Lectures are a long-established\, prestigious lecture series at Trinity College Dublin\, instituted in 1794 and endowed from the estate of Anne Donnellan. The lectures were originally delivered under the auspices of the School of Hebrew\, Biblical and Theological Studies. They have been run by the Department of Philosophy since 1987. \;
\nDesigned as a connected sequence\, the lectures allow a single philosophical theme to be explored in depth across multiple evenings. For more information about the lecture series\, and the previous distinguished speakers of the series\, see: \;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnellan_Lectures
ORGANIZER;CN=Farbod Akhlaghi: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260421T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260421T230000 SUMMARY:Making Kin as Practice of Care: Habitable Bodies or Unexpected Alliances between Ecology\, Technology and Feminism UID:20260417T210849Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:R. Marquês de Ávila e Bolama\, Covilhã\, Portugal\, 6201-001 DESCRIPTION:[ DEADLINE EXTENSION: 21.04.2026 ]
\nMaking kin is first and foremost a gesture rather than a concept. Donna Haraway \; presents it as a gesture that reacts to a world organized by rigid separations: nature and \; culture\, feminine and masculine\, human and machine\, organism and technique. To \; make kin is to learn how to live together under the epistemological horizontality of \; habitable bodies in damaged landscapes\, accepting interdependence as an ontological \; and political condition. It is not a matter of restoring a lost nature\, nor of celebrating \; technology as a promise of salvation\, but of weaving possible relations within wounded \; worlds. This proposal emerges from the recognition of the most recent narcissistic \; wound in the human imaginary: technology.
\nAfter Copernicus\, Darwin and Freud&mdash\;who \; unsettled anthropocentric pride by demonstrating that the Earth is not the center of the \; universe\, that human beings are not isolated divine creations but part of animal \; evolution\, and that we do not exercise full control over our own mind\, being also \; governed by the unconscious&mdash\;technoscience\, particularly the digital and artificial \; intelligence\, once again displaces the human from the center by challenging its cognitive\, \; ontological\, and moral exceptionalism. For Donna Haraway\, this wound should neither \; be denied nor healed\, but inhabited through a profound reconfiguration of how agency\, \; responsibility\, kinship\, space\, and time are conceived in a shared and fragmented world \; composed of human and non-human cultural entities. Making kin therefore entails \; rethinking and reinhabiting bodies\, beginning by questioning which bodies are \; recognized and how they appear. Bodies that are sites of passage\, traversed by regimes \; of gender\, race\, class\, and species\; bodies exposed to toxicities\, extraction\, and \; infrastructures\; bodies amplified\, monitored\, and reconfigured by technologies. Bodies \; that are also habitats of resistance\, care\, and the invention of new ways of dwelling. The \; pressing question is not only how to survive\, nor even how to live\, but how to render \; bodies habitable. In this sense\, this congress seeks to bring together philosophical and \; interdisciplinary reflections that explore the unexpected alliances between ecology\, \; technology and feminism\, interrogating the conditions of possibility for habitable bodies \; within contemporary ecological techniques. In doing so\, it aims to contribute to \; imagining futures in which making kin is not merely a concept\, but an urgent ethical and \; political praxis.
\nThis way\, researchers are invited to submit presentation proposals within the \; three main strands of the congress&mdash\;feminism\, ecology and technology&mdash\;placing them in \; dialogue through perspectives such as ecofeminism\, transhumanism\, new materialisms\, \; the ethics of care\, decolonial thought\, among others. Theoretical\, critical\, or situated \; approaches from philosophy and related fields are welcome\, exploring\, among other \; possibilities:
\n➢ Contemporary transformations of the categories of subject\, agency and community \; in light of posthumanism\, new materialisms\, and relational metaphysics\;
\n➢ Practices of care\, hospitality and kinship as ethical and political questions\, analyzed \; from the perspectives of care ethics\, applied ethics\, bioethics and contemporary \; political philosophy\;
\n➢ The reconfiguration of the body as a site of experience\, agency and vulnerability\, \; considering dialogues between phenomenology\, philosophy of embodiment\, gender \; studies and philosophy of technology\;
\n➢ Interdependencies between humans\, non-humans and technologies and their \; epistemological implications\, addressed through the lens of philosophy of science\, \; feminist epistemology and technoscience studies\;
\n➢ Questions of justice\, responsibility and vulnerability in wounded ecologies\, \; examined from the optic of political philosophy\, critical theory\, postcolonial theory \; and environmental ethics\;
\n➢ Critiques of traditional hierarchies (nature/culture\, human/non-human\, \; masculine/feminine) and the exploration of alternative models of kinship and \; coexistence\, drawing on metaphysics\, ontology\, social philosophy and posthuman \; theories\;
\n➢ Reflections on technology\, artificial intelligence\, biotechnology and digitalities as \; forces that displace the subject\, transform agency and redefine modes of inhabiting\, \; from the perspectives of philosophy of technology\, critical cybernetics and AI \; studies\;
\n➢ The construction of shared worlds\, kinships and interdependencies through visual \; and performing arts and cinema\, considered in light of philosophy of art\, relational \; aesthetics\, and philosophy of film\;
\n➢ The role of language\, narrative and symbolic representation in mediating bodies\, \; technologies and ecologies\, investigated through philosophy of language\, narrative \; theory\, critical semiotics\, and philosophy of communication.
\nProposals must be submitted in English\, Portuguese\, Spanish\, French\, or \; Italian to makingkin@outlook.pt by April 21\, 2026. They should include an abstract \; (up to 300 words) and a brief biographical note (up to 150 words). Presentations should \; not exceed 20 minutes. The results will be announced on 7 May 2026. This International Congress is organized within the framework of PRAXIS &ndash\; Center for \; Philosophy\, Politics and Culture\, University of Beira Interior (Covilhã\;\, Portugal).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T190000 SUMMARY:RTAIM 27 | "Ethical Dimensions of AI Health Monitoring as a Gendered Practice" | ANITA HO (British Columbia Uni.) UID:20260417T210850Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:rTAIM \;(Rebuilding Trust in AI Medicine)
\n\nMonthly Seminars
\n\;
\nSeminar #27
\nEthical Dimensions of AI Health Monitoring as a Gendered Practice
\nAnita Ho (University of British Columbia)
\n\nWe are happy to announce the forthcoming 27th rTAIM \;Online Seminar\, \;with the participation of Anita Ho on 22 April 2026\, \;18h00-19h00 Lisbon Time Zone\, via Microsoft Teams.
\n\nONLINE \;|Link Microsoft Teams
\nID Teams: 380943280593279\nPassword: AA3Td6AH\n# Seminar 27: AI-enabled health monitoring technologies are increasingly integrated into clinical\, home-based\, and long-term care settings\, often promoted as tools to enhance efficiency\, safety\, and individual autonomy. Yet AI models \;are developed and deployed within social and institutional contexts shaped by gendered norms\, unequal distributions of care work\, and entrenched power asymmetries. This presentation argues that ethical analyses centered on individual consent and privacy are insufficient for assessing the justice implications of AI health monitoring. Drawing on a relational conception of autonomy\, it examines how gendered expectations regarding caregiving\, responsibility\, independence\, and risk shape both the adoption and expectations around AI health monitoring. The analysis highlights how institutional funding structures\, design assumptions\, and governance arrangements can constrain meaningful choice\, redistribute surveillance and care labor\, and differentially burden different populations while framing monitoring as empowering. The presentation concludes by advancing a justice-oriented relational framework that emphasizes interdependence\, relational accountability\, and the structural conditions necessary for autonomy in technologically mediated care.
\nShort bio: \;Anita Ho is Clinical Professor at the Centre for Applied Ethics at University of British Columbia\, Associate Professor at the UCSF Bioethics Program\, and Vice President of Ethics for CommonSpirit Health in California. \;An elected fellow of The Hastings Center\, Anita's current research focuses on ethical dimensions of utilizing AI in health care. She is particularly interested in systemic and social justice issues arising in the use of AI in health care settings. Her book\, Live Like Nobody is Watching: Relational Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Health Monitoring\, was published by Oxford University Press in 2023.
\nrTAIM \;Seminars: https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/rtaim-seminars
\nhttps://trustaimedicine.weebly.com/rtaim-seminars.html
\n\nOrganisation:
Steven S. Gouveia (MLAG/IF)
Mind\, Language and Action Group (MLAG)
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto &ndash\; UIDB/00502/2020
Fundaç\;ã\;o para a Ciê\;ncia e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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\nInstituto de Filosofia (UI&\;D 502)
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
Via Panorâ\;mica s/n
4150-564 Porto
Tel. 22 607 71 80
E-mail: ifilosofia@letras.up.pt
http://ifilosofia.up.pt/
The AI &\; Humanity Lab at the University of Hong Kong kindly invites applications to present at a workshop on the philosophy of AI agents and companions to take place on April 23 and 24\, 2026. Researchers of any disciplinary background are welcome to submit as long as their proposed presentation has a clear relation to philosophy\, for instance by examining issues relevant to the conceptual foundations or ethical and political aspects of AI agents and companions.
\nPossible topics for presentations include (but are not limited to): \;
\nAll presentations will be conducted in-person on the University of Hong Kong main campus in Hong Kong\, SAR. Selected presenters will have their travel and accommodation covered. Participants should expect to give presentations of roughly 20 to 30 minutes\, followed by questions and answers from the audience. \; \;
To be considered to participate\, please submit the following documents to AgentsAndCompanions2026@gmail.com before December 15: \;
If you wish to attend without presenting\, please submit a title page only. Note: we unfortunately cannot compensate travel and accommodation for non-presenting attendees. \; \;
For any questions\, please email Sean Donahue at: AgentsAndCompanions2026@gmail.com \;
The \;Mind\, Language and Action Group (MLAG)\, a research unit of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Porto\, invites you to the sixth talk of the new \;MLAG Seminar Series \;featuring presentations by international researchers on topics of interest to the group. The talk\, given by \;José\; Xarez \;(University of Porto) \;and entitled "Free Will Skepticism\, the Justification of Punishment\, and the Strong and Weak Innocence Intuitions"\, will take place on \;April 23\, 13:30-15:00 Western European Summer Time (WEST). The meeting is in hybrid format. Physical address: University of Porto\, Faculty of Letters\, Institute of Philosophy\, \;Via Panorâ\;mica\, s/n\, 4150-564 Porto\, Portugal\, room 310. \;MS TEAMS details: Meeting ID: \;354 965 928 297 212\; \;Password: \;Qu6UA3Jk.
\nThe seminar is jointly organized by Sofia Miguens (MLAG-IF)\, Dan Zeman (MLAG-IF)\, James Grayot (MLAG-IF)\, Rafael Antunes Padilha (MLAG-IF|IFCH-UNICAMP)\, Samuel Lima (FLUP) and Joã\;o Carlos Rocha Lima (FLUP). Information about \;MLAG \;can be found here: https://ifilosofia.up.pt/research-groups/mlag. To contact the organisers\, please send an email to \;mlag.porto@gmail.com.
\nAll welcome!
\nABSTRACT:
\nIn this paper\, I argue that Free Will Skepticism (FWS) plays a substantive role in debates about the justification of punishment. While it is widely accepted that FWS undermines action-based desert\, recent work by free-will skeptics has attempted to develop non-retributivist theories of punishment grounded in revisionist accounts of moral responsibility. These accounts reject the claim that offenders are truly deserving of punishment\, since their actions ultimately result from factors beyond their control. However\, such views face a persistent challenge: accommodating the &ldquo\;Innocence Intuition\,&rdquo\; according to which\, ceteris paribus\, punishing a guilty person is morally preferable to punishing an innocent person\, even when the consequences are identical.
\nFree-will skeptics\, therefore\, confront a dilemma: either reject this intuition or vindicate it without appealing to desert. Most have pursued the latter strategy\, but with limited success. At the same time\, independent arguments against actionbased desert\, such as burden-of-proof considerations and concerns about the state&rsquo\;s standing to blame\, have generated non-retributive theories that sometimes appear better equipped to account for the Innocence Intuition. This might suggest that FWS adds little to the punishment debate beyond reinforcing already available anti-retributivist arguments.
\nI resist this conclusion by distinguishing between a Strong and a Weak version of the Innocence Intuition. The Strong Innocence Intuition combines (i) an axiological claim that punishing the guilty is better than punishing the innocent\, and (ii) a deontological claim that we have a stronger duty to punish the guilty rather than the innocent. The Weak Innocence Intuition affirms only the deontological claim. I argue that FWS is incompatible with the Strong Innocence Intuition but consistent with the Weak version. Crucially\, non-retributive theories can accommodate the Weak Intuition without appealing to desert. The upshot is that FWS does make a distinctive contribution to the debate: it pressures us to abandon the axiological component of the Innocence Intuition. Far from being a liability\, I argue that rejecting the Strong Innocence Intuition ultimately strengthens non-retributive theories of punishment.
ORGANIZER;CN=Sofia Miguens;CN=James Grayot;CN=Rafael Antunes Padilha;CN="João Carlos Rocha Lima";CN=Samuel Lima;CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260424T170000 SUMMARY:Raising a Mirror to the University: Theory and the Canadian Institution UID:20260417T210853Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:1151 Richmond St\, London\, Canada\, N6A 3K7 DESCRIPTION:The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University is pleased to announce our in-person 2026 Annual Theory Conference\, an event that will also commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Theory Centre. The Conference will take place from Thursday\, April 23 - Friday\, April 24 2026.
\nThe theoretical objective of the conference is twofold. Our first objective is centered around the ceremonious occasion of the CSTC&rsquo\;s 40th anniversary. This occasion allows us to foreground theory as an intellectual tradition and academic practice that has shaped the Canadian university. This comes at a critical time when the programs of the humanities and social sciences within the university are being challenged across the country by austere policies and ideologies that have increasingly favoured more practical (or profitable) disciplines. This poses the broader question of the university&rsquo\;s role as a public institution\, as well as the function that it ought to play in contributing to broader social goods such as culture\, aesthetics\, and democracy.
\nOur second objective is centered around the problematic of Canadian identity. Building off our first objective\, this conference aims to provide a ground for theorists and critical scholars to consider theory&rsquo\;s role in shaping the various institutions that affect Canadian identity. This comes at a time when the question of national identity has taken center stage within political discourse and has been continuously leveraged by power players to achieve political outcomes within Canada. In posing this question\, our conference aims to establish space for critical theory to engage with the public discourse in ways that are both nationally situated and generative of a Canadian intellectual tradition not necessarily tied to national frameworks.
\n
Possible topics may include\, but are not limited to:
● The role of theory within/outside the university
\n○ Theory as praxis\; theory and hegemony
\n○ The question of theory and practice
\n○ The Canadian intellectual tradition (Canada&rsquo\;s successes and failures)
\n● The commodification of the university
\n○ Historically contingent vs structurally necessary
\n○ The division of disciplines and the defunding of the humanities
\n○ Democracy and Capitalism\, the University as a site of struggle
\n● The question of Canadian Identity
\n○ Canadian self-conception: One or many or (no) Canadas?
\n○ Literature and Canadian Identity (e.g.\, Frye&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;garrison mentality&rsquo\;\; Atwood&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;Survival&rsquo\;)
\n○ Negation of Americanism\; Canadian identity in an era of declining American hegemony
\n○ Mosaic vs. Melting Pot\; Cultural Diversity vs. Cultural Difference (immigration and the Canadian University)
\n○ Localized cultural identities
\n○ Theory\, Indigenous Sovereignty and Decolonization
\n○ Does Canada have a national question?
The Annual Theory Conference endeavours to cultivate a forum for diverse engagement from graduate students and scholars with a broad range of backgrounds and approaches. This year we are seeking submissions across the humanities and social sciences that deal critically and theoretically with problems related to the university and national identity in a Canadian context.
\nSubmission Instructions:
\nSubmissions will undergo anonymous review. Please submit proposals as a .docx or .pdf file to cstcconference@uwo.ca. Accepted candidates will be notified by email.
Submission Deadline: February 20th\, 2026
Please submit:
1. A cover page that includes: the title of your proposed presentation\, your name\, affiliation(s)\,
\nemail address\, a brief (150-200 word) bio\, and 3-5 keywords for your presentation
\n2. A separate document that includes: the title of your presentation and an abstract of 150- 200
\nwords describing the intentions of your presentation.
ORGANIZER;CN=Ulysse Sizov: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260423T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260424T170000 SUMMARY:Value and Responsibility in AI Technologies UID:20260417T210854Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:502 E Boone Ave\, Spokane\, United States DESCRIPTION:This is the second Value and Responsibility in AI Technologies conference. This event will bring together scholar\, students\, faith leaders\, educators\, industry professional\, and tech leaders to explore the impact of AI on our identity\, educational practices\, and the evolving landscape of work. The conference is framed by three themes: 1) meaning and identity\, 2) learning and education\, and 3) work and the workforce. Each theme has two panels.
\nThe following day\, 24 April 2026\, is a workshop on the Ethics of Responsible AI\, which draws from multiple disciplines and industry perspectives on the conceptual foundations and ethical underpinnings of responsible AI. Speakers for the workshop are:
\nAnthony Fisher\, Gonzaga
\nDaniel Tigard\, USD
\nSherri Lynn Conklin and Samantha Noll\, WSU
\nAaron Wolf\, Colgate
\nMark Graves\, USF
\nGrace Yee\, Adobe
ORGANIZER;CN=A. R. J. Fisher: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260424T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260426T170000 SUMMARY:The Digital Worlds Workshop UID:20260417T210855Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We seek papers that interrogate the way modern digital technology enhances\, hampers\, or alters our experience of our lived worlds.
\n\nThe distinction between &ldquo\;being on the internet&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;being in the real world&rdquo\; is eroding. People can increasingly be said to &ldquo\;live on their phones&rdquo\; or other devices. This workshop aims to interrogate the meaning and structure of the world and the self as mediated by such devices.
\n\nThis year\, we are especially interested in papers concerned the problem of embodiment in digital worlds and digital art practices\, with a particular focus on how philosophy can engage with and draw lessons from contemporary artistic practices. By thematizing the workshop around embodiment\, the aim is twofold: to advance a burgeoning\, interdisciplinary discussion about the challenges and innovative possibilities of 're-locating' human embodied experience and practice within the digital domain\, and to arrive at a robust\, systematic understanding of just what such a relocation supposes and entails - is there indeed anything such as 'digital embodiment' at all?
\n\n\nThe purpose of this workshop is to collaboratively develop works-in-progress with an eye toward publication. This is a pre-read workshop with each paper having a designated commenter to lead the conversation\, rather than formal conference presentations
\n\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Michael Butler;CN=Ian Werkheiser: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083635Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T170000 SUMMARY:6th Upstate Workshop on AI and Human Values UID:20260417T210856Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Lattimore Hall\, University of Rochester\, Rochester\, United States DESCRIPTION:The AI and Human Values Working Group of the CNY Humanities Corridor invites local scholars interested in the philosophy of AI to a manuscript workshop to be held at the University of Rochester\, on April 24\, 2026. The AI and Human Values Working Group is led by faculty and graduate students at Cornell\, Rochester\, Syracuse and is composed of colleagues from colleges in Central New York.
\nThe workshop is open to papers on normative or philosophical aspects of AI. As such\, any paper on the theme is eligible for consideration. Possible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\n● \; \; \; \; understanding and consciousness in algorithmic systems\,
\n● \; \; \; \; the ethics of algorithmic systems\,
\n● \; \; \; \; dealing with value disagreement in algorithmic systems\,
\n● \; \; \; \; explainability and justification by algorithmic systems\,
\n● \; \; \; \; philosophy of science as applied to data science and algorithmic systems.
\nIn support of a productive workshop\, accepted papers will be circulated in advance of the conference so that all participants can read them ahead of time and the meeting can focus on critical feedback and discussion. Full papers (up to 10\,000 words) must be submitted to the conference organizers no later than March 27\, 2026 to be distributed.
\nFaculty\, staff and graduate students at one of the Corridor institutions (broadly those colleges and Universities in New York located between Albany and Rochester) may be eligible for a re-imbursement of travel costs. Please see the full eligibility critiera here: https://www.cnycorridor.net/resources/intra-corridor-travel-supplement/
\nQuestions should be directed to Jon Herington (Jonathan.Herington@rochester.edu). Organized by: Jonathan Herington (U of Rochester)\, Jens Kipper (U of Rochester) and Rush Stewart (U of Rochester)
\nVideos of talks at our previous events can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsLYYnYQrt7eCxD7h9YzDBw
\nCo-Sponsored by the University of Rochester's Humanities Center and the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Herington;CN=Rush T. Stewart;CN=Jens Kipper: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260424T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260425T170000 SUMMARY:8th Annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop: Montreal Edition! UID:20260417T210857Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Thomson House\, Montréal\, Canada DESCRIPTION:The eight annual Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop will be held in Montreal (as a special one-off) on April 24 -- 25\, 2026.
\nThe workshop aims to provide a forum for stimulating and constructive exchange among philosophers currently working on issues concerning normativity\, broadly construed to include: the traditional questions of \;metaethics (and analogous questions about other normative domains)\; \;theories of reasons\, rationality and reasoning\; the semantics and pragmatics of normative language\; the psychology of normative judgment\; and the nature of epistemic normativity. The hope is to showcase cutting-edge work in these and related areas\, providing speakers with useful feedback\, and other participants with lively presentations and conversation.
\nThere will be eight talks in total\, seven of which will be selected via an open call for abstracts and an anonymous review process\, plus a keynote address by Jane Friedman (NYU). For the seventh workshop running\, papers accepted to this year's workshop will be eligible for publication in a special issue of Philosophical Studies.
\nWe very much hope you'll join us in beautiful and vibrant Montreal next spring for the workshop's eight year. In addition to excellent presentations\, there will be plenty of opportunities for socializing with fellow normativity folks at a selection of Montreal's lovely restaurants and bars on each night of the event.
ORGANIZER;CN=Christopher Howard;CN=Margaret Shea;CN=Alex Worsnip: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T170000 SUMMARY:Intelligence and Imitation: Mind\, Mechanism\, Mimesis UID:20260417T210858Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Johns Hopkins University\, Baltimore\, United States\, 21218 DESCRIPTION:Intelligence and Imitation: Mind\, Mechanism\, Mimesis
\nInaugural Humanities of AI Workshop \;
Johns Hopkins University\, April 24-26\, 2026
As a \;creative aspiration\, the Greek notion of mimesis (&ldquo\;imitation&rdquo\;) manifested not only in artistic works imitating reality and philosophical speculations but also in scientific theories and mechanical artifacts. Plato and Aristotle&rsquo\;s nous as a non-bodily principle of intelligibility underwriting cosmic order and thought\; Hobbes and LaMettrie&rsquo\;s machinelike mind and world\; the Jaquet-Droz family&rsquo\;s musical automata\; Wolfgang von Kempelen&rsquo\;s \;chess-playing Turk\; Norbert Wiener&rsquo\;s cybernetic \;analogy between human\, animal\, and machine\; Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori&rsquo\;s \; observation of the revulsion to imperfect verisimilitude \;(Bukimi \;no Tani: &ldquo\;uncanny valley&rdquo\;)\; and Soviet semiotician Yuri Lotman&rsquo\;s culture as collective mind\, exemplify the broad relevance of &ldquo\;imitations&rdquo\; to science\, literature\, and culture.
\nDevelopments in artificial intelligence (AI) participate in the legacy of mimesis but also complicate and challenge it. \; In the course of AI&rsquo\;s research history\, AIs have variously been claimed to represent\, simulate\, assist\, improve upon\, provide a surrogate for\, or replace the functioning of human minds. Concepts such as &ldquo\;optimization\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;satisficing\,&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;superintelligence&rdquo\; run orthogonal to the classical concept of mimesis.
\nAt the same time\, developments in science and society have deeply challenged both mimesis and mindedness as concepts and ideals. Darwinian and embodied cognitive approaches challenge the primacy of abstract reasoning over embodiment\; and reflections on human labor&rsquo\;s relation to material (re-)production\, social stratification\, and human experience from Marx\, Wallerstein\, Pasquinelli and others call into question the social &ldquo\;value-added&rdquo\; of material imitations as well as the veracity of accounts of &ldquo\;intelligent&rdquo\; labor&rsquo\;s nature and origins. Deep divisions in the societal uptake of AI &ndash\; exemplified in anti-AI activism\, dueling governance regimes\, and popular critical slang like &ldquo\;AI slop&rdquo\; &ndash\; exemplify and give opportunity to inform these theoretical challenges.
\nOrientation to these developments requires approaches that scholars in the humanities may be uniquely positioned to provide. We hereby announce a three‑day workshop on &ldquo\;Intelligence and Imitation: Mind\, Mechanism\, Mimesis&rdquo\; for presentation and discussion of new humanities research engaging with this \;theme. \;
\nOur aim is to foster a collective critical engagement with AIs in their history\, socioeconomic context\, architecture\, and other dimensions of significance with the assistance \;of resources from literature\, philosophy\, history\, or other humanities fields. We invite contributions from both early‑career (including graduate students) \;and established \;academic researchers\, whose work-in-progress \;projects \;straddle disciplinary boundaries \;to illuminate aspects of the diverse mind-machine relations exemplified in AI&rsquo\;s history\, current reality\, and imagined futures. \;
\nSome possible avenues \;of investigation include: \;
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In addition to presented papers\, some time at the conference will be devoted to reflection on &ldquo\;humanities of AI&rdquo\; as a research domain\, including its current state and possible futures\, disciplinary articulation\, conditions of success\, relations with natural and social sciences\, and potential impact on sociotechnical systems involving AI. \; \;
\;
Featured Speakers \;
Yulia Frumer\, \;Bo Jung and Soon Young Kim Professor of East Asian Science\, Johns Hopkins University\; Author of &ldquo\;Cognition and emotion in Japanese humanoid robots\,&rdquo\; \;History &\; Technology \;(2018) and \;Making Time: Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan \;(Univ. of Chicago Press\, 2018)
\nN. Katherine Hayles\, Distinguished Research Professor at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and the James B. Duke Professor Emerita from Duke University\; Author of Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with Our Nonhuman Symbionts (Univ. of Chicago Press\, 2025)\, Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious (Univ. of Chicago Press\, 2017) and How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Univ. of Chicago Press\, 2015)
\nMatthew L. Jones\, Smith Family Professor of History\, Princeton University\; Author (with Chris Wiggins) of \;How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms \;(Norton\, 2023)
\nMatthew Kirschenbaum\, Commonwealth Professor of AI and English\, University of Virginia\; Author of \;Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press\, 2021)
\nPatrick McCray\, Professor of History\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Kluge Chair in Technology and Society (2025) at \;the Library of Congress (2025)\; Author of \;README: A Bookish History of Computing from Electronic Brains to Everything Machines \;(MIT Press\, 2025) \;
\nAlexander Williams Tolbert\, Assistant Professor of Data and Decision Sciences\, Emory University\; Author of &ldquo\;Why Causal Inference is Necessary for Algorithmic Fairness\,&rdquo\; Synthese (2025) and &ldquo\;Causal Agnosticism about Race: Variable Selection Problems in Causal Inference\,&rdquo\; Philosophy of Science (2024).
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\nSubmission Instructions
\nSubmit a single Word or PDF file to Jiantong \;Liao (jliao20@jh.edu) by January 31 \;containing: (i) \;an abstract roughly 300 words\; (ii) a short bio including your name\, institutional affiliation\, and contact email\; and (iii) up to five key words. Decisions will be communicated within one month of the deadline. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to send up to 3000 \;words (a short paper or portion of a paper-in-progress) for distribution before the workshop. Questions may be directedto the address above.
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Supporting Institutions
Alexander Grass Humanities Institute\, Johns Hopkins University(https://krieger.jhu.edu/humanities-institute/)
\nCenter for Equitable AI &\; Machine Learning Systems (CEAMLS)\, Morgan State University(https://www.morgan.edu/ceamls) \;
\n
Organizing Committee
Jiantong Liao (Chair)
PhD Student\, German Program\, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
jliao20@jh.edu
Ksenia Tatarchenko (Faculty Sponsor)
Faculty\, Medicine\, Science &\; Humanities Program\, Johns Hopkins University
ktatarc1@jh.edu
Phillip Honenberger (Faculty Sponsor)
AI Ethicist &\; Researcher\, Center for Equitable AI &\; ML Systems (CEAMLS)\, Morgan State University
jaywilliam.honenberger@morgan.edu
The Rice Philosophy Department is hosting a conference to honor George Sher and celebrate his work this spring (April 24-25\, 2026). The event will feature papers from some of George&rsquo\;s friends\, interlocutors\, and colleagues. Talks will take up major themes of his work\, including responsibility\, blame\, desert\, freedom of thought and speech\, neutrality\, and distributive justice. \;
\nThe conference is free and open to the public upon registration\, space permitting.
\nFor more information\, or to register\, contact Samuel Reis-Dennis (sr110@rice.edu). \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Samuel Reis-Dennis: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260424T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20260425T170000 SUMMARY:Southwest Graduate Philosophy Conference UID:20260417T210900Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/Phoenix LOCATION:976 S Forest Mall\, Tempe\, United States\, 85281 DESCRIPTION:Theme: Civility and Incivility
\nKeynote Speaker: Dr. Sukaina Hirji (University of Pennsylvania). \;
\nThe annual Southwest Graduate Philosophy Conference will resume in Spring 2026 at Arizona State University in Tempe\, Arizona. This year\, our theme will be Civility and Incivility. We welcome graduate student submissions from any area of philosophy\, but priority will be given to papers relevant to the theme and/or relevant to social philosophy broadly constructed. This year our conference is co-hosted by ASU&rsquo\;s MAP chapter\, so we particularly encourage graduate students to submit papers on topics that are relevant to marginalized communities.
\n\nWe are thrilled to welcome Dr. Sukiana Hirji from the University of Pennsylvania as our keynote speaker. The keynote presentation will be the final talk of the conference on Saturday\, April 25th.
ORGANIZER;CN=Scout Etterson;CN=Dustin Taylor;CN=Miranda Judson;CN=Christopher Chimienti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260426T170000 SUMMARY:Ethics\, Epistemology\, and Engineering UID:20260417T210901Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Newark\, United States DESCRIPTION:On April 24-26\, 2026 the University of Delaware is hosting a workshop &ldquo\;Ethics\, Epistemology\, and Engineering&rdquo\; featuring keynote talks by Zachary Pirtle (fPET) and Deborah Johnson (UVA).
\nThe keynote talks will be held 4:15-7:15pm Friday\, April 24. These are free and open to the public\, no RSVP required.
\nSpace at the workshop Saturday-Sunday is limited. Please email eeeworkshop2026@udel.edu to RSVP.
\nEngineering is both a technical and a normative practice\, involving judgments about evidence\, models\, uncertainty\, and risks that carry ethical consequences. This workshop brings together philosophers and engineers to examine how engineering knowledge is produced\, applied\, and justified in ways that have significant \;social impact.
\nTopics include:
\nthe nature of engineering expertise
\nthe use of models and simulations
\nuncertainty in risk assessment
\nepistemic and moral responsibility in design
\nvalues in standards\, regulations\, and infrastructures
\nethical and epistemic challenges in engineering with AI.
\nThe workshop aims to foster dialogue between philosophical theory and engineering practice. \;
\nPlease direct any questions about the workshop to \;eeeworkshop2026@udel.edu
ORGANIZER;CN=Noel Swanson;CN=Thomas M. Powers: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260425T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260425T090000 SUMMARY:Beyond the Imitation Game UID:20260417T210902Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Splaiul Independentei nr. 204\, Bucharest\, Romania DESCRIPTION:We encourage BA\, MA and PhD students\, as well as early PhDs and postdocs\, to contribute research abstracts related to the event's topic areas. Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 300 words.
\nAbstracts will receive full consideration if sent before 25th of April 2026 at the following address: beyondimconference@gmail.com Word or PDF attachments preferred\, with the message titled "abstract submission".
\nAll submissions will go through a process of blind peer review. (Please write your identifying details in the body of the email\, and leave the attached abstract anonymized.) We intend notifications of acceptance to be sent out on or before the 28th of April. The conference programme will be announced as soon as review is completed.
\nFor any questions\, please don't hesitate to email: beyondimconference@gmail.com \;
\nYou may register at the same address (or by RSVP here on PhilEvents) on or before 8th of May in order to receive the Zoom connection details if you want to attend online.
\nThe conference is organized with the support of undergraduate students in the bachelor&rsquo\;s programme in cognitive science within the Department for Psychology at the University of Bucharest\, the support of the students enrolled in the Master&rsquo\;s Programme in Cognitive Science (Mind the Brain!) within the Department for Philosophy at the University of Bucharest\, and with the support of graduate students in the Doctoral School of Theoretical Philosophy within the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Bucharest.
ORGANIZER;CN=Sandra-Catalina Branzaru;CN="Catalina Frâncu";CN=Daniel Cristian Stancu;CN=E.G. Rosu;CN=David Buciuman;CN=Petru A. Costeschi;CN=Alexia Lungianu;CN=Andreea-Isabela Gavrila: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T170000 SUMMARY:Thinking with Machines: Artificial Intelligence\, Cognition\, and Responsibility UID:20260417T210903Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Richmond\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Department of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University invites submissions for Thinking with Machines\, a one-day philosophy conference focused on contemporary work in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. While the conference engages issues at the intersection of philosophy\, psychology\, and cognitive science\, it is primarily intended for philosophers working on AI and closely related topics.
\nThe conference will be anchored by a public keynote lecture by Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)\, whose work on privacy and contextual integrity has been foundational in philosophy of technology and AI ethics.
\nWe invite submissions in all areas of philosophy of AI\, including (but not limited to):
\nArtificial intelligence and theories of mind or cognition
\nTrust\, explanation\, and epistemic authority in AI systems
\nPrivacy\, surveillance\, and contextual integrity
\nMoral agency\, responsibility\, and accountability in automated systems
\nEthical\, political\, and social philosophy of AI
\nShort-term and long-term risks and benefits of AI
\nThe Department of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University invites submissions for Thinking with Machines\, a one-day philosophy conference focused on contemporary work in the philosophy of artificial intelligence. While the conference engages issues at the intersection of philosophy\, psychology\, and cognitive science\, it is primarily intended for philosophers working on AI and closely related topics.
\nThe conference will be anchored by a public keynote lecture by Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)\, whose work on privacy and contextual integrity has been foundational in philosophy of technology and AI ethics.
\nWe invite submissions in all areas of philosophy of AI\, including (but not limited to):
\nArtificial intelligence and theories of mind or cognition
\nTrust\, explanation\, and epistemic authority in AI systems
\nPrivacy\, surveillance\, and contextual integrity
\nMoral agency\, responsibility\, and accountability in automated systems
\nEthical\, political\, and social philosophy of AI
\nShort-term and long-term risks and benefits of AI
\nJunior faculty and graduate students are encouraged to submit.
\n\nSubmission Guidelines\n \;\nIndividual submissions:
\n300&ndash\;500 word abstract
\nSuitable for a 25-minute presentation plus Q&\;A
\nAbstracts must be prepared for blind review (no identifying information)
\nPanel or roundtable proposals:
\n800&ndash\;1\,000 words describing the theme\, format\, and participants
\nPanel proposals should include a separate document listing participant names and short bios (50&ndash\;100 words each)
\nSubmissions should be sent to aipsiphi@vcu.edu.
\n\nImportant Dates\n \;\nSubmission deadline:March 8\, 2026
\nNotification of acceptance: late March 2026
\nConference date:April 25\, 2026
\nThe keynote lecture will be open to the public. All other sessions will be academic conference sessions held in person. The venue is wheelchair accessible\; presenters are encouraged to note any accessibility needs.
\nOrganizers:
Department of Philosophy\, Virginia Commonwealth University
VCU College of Humanities &\; Sciences
AI&Psi\;&Phi\; Lab
Ethics\, Epistemology &\; Emotion Lab
Questions may be directed to:
Frank Faries &mdash\;
Special Workshop &ldquo\;Non-ideal Approaches in Migration Ethics: Movement\, Membership\, and Asylum in the Contemporary World&rdquo\;
\nIVR World Congress 2026 Istanbul
\nJune 28 &ndash\; July 3\, 2026
\nhttps://ivr2026istanbul.org/
\nConvenors: Konstantinos Farmakidis-Markou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)\, Anna Milioni (Center for Research in Ethics\, Montreal)\, Jan Turlej (Jagiellonian University)
\nWorkshop Description
\nMigration raises difficult questions against the background of an imperfect global order. Cross-border movement &ndash\; whether voluntary\, driven by constraining circumstances\, or the absence of meaningful life opportunities\, and forced &ndash\; poses enduring ethical problems of admission and reception\, exclusion\, protection\, responsibility\, and belonging. At the same time\, recent and emerging developments &ndash\; including climate-induced displacement\, digitalized border control\, the securitization of migration\, shifting labour markets\, the externalization of responsibility\, and evolving legal regimes of asylum and citizenship &ndash\; are putting established legal and moral-political frameworks under increasing strain. Non-ideal theory\, first systematized for global society by John Rawls in The Law of Peoples\, has since served as a framework for justifying and specifying international duties and as a widely adopted account of the responsibilities that peoples bear toward fellow human beings. At the same time\, it has been strongly\, yet fruitfully\, criticized by proponents of more morality-centred approaches to global justice\, especially in the context of migration. This workshop invites contributions that engage with the ethics of migration across its full spectrum\, approached especially through a non-ideal normative-theoretical perspective\, including: immigration and emigration\, refugee protection\, statelessness\, and citizenship. The workshop aims to provide a forum for philosophical reflection on how moral obligations toward migrants are shaped\, justified\, constrained\, and sometimes transformed under contemporary conditions. Rather than focusing on a single doctrinal or policy issue\, the workshop aims to explore the normative principles underlying migration governance\, as well as the tensions between state sovereignty\, individual rights\, collective self-determination and global justice.
\nThemes and Questions
\nWe welcome theoretical\, normative\, critical\, and empirically informed contributions on\, among others\, the following topics:
\nThe workshop is open call. Contributions may draw from:
\nThe workshop aims to:
\nThe workshop may provide the foundation for future collaboration\, a themed publication\, or a subsequent research network.
\nConfirmed speakers:
\nRufaida Al Hashmi (University of Reading)
\nPhilip Cole (University of the West of England)
\nKostas Farmakidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
\nVera Karanika (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
\nAnna Milioni (Center for Research in Ethics\, Montreal)
\nJan Turlej (Jagiellonian University)
\nSubmission Information:
\nParticipants are invited to submit anonymised abstracts (approx. 300&ndash\;500 words) by 26 April 2026\, to anna.milioni@umontreal.ca \, janturlej@gmail.com \, and dm_farma@yahoo.gr . Please use &ldquo\;IVR abstract submission&rdquo\; as the subject line of your email.
\nAccepted contributors are welcome to circulate short papers in advance to facilitate discussion.
ORGANIZER;CN=Anna Milioni;CN=Jan Turlej;CN=Konstantinos Farmakidis-Markou: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260426T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260426T234500 SUMMARY:Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity UID:20260417T210906Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:55-59 Penrhyn Rd\, Kingston upon Thames\, London\, United Kingdom\, KT1 2EE DESCRIPTION:Call for Contributions: Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity \;
\nKeynote Presenters: \;
\nAndrew Goffey (University of Nottingham)
\nBrigitte Hart (Sound artist\, Shortwave Collective)
\nWhen crisis becomes a permanent state rather than an exceptional rupture\, fragility assumes the form of an existential condition visible across social\, ecological\, and political domains. Under such circumstances\, the production of knowledge increasingly shifts toward anticipatory regimes&mdash\;risk modelling\, foresight studies\, and adaptive infrastructures designed to navigate instability. Contemporary problems appear as hybrid entities: complex issues that exceed the grasp of any single discipline and demand collaborative investigation capable of rendering them perceptible and registering fragile relations that cannot be stabilised or fixed.
\nIn this context\, the problem of disciplinarity&mdash\;of relations between disciplines and collaboration across them&mdash\;acquires renewed urgency. Contemporary ecological frameworks in the humanities further intensify this concern by grounding the crossing of boundaries in an existential condition. This expansion of the problematic invites a reconsideration of an older question: what do the prefixes inter-\, trans-\, non-\, or post- differentially signify when applied to disciplinarity? Which form of disciplinarity adequately captures our present condition?
\nWhile the laboratory has served as a central model&mdash\;a metonym for interdisciplinary collaboration\, anchoring the emergent mode of scientific praxis called &ldquo\;research&rdquo\;&mdash\;today research also unfolds across privately funded para-institutions\, hybrid platforms\, and transient project-based networks. However\, collaborations between artists and social theorists with natural scientists remain structurally asymmetrical: artistic practice is often reduced to the visualization of scientific data\, while social theory has long remained under pressure to imitate the methods of the hard sciences. In this context\, the symposium seeks to examine the tangible forms of contemporary cross-disciplinary collaboration and the conceptual frameworks that sustain them.
\nThe symposium approaches this question under the long shadow of post-1968 French philosophy\, whose insistence on the inherent intertwinement of politics and aesthetics continues to shape contemporary thought. As a guiding reference\, we take the framework developed by Bruno Latour\, approached here through the twin themes of \;fragility and the aesthetics of sensitivity. Latour may be seen as the synthetic inheritor of this philosophical trajectory\, insofar as his anthropology of laboratory science leads to a non-disciplinary\, transversal form of social ontology that immanently connects science\, aesthetics\, and politics. His model advances a form of collective pragmatism oriented toward the proposal of new entities for social existence&mdash\;entities defined relationally as fragile networks of attachments. Scientific instruments function as sensitive devices that inscribe and thereby render these entities visible\, thereby making them open to collective concern.
\nThe symposium is thus both a call for dialogue and an invitation to rethink disciplinarity under the increasingly urgent\, deteriorating\, and transitional conditions of the present. We are interested in contemporary artistic and theoretical practices\, particularly those that combine the two and critically reflect on their disciplinary\, institutional\, and methodological conditions. If\, as Fé\;lix Guattari reminds us\, &ldquo\;there is no general pedagogy relative to the constitution of a living transdisciplinarity\,&rdquo\; then where and how might such a transdisciplinarity be practiced today? \;
\nPossible contributions might focus on: \;
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nAbstract: \;max. 300 words
\nPresentation length: \;20 minutes \;with time reserved for discussion.
\nPlease send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note to: \;k2035920@kingston.ac.uk
\nDeadline for submissions: \;26 April 2026
Notification of acceptance: \;10 May 2026
The event is organised as a \;PhD student-led symposium supported by the Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260427T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260427T000000 SUMMARY:Essay Competition: Does Liberty Upset Patterns? UID:20260417T210907Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Description: The &ldquo\;Liberty\, Equality\, and Utility: Assessing the trade-offs between individual liberty\, well-being\, and material equality&rdquo\; project at the Université\; de Fribourg\, funded by the John Templeton Foundation\, invites essay submissions on the question: &ldquo\;Does Liberty Upset Patterns?&rdquo\;. This prize competition aims to encourage new work on tensions between commitments to individual liberty and 'patterned' goods\, broadly construed to include commitments to equality\, priority\, Pareto-optimality\, and more. There are of course well-known challenges for reconciling these commitments. Using his widely-discussed Wilt Chamberlain example\, Nozick pressed a challenge for reconciling commitments to individual liberty and patterned views of distributive justice. Sen\, in his influential paper\, &ldquo\;The Impossibility of a Paretian Liberal&rdquo\;\, pressed another challenge for reconciling commitments to individual liberty and a weak Pareto condition. Particular essay topics could include\, but are not limited to\, how to measure individual liberty/freedom\, patterned views of distributive justice\, game theoretic accounts of rights\, and philosophical discussions of any relevant formal results in social choice theory and/or welfare economics.
\nPrizes: First prize will receive 4\,000 CHF and an invitation to present at a conference in June 2026. Second prize will receive 2\,000 CHF. Third prize will receive 1\,000 CHF.
\nDetails: Submissions up to 12\,000 words (including footnotes\, excluding references) should be fully anonymised and submitted via email to libertyequalityutility@unifr.ch before April 27th 2026. The panel reserves the right not to award any or all prizes\, depending on the quality of submissions.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260427T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260429T170000 SUMMARY:21st Annual Doctoral Conference 2026 UID:20260417T210908Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Quellenstraße 51\, Vienna\, Austria\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Humanity at a Turning Point: Reaffirming or Reimagining Political Common Sense? CEU&rsquo\;s Annual Doctoral Conference (ADC) provides an interdisciplinary space to present works in progress\, receive constructive feedback\, and form connections for future research. We invite PhD students and early-career researchers to submit paper proposals. This three-day conference is organised by the Doctoral School of Political Science\, Public Policy and International Relations\, and there will be 4 panels specifically for political philosophy/political theory. Dates: April 27-29\, 2026. Location: Central European University\, Vienna. Keynote Speaker: \;Andrew Williams Abstract Submission Deadline: Feb.26\, 2026 Paper submission deadline: April 8\, 2026. All documents please send to: \;adc2026@ceu.eduThis conference takes &ldquo\;Humanity at a Turning Point: Reaffirming or Reimagining Political Common Sense?&rdquo\; as its background concern\, but focuses on a set of concrete philosophical puzzles that have become increasingly difficult to answer with familiar ideas of justice\, responsibility\, and fairness. Across different domains of political life\, views that once seemed obvious or stable are now under pressure\, not because of theoretical fashion\, but because social and technological conditions have changed in ways our inherited frameworks struggle to capture. We invite contributions in political philosophy that engage with such points of tension\, possible areas of interest include (but are by no means limited to):
\nWe welcome paper proposals from political philosophy and closely related normative fields. If you have any questions\, please contact us at: \;adc2026@ceu.edu
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260427T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260429T170000 SUMMARY:Why Trust a Collaboration? UID:20260417T210909Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Stockholm\, Sweden DESCRIPTION:Public trust in science has received increased attention. Yet much of that literature presumes trust is directed at individual experts. Contemporary scientific knowledge\, however\, is predominantly produced and certified by collaborations. This workshop asks a central question: what does it mean to trust a collaboration\, and on what grounds might such trust be justified?
\n\nWe invite scholars and practitioners from philosophy of science\, sociology of science\, science and technology studies\, science communication\, ethics\, policy studies \;and related fields to join a focused\, interdisciplinary conversation about the epistemic character of collaborations and the conditions for trust in collective scientific endeavours.
\n\nWorkshop themes and questions
\nTopics of interest include (but are not limited to):
\nKey questions we will explore include:
\nWe welcome your participation in what promises to be a stimulating exchange on a timely and practically important topic.
\n\nHow to register
\nTo register\, please send the following to: \;sophie.ritson@unimelb.edu.au
\nRegistration will be confirmed on a rolling basis until capacity is reached. \;
\n\;
\nOrganisers and enquiries
\nFor further information\, questions about accessibility\, or to propose a short workshop activity\, please contact one or all of \;the organisers on
Sophie: \;sophie.ritson@unimelb.edu.au
Siska: \;siska.debaerdemakeer@philosophy.su.se
\nHaixin: \;hxdang@gmail.com
\nPaula: \;paula.muhr@brand-university.de
\n
Please include &ldquo\;Why Trust a Collaboration? &mdash\; Registration&rdquo\; in the subject line.
The Global Theory Forum's Spring Symposium is being hosted at \;UCL \;this year\, and is made possible by the generous support of the \;Society for Applied Philosophy. We are very much looking forward to hearing all of the contributions of our ECR presenters and senior discussants - Dr. Alice Baderin (Reading)\, Dr. Tom Parr (Warwick)\, Dr. Alex Grzankowski (KCL) and Dr. Ross Mittiga (SOAS) - as well as our keynote lecture by Prof. Jeffrey Howard (UCL).
\nNote this is a free event but there are limited spaces so please do register your interest via Eventbrite: \;https://tinyurl.com/GTFSymposium
\nSchedule: \;
\n9:00&ndash\;9:30
\nRegistration
\n9:30&ndash\;10:30
\n&ldquo\;When Criticism Becomes Abuse: The Ethics of Political Attack&rdquo\;\, keynote lecture by Prof Jeff Howard (UCL)
\n10:30&ndash\;11:45
\nThe Methodology of Situated Theory: Engaging with Politics in Historical\, Ethnographic\, and Realist Terms
\nModerated by Dr Alice Baderin (Reading)
\n&ldquo\;Climate Resistance and (Non)Violence Recognition: The Case of Portugal's Climá\;ximo&rdquo\;\,Daniel Santos (Loughborough)
\n&ldquo\;From Methodological Turn to Disciplinary Crisis? Three Problems for Situated Political Theory&rdquo\;\, George Boss (QMUL)
\n12:00&ndash\;1:15
\nAn Incredible Alternative to Politics: Digital Technology and Global Power in the Age of AI
\nModerated by Dr Alex Grzankowski (KCL)
\n&ldquo\;Fake Stage Capitalism? AI Deep Fakes and the New (?) Politics of Truth&rdquo\;\, Caio Simoneti (Cambridge)
\n&ldquo\;The Automated Demos: Identity\, Recognition\, and the Collapse of the Political Interval&rdquo\;\,Erik Cardona-Gomez (SOAS)
\n1:15&ndash\;2:00
\nLunch
\n2:00&ndash\;3:15
\nForming a Green Imaginary: The Politics of Stasis and Reconstruction in the Context of Climate Catastrophe
\nModerated by Dr Ross Mittiga (SOAS)
\n&ldquo\;Eschatological Ethics: Imagining a Fair End of the World&rdquo\;\,Rhiannon Emm (KCL)
\n&ldquo\;Transnational Governmentality as an Antidote to Climate Stasis&rdquo\;\, Daniel Drury (St. Andrews)
\n3:30&ndash\;4:45
\nWork and Beyond: Exploring the Moral and Political Centrality of Work
\nModerated by Dr Tom Parr (Warwick)
\n&ldquo\;Free Riding on Reproduction&rdquo\;\,Rebecca Clark (LSE)
\n&ldquo\;Post-work\, Anti-Work\, and the State&rdquo\;\, Jonjo Brady (QMUL)
\n5:00&ndash\;6:00
\nPolitical Theorising In and Against the Globalised Present: Local Struggles\, Globalised Power\, roundtable featuring Dr Baderin\, Dr Grzankowski\, Dr Mittiga\, Dr Parr and Prof Howard.
\n6:00&ndash\;7:00
\nNetworking and Drinks Reception at UCL
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260427T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260427T170000 SUMMARY:Global Theory Forum Spring Symposium UID:20260417T210911Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London LOCATION: Room 421\, Roberts Building\, University College London\, London\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:The Global Theory Forum (GTF) is now inviting submissions from Early Career political theorists and philosophers for our 2026 Spring Symposium (27th April\, Room 421\, Roberts Building\, University College London). We are thrilled to be funded by the Society for Applied Philosophy\, which aims to promote philosophical work with direct practical and public impact.
\nThe event will include four panels\, each involving two early-career speakers and one senior discussant\, and arranged around four topical themes:
\nThe methodology of situated theory (chaired by Dr Alice Baderin\, University of Reading)
\nDigital technology\, AI\, and global power (chaired by Dr Alex Grzankowski\, KCL)
\nThe climate crisis (chaired by Dr Ross Mittiga\, SOAS)
\nWork and its future (chaired by Dr Tom Parr\, University of Warwick)
\nIn each panel\, speakers will present for 15-20 minutes\, followed by a response from our senior discussant and a Q&\;A.
\nThe Symposium keynote will be delivered by Professor Jeff Howard (UCL)\, whose research on online communications pairs political philosophy with deep engagement with policy and legal scholarship. There will also be a drinks reception hosted at UCL\, and dinner for the selected panellists and discussants.
\nMore details here: \;https://www.globaltheoryforum.co.uk/spring-symposium.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260427T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260427T113000 SUMMARY:Inclusive Economics: How Could AI Technologies Shape a New Inclusive Economy? UID:20260417T210912Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Sometime in 2017\, Google researchers developed and demonstrated the 'transformer' architecture\, a fundamentally new way to overcome the human--computer representation problem. Fast forward to 2026 and we see the rapid integration of AI systems through all aspects of modern economic life. I will argue that more than the typical economic lens of general purpose technology\, we should also conceptualise AI systems as a new kind of institutional infrastructure -- a mediating layer that shapes who can participate in the economy\, and on what terms. There is huge potential here for new kinds of economic inclusion\, but also great risks around \;bias\, dependency\, surveillance\, and power concentration. My aim is not to bring answers but prompt a discussion about governance\, autonomy\, and human flourishing in this new Age of AI.
\nSimon Angus is a Professor in the School of Business and Economics at Monash University\, Australia\, and is affiliated as Professor with Impact Labs. He describes his work as computational and complexity science\, applying methods such as numerical simulation\, data science/engineering\, machine learning\, and agent-based modelling across the social\, biological\, and physical sciences\, with increasing focus on projects at the intersection of empirical social science and applied machine learning.
ORGANIZER;CN=Christopher Watkin: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083636Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260427T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260427T234500 SUMMARY:2ª ed congreso internacional de desterritorializaciones políticas UID:20260417T210913Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Madrid\, Spain DESCRIPTION:From the National University of Distance Education\, the Complutense University of Madrid\, and the Universidad Autó\;noma Metropolitana&ndash\;Iztapalapa\, we invite researchers to submit proposals that explore and analyze our political present from a Deleuzo‑Guattarian perspective that understands the centrality of capitalism as an axiomatics and immanent system.
\nWe are now accepting abstracts that follow (but are not limited to) the following thematic lines:
\nDialogues between macro\, micro and mesopolitics: thinking a minor politics
Democracy\, institutions and community
State and war: borders and imperial regimes
The affective turn in politics
Capitalist axiomatics\, social organization and libidinal economy
Militant clinic: antipsychiatry and schizoanalysis
Feminisms of difference\, xenofeminisms and post‑humanist feminisms
Anticoloniality\, postcoloniality and decoloniality
Corporealities and dissident desires
Violence\, extractivism and climate catastrophe
Proposal submission:
An anonymized abstract should be sent to the organizing email address (desteticas@gmail.com)\, summarizing the proposal in 250 to 300 words. The title\, thematic lines\, five keywords\, and an essential bibliography must be included. In addition\, a second document should be attached to the email stating the author&rsquo\;s name\, institutional affiliation\, a brief biography\, contact email\, and the title of the proposal.
Deadline:
April 27\, 2026 will be the deadline for submitting papers.
Conference dates:
&ldquo\;Political Deterritorializations&rdquo\; will take place on June 17\, 18\, and 19\, 2026 at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the National University of Distance Education (UNED).
Organizers:
Luis Jaime Estrada (UAM‑I &ndash\; UCM)\, Myriam Rodrí\;guez del Real (UNED)\, Ana Gorostizu (UC3M).
Scientific committee:
Germá\;n Cano (UCM)\, Francisco José\; Martí\;nez (UNED)\, Amanda Nú\;ñ\;ez (UNED)\, Nicolá\;s Ried (Universidad Diego Portales&ndash\;Chile)\, Juan Evaristo Valls Boix (UCM)\, Sayak Valencia (COLEF&ndash\;Mexico).
The Center for Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence (CPAI) at the University of Copenhagen invites you to a public talk by \;Gleb Papyshev\, \;Assistant Professor at \;Lingnan University. \; \;
\nAI Regulation and Consumer Protection \; \;
\nThis talk describes a captured techno-regulatory imaginary in Artificial Intelligence governance\, defined by a teleological focus on Artificial General Intelligence\, a hierarchy of speculative risk\, and a pro-innovation regulation. Using the eight United Nations consumer rights as a lens\, it traces how this imaginary is authored by leading AI firms\, legitimized by national governments\, and universalized through international soft law. This process systematically marginalizes present-day consumer harms. The analysis concludes that operationalizing the underdeveloped rights to consumer education and redress is the pathway for reform\, which can help realign existing AI regulation with real consumer welfare. \;
\nGleb Papyshev \;is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs and the Division of Artificial Intelligence at Lingnan University. His research focuses on AI governance\, regulation\, and ethics. Previously\, he served as a Research Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His work has appeared in peer-reviewed outlets such as Electronic Markets\, Technology in Society\, Review of Policy Research\, Policy Design and Practice\, AI &\; Society\, and the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI\, Ethics\, and Society\, among others. \; The talk will be one hour with a Q&\;A afterward. \;
\nTime: \;Tuesday 28 April 2026\, \;19:00 &ndash\; 20:30 (doors 18:30)
\nPlace: \;HUSET (Xenon)\, Rå\;dhusstræ\;de 13\, 1466 \;Copenhagen\, Denmark. \;
\n(Please note: This is an in-person only event)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T083637Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261126T170000 SUMMARY:Séminaire Arendt 2026 UID:20260417T210915Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Le Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone\, cré\;é\; en 2024\, vise à\; favoriser une synergie entre celles et ceux qui\, des amateurs aux chercheuses\, fré\;quentent la pensé\;e de Hannah Arendt. Dans cette optique\, nous cherchons à\; mettre en place un rendez-vous ré\;gulier pour en discuter les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects.
\nDu fait de l&rsquo\;é\;tendue de la francophonie\, ces sé\;minaires auront lieu en ligne. Leur principe sera le suivant : les participant-e-s auront tous et toutes pré\;alablement lu un article ou un chapitre ré\;cent\, lequel sera pré\;senté\; trè\;s rapidement par souci de prioriser les é\;changes (10 minutes) par son autrice ou auteur. À\; partir de celui-ci\, un-e membre du ré\;seau ouvrira (5 min) à\; un dé\;bat plus large afin de discuter\, outre l&rsquo\;article\, les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects de l&rsquo\;&oelig\;uvre d&rsquo\;Arendt (1h30).
\nProgramme 2026\nEn 2026\, nous proposons quatre sé\;ances ordinaires du sé\;minaire et une sé\;ance spé\;ciale : «\; Arendt et la science é\;conomique »\;\, «\; Arendt et le travail »\;\, «\; Liberté\;\, volonté\;\, politique »\;\, «\; Arendt et la violence »\;\, «\; Philosophie\, é\;ducation et politique »\;.
\nLe sé\;minaire est ouvert à\; toutes et tous sans inscription pré\;alable \; n&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas à\; venir y assister et y participer. Les articles et textes discuté\;s sont disponibles sur le site du RAF. N&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas non plus à\; nous contacter pour toute demande d&rsquo\;information complé\;mentaire.
\nLe RAF ?\nLe Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone (RAF) se veut un espace divers et pluriel\, rassemblant une communauté\; de doctorant-e-s\, enseignant-e-s\, chercheurs/ses\, intellectuel-le-s et toute personne inté\;ressé\;e ou engagé\;e dans l'é\;tude et la diffusion de la pensé\;e d'Hannah Arendt en France et le monde francophone. À\; travers cette plateforme\, nous souhaitons favoriser les é\;changes intellectuels\, offrir une visibilité\; accrue aux travaux de recherche et cré\;er des liens solides entre francophones s'inté\;ressant à\; et puisant dans l'&oelig\;uvre de cette autrice majeure du XXe siè\;cle.
\nOutre l&rsquo\;organisation de ce sé\;minaire et d'é\;vè\;nements acadé\;miques lié\;s à\; la pensé\;e d'Arendt\, le ré\;seau actualise continuellement un site web qui met à\; disposition : une bibliographie des textes de langue franç\;aise consacré\;s à\; Arendt ou la mobilisant\, un annuaire des membres du ré\;seau\, un agenda des activité\;s francophones qui lui sont dé\;dié\;es et une lettre d'information mensuelle.
\nN'hé\;sitez pas à\; rejoindre le ré\;seau ou à\; nous contacter pour rejoindre l&rsquo\;é\;quipe d&rsquo\;animation !
\n ORGANIZER;CN="Rémi Zanni": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR