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SUMMARY:4th Inquiry Network Workshop
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TZID:America/Chicago
LOCATION:2000 North Pkwy\, Memphis\, United States\, 38112
DESCRIPTION:<p>The Inquiry Network is hosting a workshop on inquiry at Rhodes College in Memphis\, TN\, April 2-3\, 2027.</p>\n<p>This meeting will be held in conjunction with the annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference.</p>\n<p>We invite submissions of anonymized abstracts (up to 1\,000 words) on any topic related to the philosophy of inquiry. For example\, papers might address topics such as:</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Norms of inquiry.</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; The relationship between inquiry and interrogative attitudes such as curiosity and suspension of judgment.</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; The relationship between inquiry and attention or salience.</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; The semantics and pragmatics of questions.</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Virtues and vices of inquiry.</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Inquiry in specific domains\, such as scientific inquiry or philosophical inquiry.</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Historical approaches to inquiry (for example\, work on the American Pragmatists\, ancient Pyrrhonians\, etc.).</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Ethics of inquiry.</p>\n<p>Please submit anonymized abstracts (up to 1\,000 words) by <strong>EOD&nbsp\;</strong><strong>December 31</strong><strong>\, 2026&nbsp\;</strong>to inquirynetworkgroup@gmail.com.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=David Thorstad;CN=Jared A. Millson:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270105T234500
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SUMMARY:The AI & Society Symposium: Where Technology Meets Human Values
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LOCATION:Boston\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p>The Boston University Humanities &amp\; AI Lab (HAIL) invites undergraduate and graduate students from any institution and any discipline to submit papers for its first symposium.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>This symposium inquires into the conceptions of the human built into generative AI.</strong>&nbsp\;<br><br>GenAI systems sound like us: they say &ldquo\;I understand\,&rdquo\; they apologize\, they appear to care. They&rsquo\;re also made for a user\, and so they come with assumptions about who that user is: what they need and what they can already do. And they&rsquo\;re built on assumptions about what intelligence itself is. Some of these pictures of the human reflect choices made by engineers and product teams\; others were assumed without anyone ever deciding. It all demands to be examined. This symposium brings these and related questions into public discussion\, asking what it means to be human at a time when these systems are made like us and for us\, even as this &lsquo\;us&rsquo\; is still being decided.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>We welcome work from any discipline in the humanities\, the social sciences\, and technical fields such as engineering\, computer science\, and data science. Possible topics include\, but are not limited to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should AI systems speak like us? How does this affect the way we relate to them? How do training choices like fine-tuning on human feedback produce an AI&rsquo\;s voice?</li>\n<li>Do we owe anything to a system that speaks as one of us? Does making AI seem human lead us to trust it more than we should?</li>\n<li>How do economic incentives shape the picture of the user\, or the humanlike voice\, built into AI?</li>\n<li>Who is the user GenAI systems are built for? An assistant presupposes someone who knows what they want and can judge what they get. Whose needs\, abilities\, and ends does this take for granted? Who is left out of this picture?</li>\n<li>What picture of intelligence\, reasoning\, and understanding is built into how AI is designed? Is it the right one\, or does it leave something out?</li>\n<li>Can using AI prevent us from learning key skills we need to develop as people\, professionals\, and citizens? Can it lead us to lose skills we already have?</li>\n<li>What would AI look like if it were built for people who are still learning? Can it be designed to support learning rather than replace it\, and how would we know if it works as intended?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Submission details:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fill in&nbsp\;<a href="https://forms.gle/MTZqLYXoYyjxuF8i7">this Google Form</a>&nbsp\;with your name\, institution\, program and year\, and paper title.&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>Attach in the form an&nbsp\;<strong>abstract of up to 500 words</strong>\, prepared for anonymous review.</li>\n<li>The deadline is January 5\, 2027.</li>\n<li>Decisions by February 5\, 2027.&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>Talks are 20 minutes\, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.&nbsp\;</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Limited travel grants may be available for presenters from outside Boston\, with priority for students in New England.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>You can send questions to&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:ppardi1@bu.edu">ppardi1@bu.edu</a>.</p>\n<p>Organized by Pol Pardini Gispert\, Anika Mukherjee\, Daniel Munro\, and Seth Villegas\, with support from the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the APA Berry Fund.</p>
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SUMMARY:CFP Discipline Filosofiche\, XXXVII\, 1\, 2027: Phenomenological Analyses of Emotions in their Ontological and Metaphysical Implications\, ed. by Giuliana Mancuso
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DESCRIPTION:<p>DISCIPLINE FILOSOFICHE\, XXXVII\, 1\, 2027: PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF EMOTIONS IN THEIR ONTOLOGICAL AND METAPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS Edited by Giuliana Mancuso Over the past twenty years\, scientific literature on emotions has grown enormously\, and the same has occurred in philosophy. In light of the assumptions&mdash\;often implicit&mdash\;that guide scientific research programs\, the wealth of their findings\, and the explanatory hypotheses advanced on the basis of such observational and theoretical grounds\, it is inevitable that philosophers ask what the specific contribution of philosophy to research on emotions might be\, given the intertwining of physiological\, expressive\, behavioral\, cognitive\, evaluative\, normative\, and motivational components that emotions involve\, as well as their social relevance. In other words\, what does philosophy have to say about emotions in relation to what the natural and social sciences already tell us about them? The answers naturally vary depending on the conceptions one may hold of philosophy\, but there is a particular philosophical tradition that appears especially well suited to addressing phenomena such as emotions in their characteristic two-fold nature as subjective\, first-person experiences and at the same time as objective experiences that disclose aspects of the world&mdash\;a two-fold structure that philosophical reflections on emotions have often sacrificed in favor of one aspect or the other. This tradition is phenomenology\, understood not generically as an empirical investigation of &ldquo\;what it is like to feel\,&rdquo\; but properly as the study of embodied consciousness in its directedness toward other subjects as well as toward objects\, states of affairs\, and events in the world. With respect to the contemporary philosophy of emotions as a chapter of the philosophy of mind in its relation to the cognitive sciences\, the phenomenological approach in fact claims a primacy that is\, first of all\, temporal. Between the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries\, emotions acquired centrality in philosophy primarily thanks to what Husserl described as an already existing method\, of which Husserlian transcendental phenomenology conceived itself as &ldquo\;a certain radicalization&rdquo\; (HUA IX\, 302). This was descriptive or phenomenological psychology\, a philosophical research project on consciousness and its lived experiences that ran parallel and as an alternative to the experimental psychology of the time. Its main figures were Brentano\, Stumpf\, and Th. Lipps\, and it was from this tradition that Husserl himself set out in his&nbsp\;<em>Logical Investigations</em>. Under the influence of Husserl\, it was then Lipps&rsquo\;s students and collaborators in Munich\, and later Husserl&rsquo\;s in G&ouml\;ttingen\, who defended the idea of a distinctive affective intentionality irreducible to that of other mental states such as beliefs\, judgments\, or desires. In their works they developed extraordinarily detailed eidetic analyses of particular classes of emotional experiences\, their contents\, and the themes connected with them&mdash\;analyses that\, in what is perhaps the most famous case\, that of Max Scheler\, culminated in a complex philosophical theory of emotional functions and acts\, as well as of their objects\, namely values. In subsequent developments of phenomenological philosophy\, the role accorded to affectivity remained central in Heidegger\, Sartre\, Merleau-Ponty\, Levinas\, and Henry\, as well as later in Hermann Schmitz&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;new phenomenology&rdquo\;&mdash\;with its conception of emotions as spatially extended atmospheres that transcend the mind/body distinction and the distinction between psychophysically separate individuals&mdash\;in Waldenfels&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;responsive phenomenology\,&rdquo\; and\, finally\, in the numerous studies of recent years at the intersection of phenomenology and the cognitive sciences on classical phenomenological themes such as intersubjectivity\, empathy\, and the emotional forms of collective intentionality. In such a context\, a renewed focus on emotions and values has been prompted by the publication\, in 2020\, of the&nbsp\;<em>Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins</em>&nbsp\;(HUA XLIII)\, which bring together analyses carried out by Husserl between 1909 and 1914 and subsequently in the first half of the 1920s. Against this background\,&nbsp\;<em>Discipline filosofiche</em>&nbsp\;intends to devote a special issue to phenomenological analyses of emotions\, past and present\, and invites authors to submit contributions on the following topics:</p>\n<ol>\n<li>The specific contribution of phenomenological analyses to philosophical research on emotions\, in terms of method and expected results\, and in comparison with what our best sciences tell us about emotions.</li>\n<li>Typologies of emotions and their modes of givenness.</li>\n<li>Emotions in their qualitative aspect as psychic and bodily lived experiences.</li>\n<li>Emotions in their directedness toward peculiar objects\, namely values.</li>\n<li>Affective intentionality in its relation to other forms of intentionality.</li>\n<li>Valueception [<em>Wertnehmung</em>] as an act distinct from emotions.</li>\n<li>The ontological and metaphysical implications of admitting valueception\, with regard both to consciousness and to values as the formal objects proper to affective consciousness.</li>\n<li>Emotions and personal identity or character.</li>\n<li>The role of emotions in the moral domain.</li>\n<li>The role of emotions in the social domain.</li>\n<li>Analyses of particular emotions and their specific objects.</li>\n</ol>\n
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20270217T093000
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SUMMARY:Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance
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LOCATION:Padova\, Italy
DESCRIPTION:<p>The conference Sein und Zeit&nbsp\;<em>Today: Relevance and Resonance</em>&nbsp\;is organized by the Centro Studi di Critica Heideggeriana (CSCH) on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of<em>&nbsp\;Being and Time&nbsp\;</em>by Martin Heidegger. The conference will take place from February 17 to 19\, 2027\, at the FISPPA Department of the University of Padua.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>In a context that has long been active in Heidegger studies\, the conference aims to bring into dialogue some of the most authoritative voices in the current debate on Heidegger&rsquo\;s work and thought across different philosophical traditions and geographical contexts. Alongside contributions from invited speakers in the regular sessions (Hiroshi Abe\, Francesco Camera\, Paola-Ludovika Coriando\, Costantino Esposito\, Giuliana Gregorio\, Servanne Jollivet\, Giusi Strummiello\, Mark Wrathall\, Holger Zaborowski) and a panel dedicated to the work of the Paduan philosopher Franco Volpi (&ldquo\;<em>Being and Time&rdquo\;: A Practical Philosophy? Interpretative Perspectives in Dialogue with Franco Volpi</em>\, with guest interventions from Jes&uacute\;s Adri&aacute\;n Escudero\, Adriano Fabris\, and Carlo Scilironi)\, the event will include parallel sessions featuring presentations selected through a call for abstracts.</p>\n<p>The guiding idea of the conference is to foster engagement with a classic text of twentieth-century philosophy by rereading it from the standpoint of the present and by relating the fundamental questions that run through Heidegger&rsquo\;s masterpiece to the concerns of an era &ndash\; our own &ndash\; shaped by radically transformed conceptual horizons and frameworks of thought.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The aim is to encourage dialogue among different traditions of thought that have found in&nbsp\;<em>Being and Time</em>&nbsp\;a major source of inspiration &ndash\; such as hermeneutics\, existential philosophy\, and phenomenology of embodiment &ndash\; or that have engaged with it in original ways\, such as certain areas of analytic philosophy and pragmatism.</p>
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270309T173000
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SUMMARY:Hegel's True Critique: The Undogmatic Construction of the Categories
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LOCATION:Social Sciences Building\, University of Warwick\, Coventry\, United Kingdom\, CV4 7AL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270325T090000
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SUMMARY:The Metaphysical Society of America
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LOCATION:702 E. Desmet Ave.\, Spokane\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p>The 2027 conference of the MSA invites submissions on the theme of the &ldquo\;metaphysics of habit\,&rdquo\; understood both as a subjective and objective genitive. Contributors may explore the metaphysical underpinnings of habit or investigate habit as a metaphysical principle in its own right. Topics of interest include\, but are not necessarily limited to\, the following questions:</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Is habit a pragmatic device for assuaging epistemological impasses\, as in Hume\, or can it have a genuine metaphysical function? If so\, how\, when and under what conditions?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Is habit conscious or unconscious\, intelligent or blind? Is it a sign of rational consistency or the erosion of thought into blind compulsion? Is it learned or inherited\, adaptive or mechanical\, spontaneous or rote\, proactive or reactive? Is habit a result of repetition or the propensity to repeat? Or\, does habit subvert these dichotomies altogether?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Are practice\, routine\, custom\, tics and neuroses distinct in kind from habit itself or only various degrees or intensities of habit? Or\, is habit a species of one of these categories?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Must habit be relegated to psychology or is habit operative at other\, or even all\, domains of being? What of motricity or motor habit? Are instinct and inertia species of habit? Is habit a metaphysical principle underpinning various notions of evolution? Might it underwrite scientific theories\, e.g. quantum theory? Could habit account for the lawfulness of nature itself? What is the metaphysics of social and collective habits? Could there be a theology of habit?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Is habit an attribute or might it constitute substantiality itself? Do individuals possess habits or is the self but a nexus of habits? Are some kinds of beings inherently habitual and others impervious to habit? Can a rock acquire a habit? Can artificial intelligence?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Is habit an effect\, a cause or the very principle of causality itself? Is habit antecedent to its effects or simultaneous with them? Is habit a result consequent to its cause(s) or simultaneous with it? Or\, is it temporalization itself?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Can habit perform the functions Kant allotted to transcendental structures &ndash\; synthesis\, identity\, regularity\, temporal contraction? If so\, are traditions that make habit into a metaphysical principle\, e.g. French Spiritualism and American Pragmatism\, post-Kantian? Or\, are they instead post-Humean or post-Leibnizian?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Can habit be simultaneously empirical and contingent\, yet also universal? Is habit <em>a priori</em> or <em>a posteriori</em>\, transcendental or empirically real? Could habit ground a &ldquo\;metaphysical empiricism\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;transcendental empiricism&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;critical realism&rdquo\;?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; Is habit dyadic and chiasmatic? Does habit have more to do with the Dyad or the One?</p>\n<p>Abstracts that address these and related questions and issues in original ways are especially encouraged and will be prioritized. Submissions of abstracts for papers on other metaphysical topics are also welcome.</p>\n<p><u><br></u></p>\n<p><u>Guidelines for the Submission of Abstracts</u></p>\n<p><strong>Deadline</strong>: September 1\, 2026</p>\n<p><strong>Submit to</strong>: Jessica Wahman\, Vice President of the MSA (msamarch2027@gmail.com)</p>\n<p><strong>Format</strong>: Word documents of no more than 600 words. Late abstracts and those shorter than 400 words or longer than 600 words <em>will not be considered</em>. To facilitate double-anonymous review\, an abstract should <strong><em>not</em></strong> contain the author&rsquo\;s name or otherwise identify the author. In the email to which the abstract is attached\, authors should indicate full name\, institutional affiliation (if any)\, and abstract title. The email subject-line should read:&nbsp\; 2027 MSA Submission [last name of author)] -- for example: 2027 MSA Submission Leibniz.</p>\n<p><u>Aristotle Prize</u></p>\n<p>The MSA&rsquo\;s annual Aristotle Prize\, which is only awarded if a submission is deemed worthy of the prize\, is open to current students without a Ph.D. The Aristotle Prize carries a cash award of $500\, inclusion in the program\, and assistance with costs for attending the annual meeting.</p>\n<p>Persons who wish to be considered for this prize must a) clearly state (in an email message accompanying their submission) their eligibility for this prize and their desire to be considered for it\, and b) submit a full\, final paper <em>in addition to the abstract</em> by the September 1\, 2026 deadline. The body of the text (as is proposed to be read at the meeting) must be no longer than 3\,750 words.</p>\n<p><u>Plato Prize</u></p>\n<p>The MSA&rsquo\;s annual Plato Prize\, which is only awarded if a submission is deemed worthy of the prize\, is open to persons who have received their first Ph.D. in the last six years&mdash\;thus (for the 2027 meeting) in 2021 or more recently. The Plato Prize carries a cash award of $500\, inclusion in the program\, and assistance with costs for attending the annual meeting.</p>\n<p>Persons who wish to be considered for this prize must a) clearly state (in an email message accompanying their submission) their eligibility for this prize and their desire to be considered for it\, and b) submit a full\, final paper <em>in addition to the abstract</em> by the September 1\, 2026 deadline. The body of the text (as is proposed to be read at the meeting) must be no longer than 3\,750 words.</p>\n<p><u>Travel Grants</u></p>\n<p>Thanks to the generous support of past MSA Presidents\, Society members\, and a grant from the Hocking-Cabot Fund for Systematic Philosophy\, the MSA is pleased to be able to offer reimbursements for travel expenses up to $400 to current graduate students and post-doctoral researchers within two years of their first PhD whose submissions are selected for the conference program. Persons who wish to receive such reimbursements must state their eligibility in their submission email and\, at the conference\, provide the MSA with all relevant expense receipts. (Invoices are not acceptable.)</p>\n<p><u>Acceptance decisions will be announced by November 20\, 2026.</u></p>\n<p>The MSA&rsquo\;s Executive Council (https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/about.htm) operates as the vetting committee. Those accepted for the conference must submit completed papers by February 20\, 2027 to allow review by session chairs. Papers may not exceed 3\,750 words. Eligibility to present at the conference requires payment of <em>both</em> membership and registration fees (https://www.metaphysicalsociety.org/membership.htm).</p>
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270402T090000
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SUMMARY:4th Inquiry Network Workshop
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LOCATION:2000 North Pkwy\, Memphis\, United States\, 38112
DESCRIPTION:<p>The Inquiry Network is hosting a workshop on inquiry at Rhodes College in Memphis\, TN\, April 2-3\, 2027.</p>\n<p>This meeting will be held in conjunction with the annual Mid-South Philosophy Conference.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Please see the CFP for more information\, or contact inquriynetworkgroup@gmail.com with any questions.</p>\n<p>For more information about the Inquiry Network\, see&nbsp\;https://inquirynetwork.weebly.com/.&nbsp\;</p>
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270416T090000
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SUMMARY:The AI & Society Symposium: Where Technology Meets Human Values
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LOCATION:Boston\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>This symposium inquires into the conceptions of the human built into generative AI.</strong>&nbsp\;<br><br>GenAI systems sound like us: they say &ldquo\;I understand\,&rdquo\; they apologize\, they appear to care. They&rsquo\;re also made for a user\, and so they come with assumptions about who that user is: what they need and what they can already do. And they&rsquo\;re built on assumptions about what intelligence itself is. Some of these pictures of the human reflect choices made by engineers and product teams\; others were assumed without anyone ever deciding. It all demands to be examined. This symposium brings these and related questions into public discussion\, asking what it means to be human at a time when these systems are made like us and for us\, even as this &lsquo\;us&rsquo\; is still being decided.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>You can send questions to&nbsp\;ppardi1@bu.edu</a>.</p>\n\n<p>Organized by Pol Pardini Gispert\, Anika Mukherjee\, Daniel Munro\, and Seth Villegas\, with support from the Boston University Center for the Humanities and the APA Berry Fund.</p>
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270430T234500
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SUMMARY:Survey on the Perceived Permissibility of Using Artificial Intelligence in the Activities of Academic Agents (Students\, Professors\, Researchers\, Translators\, Reviewers\, Editors\, and Evaluators)
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DESCRIPTION:<p>This study is conducted by the Philosophical Investigation Group (DGP/CNPq)\, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Reis Lastra Cid\, and focuses on the ethical use of AI in academia. Your participation helps ground the reflection on this topic.</p>\n<p>This survey presents a series of detailed\, real-world scenarios involving the use of AI by students\, professors\, researchers\, translators\, reviewers\, editors\, and evaluators. For each scenario\, we ask you to rate the usage according to the scale we provide. There are no right or wrong answers. Our goal is to map where the academic community converges and diverges\, thereby providing an empirical basis for the philosophical reflection that will guide the "Technology in Philosophical Investigation" meeting in July 2027. &nbsp\; The questionnaire is divided into blocks based on professional profiles. Each block contains approximately 10 scenarios. You may answer only those blocks that are relevant to your experience. Your explanations will be the most valuable part of this survey\; they will reveal the actual criteria behind your judgments\, not just the final verdict. Your participation\, even if partial\, contributes directly to a collective reflection on an issue that already affects the daily work of those who teach\, conduct research\, translate\, review\, edit\, and evaluate. Please remember to submit the form at the end.<br><br>Thank you for taking the time to think about this with us.</p>\n<p>Click the link to start the survey:&nbsp\;</p>
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SUMMARY:Phenomenologies of Religious Experience
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DESCRIPTION:<p>This series invites proposals in classical phenomenology\, French phenomenology\, pre- and post-phenomenologies\, and in methodologies that bridge phenomenology and analytic philosophy. The relation between phenomenology and religious experience can be considered in a variety of modes: epistemic (phenomenology as a "rigorous science" of religious experience in Husserl's sense)\; ontic (phenomenology as a way to access the core motive\, or regulative ideal\, of religion)\; analogical (phenomenological experience as a secular version of religious experience)\; generalizing (religious experience turning into phenomenological experience when stripped from its dogmatic frame)\, etc. Proposals can take critical\, descriptive\, theoretical\, comparative\, historical\, or other approaches\, and they can focus on the interplay between religious or spiritual experience and assorted theoretical approaches\, or proceed from such experience towards building a new theory. In accord with Husserl&rsquo\;s original intent\, the series welcomes attempts to locate spiritual or religious experience within a broader theory of the sciences (Wissenschaftslehre) and to expand phenomenology towards transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.<br><br>The series covers five areas:<br>1) Clarifications of religious and spiritual experience\, its formal phenomenological research\, and its relationships to art\, textuality\, culture\, anthropology\, politics\, and comparative religion\;<br>2) Metaphysical extensions of the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience\;<br>3) Existential and psychological analyses\, in different traditions\, of religious and spiritual experience\;<br>4) Theologies of religious experience\, with or beyond a specific focus on ritual and liturgy\, including liberation theologies\, feminist theologies\, theologies at the intersection of religious experience and race\, social status\, etc.\;<br>5) The phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience as applied to and/ or examined within medicine\, nursing\, and the health sciences and the natural and social sciences.<br><br>The series is published in cooperation with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience\,&nbsp\;www.sophere.org.<br><br><br>Editors:&nbsp\;Michael Barber (michael.barber@slu.edu)\, Peter Costello (PCOSTELL@providence.edu)\, Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (founding editor\,&nbsp\;olouch@ucdavis.edu)\, and Martin Nitsche (nitsche@flu.cas.cz)</p>\n\n<p><br>Advisory Board:&nbsp\;Jason Alvis (University of Vienna)\, Angela Ales Bello (Pontifical Lateran University)\, Michel Bitbol (The French National Center for Scientific Research)\, Carla Canullo (University of Macerata)\, David Ciavatta (Ryerson University)\, Crina Gschwandtner (Fordham University)\, Neal DeRoo (The King&rsquo\;s University)\, Thomas Fuchs (University of Heidelberg)\, James G. Hart (University of Indiana)\, Richard Kearney (Boston College)\, Jeff McCurry (Duquesne University)\, Felix O&rsquo\;Murchadha (National University of Ireland\, Galway)\, Dermot Moran (Boston College)\, Tom Nenon (The University of Memphis)\, Ryōsuke Ōhashi (Universities of Kyoto and Osaka)\, Vincent Pastro (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Aquinas Institute of Theology\, St Louis)\, Hans Rainer Sepp (Charles University)\, Michel Staudigl (University of Vienna)\, Claudia Welz (Aarhus University)<br>Staff editorial contact:&nbsp\;Jana Hodges-Kluck (jhodges-kluck@rowman.com)&nbsp\;</p>
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:29990101T033000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:29990201T120000
SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Creativity and Improvisation in Thought\, Practice\, and Mind:  An Interdisciplinary Conference
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TZID:America/Chicago
LOCATION:6001 Dodge Street\, Omaha\, United States\, 68182
DESCRIPTION:<p>*Please note that this event has officially been<em><strong> postponed</strong></em>. More information will be made available asap in the near future*</p>\n<p>Many human cognitive capacities and processes may be deployed creatively\, from unique choices made for oneself up through novel cultural shifts. Similarly\, large swaths of our daily lives are taken up with performing spontaneous\, on-the-fly\, and unplanned activities that are\, in a word\, improvised.&nbsp\; Charting out the nature of both creativity and improvisation\, taken individually or together\, remains an open and pressing issue. In this conference\, we will delve into various philosophical\, theoretical\, empirical\, and interdisciplinary issues that are related to creativity and improvisation. A non-exhaustive list of related questions and themes for this topic include:</p>\n<p>- What is the relationship between improvisation and creativity?</p>\n<p>- What is the relationship between creative activity and well-being?</p>\n<p>- What is the best way to model individual and collective creativity?</p>\n<p>- Is creativity in the arts the same thing as in other domains\, such as in science or business?</p>\n<p>- What are the pros and cons of different scientific operationalizations of creativity and improvisation?</p>\n<p>- Provide a conceptual analysis of creativity and/or improvisation.</p>
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