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"Bitcoins Left and Right: A Normative Assessment of a Digital Currency"
Authors: Lars Lindblom and Joakim Sandberg
Interviewer: Violet Victoria
Date and Time: October 6\, 2026\, 12 pm EST (18:00 CET)
[Thi is the final interview in the series. Recordings of prior interviews can be found on Phinance.]
ORGANIZER;CN=Lisa Warenski;CN=Emiliano Ippoliti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261209T170000 SUMMARY:Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026 UID:20261023T150613Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:I am excited to share that the \;Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series \;will resume in \;February 2026! Please find the official flyer attached. All talks will take place from \;4:30 PM to 6:30 PM CET \;(10:30 AM&ndash\;12:30 PM EST).
The webinar can be accessed via the following link: https://meet.google.com/uaq-jqpf-mwr
Schedule of speakers:
The series is organized in collaboration with \;Carnap in Context IV \;(Ö\;AW\, FWF Grant PAT7905424) and \;Rudolf Carnap Digital \;(MCMP\, LMU Munich). \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Caterina Del Sordo;CN=Luca Oliva;CN=Silvano Zipoli Caiani: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics: Online Lecture Series UID:20261023T150614Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 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 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260604T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:Stanley Cavell at 100. An International Centennial Conference UID:20261023T150616Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:Roma\; Paris\; Boston\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Stanley Cavell at 100 \; An International Centennial Conference \; \;
Paris: \;4-5 June 2026 \;| Organized by Sandra Laugier\, Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on Sorbonne \; Rome: 8-9 June 2026 \;| Organized by Piergiorgio Donatelli\, Sapienza Università\; di Roma \; Boston: 23-24 October 2026 \;| Organized by Juliet Floyd\, Boston University \; \; \;
In 2026\, we mark the centenary of \;Stanley Cavell (1926&ndash\;2026)\, one of the \;most original and wide-ranging American philosophers of the twentieth century. Cavell&rsquo\;s work traversed traditional disciplinary boundaries&mdash\;engaging deeply with philosophy\, literature\, film\, opera\, psychoanalysis\, politics\, and both American and European traditions of thought. In the spirit of his intellectual breadth and transnational sensibility\, we are organizing a three-part international conference to celebrate his life\, work\, and legacy in Paris\, Rome\, and Boston.
\nWhy This Conference Matters
\nStanley Cavell transformed philosophy into an act of acknowledgment&mdash\;of self\, of others\, and of the everyday. His writings on skepticism\, language\, film\, and the ordinary remain vital at a time when trust in both language and human connection faces renewed challenges. From \;Must We Mean What We Say? \;to \;The Claim of Reason\, from \;The World Viewed \;to \;Pursuits of Happiness\, and through his readings of Emerson and Thoreau\, Cavell helped redefine the scope and style of philosophical writing and teaching.
\nHis engagement with Wittgenstein and Austin reinvigorated the ordinary language tradition\, while his interests in modernism\, cinema\, and American transcendentalism forged a philosophical voice that responded to&mdash\;and often transcended&mdash\;the academic context.
\nThis centennial conference will bring together philosophers\, literary scholars\, and critics to reflect on Cavell&rsquo\;s legacy and extend the conversations he began.
\nThis call for papers concerns all three installments&mdash\;Paris\, Rome\, and Boston&mdash\;of the Cavell at 100 conference.
\nSuggested Themes:
\nWe welcome proposals that engage with the following themes or propose new directions for exploring Cavell&rsquo\;s thought.
\nConference Foci:
\nParis will focus especially on Ordinary Language Philosophy\, Film\, and Popular Culture.
\nRome will center mainly on Ethics\, Politics\, and Forms of Life.
\nBoston will treat primarily Philosophy and Literature\, Tragedy\, Music\, and the Idea of America.
\nSome themes&mdash\;such as skepticism\, modernism\, the ordinary&mdash\;cut across all three conferences.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260817T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261204T170000 SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Tulane German Philosophy Workshop Series UID:20261023T150617Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:New Orleans\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Tulane German Philosophy Workshop is based out of Tulane University&rsquo\;s Philosophy department. It is aimed at promoting the discussion of scholarship about the German philosophical tradition and the establishment of relations between philosophers and departments that focus on the German philosophical tradition. It welcomes scholars interested in the many ways to engage with this rich tradition and the specific projects and concerns of its many representatives&mdash\;from Leibniz to Wittgenstein\, Kant to Gadamer\, Hegel to Habermas&mdash\;as well as the reception of this tradition.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jeffrey Patrick Colgan;CN=Nicolas Day: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 SUMMARY:Inquiry Network WIP Talks UID:20261023T150618Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 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.
Applications are open for Foundations and Frontiers of Analytical Sociology\, a doctoral-level course hosted by Institute for Analytical Sociology\, Linkö\;ping University. The course is organized around an international lecture series featuring many of the scholars who have shaped analytical sociology and continue to define its contemporary development.
\nConfirmed speakers include:
\nPeter Bearman\, Delia Baldassarri\, Elizabeth Bruch\, Damon Centola\, Diego Gambetta\, Peter Hedströ\;m\, Gianluca Manzo\, Michael Macy\, Arnout van de Rijt\, Duncan Watts\, and Petri Ylikoski.
\nThe course explores central questions concerning social mechanisms\, explanation\, social interaction\, networks\, diffusion\, collective action\, computational social science\, and the relationship between theory and empirical research. Particular attention is devoted to the role of mechanism-based explanations in the social sciences and to philosophical questions concerning explanation\, causation\, and social scientific inquiry.
\nThe lecture series is accompanied by readings and highly participatory seminars in which participants critically discuss the lectures\, the assigned literature\, and connections to their own research. The course culminates in an individual paper in which participants develop an independent analysis of a research question using the theories\, concepts\, and explanatory models discussed throughout the course. Participants are encouraged to connect this assignment directly to their doctoral projects.
\nThe course is open to doctoral students and researchers from sociology\, philosophy\, political science\, economics\, computational social science\, and related disciplines.
\nFor more information\, contact the course organizer and seminar leader \;Josef Ginnerskov at josef.ginnerskov(at)liu.se
\nSyllabus:
https://forskarstudier.liu.se/en/kurs/7FIEI26/2026V/1624499#syllabus
Registration:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/eFsbLUXnfk
Join us for a weekly close reading of Gramsci&rsquo\;s Prison Notebooks! The group has a twofold goal: first\, to analyze contemporary political events through the categories formulated in the text\; and second\, to critically examine potential blind spots in Gramsci&rsquo\;s work regarding race\, gender\, and empire\, while keeping in mind the historical context in which he wrote.
TIME
THURSDAYS: weekly\, beginning September 24\, 2026.
5-6 PM Eastern US Time.
FACILITATOR
Giusi \;Russo is an associate professor of History at Montgomery County Community College in the greater Philadelphia area. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Italian left and internal colonialism\, as well as the entanglements between bodies and European empires. She is the author of \;Women\, Empires\, and Body Politics at the United Nations\, 1946&ndash\;1975 \;(University of Nebraska Press\, 2023) and has published extensively on the colonial history of the United Nations and on the construction of colonial and post-colonial narratives. She is currently working on a book project under contract with Routledge\, titled\, \;The Aesthetics of Third-Worldism in Italy: Bodies\, Spaces\, and Oppression.
ABOUT INCITE SEMINARS
We are a mix of rogue scholars\, disgruntled academics\, disenchanted buddhists\, enchantment-hungry anarchists\, radical therapists\, and general weirdos looking to create autonomous and accessible forms of &ldquo\;higher education.&rdquo\;
We offer online seminars and reading groups to incite personal exploration and inspire community action. Incite Seminars offers an educational experience. We do so by gathering an engaged group of participants for a dynamic exchange of ideas\, led by skilled facilitators. All of our facilitators have a deep relationship to a subject or topic through intensive study or practice.
Incite Seminars is a 100% member-supported learning community. We depend on member contributions to continue holding space for radical study and practice groups\, putting on rigorous seminars and courses\, and providing our facilitators and organizers with fair compensation. If you are unable to pay the full amount for a session or membership at this time\, we invite you to join us at reduced or no cost with our Solidarity option.
Call for Abstracts for The Zicklin Center Normative Business Ethics Workshop Series
\nOver the 2026-2027 academic year\, the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School\, University of Pennsylvania\, will convene a regular works-in-progress series for scholars working in normative business ethics (NBE). In particular\, the Series will workshop papers pursuing business ethics issues from a normative perspective\, or papers in moral or political philosophy with implications for the market\, distributive justice\, labor relations\, the role of business in society\, etc.
\nWorkshop Objectives
\nThe Series is part of an effort to foster normative business ethics in the academy and the public sphere. This particular initiative has two key objectives: First\, it endeavors to provide a regular forum for scholars working on business ethics from a normative perspective. The community of such scholars is relatively small\, and dispersed across numerous institutions\, and there are few opportunities for these individuals to convene and share work. This Series is an effort to connect these scholars and to enrich their shared intellectual life. Second\, the Series aims to be especially valuable to junior faculty and advanced graduate students\, by providing them with feedback from\, and opportunities to interact with\, more established members of the normative business ethics community. To that end\, we hope to have (at least) one junior author and one senior author at each session.
\nWorkshop Format
\nThe workshop will meet six times over the academic year. Any academic or practitioner with an interest in normative business ethics is invited to attend the sessions. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance\, and to come with feedback for the paper authors. To maximize the opportunity for paper improvement\, authors will not present their papers\; we will instead spend our time together on questions and comments for the author.
\nSessions will be held on Fridays\, beginning at 1:00 pm unless otherwise indicated. We will discuss two to three papers at each session. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance\, and to come prepared to offer feedback.
\nWe plan to hold all sessions in-person\, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania\, in Philadelphia.
\nSession Dates:
\nSeptember 25th\, 2026
\nOctober 30th\, 2026
\nJanuary 29th\, 2027
\nFebruary 26th\, 2027
\nMarch 19th\, 2027
\nApril 16th\, 2027
\nCall for Abstracts
\nWe invite abstract submissions from \;faculty and post-docs\, and from graduate students who have advanced to the ABD stage. \;Preferential treatment will be given to those who have not presented work at the Series before\, and we especially welcome submissions from women and under-represented minorities.
\nThe abstract should propose a paper in normative business ethics\, as described above. We ask that submissions offer a fairly detailed sense of the paper without exceeding 500 words.
\nWe ask that applicants identify three of the above dates\, in order of preference\, at which they would like to present their work. Please send your abstract to Brian Berkey &ndash\; bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu -- by July 15th\, 2026. Individuals will be notified about whether their paper has been selected for presentation by August 3rd\, 2026.
\nInformation for Selected Authors
\nThe Zicklin Center will cover reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for paper authors for the session at which their paper will be discussed.
\nReimbursement for travel expenses is subject to two conditions. By accepting the offer to workshop a paper\, the paper author pledges that:
\n1. \; \; \; \; The paper they will share is at a stage of development where the author can incorporate feedback gained at the workshop (e.g.\, the paper is not yet in page proofs or in print)\; and
\n2. \; \; \; \; The paper author will send their draft paper to the organizers no fewer than 14 days before their presentation date.
\nFor co-authored papers\, we can ordinarily only provide travel funding for one of the authors\, though other co-authors are welcome to attend.
\nPlease address any questions about the CFA or the workshop to one of the organizers: Brian Berkey (bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu)\, Amy Sepinwall (sepin@wharton.upenn.edu)\, Julian Jonker (jonker@wharton.upenn.edu)\, or Paul Forrester (pforr@wharton.upenn.edu).
ORGANIZER;CN=Brian Berkey;CN=Amy J. Sepinwall;CN=Julian Jonker;CN=Paul Forrester: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270531T170000 SUMMARY:UK XPHI Online: 2026 Series UID:20261023T150622Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the next series of UK XPHI Online. This is a monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy (broadly construed). We feature work from all areas of experimental philosophy\, by researchers at all career stages\, from the UK and all over the world. The workshop meets once a month on Teams\, typically the second Wednesday of each month (16:00-18:00 UK time)\, for a two-hour session that typically features two talks (each 40 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&\;A). \;
\nOct 14\, 16-18 UK
\nRedesigning Ethical Thought Experiments: Reassessing the Experimental Challenge to Moral Intuition\, Pietro Tunesi (Trinity College Dublin)
\nWhat people (don't) want to know in the moral domain\, Jordan Wylie (Cornell University)\, Nathan Liang (Cornell University)\, and Charlotte Austin (Cornell University)
\nNov 11\, 16-18 UK
\nMoral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging: An Experimental Investigation\, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)\, Kevin Reuter (University of Gothenburg)\, Somogy Varga (Aarhus University)\,
\n(CANCELLED) The Side-Effect Effect and &ldquo\;Intentionally&rdquo\;\, Lilian O&rsquo\;Brien (Tampere University\, University of Helsinki)\, Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki).
\nDec 9\, 16-18 UK
\nMischaracterization Objection 2.0\, David Bordonaba-Plou (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)\, Krzysztof Sękowski (University of Warsaw)
\nFrom Thought Experiments to Experimental Evidence: Transparency and Quality of Reporting in Experimental Philosophy: Bartosz Maćkiewicz (University of Warsaw)\, Katarzyna Kuś (University of Warsaw)\, Joanna Gęgotek (University of Warsaw)\, Monika Gurak (University of Warsaw)\, and Franciszek Kittel (University of Warsaw).
\nJan 13\, 16-18 UK
\nNARRABODY: Narrative and Body in Post-Stroke Selfhood. A Longitudinal Qualitative Study\, Camille Lé\;pingle (ENS de Lyon)
\nA cross-cultural\, qualitative study on HPV vaccination intention\, Konrad Henne (University of Heidelberg)\, Alejandra Petino Zappala (Ruhr University Bochum)\, Nora Heinzelmann (University of Heidelberg)
\nFeb 10\, 16-18 UK
\nDo subjects have revelation intuitions?\, Marcus Ashby (King&rsquo\;s College London)
\nCorrect\, incorrect\, or neither? Demonstrating and explaining variation in folk normative objectivism\, Mikló\;s Kü\;rthy (University of Graz)\, Geoffrey Goodwin (University of Pennsylvania)\, Paulo Sousa (Queen's University Belfast).
\nTo submit for future series\, please email the organizers an abstract of up to 500 words by Dec 15\, 2026 to james.andow@manchester.ac.uk.
\nThis series is organised by:
\nEugen Fischer (UEA)
\nJoanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford)
\nJames Andow (Manchester)
ORGANIZER;CN=James Andow;CN=Joanna Demaree-Cotton;CN=Eugen Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261004T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261025T170000 SUMMARY:(Un)Timely Blanchot UID:20261023T150623Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:a 4-session seminar with Philippe Lynes\, Alex Obrigewitsch\, Kim Schoof &\; Carlos A. Segovia
SEMINAR DESCRIPTION
Blanchot&rsquo\;s work delves into how thinking and writing both reflect and un-reflect our relation to life and death\, challenging conventional notions of presence and temporality. By tracing his influence on Derrida and Nancy\, and exploring the simultaneous timeliness and untimeliness of his thought\, we can ask how reading Blanchot today continues to transform our understanding of language\, life\, and being.
Session I (&ldquo\;Blanchot Today?\,&rdquo\; with Alex Obrigewitsch) will explore Blanchot&rsquo\;s considerations of writing and literature in their exposure of alterity\, disturbance of temporality\, and their inscription of the anonymous and impersonal&mdash\;for it is the ineluctable binding of writing and mortality which Blanchot has exposed to us\, suspending &ldquo\;today&rdquo\; in the double exposure of a coming future which intersects with a &ldquo\;terrifyingly ancient&rdquo\; past. The title of this opening session\, expresses the double question of the (un)timeliness of Blanchot&rsquo\;s work. If we agree with Jacques Derrida&rsquo\;s claim that &ldquo\;never as much as today have I imagined him so far ahead of us as today. Awaiting us\, still to come\, to be read\, to be reread by those very same ones that do it ever since they knew how to read and thanks to him\,&rdquo\; then it is from Blanchot &ldquo\;himself&rdquo\; that we might learn the double sense of our titular question. What can Blanchot teach us that bears the mark of today? Blanchot has never been more timely to read and think with than today\, insofar as &ldquo\;today&rdquo\; is only ever the mobile limit inscribed between a future to come and a past never present. There is no &ldquo\;today\,&rdquo\; no &ldquo\;contemporaneity&rdquo\; for literature\, and its very writing alters our relation to life\, suspending it in a void from whence all emerges and in which all must efface itself.
Session II (&ldquo\;Blanchot &\; Derrida\,&rdquo\; with Philippe Lynes) will\, for its part\, trace the history of Blanchot&rsquo\;s influence on Derrida\, as well as instances of a reciprocal influence in Blanchot&rsquo\;s own work. When discussing the &lsquo\;violent&rsquo\; relationship of deconstruction to its three biggest influences&mdash\;Martin Heidegger\, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot&mdash\;Jacques Derrida explains that Blanchot resists this violence best. In the final interview before his death\, Derrida insisted that a notion of &lsquo\;survivance&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;living-on&rsquo\; lay at the heart of his entire philosophical trajectory\, evoking Blanchot&rsquo\;s notion of &ldquo\;a survival which is not one\, a death which does not put an end to anything.&rdquo\; Derrida&rsquo\;s most sustained engagement with Blanchot takes place in the mid 1970s with the publication of &ldquo\;Pas\,&rdquo\; as well as the second year of his just-published La Chose seminar (1975-1977). Blanchot&rsquo\;s thought also features importantly in &ldquo\;Discourses of the End&rdquo\;&mdash\;Derrida&rsquo\;s 1983 conversations on the apocalypse and the disaster with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy\, as well as his final seminar\, The Beast and the Sovereign (2002-2003).
In turn\, Session III (&ldquo\;Blanchot &\; Nancy\,&rdquo\; with Kim Schoof) will explore how it is possible that such contrasting perspectives on literature and the experience it offers us of being&rsquo\;s origin emanate from one another. It will do so exploring how Blanchot and Nancy write (occasionally in direct response to one another) about literature\, community\, ontology and &ldquo\;the neuter.&rdquo\; For Blanchot\, literature opens us onto the &ldquo\;Outside&rdquo\; where being originates\, where &ldquo\;I am not [&hellip\;]\; no one is there\, but the impersonal is: the outside\, as that which prevents\, precedes\, and dissolves the possibility of any personal relation.&rdquo\; Yet\, it is Blanchot&rsquo\;s perspective on literature that has inspired Jean-Luc Nancy to view literature as an exemplary way of being in the world. In Nancy&rsquo\;s perspective\, literature is the &ldquo\;coming of the world&rdquo\; or\, in the words of Aukje van Rooden\, &ldquo\;the point at which connections are made\, in which (the world) is created as being\, time and again\, a set of relations in which and by which we live.&rdquo\;
Lastly\, Session IV (&ldquo\;Blanchot Unreceived\,&rdquo\; with Carlos A. Segovia) will focus on how Blanchot seems to approach the question of the relation between language and reality à\; rebours of much contemporary thought\, which\, in repudiating their once-assumed transparency\, tends instead to affirm their reciprocal opacity. For Blanchot\, however\, language is neither the thing named nor its mere absence\, but the tentative recovery of its presence through its very loss\; just as in Mallarmé\;&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Sonnet in -yx\,&rdquo\; for instance\, anguish is neither the one felt in the chest by the poet&mdash\;which lacks a voice and hence proves at once present to him as something real but absent due to its silence&mdash\;nor the one named through the universal notion that would conventionally be assigned to it&mdash\;before whose trivial presence the anguish thus felt would recede into absence: it is rather that thing of hard (whether white or black) &ldquo\;nails&rdquo\; like &ldquo\;onyx&rdquo\; by virtue of which word and world become mutually supplementary and translucent to one another. This will be examined both at the crossroads of today&rsquo\;s thought\, thinkable\, and unthought and along with Blanchot&rsquo\;s re-inscription of being as otherness.
TIME
5 SUNDAYS\, weekly\, beginning October 4\, 2026.
10:00-12:00 Eastern US Time.
SESSIONS
1) Blanchot Today?
The Interminable Default\, Between a Coming Future and a &ldquo\;Terrifyingly Ancient&rdquo\; Past with Alex Obrigewitsch
2) Blanchot &\; Derrida
La Mort La Chose
with Philippe Lynes
3) Blanchot &\; Nancy
Literature: Being (In and) Outside (of the World)
with Kim Schoof
4) Blanchot Unreceived
Transparency\, Opaqueness\, Translucence
with Carlos A. Segovia
ABOUT INCITE SEMINARS
We are a mix of rogue scholars\, disgruntled academics\, disenchanted buddhists\, enchantment-hungry anarchists\, radical therapists\, and general weirdos looking to create autonomous and accessible forms of &ldquo\;higher education.&rdquo\;
We offer online seminars and reading groups to incite personal exploration and inspire community action. Incite Seminars offers an educational experience. We do so by gathering an engaged group of participants for a dynamic exchange of ideas\, led by skilled facilitators. All of our facilitators have a deep relationship to a subject or topic through intensive study or practice.
Incite Seminars is a 100% member-supported learning community. We depend on member contributions to continue holding space for radical study and practice groups\, putting on rigorous seminars and courses\, and providing our facilitators and organizers with fair compensation. If you are unable to pay the full amount for a session or membership at this time\, we invite you to join us at reduced or no cost with our Solidarity option.
Computational methods and simulations have become a fruitful methodology for philosophers\, particularly for understanding how social relations\, norms\, and communicative structures could and should shape inquiry. Work in computational social philosophy has illuminated phenomena ranging from the epistemic value of diversity and the dynamics of epistemic belonging to the emergence and erosion of norms and processes of polarization.
\nGenerative and agentic AI tools stand to profoundly reshape computational social philosophy in at least two ways:
\nAs objects of study for computational social philosophy. Generative and agentic AI are increasingly embedded in epistemic life: as sources of information\, interlocutors\, surrogates for social participants\, gatekeepers within epistemic communities\, and even partially autonomous epistemic actors. This should motivate a broadening of purview in social epistemology\, which has tended to focus primarily on personal\, interpersonal\, and institutional factors that impact inquiry\, but comparatively less on technological factors. \;
\nAs tools of study for computational social philosophy. These systems can lower the technical barriers to computational work. More interestingly\, they may expand the range of social phenomena philosophers can model\, including richer representations of agents&rsquo\; beliefs and behavior\, more complex interactions and environments\, and even digital-twin-style models of particular communities or institutions.
\nThis cluster brings together philosophers working in\, or seriously engaging with\, computational social philosophy. We are eager to gather a cohort who can bring rigor\, clarity\, and intellectual generosity to advancing understanding in relation to the above themes.
\nWe&rsquo\;re particularly interested in philosophical contributions that engage one or more of the following cross-cutting threads:
\nModeling of AI systems as socio-epistemic phenomena: How might explicitly modeling the effects of AI systems within social epistemic processes challenge\, deepen\, or expand existing understanding in social epistemology and philosophy of science?
\nModeling of socio-epistemic phenomena with AI-based tools: What new forms of social epistemological phenomena can AI-based tools help us represent and investigate beyond traditional methods\, such as typical agent-based models?
\nUnderstanding aims and tradeoffs: How should we think about the tradeoffs between promises of AI-based tools (e.g.\, flexibility\, expressive power\, scale) and other desiderata (e.g.\, robustness\, justification\, tractability\, understanding) that have long been central to computational social philosophy? What can we learn about these issues from the use of AI-based tools in other disciplines such as computational social science?
\nMethodological standards: What standards should guide reliable\, reproducible\, and more generally epistemically and ethically responsible philosophical inquiry using AI-based methods in computational social philosophy?
\nPlease note that\, while we welcome expressions of interest from all disciplines\, this is not a general workshop about AI or AI-based simulations. It is a workshop about how deeper engagement with AI systems as objects of modeling studies and as a modeling tool can ultimately enrich and expand philosophical inquiry.
\nFormat
\nThe series will consist of bi-weekly virtual meetings\, in the style of CSPS\, starting in October 2026.The meetings are on Mondays at 11:30am ET.
\nApplications
\nYou can submit your application to join the seminars by using this application form: https://forms.gle/SC2iqbZUBU6iB52v6 \;
\nThe application form includes:
\nBasic details: Your name\, email address\, affiliation\, career stage
\nExtended abstracts of up to 750 words and prepared for anonymous review (no identifying information in the abstract itself).
\nThe submission deadline for applications is July 27th\, 2026.
\nOrganizers
\nSina Fazelpour (Northeastern)
\nLuca Garzino Demo (UPenn) \;
\nPlease direct inquiries to lgarzino@sas.upenn.edu
ORGANIZER;CN=Sina Fazelpour;CN=Luca Garzino Demo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261006T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270706T170000 SUMMARY:Emotion and Society Lab's Works-In-Progress Series (2026-27) UID:20261023T150625Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Philosophers working on emotions want to produce good work. But good work is never done alone. The WIP Series is an opportunity to learn what emotion scholars are working on as well as present works in progress and receive valuable feedback to improve them &mdash\; all in a casual\, friendly environment.
\nThe WIP series is virtual and takes place the first Tuesday of the month from October-July (with no meetings January) from 11:00-12pm Pacific/ 2-3pm Eastern.
At this time\, sessions are for faculty\, graduate students\, &\; independent scholars only.
Register for the zoom link below.
ORGANIZER;CN=Myisha Cherry;CN=Rachel Fredericks: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261008T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics UID:20261023T150626Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Davis\, United States DESCRIPTION:This year's meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics will meet at University of California Davis. The meeting will feature a keynote address by Dr. Francis Mootz (University of the Pacific) entitled "Law after Postmodernity: Ontology\, Practice\, and Critique." The program will feature a variety of talks on topics in philosophical hermeneutics -- highlighting scholarship on the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the application of hermeneutic theory to a variety of philosophical and social problems. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Carolyn Culbertson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20270115T170000 SUMMARY:Technology and citizenship - V IF Conference · First International Conference UID:20261023T150627Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Gijón\, Spain\, Gijón\, Spain DESCRIPTION:Hello! We are the IF Group (Engineering and Philosophy - Ingenierí\;a y Filosofí\;a)\, a working group of the MediaLab at the University of Oviedo that develops its work from a hybridization between the two branches of knowledge that give us our name. We have a great invitation for you: come to Gijó\;n on March 29\, 30\, and 31\, 2027.
\nWe are preparing the V IF Conference (our first international conference!)\, in which\, once again\, we will address technological issues from a hybrid\, reflective\, and collaborative perspective. The title for this edition is IF 9.0: Technology and Citizenship. We want to open a space to discuss different technological and engineering issues that affect citizenship in a broad sense. We will debate questions\, problems\, and possible solutions that technology offers to people. We will listen to researchers\, but also to companies\, teachers\, civil society organizations\, and anyone interested in reflecting on technology and its relationship with people. The general reflections will revolve around questions such as the following: can we make fairer technologies?\; are our designs the most appropriate for people and the environment?\; do we lead and control the technologies we use?\; does technology serve people\, or do people serve technology?\; what capabilities does it provide us and which ones do we give up by delegating more and more decisions to it?\; who is behind the dominant technologies\, and how do they use them to dominate us?\; and what about more horizontal\, democratic\, accessible\, belligerent...\, in short\, human technological approaches?
\nFor this reason\, we have proposed the following thematic axes:
\nEducation: technologies and tools that transform teaching and learning processes\, as well as the forms of access\, participation\, and knowledge creation.
\nHealth: the influence of technology on care\, well-being\, prevention\, and the improvement of people's quality of life.
\nDesign: criteria\, processes\, and practices to develop more accessible\, usable\, inclusive\, and responsible technologies.
\nAutonomy\, governance\, and politics: relationships between technology\, decision-making capacity\, power\, and citizenship\, promoting transparent\, responsible management models oriented towards the public interest.
\nSustainability and territory: responsible models that integrate environmental\, social\, and economic challenges with the inequalities and technological transformations of the territory and the spaces inhabited by humans and other species.
\nDo you want to participate? We encourage you to submit contributions that analyze these phenomena from interdisciplinary\, critical perspectives aimed at imagining more habitable digital futures. If you develop research or teaching\, political\, business\, social\, artistic\, or relational activities linked to the aforementioned topics\, you can send us a proposal in text format (maximum 500 words) through the following form before January 15\, 2027. We hope to see you soon!
\nYou can find more information and learn more about us on our website.
\nWe thank you in advance for your time and collaboration in disseminating this event. We remain at your entire disposal for any questions or queries.
\nKind regards\,
\nIF Group (Engineering and Philosophy) MediaLab\, University of Oviedo
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:2026 Southern Aesthetics Workshop UID:20261023T150628Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:University of South Carolina\, Columbia\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Southern Division of the American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce a two-day\, pre-read workshop at the University of South Carolina in Columbia\, SC\, October 9-10\, 2026. Each paper will have two commentators. The program will include a performance and keynote by a local artist.
\nQueries can be sent to SouthernAestheticsWorkshop@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Angela Sun;CN=Michael Dickson;CN=Kyle Kirby;CN=Jeremy Killian;CN=Zachary Weinstein;CN=Tyler Olsson;CN=Guy Rohrbaugh: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Voir-Dire: "World-Building" UID:20261023T150629Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:60 university private\, Ottawa\, Canada\, K1N 6N5 DESCRIPTION:Call for Proposals:
\n&ldquo\;World-Building&rdquo\;
\nOctober 9th &\; 10th\, 2026 at University of Ottawa
\nSubmission Deadline: June 1st\, 2026
\n[La version franç\;aise se trouve ci-dessous]
\nToday&rsquo\;s global community is at a critical juncture in the wake of increasing environmental\, political\, social\, cultural\, and economic crises. Worlds\, as we know them\, are becoming destabilized and fractured and the futures of individual nations as well as their geopolitical relations are uncertain. However\, from this uncertainty and rupture\, opportunity arises to build a better world. The theme\, &ldquo\;World-Building&rdquo\;\, invites graduate students and scholars to share their ideas and research on questions of transformative\, collaborative\, and cooperative processes and practices that envision worlds in their possible futures and the conditions for their realization.
\nVoir Dire: Conference &\; Journal is a joint initiative between graduate students from the philosophy departments at the University of Ottawa\, Saint-Paul University\, and Carleton University. Since an interdisciplinary approach is crucial for identifying\, discussing\, and resolving complex social and political issues\, we welcome proposals from other disciplines and from all areas of philosophy. \;
\nAbstracts and presentations may be in either French or English. Each speaker has 20 minutes to present\, followed by an open discussion period. We invite submissions that engage in research on topics including but not limited to:
\n● Transformation\, solidarity\, and community.
\n● Rights\, dignity\, and freedom: Relationships between human\, animals\, and nature.
\n● Positive and negative roles of dystopian/utopian thinking\, of hope/hopelessness\, of \;
\nnihilism/fatalism\, and of future studies.
\n● Alienation\, reconciliation\, and reparation.
\n● Relation between theory and practice\; justice\; moral and institutional responsibility.
\n● Policy\, commensurability\, feasibility\, and sustainability.
\nFully anonymized abstracts (250-500 words) can be submitted online using the following link:
\nConference Submission Form. You can find the formatting guidelines for abstracts at the beginning of the form and you will be asked to provide a brief bio describing your research interests. Following the conference\, papers may be considered for publication in the Voir Dire journal.
\nFor any questions\, please email us at voirdire.ottawa@gmail.com. \;
\n---------
\nAppel à\; communications :
\n«\; World-Building »\;
\nLe 9 &\; 10 octobre 2026 à\; l&rsquo\;Université\; d&rsquo\;Ottawa
\nDé\;lai de soumission : le 1er juin 2026
\nLa communauté\; mondiale actuelle\, face aux crises environnementales\, politiques\, sociales\, culturelles et é\;conomiques croissantes\, se trouve à\; un moment dé\;cisif. Les mondes\, tel que nous les connaissons\, se dé\;stabilisent et se fracturent\, et l&rsquo\;avenir des nations individuelles et leur relations gé\;opolitiques sont incertaines. Cependant\, de cette incertitude et de cette rupture\, é\;merge l&rsquo\;occasion de bâ\;tir un monde meilleur. Le thè\;me\, «\; World-Building »\;\, invite les é\;tudiant.e.s diplô\;mé\;.e.s et chercheurs.euses à\; partager leurs idé\;es et leurs recherches sur les enjeux relatifs aux processus et pratiques transformatives\, collaboratives et coopé\;ratives qui envisagent les mondes dans leurs futurs possibles et leurs conditions d&rsquo\;avè\;nement.
\nVoir Dire : confé\;rence et revue est une initiative conjointe des é\;tudiant.e.s diplô\;mé\;s des dé\;partements de philosophie de l&rsquo\;Université\; d&rsquo\;Ottawa\, de l&rsquo\;Université\; Saint-Paul et de l&rsquo\;Université\; Carleton. L&rsquo\;utilisation d&rsquo\;une approche interdisciplinaire é\;tant essentielle pour identifier\, discuter et ré\;soudre les problè\;mes sociaux et politiques complexes\, nous accueillons des propositions provenant d&rsquo\;autres disciplines ainsi que des propositions provenant de tous les domaines de philosophie. \;
\nLes ré\;sumé\;s et les pré\;sentations peuvent ê\;tre en franç\;ais ou en anglais. Chaque intervenant.e à\; 20 minutes pour faire sa pré\;sentation\, suivie d&rsquo\;une pé\;riode de discussion ouverte. Nous acceptons des propositions qui abordent\, sans s&rsquo\;y limiter\, les sujets de recherche suivant :
\n● La transformation\, solidarité\; et communauté\;.
\n● Droits\, dignité\; et liberté\; : les relations entre les humains\, animaux et la nature.
\n● Rô\;les positifs et né\;gatifs de la pensé\;e dystopique/utopique\, de l&rsquo\;espoir/dé\;sespoir\, du nihilisme/fatalisme et des é\;tudes de l&rsquo\;avenir.
\n● Alié\;nation\, ré\;conciliation et ré\;paration.
\n● Relation entre la thé\;orie et la pratique\; la justice\; la responsabilité\; morale et institutionnelle.
\n● Politique\, commensurabilité\;\, faisabilité\; et durabilité\;.
\nLes ré\;sumé\;s entiè\;rement anonymisé\;s (250-500 mots) peuvent ê\;tre soumis en ligne à\; travers le lien suivant : Formulaire de soumission. Vous trouverez les directives pour la mise en forme des ré\;sumé\;s au dé\;but du formulaire et vous devrez fournir une brè\;ve biographie dé\;crivant vos inté\;rê\;ts de recherche.
\nÀ\; la suite de la confé\;rence\, les articles pourront ê\;tre pris en considé\;ration pour publication dans la revue \;
\nVoir Dire. Pour toutes questions\, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel à\; voirdire.ottawa@gmail.com. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T170000 SUMMARY:Metaphysics in a Rationalist Spirit UID:20261023T150630Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:15 university drive \, Bethlehem\, United States DESCRIPTION:We are very familiar with the philosophical projects of those who\, in the history of the Western tradition\, we call the Rationalists. But much contemporary philosophy\, as well as philosophy outside the Western tradition\, looks to be guided by rationalist precepts - a good example of which is the Principle of Sufficient Reason. This event draws together a group of philosophers whose work can be understood as exploring metaphysics in a rationalist spirit\, as opposed to being invested exclusibely in the metaphysics of the Rationalists.
ORGANIZER;CN=Ricki Bliss;CN=Filippo Casati: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261011T170000 SUMMARY:2nd Tulane Undergraduate Philosophy Conference UID:20261023T150631Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:New Orleans\, United States DESCRIPTION:Tulane University invites all undergraduate students to submit for our second upcoming philosophy conference! Students are free to submit on any philosophical topic.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\n- Any undergraduate from any university may submit.
\n- Students must submit an abstract (of any length) and a paper which will be promptly considered.
\n- Papers may be on any philosophical topic and must be between 2\,000 and 3\,000 words.
\n- Accepted undergraduate students will be invited to give a 30 minute presentation of their paper\, followed by a 10 minute Q&\;A session.
\nSubmission Deadline: August 1st\, 2025.
\nPlease send your submissions to: \;ejack1@tulane.edu. Include your full name and university in the body of the submission email and have your abstract attached as either a .pdf\, .doc\, or .docx file. Accepted students will be notified by the 1st of August. Feel free to email the included email with any questions you may have.
ORGANIZER;CN=Evan Jack: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T170000 SUMMARY:Formal Approaches to Rationality and Meaning (FARM) UID:20261023T150632Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:New York\, United States DESCRIPTION:FARM is a conference that aims to bring together researchers studying meaning\, reasoning and rational norms.
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthew Mandelkern;CN=Harvey Lederman;CN=Snow Zhang;CN=Paolo Santorio;CN=Julia Staffel: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261012T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261012T170000 SUMMARY:Diverging Minds workshop UID:20261023T150633Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Deakin Downtown\, Tower 2\, Level 12\, 727 Collins Street\, Docklands\, Australia\, 3008 DESCRIPTION:Diverging Minds Research Group: From philosophy to the clinic
\nOctober 12\, Deakin Downtown
\nTower 2\, Level 12\, 727 Collins Street\, Docklands
\n\;
\n\n9.30 Jack Reynolds (Deakin). Opening comments
\n\n10am. Emily Hughes (MQ)\, &ldquo\;Between Inertia and Flow: The Varied Rhythms of Temporal Desynchronization&rdquo\;
\n\n11am. Darius Parvizi-Wayne (MQ)\, &ldquo\;Attending to inattention and the case of compulsive rumination in OCD&rdquo\;
\n\n12-1 Lunch
\n\n1pm. Marilyn Stendera (Wollongong)\, \;"Diverging Agencies and the Reductive Temporalities of AI"
\n\n2pm. Riccardo Miceli McMillan (Deakin/USQ)\, &ldquo\;Front-Loading Phenomenology in Archives of Psychedelic Experiences: Adapting Phenomenologically Grounded Qualitative Research for 'Big Qual'&rdquo\;
\n\n2.45. Coffee/tea break
\n\n3pm. Annalise May Leopold (Deakin)\, &ldquo\;The Experience of the Urge to Tic in Tourette Syndrome: Philosophical Phenomenological Interviews&rdquo\;
\n\n3.45pm. David Hallford (Deakin)\, &ldquo\;The Role of Future Thinking in the Belief in Free Will or Determinism&rdquo\;
\n\n4.30 Closing remarks (all)\, Opportunities for further work in phenomenologically informed psychology\, psychiatry\, neuroscience
ORGANIZER;CN=Jack Alan Reynolds: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261012T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261014T170000 SUMMARY:Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals\, the Environment\, and AI UID:20261023T150634Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Praha\, Czech Republic ORGANIZER;CN=Friderike Spang;CN=John Dorsch: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20261012T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:Models of Consciousness 7 UID:20261023T150635Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Copenhagen LOCATION:Copenhagen\, Denmark ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T160000 SUMMARY:The Sounds of Affect UID:20261023T150636Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home)\, an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs\, pejoratives\, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages\, invites you to the first talk of the 2026-2027 academic year to be given by Martina Wiltschko (ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University)\, entitled "The Sounds of Affect". \;The event will take place online on Monday\, OCTOBER 12\, 14:30-16:00 Central European Time (CET)\, and is part of the of STAL network seminar series (program here: https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/seminar). If you want to participate\, please write to stalnetwork@gmail.com for the Zoom link. Below you can find the abstract of the talk.
\nAll welcome!
\nABSTRACT:
\nThe empirical goal of this talk is to explore the use of a set of emotive expressions in Spanish\, namely ah\, ay\, oh\, oy\, uh\, and uy. These expressions have been previously described as indicating both unexpectedness of an event (ah\, oh\, uh) as well as a subjective evaluation of the unexpected event (ay\, oy\, uy\; Montes 1999). Thus\, these forms encode both epistemic and affective content\, a defining property of emotive markers cross-linguistically. My analytical goal is to present an analysis of the form\, function and distribution of these markers. I argue that they belong to a set of categories that belong to the grammar of interaction (Wiltschko 2021). Specifically\, I analyze them as speaker oriented pro-forms which indicate the note-worthiness of the event\, object\, or utterance that triggered the utterance (Wiltschko 2024). This accounts for their epistemic content. As for their affective content\, I propose that it derives from the vowel-quality and hence is best analysed as an articulatory gesture with ideophonic meaning (Thompson &\; Do 2019). Specifically\, ah\, oh\, uh are associated with increasing noteworthiness (ah being neutral and uh being highest on the note-worthiness scale\, Montes 1999). This increase in noteworthiness is mirrored by the increase in effort in producing these vowels\, both in terms of tongue position and lip rounding. As for the subjective evaluation\, I argue that it\, too\, is ideophonically expressed through the glide\, which is produced by an inward movement of the articulators which in turn mirrors the inward character of a subjective evaluation.
ORGANIZER;CN=Isidora Stojanovic;CN=Dan Zeman: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T193000 SUMMARY:“How Deep is Your Love?” Stein’s Notion of Emotional Depth and Its Relevance for the Constitution of the Other Person UID:20261023T150637Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:BSP Research Seminar 2026
\n\nSession 3
\nSara Dameno
\nOnline | 12 October | Free
\nThe 2026 season of the BSP Research Seminar runs for five months from August to December\, with one session every month featuring a speaker from the world of phenomenology.
\n\nSara Dameno
\n&ldquo\;How Deep is Your Love?&rdquo\;
\nStein&rsquo\;s Notion of Emotional Depth &\; Its Relevance for the Constitution of the Other Person
\nDate and time: Monday 12 October 2026\, 18:00&ndash\;19:30 UK/Ireland time
\n\nHow do we come to recognize another human being as a person? This paper argues that Edith Stein&rsquo\;s phenomenology of empathy answers this question by grounding interpersonal understanding in the structure of emotional life. While Stein famously maintains that only those who experience themselves as persons can truly understand others as persons\, the phenomenological meaning of this claim has remained insufficiently clarified. I argue that Stein&rsquo\;s notion of the depth (Tiefe) of the person should be interpreted through Husserl&rsquo\;s theory of emotional intentionality developed in the Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins. By distinguishing between value-apprehension and emotional position-taking\, Husserl reveals different motivational nexuses structuring affective experience. I suggest that these motivational layers provide a phenomenological account of what Stein describes as the different depths of emotional life. Reflective awareness of these motivational structures enables subjects to constitute themselves as unified persons and\, correlatively\, to grasp others not merely as experiencing subjects but as persons whose emotional lives express coherent systems of values. Empathy\, therefore\, is not simply the apprehension of another&rsquo\;s affective states but the disclosure of their personal depth through the values that motivate their emotions. At the same time\, empathic engagement contributes to one&rsquo\;s own personal development by expanding the horizon of values accessible to the self. By bringing Stein&rsquo\;s account of empathy into dialogue with Husserl&rsquo\;s analyses of emotional intentionality\, the paper offers a new interpretation of affective depth that highlights the constitutive role of emotions in both personal identity and intersubjective understanding.
\n\nFind out more about session 3 - including free online joining instructions - and the remaining sessions of the BSP Research Seminar 2026 at BSP Online.
ORGANIZER;CN=Alessandro Guardascione: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261012T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261012T234500 SUMMARY:What is Economic Planning? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives UID:20261023T150638Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:1 Place St Thomas d'Aquin\, Paris\, France DESCRIPTION:The workshop aims to bring together scholars working across intellectual history\, political theory\, socio-economic history\, political economy\, sociology\, and related fields in order to foster dialogue between historically grounded perspectives on economic planning and contemporary debates about its revival. We are particularly interested in contributions examining how economic planning has been conceptualised and practised across national and international contexts\, the politics of planning\, and the ways planning histories can (or not) inform present-day political and policy discussions. We are looking for both empirical and theoretical papers from diverse disciplinary angles.
Topics of papers may include (but are not limited to) the three following axes:
Applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 500 words outlining their proposal\, and a short CV by \;12 October 2026 \;to \;zoe.evrard@uclouvain.be \;and \;thomas.kayzel@sciencespo.fr. They will be informed of the outcome by \;20 October \;and will be requested to submit their papers by \;1st of December \;by the latest.
Please note that should your institution be unable to do so\, limited conference funds are available to support accommodation and travel expenses. \;
For the extended call for paper: \;https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lnpxkca8bkicgnyqcwgo2/What-is-planning_CfP_FINAL.pdf?rlkey=37mofilm7xw2h13r6lvab7f9j&\;st=skqr1nth&\;dl=0
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261013T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6 (OASIS 6) UID:20261023T150639Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Lisbon\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Linguí\;stica da Universidade de Lisboa\, 13-16 October\, 2026.
\nThe OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics\, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: 1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? 2. How do these building blocks get combined? 3. And how do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers to the first two questions? For more information\, see the OASIS credo.
\nWe welcome submissions from semantics and semantics-adjacent domains\, including philosophy and the cognitive sciences. We will host sessions bringing together linguists and philosophers to discuss foundational questions in linguistics and their relation to broader philosophical issues. The sessions will introduce some of the central assumptions and frameworks of contemporary linguistic theory and provide informal opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange. Philosophers and others interested in language\, mind\, or cognition are particularly encouraged to attend.
\nInvited speakers:
\nSatellite session: Creoles as windows on language and cognition This special session will focus on Creoles as full-fledged natural languages that emerged in certain socio-historical environments shaped by European colonial expansion. For any given theory of Creole formation\, those contexts involve language contact and innovation through complex processes of language acquisition\, therefore providing a particular starting point for research on how conceptual categories are mapped into diverse grammatical systems.
\nAbstract submission:
\nAbstracts are due on May 15\, 2026. Submission will be via the conference Open Review page. Authors should be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles in the Call for Papers:
\nIf you are submitting for the satellite workshop\, please indicate this by including &ldquo\;[for satellite workshop]&rdquo\; under the title of your abstract.
\nAbstracts must be anonymous\, in pdf format\, 2 A4 pages\, in a font size no less than 12pt. You may submit at most two abstracts but can be single author on only one.
\nLinguists and any others submitting very technical research: It is absolutely necessary that you do what you can to make your abstract accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. This doesn't mean eschewing all formalism\, but do pitch your abstract so that a non-technical reader can get something interesting out of it.
\nImportant dates:
\nContact: oasis6lisboa@letras.ulisboa.pt
\nMeeting URL: https://oasis.cnrs.fr/meetings/oasis-6
\nOrganizing Committee:
\nCOMET 2026 &ndash\; Metaphysics in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
\n13-15 October | Radboud University\, Nijmegen\, the Netherlands
\nCOMET is the annual expert meeting for metaphysics in contemporary continental philosophy\, hosted at Radboud University by its Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP).
\nIt brings together researchers across career stages who are doing metaphysical work in or in dialogue with continental philosophy\, and offers a setting to discuss research projects in depth.
\nWe are looking for contributions on what there is and how it is structured\, from any school or methodology within the field.
\nPROGRAM
\nThe meeting opens on Tuesday afternoon with a thematic session on ontologies of process and action\, featuring invited talks by Prof. Rein Raud (Tallinn University) and Dr. Mercedes Valmisa Oviedo (University of Gettysburg).
\nWednesday and Thursday are devoted to open sessions selected through this call. Each day has five speakers\, each with a sixty-minute plenary slot split roughly equally between presentation and discussion. The program also provides ample time between sessions for informal exchanges.
\nThe working language is English. Presentations in Dutch\, French\, and German are also welcome\, provided the speaker makes an English translation of their talk available for participants to follow along. The organizers can assist with translations from and into these languages during discussions
\nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES
\nPlease send an abstract of max. 250 words\, prepared for blind review\, plus a separate document with a biographical note of max. 150 words to comet@ru.nl. The deadline is July 2.
\nSelection is a two-stage process. Abstracts first undergo blind review. From the resulting shortlist\, the organizers compose the final program with an eye to a balanced representation of ideas\, career stages\, and backgrounds.
\nATTENDING WITHOUT PRESENTING
\nIn addition to ten speaker slots\, there are fifteen places for researchers who wish to attend and participate in discussions without presenting. To apply\, send an email with a short motivation and biographical note to comet@ru.nl.
\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION
\nThere is no registration fee. All sessions take place on campus. Speakers and participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation.
\nFurther details about COMET 2026 are available at https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/events/comet-2026. Last year&rsquo\;s program and abstracts can be found there as well.
\nORGANIZERS
\nCOMET 2026 is organized by dr. Arjen Kleinherenbrink and dr. Tim Miechels at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP) of the Faculty of Philosophy\, Theology\, and Religious Studies at Radboud University.
\nPARTNERS
\nCOMET is closely connected to the School of Materialist Research and Malta University's Engaging the Contemporary conference. There is significant overlap in our intellectual aims\, and we invite anyone already involved in one to find their way to the others.
\n
Can we ever truly understand another person&rsquo\;s experience?
What can anxiety and boredom reveal about human existence?
Why does time sometimes fly and sometimes drag?
This 10 week online course offers an accessible introduction to phenomenology\, one of the most influential philosophical traditions of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
\nBeginning with foundational ideas in the work of thinkers such as Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger\, we will explore how phenomenology can help us think about the structure of human experience. Across the course\, we will consider themes including selfhood\, our relationships with others\, embodiment\, spatiality\, temporality\, mood\, and the contribution phenomenology can make to understanding experiences of mental health.
\nThe course is designed for beginners\, so no previous knowledge of phenomenology or philosophy is required. Sessions will combine accessible introductions to key ideas and thinkers with discussion of philosophical questions and examples from everyday experience.
ORGANIZER;CN=Angelos Sofocleous: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261014T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261015T170000 SUMMARY:SLR: Science\, Language and Reality. Themes from the Philosophy of Susan Haack UID:20261023T150642Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Edificio FES\, Campus Miguel de Unamuno\, P.º Francisco Tomás y Valiente\, s/n\, Salamanca\, Spain\, 37007 DESCRIPTION:The \;SLR Conference: Science\, Language and Reality. Themes from the Philosophy of Susan Haack \;aims to deepen the tradition of analytic philosophy by exploring points of intersection between three of its central areas: philosophy of science\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language. The conference seeks to bring together scholars from around the world working on these topics in order to foster dialogue\, exchange of ideas\, and mutual enrichment.
\nThe intellectual inspiration for this conference is found in the philosophical work of Susan Haack\, whose contributions exemplify the fruitful interaction between philosophy of science\, and philosophy of language within the analytic tradition. Haack&rsquo\;s work has consistently emphasized the importance of understanding scientific inquiry through an integrated philosophical perspective&ndash\;one that connects questions about evidence\, truth\, and justification with issues concerning meaning\, reference\, and the structure of scientific theories. Her development of \;foundherentism \;and her defense of a critical\, commonsense form of scientific realism illustrate how philosophical reflection on science inevitably engages with both metaphysical and semantic questions. We are specially interested in contributions that connect these discussions with Susan Haack's philosophy in a broad sense.
\nIn recent decades\, developments in analytic philosophy have increasingly shown that many fundamental questions concerning the nature of scientific knowledge&mdash\;such as scientific realism\, the structure of scientific theories\, explanation in science\, and the ontological status of entities posited by science&mdash\;require close engagement with both metaphysical and semantic issues. In particular\, the analysis of scientific ontology\, laws of nature\, causation\, and modality is deeply intertwined with questions about reference\, meaning\, and linguistic representation within scientific theories.
\nThis conference aims to provide a forum for examining these connections from a variety of philosophical perspectives. By bringing together researchers working in philosophy of language\, philosophy of logic\, philosophy of science\, and pragmatism\, the event seeks to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and to promote collaboration among research groups working in these areas.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nWe invite submissions of a short abstract (max. 300 words) through our submission system (Easychair) and by our mail \;slrconference2026@gmail.com \;by 1 June 2026. To submit\, please prepare your abstract for blind review. The total time allocated to each contributed talk at the conference will be 30 minutes\, of which max. 20 minutes will be for presenting the research and rest will be for Q&\;A. \;Participants are encouraged to submit their work for consideration for publication in a special issue of \;Teorema. Revista Internacional de Filosofí\;a.
\nTimeline
\nConference registration fees:
\n&bull\; Faculty: 100&euro\;
\n&bull\; Non-faculty/PhD/Postdoc: 50&euro\;
\nList of Topics
\nThe SLR Conference Organizing Committee invites submissions about the following \;topics of interest related with the work of Susan Haack\, among others:
\nProgram Committee
\nConcha Martí\;nez Vidal (USC)\, Javier Cumpa (UCM)\, Obdulia Torres (USAL)\, Ana Cuevas Badallo (USAL)\, Marta Campdelacreu (UB)\, Atocha Aliseda (UNAM)\, Rodrigo Ló\;pez Orellana (UVal)\, Alfredo Marcos (UVA)\, Antonio Blanco Salgueiro (UCM)\, Noemí\; Sanz (UIB)\, Susana Gó\;mez Ló\;pez (UCM)
\nOrganizing committee
\nVioleta Conde\, Benedicto Acosta\, Llanos Navarro\, Andrei Moldovan
ORGANIZER;CN=Violeta Conde;CN=Benedicto Acosta;CN=Llanos Navarro;CN=Andrei Moldovan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20261014T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Stockholm:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:NEEN & ISEE Conference on Environmental Ethics UID:20261023T150643Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Stockholm LOCATION:Umeå\, Sweden DESCRIPTION:The Nordic Environmental Ethics Network (NEEN) and the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) invite submissions of abstracts for a joint conference at Umeå\; University (Sweden) on October 14&ndash\;16\, 2026. The conference aims to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines to discuss a range of topics relating to environmental ethics. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Catriona McKinnon and Teea Kortetmä\;ki.
\n\nAbstracts should be fully anonymized and must not exceed 300 words. Abstracts can be submitted viathis linkby May 31\, 2026. \; Accepted speakers will be expected to deliver a presentation in person. \; We aim to notify accepted speakers by mid-June\, 2026.
\n\nTopics may include (but are not limited to):
\n
If you wish to attend the conference without presenting\, please contact us atnordicEEnetwork@gmail.com. \;
Time and Location: October 14&ndash\;16\, 2026 Umeå\; University\, Umeå\;\, Sweden
\n\nOrganizers: Nordic Environmental Ethics Network International Society for Environmental Ethics (European section)
\n\nKeynote Speakers: Catriona McKinnon\, University of Exeter Teea Kortetmä\;ki\, University of Jyvä\;skylä\;
\n\nImportant Dates: Submission closes on May 15\, 2026 Acceptance is notified in mid-June\, 2026
\n\nSubmission Form:https://forms.gle/ughuNGbjDFboftqA8 \;
\n\nConference Fee: There will be no conference fee for registered speakers.
\n\nContact:
\nFor inquiries\, please contactnordicEEnetwork@gmail.com.
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Linde De Vroey;CN=Leonie Bossert;CN=Lars Samuelsson;CN=Mac Willners;CN=Linnea Luuppala;CN=Anne Sauka: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261014T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261014T170000 SUMMARY:Redesigning Ethical Thought Experiments: Reassessing the Experimental Challenge to Moral Intuition UID:20261023T150644Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the next series of UK XPHI Online. This is a monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy (broadly construed). We feature work from all areas of experimental philosophy\, by researchers at all career stages\, from the UK and all over the world. The workshop meets once a month on Teams\, typically the second Wednesday of each month (16:00-18:00 UK time)\, for a two-hour session that typically features two talks (each 40 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&\;A). \;
\n\;Talk 1
\nTalk 2
\nOct 14\, 16-18 UK
\nRedesigning Ethical Thought Experiments: Reassessing the Experimental Challenge to Moral Intuition\, Pietro Tunesi (Trinity College Dublin)
\nWhat people (don't) want to know in the moral domain\, Jordan Wylie (Cornell University)\, Nathan Liang (Cornell University)\, and Charlotte Austin (Cornell University)
\nNov 11\, 16-18 UK
\nMoral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging: An Experimental Investigation\, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)\, Kevin Reuter (University of Gothenburg)\, Somogy Varga (Aarhus University)\,
\nThe Side-Effect Effect and &ldquo\;Intentionally&rdquo\;\, Lilian O&rsquo\;Brien (Tampere University\, University of Helsinki)\, Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki).
\nDec 9\, 16-18 UK
\nMischaracterization Objection 2.0\, David Bordonaba-Plou (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)\, Krzysztof Sękowski (University of Warsaw)
\nFrom Thought Experiments to Experimental Evidence: Transparency and Quality of Reporting in Experimental Philosophy: Bartosz Maćkiewicz (University of Warsaw)\, Katarzyna Kuś (University of Warsaw)\, Joanna Gęgotek (University of Warsaw)\, Monika Gurak (University of Warsaw)\, and Franciszek Kittel (University of Warsaw).
\nJan 13\, 16-18 UK
\nNARRABODY: Narrative and Body in Post-Stroke Selfhood. A Longitudinal Qualitative Study\, Camille Lé\;pingle (ENS de Lyon)
\nA cross-cultural\, qualitative study on HPV vaccination intention\, Konrad Henne (University of Heidelberg)\, Alejandra Petino Zappala (Ruhr University Bochum)\, Nora Heinzelmann (University of Heidelberg)
\nFeb 10\, 16-18 UK
\nDo subjects have revelation intuitions?\, Marcus Ashby (King&rsquo\;s College London)
\nCorrect\, incorrect\, or does it depend? Demonstrating and explaining variation in folk metanormative judgment\, Mikló\;s Kü\;rthy (University of Graz)\, Geoffrey Goodwin (University of Pennsylvania)\, Paulo Sousa (Queen's University Belfast).
\nTo submit for future series\, please email the organizers an abstract of up to 500 words by July 15\, 2026 to james.andow@manchester.ac.uk.
\nThis series is organised by:
\nEugen Fischer (UEA)
\nJoanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford)
\nJames Andow (Manchester)
ORGANIZER;CN=James Andow;CN=Joanna Demaree-Cotton;CN=Eugen Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261014T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261014T180000 SUMMARY:What people (don't) want to know in the moral domain UID:20261023T150645Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce the next series of UK XPHI Online. This is a monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy (broadly construed). We feature work from all areas of experimental philosophy\, by researchers at all career stages\, from the UK and all over the world. The workshop meets once a month on Teams\, typically the second Wednesday of each month (16:00-18:00 UK time)\, for a two-hour session that typically features two talks (each 40 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&\;A). \;
\n\;Talk 1
\nTalk 2
\nOct 14\, 16-18 UK
\nRedesigning Ethical Thought Experiments: Reassessing the Experimental Challenge to Moral Intuition\, Pietro Tunesi (Trinity College Dublin)
\nWhat people (don't) want to know in the moral domain\, Jordan Wylie (Cornell University)\, Nathan Liang (Cornell University)\, and Charlotte Austin (Cornell University)
\nNov 11\, 16-18 UK
\nMoral Encroachment and Doxastic Wronging: An Experimental Investigation\, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus University)\, Kevin Reuter (University of Gothenburg)\, Somogy Varga (Aarhus University)\,
\nThe Side-Effect Effect and &ldquo\;Intentionally&rdquo\;\, Lilian O&rsquo\;Brien (Tampere University\, University of Helsinki)\, Svetlana Vetchinnikova (University of Helsinki).
\nDec 9\, 16-18 UK
\nMischaracterization Objection 2.0\, David Bordonaba-Plou (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)\, Krzysztof Sękowski (University of Warsaw)
\nFrom Thought Experiments to Experimental Evidence: Transparency and Quality of Reporting in Experimental Philosophy: Bartosz Maćkiewicz (University of Warsaw)\, Katarzyna Kuś (University of Warsaw)\, Joanna Gęgotek (University of Warsaw)\, Monika Gurak (University of Warsaw)\, and Franciszek Kittel (University of Warsaw).
\nJan 13\, 16-18 UK
\nNARRABODY: Narrative and Body in Post-Stroke Selfhood. A Longitudinal Qualitative Study\, Camille Lé\;pingle (ENS de Lyon)
\nA cross-cultural\, qualitative study on HPV vaccination intention\, Konrad Henne (University of Heidelberg)\, Alejandra Petino Zappala (Ruhr University Bochum)\, Nora Heinzelmann (University of Heidelberg)
\nFeb 10\, 16-18 UK
\nDo subjects have revelation intuitions?\, Marcus Ashby (King&rsquo\;s College London)
\nCorrect\, incorrect\, or does it depend? Demonstrating and explaining variation in folk metanormative judgment\, Mikló\;s Kü\;rthy (University of Graz)\, Geoffrey Goodwin (University of Pennsylvania)\, Paulo Sousa (Queen's University Belfast).
\nTo submit for future series\, please email the organizers an abstract of up to 500 words by July 15\, 2026 to james.andow@manchester.ac.uk.
\nThis series is organised by:
\nEugen Fischer (UEA)
\nJoanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford)
\nJames Andow (Manchester)
ORGANIZER;CN=James Andow;CN=Joanna Demaree-Cotton;CN=Eugen Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261019T170000 SUMMARY:Covert Consciousness UID:20261023T150646Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Crans Montana\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:Covert Consciousness: Detection and Treatment \;
\nNeuroscience Strategic Intelligence\, Grand Challenge Workshop
\nhttps://neurosas.org/strategic-intelligence/challenge-workshops/the-workshops/covert-consciousness%20detection-and-treatment/ \;
\nOctober 15-19\; Crans-Montana\, Switzerland \; \; \;
\nOver the past decade\, it has become clear that a significant number of behaviourally unresponsive patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) are covertly conscious\, as shown by complex and/or voluntary cortical response patterns. The realisation that behaviourally unresponsive patients are not necessarily unconscious changes the way brain-injured and critically ill patients must be assessed and treated\, and how families are counselled. \;This Challenge Workshop will focus on the latest advances in detecting and managing covert consciousness in both ICU and sub-acute settings\, supporting functional recovery through pharmacological or neurotechnological interventions\, restoring communication via brain-machine interfaces\, and navigating philosophical and ethical implications. \;
\nOpen to clinicians\, researchers\, patient advocates\, ethicists\, philosophers\, and technologists. \; Participation is limited to 20 individuals\, selected on the basis of merit and relevance to the workshop. \; \;
\nApplications are reviewed on a rolling basis until all 20 available spots are filled. \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Christof Koch;CN=Michael J. Young: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261015T170000 SUMMARY:Femmes et guerre dans la Grèce de Platon UID:20261023T150647Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:200 avenue de la République\, Nanterre\, France DESCRIPTION:Programme du 15 octobre 2026
\nBâ\;timent Ricoeur &ndash\; Salle des conseils - Université\; Paris Nanterre
\n9h00 - Accueil des participants
\n9h20 - Carmen Damour &\; Julie Mestery - Introduction \;
\n11h15 - Pause
\n12h20 - Pause dé\;jeuner
\n16h00 - Pause
\n17h05 - Conclusions
ORGANIZER;CN=Carmen Damour;CN=Julie Mestery: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261015T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261015T170000 SUMMARY:Towards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory UID:20261023T150648Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Catanzaro\, Italy DESCRIPTION:The conference &ldquo\;Towards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory&rdquo\;\, to be held on 15 October 2026 at the Monumental Complex of San Giovanni in Catanzaro and online\, will take place in a bilingual and hybrid format\, with contributions in both Italian and English. Participants may attend either in person or online. A certificate of attendance will be issued upon request.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261015T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy of the City—Prague UID:20261023T150649Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Prague\, Czech Republic DESCRIPTION:The Philosophy of the City Research Group is a global community of scholars dedicated to understanding the city and urban affairs. You are invited to our thirteenth annual conference. Presentations on any philosophical issue about cities are welcome. \; Some topics include:
\nHousing crisis and homes
\nHeritage\, architecture\, and current/future needs
\nLocal governance\, urban policy\, and practice
\nTourism\, touristic cities\, and over-tourism
\nConceptualizing cities
\nInfrastructure
\nSustainability
\nResilience
\nUrban aesthetics
\nThe city and economics
\nUrban technologies\; challenges/promises of AI
\nFood and the city
\nUrban mobility and transportation
\nThe city in philosophy&rsquo\;s history
\nCity life and culture
\nPublic and common space
\nExamining specific cities
\nUrban expansion and the nonhuman world
\nFor individual submissions\, provide abstracts of about 300 words. For panels of 3-4 (90 minutes presentation time and Q and A)\, send the panel&rsquo\;s title and a 400-500 word abstract describing each presentation\, along with each presenter&rsquo\;s name and affiliation (if any) to potcprague@gmail.com.
\nDeadline: March 1\, 2026. Notifications: Before March 30.
\nWe are pleased to offer a Graduate Student Presentation Award of 300 USD to be given at the concluding ceremony. To be eligible\, include &ldquo\;Submission Award Eligible&rdquo\; in the title of your email for consideration.
ORGANIZER;CN=Shane Epting;CN=Vladan Klement: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:International conference: the concept of attention UID:20261023T150650Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Faculdade de Letras\, Coimbra\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:Attention constitutes one of the most fundamental yet under-theorized dimensions of human experience. Despite its centrality to perception\, cognition\, action\, and intersubjectivity\, the philosophical investigation of attention as a concept in its own right remains surprisingly underdeveloped. This international conference represents the first major initiative of a four-year research program (2025-2029) dedicated to establishing the philosophy of attention as a major field of contemporary philosophical inquiry.
\n \;\n\n\n\nThis conference seeks to bring these rich historical engagements into systematic dialogue with contemporary philosophy. We welcome contributions from all philosophical traditions and approaches\, including but not limited to: the reflexive tradition\, hermeneutics\, phenomenology\, empiricist and analytic philosophy\, philosophy of mind\, cognitive science\, pragmatism\, and non-Western philosophical traditions. We aim to explore how different philosophical frameworks have conceptualized attention's structure\, dynamics\, and normative dimensions\, and how these varied perspectives can illuminate both historical debates and current research.
\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN="José Manuel Beato";CN="Marcela Uchôa";CN=Bruno Padilha;CN=Catarina Rebelo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 SUMMARY:Arkete: Philosophy of Perception: Representation\, Reality\, and Cognitive Structure UID:20261023T150651Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Arkete
\nSpecial Issue 2026
\nPhilosophy of Perception: Representation\, Reality\, and Cognitive Structure
\nEditors: Mariano Bianca (University of Siena) and Paolo Piccari (University of Siena)
\nPhilosophical reflection on perception has returned to the centre of contemporary debates in philosophy of mind\, epistemology\, and metaphysics. Questions concerning perceptual content\, representational structure\, and the relation between experience and reality have gained renewed prominence in light of current discussions on cognition\, conceptual capacities\, and the epistemic role of perception.
\nAt the same time\, the field remains divided between competing models: representationalist accounts\, relational theories\, disjunctivism\, and naturalistic approaches that attempt to explain perception through cognitive or computational frameworks. These debates raise a deeper philosophical question: whether perception should be understood primarily as an internal mental state or rather as a structured form of access to an objective world.
\nThis special issue aims to gather contributions that investigate perception as a cognitive and conceptual phenomenon with epistemic and metaphysical implications. Particular attention will be devoted to approaches that combine analytic rigour with broader theoretical ambition\, exploring how perceptual experience contributes to the constitution of knowledge and to the articulation of reality.
\nWe welcome contributions addressing these questions\, preferably grounded in concrete cases and/or examples that help clarify and support philosophical analysis.
\nTopics for Submission (including\, but not limited to)
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nSubmissions must be original and unpublished\, written in English or Italian\, and formatted according to the journal&rsquo\;s editorial guidelines. All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
\nThe 2025 issue of Arkete will be dedicated to these questions. The volume will include articles selected through this Call for Papers as well as invited contributions by national and international scholars.
\nAll submissions must be sent no later than 15 October 2026 to the Editors at:
\nmariano.bianca@unisi.it
paolo.piccari@unisi.it
Manuscripts must conform to the editorial guidelines available at:
https://www.arkete.it
Accepted languages: English and Italian.
\nMaximum length: 40\,000 characters (including spaces\, footnotes\, references\, and abstract).
\nEach submission must include:
\nIn a separate file attached to the same email\, authors must provide:
\nPublic Affairs Quarterly will hold a special issue focusing on connections between ethics and political psychology. \; Philosophers\, political theorists\, and political psychologists are invited to submit normative papers exploring connections between these fields. \; Although contributions should be normative or conceptual\, submissions from practicing social scientists are particularly encouraged. \; Submissions may raise new philosophical questions from a social scientific point of view\, foster philosophical focus on concepts from political psychology\, or introduce new ways of approaching normative questions. \; Examples of possible topics include: opinion change in political beliefs\, bias and heuristics in political reasoning\, polarization (including its causes\, various dimensions\, and normatively significant consequences)\, rural or urban consciousness\, symmetries and asymmetries between political parties\, connections to democracy and democratic norms\, the psychology of deliberation\, attitudes toward political violence\, contact theory and politically significant relationships\, epistemic deference or resistance to expertise\, trust in media and political institutions\, and the political psychology of race and gender. \; This issue aims in particular to initiate conversations about issues of common normative concern between philosophers and political scientists. \; As such\, submissions need not be situated in an existing philosophical literature\; interested scholars are encouraged to introduce normatively significant conceptual questions from their own disciplinary point of view. \;
\nManuscripts should be between 7\,000 and 9\,000 words\, prepared for anonymous review\, and submitted through the PAQ submission portal by October 15\, 2026. Please note in the submission that this is intended for the special issue on Ethics and Political Psychology. Review will begin November 1\, 2026. The special issue is planned for Spring/Summer 2027. Questions may be directed to Ryan Davis.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 SUMMARY:Association for Informal Logic and Critical Thinking [AILACT] Essay Prize UID:20261023T150653Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Please consider submitting your latest work on the teaching\, theory\, or normative practice of informal logic and critical thinking. REVISED DEADLINE: 15 October\, 2026. \;Prize: $500. For updated announcement/CFP\, see:
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T090000 SUMMARY:Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference UID:20261023T150654Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:301 South Gulfview Blvd\, Clearwater Beach\, United States\, 33767 DESCRIPTION:The Carol Carfang Nursing &\; Healthcare Ethics Conference offers a unique opportunity to discuss contemporary ethical issues with distinguished ethicists\, educators\, philosophers and healthcare professionals interested in complex ethical issues in healthcare.
\nWe invite submissions of abstracts for a 15&ndash\;20 minute presentation and for posters that address any contemporary ethical issue in healthcare at the 2027 Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference. The abstract may not exceed 300 words and must be formatted with one-inch margins in 12 pt. Times New Roman typeface.
\nPotential topics\, both general and specific: \;Healthcare Inequity
\nhttps://www.duq.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/nursing/events/carfang-nursing-and-healthcare-ethics-conference/index.php
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:Radical Philosophy Association 18th Biennial Conference UID:20261023T150655Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Claremont\, United States DESCRIPTION:Conference Theme: Life After Capitalism? \;
The risks posed by the glocal economic and political system's nearly unlimited dependence on fossil fuels and ecological destruction have inspired reflection on the possibility that capitalism might spell the end of life as we know it\, and that the imperatives of this social\, political\, and economic system work against life itself. As these risks have become more apparent\, this system has only become more entrenched\, exerting progressively greater control over our patterns of production and consumption\, forms of life\, and collective political imagination. But the difficulty of envisaging life after capitalism has not translated intoa shortage of theoretical\, practical\, and artistic work on this topic. It seems rather to have spurred a rich and diverse range of attempts to imagine and enact alternative forms of social organization\, discern the possibility and dangers of revolutionary transformation\, learn from the traditions of exploited and dispossessed peoples around the world\, and assess the prospects of escape - or collapse.
The programe committee of the 18th biennial conference of the Radical Philosophy Association encourages submissions on the theme of life after capitalism\, with a special emphasis on three areas: ecology\, humanity\, and utopia. Submissions are encouraged that address any area of these topics\, including the following:
Ecology
degrowth v. eco-modernism\; afro-\, anti-colonial\, and indigenous resistance to ecological destruction\; eco-fascism\, eco-socialism\, and anarchism\; revolutionary strategy and environmental collapse\; extractivism and its critiques\; political economy and the global energy system\; ecological flourishing and ecological catastrophe\; the political\, epistemic\, or ontological concept of life
Humanity
humanism and its critics (e.g. Afro-pessimism\, posthumanism\, theoretical antihumanism)\; humanity's relationship to the environment and to itself\; pre- and post-capitalist forms of life\; political organization and political strategy\; organizing society differently in theory and practice\; capitalist production and social repdoction\; the experience of economic and social collapse
Utopia
uses and abuses of utopia/distopia\; the end of the world and the end of capitalism\; theorizing revolutionary transformation\; imagining life before\, after\, or outside of capitalism\; political temporality: kairos\, kronos\, and apocalypse
We welcome single paper\, panel\, and workshop submissions on any area related to these themes\, or to radical philosophy mroe broadly construed. Individual authors are asked to submit anonymized abstracts of 250-400 words (maximum) to \;radical.philosophy.association@gmail.com. For panel submissions (maximum 3 speakers)\, please send an abstract for each paper\, as well as a more general panel abstract. All papers received by \;February 15\, 2026\, \;will be anonymously reviewed. \;
The Athens Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy is a forum for scientific research and exchange on all topics and aspects of Ancient Philosophy\, including its modern reception. It is organized by The Athens MA in Ancient Philosophy\, in cooperation with the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens and The Danish Institute at Athens.
\nThe talks take place once a month\, on a Thursday at 7 pm\, at The Danish Institute\, Chairefontos 14. The duration of the talks is between 30-40 minutes\, followed by an extensive\, free\, focused\, critical discussion that can last up to 60 minutes.
Attendance at the Colloquium is mandatory for all current students.
There are two opposed perspectives on AI consciousness. Computational functionalism says computational improvements will lead to conscious AI whereas biological naturalism says that biological aspects of animals are necessary for consciousness. \; \;This talk concerns the pros and cons of these two points of view.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T200000 SUMMARY:The Case for Lottocracy: Democracy Without Elections UID:20261023T150658Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:1 Pace Plaza\, New York\, United States\, 10038 DESCRIPTION:Pace University Center for Ethical Thinking's Third Thursdays Speaker Series brings together scholars from a range of disciplines doing innovative work in ethics\, political theory\, and related areas. \;
\nAll attendees who are not Pace University students or employees must register in advance to attend. \;
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ORGANIZER;CN=Eddis Miller: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261015T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:Business Ethics: Past\, Present\, and Future UID:20261023T150659Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:175 Forest St.\, Waltham\, United States\, 02478 DESCRIPTION:The Hoffman Center for Business Ethics (HCBE) at Bentley University turns 50 in 2026! Founded in 1976 by Bentley Professor W. Michael Hoffman\, the HCBE is one of the world's oldest academic centers dedicated to business ethics. For five decades\, the HCBE has advanced its mission to make business better through pioneering research\, innovative teaching\, and collaboration with industry.
\nTo celebrate\, we are hosting a gala dinner on October 15th followed by an all-day conference on October 16th. Both events will be held on the Bentley campus. More information about them can be found on our website. Registration links will be available soon. We welcome your attendance at the dinner and participation in the conference. (These events are independent\; you can attend both or just one.)
\nOur keynote speakers are:
\nKelly Richmond Pope (DePaul University)
Alan Strudler (University of Pennsylvania)
The window for submissions to the conference is now open. The HCBE understands business ethics broadly to include topics such as AI ethics\, conflicts of interest\, corporate social responsibility\, corporate political activity\, corruption and bribery\, data privacy and security\, diversity\, equity\, and inclusion\, divestment\, ESG investing\, the governance and control of firms\, labor issues\, marketing ethics\, meaningful work\, the moral limits of markets\, the purpose of business and business activity\, the responsible use of technology\, sustainability\, social entrepreneurship\, whistleblowing\, and much else. We welcome contributions from scholars in all relevant fields. We want to hear from those working on normative questions (e.g.\, what actions are right?) as well as descriptive ones (e.g.\, what are the causes and effects of right action?\, how do businesses address and manage ethical issues?). While we expect many submissions to focus on research in business ethics\, we encourage submissions on the teaching and practice of business ethics.
\nTo apply for the conference\, please submit an abstract of between 500 &ndash\; 750 words\, excluding notes and references. This goes for all submission types (papers\, panels\, and roundtable discussions). Details can be found on our website. Submissions should be sent to Gail Sands at \;gsands@bentley.edu \;by May 2\, 2026. Decisions will be communicated in early June.
\nShould you have any questions\, email me at the address below.
\nBest\,
Jeff Moriarty
Executive Director\, Hoffman Center for Business Ethics
jmoriarty@bentley.edu
ENG:
Computation profoundly shapes how we think\, communicate\, and relate to the world. Yet the philosophical and anthropological foundations of this practice&mdash\;rooted in formal logic and symbolic manipulation&mdash\;often remain underexplored. Computation is not merely a technique\, a cognitive routine\, or a fixed feature of the natural world\; rather\, it is a complex cultural practice that interacts with and structures thought and world alike\, deeply redefining both.
\nThe genealogy of computational thought reveals a crucial paradox: though originally understood as an impersonal\, purely formal device\, computation is inextricably interwoven with human life. From inscriptional practices that encode cognitive strategies to logical machines that simulate universal rules of reasoning\; from artificial neural architectures that fuse mechanical rules and behavioral theory to neuroscientific models that render the brain an algorithmic device&mdash\;computation emerges as a cultural force no less potent than art\, myth\, or language.
\nThe phenomenological tradition offers valuable conceptual tools for grasping the complexity of these practices and their conceptual forms. Husserl&rsquo\;s rarely applied idea of &ldquo\;language as calculation&rdquo\; suggests that symbolic notation functions not only as an instrument of communication but as a medium capable of generating what we might call &ldquo\;computational evidence&rdquo\;&mdash\;a clarity produced through the systematic manipulation of symbols. This perspective widens our understanding of writing in all its forms\, pointing to a dynamic interaction between phenomenology and computation.
\nAt the same time\, the history of logical machines&mdash\;from nineteenth‑century devices to today&rsquo\;s AI architectures&mdash\;highlights a further tension between the impersonal universality and technical reproducibility of algorithmic calculation and the personal construction of meaning.
\nDespite rich theoretical premises\, the practical successes of computation have often obscured the historical‑conceptual background of debates on artificial intelligence. Strictly speaking\, the epistemology of AI stands on behaviorist and cybernetic paradigms that frame cognition and thought as algorithmic processes. These &ldquo\;operative concepts&rdquo\;&mdash\;to borrow Eugen Fink&rsquo\;s distinction between &ldquo\;thematic&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;operative&rdquo\; concepts&mdash\;characterize our approach to classical philosophical problems\, predisposing us to read intelligence\, consciousness\, language\, creativity\, and so forth in computational terms\, thereby generating a familiar vicious circle.
\nIn neuroscience\, the temptation to interpret the brain as a computer raises fundamental epistemological questions. Computational models\, for all their productivity\, may furnish convenient abstractions rather than capture the brain&rsquo\;s actual functioning. Built on data averages and variance filtering\, such models struggle to reproduce the organ&rsquo\;s staggering complexity. These simplifications\, however interesting\, may not reveal an intrinsic computational essence of the brain.
\nTo resist such assumptions\, it may be fruitful to consider computation as a &ldquo\;symbolic form&rdquo\; in the Cassirerian sense: a capacity that not only processes but also structures how we conceive of and relate to the world. The potential case studies are innumerable\, yet the guiding philosophical question should remain the same: Can the concept of symbolic form be applied to the ways different artificial intelligences shape the world? Do AIs in any meaningful sense possess an &ldquo\;external&rdquo\; world? And is this enough to deny that human reality&mdash\;with its perceptions and values&mdash\;is itself shaped by codes\, algorithms\, and digital infrastructures?
\nFinally\, in connection with these questions\, we must investigate the ethical‑political impact of AI: how do algorithms condition our decisions and structure their logical form? Can human beings still be regarded as autonomous and responsible moral subjects in a world increasingly characterized by co‑agency between humans and intelligent machines?
\nThis dossier of Scienza &\; Filosofia seeks to create an interdisciplinary space for reflection that illuminates the historical\, genealogical\, phenomenological\, and epistemological entanglements of computational thought. Our aim is not only to clarify the roots of computational thinking but also to enrich the ongoing dialogue on the role of technology and computation in contemporary culture.
\nSuggested (non‑exhaustive) Topics
\n\nWe welcome contributions from philosophy (phenomenology\, analytic philosophy\, philosophy of mind\, science and technology studies\, intellectual history)\, cognitive science\, computer science\, neuroscience\, media studies\, and adjacent fields. Interdisciplinary proposals are especially encouraged.
\nSubmission of Proposals: To participate in this call for papers\, please submit an abstract of no more than 500 characters&mdash\;including the title of the proposed essay and a description of the argument&mdash\;to scienzaefilosofia@gmail.com by October 15\, 2026. Proposals will be evaluated by the editors and the journal&rsquo\;s review committee. Authors will be notified of the selection results\, along with the new deadline for submitting manuscripts\, which is set for March 15\, 2027. Finally\, manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review process\, and authors will be notified of the review results upon completion of the process.
\nAccepted Languages: Italian\, English\, French\, German and Spanish.
Edited by Claudio Fabbroni and Lorenzo De Stefano.
ITA:
Il calcolo plasma profondamente il modo in cui pensiamo\, comunichiamo e ci rapportiamo al mondo. Eppure\, i fondamenti filosofici e antropologici di questa pratica &ndash\; radicati nella logica formale e nella manipolazione simbolica &ndash\; rimangono spesso inesplorati. La computazione non è\; semplicemente una tecnica\, una pratica cognitiva o una caratteristica immutabile del mondo naturale: è\; piuttosto una pratica culturale complessa\, che interagisce e struttura il pensiero e il mondo\, ridefinendoli profondamente.
\nLa genealogia del pensiero computazionale rivela un paradosso cruciale: sebbene originariamente concepito come un dispositivo puramente formale e impersonale\, la computazione è\; intrecciata in modo inestricabile alla vita umana. Dalle pratiche di scrittura che codificano strategie cognitive alle macchine logiche che simulano le regole universali del ragionamento\, dalle architetture neurali artificiali che fondono regole meccaniche e teoria comportamentale con i modelli neuroscientifici che rendono il cervello una macchina algoritmica\, il calcolo si configura come una forza culturale potente quanto arte\, mito o linguaggio.
\nLa tradizione fenomenologica offre strumenti concettuali preziosi per comprendere la complessità\; di tali pratiche e delle loro forme concettuali. L&rsquo\;idea husserliana del &ldquo\;linguaggio come calcolo&rdquo\;\, raramente applicata alla comprensione della scrittura\, suggerisce che la notazione simbolica funzioni non solo come strumento di comunicazione\, ma come medium capace di generare quella che potremmo chiamare &ldquo\;evidenza computazionale&rdquo\; &ndash\; una chiarezza prodotta dalla manipolazione sistematica di simboli. Questa prospettiva espande la nostra visione della scrittura &ndash\; di qualsiasi tipo essa sia &ndash\;\, suggerendo invece un&rsquo\;interazione dinamica tra fenomenologia e calcolo.
\nLa storia delle macchine logiche\, dai primi dispositivi ottocenteschi alle contemporanee architetture di intelligenza artificiale\, illumina\, tuttavia\, un&rsquo\;ulteriore tensione: quella tra l&rsquo\;universalità\; impersonale e riproducibilità\; tecnica del calcolo algoritmico e la costruzione personale di significato. \;
\nPur muovendosi entro queste premesse teoriche\, l&rsquo\;impatto dei risultati pratici ha offuscato il retroterra storico‑concettuale del dibattito sull&rsquo\;intelligenza artificiale. L&rsquo\;epistemologia dell&rsquo\;intelligenza artificiale\, infatti\, a voler rimanere stretti\, si regge sui paradigmi comportamentisti e cibernetici\, che inquadrano la cognizione e il pensiero come processi algoritmici. Tali concetti &ldquo\;operativi&rdquo\; &ndash\; per riprendere la distinzione di Eugen Fink tra concetti &ldquo\;tematici&rdquo\; e &ldquo\;operativi&rdquo\; &ndash\; plasmano il modo in cui comprendiamo i classici problemi della tradizione filosofica\, poiché\; ci predispongono a interpretare i problemi dell&rsquo\;intelligenza\, della coscienza\, del linguaggio\, della creatività\; e così\; via in termini computazionali\, generando il più\; classico dei circoli viziosi.
\nIn ambito neuroscientifico\, sappiamo\, che la tentazione di interpretare il cervello come un computer solleva interrogativi epistemologici fondamentali. I modelli computazionali\, pur essendo straordinariamente produttivi\, potrebbero offrire astrazioni convenienti piuttosto che catturare il funzionamento reale del cervello. Le teorie computazionali si basano su medie di dati e filtraggio di varianze\, strumenti per mezzo dei quali risulta difficile riprodurre la complessità\; strabiliante dell&rsquo\;organo cerebrale. Queste semplificazioni\, quindi\, per quanto preziose\, potrebbero non rivelare un&rsquo\;essenza computazionale intrinseca del cervello.
\nPer scongiurare assunzioni di questo tipo\, può\; essere opportuno considerare la computazione come &ldquo\;forma simbolica&rdquo\; \; \;nel senso cassireriano\, ovverosia nei termini di una capacità\; che non solo elabora\, ma struttura il modo in cui concepiamo e ci rapportiamo al mondo. I casi di studio a cui applicare quest&rsquo\;idea sono potenzialmente innumerevoli\, ma la domanda filosofica guida dovrebbe rimanere la stessa: si può\; applicare il concetto di forma simbolica al modo in cui le diverse intelligenze artificiali plasmano il mondo? Esiste realmente un mondo &ldquo\;esterno&rdquo\; per le intelligenze artificiali? E questo basta a negare che la realtà\; umana\, con le sue percezioni e i suoi valori\, non sia plasmata da codici\, algoritmi e infrastrutture digitali?
\nIn relazione a quest&rsquo\;ultima domanda\, occorrerà\; infine indagare l&rsquo\;impatto etico-politico dell&rsquo\;intelligenza artificiale: in che modo gli algoritmi condizionano le nostre decisioni e ne strutturano la forma logica? Gli esseri umani potranno essere considerati soggetti morali autonomi e responsabili in un mondo in cui la co-agentività\; fra uomini e macchine intelligenti caratterizzerà\; sempre più\; la quotidianità\; di tutti noi?
\nQuesto dossier di Scienza&\;Filosofia auspica la creazione di uno spazio di riflessione interdisciplinare per illuminare gli intrecci storici\, genealogici\, fenomenologici ed epistemologici del pensiero computazionale. Il dossier mira a chiarire non solo le radici del pensiero computazionale\, ma anche ad arricchire il dialogo in corso sul ruolo della tecnologia e del calcolo nella cultura contemporanea.
\nSpunti tematici\, non vincolanti\, per la riflessione:
\nSono ben accetti contributi provenienti dalla filosofia (fenomenologia\, filosofia analitica\, filosofia della mente\, science and technology studies/STS\, storia delle idee)\, dalle scienze cognitive\, dall&rsquo\;informatica\, dalle neuroscienze\, dagli studi sui media e da ambiti affini. Sono particolarmente incoraggiate proposte interdisciplinari.
\nProcedura: Per partecipare alla call\, occorre inviare all&rsquo\;indirizzo scienzaefilosofia@gmail.com\, entro il 15 ottobre 2026 un abstract di max 500 battute comprendente il titolo della proposta di saggio e una descrizione dell&rsquo\;iter argomentativo. Le proposte saranno valutate dai curatori e dal comitato di lettori della rivista. Gli autori riceveranno comunicazione dell&rsquo\;esito della selezione\, unitamente all&rsquo\;indicazione della nuova deadline per l&rsquo\;invio dei contributi che è\; fissata per il 15 marzo 2027. Infine\, i contributi verranno sottoposti a doppia blind review e gli autori riceveranno\, al termine della procedura\, comunicazione circa l&rsquo\;esito della valutazione.
\nLingue accettate: italiano\, inglese\, francese\, tedesco e spagnolo.
A cura di Claudio Fabbroni e Lorenzo De Stefano.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261010T170040Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T234500 SUMMARY:Postdoctoral Position in Logic\, Probability\, and Rationality CLE–UNICAMP\, Brazil UID:20261023T150701Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Applications\nThe Centre for Logic\, Epistemology and the History of Science (CLE) at\nUNICAMP. Brazil\, invites applications for a postdoctoral position\,\nfunded by FAPESP\, under the supervision of Prof. Walter Carnielli. The\nposition is linked to the FAPESP Thematic Project "Rationality\, Logic\nand Probability &ndash\; RatioLog" (Process 2020/16353-3).\n \;\nInternational candidates\, regardless of nationality or any other\ncondition\, are welcome to apply.\n \;\nCLE-UNICAMP is one of the first and highest-ranked academic\ninstitutions in Latin America fully dedicated to the areas of Logic\,\nEpistemology\, Philosophy\, and the History of Science\, promoting\ninterdisciplinary research through seminars and scientific meetings\,\npublications\, and academic exchange with research groups and\ninstitutions in Brazil and around the world.\n \;\nProject: Logic\, Probability and Rationality: Tools for Robust Reasoning\n \;\nThis project develops a unified framework combining logic\,\nprobability\, and causal inference to support robust models of rational\nreasoning. It aims to integrate paraconsistent and paracomplete logics\n(particularly Logics of Formal Inconsistency and Logics of Evidence\nand Truth) with Bayesian inference and Pearl's causal models\,\naddressing reasoning under contradiction\, uncertainty\, and\nintervention.\nMain objectives:\n \;\n--Develop semantic frameworks combining non-classical logics with\nprobabilistic reasoning and causal inference\n-- Extend Logics of Formal Inconsistency (LFIs) and Logics of Evidence\nand Truth (LETs) with probabilistic and causal operators\n--Formalize rational argumentation involving contradictory\, uncertain\,\nand counterfactual reasoning\n-- Implement prototype software integrating logical\, probabilistic\,\nand causal inference tools\n- To organize\, and participate\, in seminars\, conferences and workshops\, and maintain a high rate of publications\n \;\nCandidate requirements:\n \;\nApplicants should have a strong publication record in international\njournals and demonstrated expertise in at least three of the following\nareas:\n \;\n1)Non-classical logics\, including their semantics and proof methods\n2)Probability theory and its mathematical and philosophical foundations\n3)Foundations of AI\n4)Theoretical and/or applied computer science\n5)Abstract algebraic logic\n \;\nCandidates must hold a PhD in Logic\, Mathematics\, Computer Science\, or\nPhilosophy\; the thesis must be in the area of Logic and must be\nofficially approved at the time of application.\n \;\nRequired documentation:\n1)A research project along the lines described above (up to 10 pages\,\nexcluding bibliographical references)\n2)A complete CV\, including a list of publications\n3)A Curricular Summary\, following FAPESP's required format:\nhttps://fapesp.br/6351/instructions-for-the-elaboration-of-a-curricular-summary\n4)Certificate of Completion of the Doctoral Degree\n5) At least one recommendation letter\n \;\nHow to apply:\nAll applications must be sent by e-mail with the subject line "PD\nPosition at CLE/FAPESP Project RatioLog" to:\nProf. Walter Carnielli walterac@unicamp.br>\nwith a copy to:\nMr. Rodrigo Cesar da Silva (CLE administrative assistant) rcsilva2@unicamp.br>\n \;\nFellowship benefits:\n- Duration: 12 months\, renewable for 12 months\n- Stipend: BRL 12\,570.00 per month (approx. US$ 2\,450.00 per month)\, tax-free\n- Technical Reserve (additional funding for scientific activities such\nas conferences\, academic visits\, equipment\, books\, etc.): BRL\n15\,000.00 per year (approx. US$ 2\,900.00 per year)\, tax-free\n- Possibility of a 6-month research stay abroad at a renowned\ninstitution (Research Internship Abroad\, RIA)\, subject to specific\nconditions\, upon approval by FAPESP and by the supervisor.\n \;\nApplication deadline: October 15th\, 2026\, 23:59 (Sã\;o Paulo time)\nEstimated project start date: January 30th\, 2027\n \;\nFor more information\, visit the RatioLog project website:\nhttps://groupfortheoreticalandappliedlogic.my.canva.site/ratiolog2\n \;\nFor additional information\, please contact: Walter Carnielliwalterac@unicamp.br>\n \; ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR