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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261209T170000 SUMMARY:Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026 UID:20261015T095015Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics: Online Lecture Series UID:20261015T095016Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260604T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:Stanley Cavell at 100. An International Centennial Conference UID:20261015T095018Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260817T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261204T170000 SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Tulane German Philosophy Workshop Series UID:20261015T095019Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 SUMMARY:Inquiry Network WIP Talks UID:20261015T095020Z-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
SEMINAR DESCRIPTION
Anaximander&rsquo\;s fragment has been interpreted in various different ways. The young Nietzsche reads in it a &ldquo\;pessimism&rdquo\; comparable to that of Schopenhauer\, whereas Heidegger\, in his 1946 lecture series &ldquo\;The Anaximander Fragment\,&rdquo\; criticizes Nietzsche for projecting a moralistic sentiment onto the early Pre-Socratic. Anaximander&rsquo\;s fragment\, argues Heidegger\, is &ldquo\;neither pessimistic nor nihilistic\; nor is it optimistic. It is tragic.&rdquo\;
Although Heidegger&rsquo\;s critique is probably correct\, it is symptomatic of a more general critique against Nietzsche. In the chapter &ldquo\;The Concept of &lsquo\;Chaos&rsquo\;&rdquo\; in his great book on Nietzsche\, Heidegger asserts that Nietzsche&rsquo\;s conception of chaos is far off from the &ldquo\;original Greek meaning&rdquo\; of a yawning abyss as found in Hesiod. Nietzsche\, however\, seems way more interested in the pluralistic &ldquo\;Anaxagorian chaos\,&rdquo\; which he contrasts with the apeiron of Anaximander. Not to mention their shared interest in Heraclitus&mdash\;could not Heidegger&rsquo\;s defense of Anaximander in the first place be a hint at his perennial critique of Nietzsche&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;modern&rdquo\; thinking? And could not Nietzsche&rsquo\;s preference for Anaxagoras point at a wholly different picture\, where chaos can be freed of its &ldquo\;original Greek meaning&rdquo\;&mdash\;quite ironically\, already in the Pre-Socratics?
In this seminar\, we turn to the Greek origins of the term &lsquo\;chaos\,&rsquo\; contrasting an &ldquo\;abyssal&rdquo\; with a more creative reading. No prior knowledge is required. All key texts will be provided on registration.
TIME
5 SATURDAYS\, weekly\, beginning September 12\, 2026.
1-3 PM Eastern US Time.
SESSIONS
1) The Concept of Chaos: Heidegger contra Nietzsche
2) Nietzsche and the early Pre-Socratics
3) Anaximander&rsquo\;s Fragment
4) Anaxagoras&rsquo\; Fragments
5) Anaxagorian Chaos: Nietzsche contra Heidegger
FACILITATOR
Having lived and studied all around the world\, Hannes Schumacher works at the threshold between philosophy and art. He has carried out intensive research on Hegel and Deleuze\, and he has also published widely on Nishida\, Nāgārjuna\, chaos theory\, global mysticism\, and contemporary art. Hannes is the founder of the Berlin-based publisher Freigeist Verlag\, co-founder of the grassroots art space Chaosmos &infin\; in Athens\, Greece\, and he collaborates extensively with the literary translator Peter Constantine and World Poetry Books\, New York. He has facilitated the following courses and groups at Incite Seminars: &ldquo\;Nishida Kitarō: The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Who&rsquo\;s Afraid of Hegel: Introduction to G. W. F. Hegel&rsquo\;s Science of Logic&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Chaos Research Group&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Reading After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Deleuze &\; Guattari: What is Philosophy?&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Plato&rsquo\;s chô\;ra through the lens of Derrida&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Anarchia and Archai: Reimagining the Pre-Socratics&rdquo\; (with Carlos A. Segovia)\; &ldquo\;Reading Nietzsche&rsquo\;s Zarathustra&rdquo\; (current)\; &ldquo\;Liana of the Resurrected&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;The Body without Organs&rdquo\;\; and &ldquo\;Introduction to Chaos Theory.&rdquo\;
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.
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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270531T170000 SUMMARY:UK XPHI Online: 2026 Series UID:20261015T095025Z-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)\,
\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 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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261004T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261025T170000 SUMMARY:(Un)Timely Blanchot UID:20261015T095026Z-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
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We are looking for two contributions for a panel entitled \;"Deliberative Democratic Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities from a Constitutional Perspective" \;as part of the conference \;Backsliding\, Resilience\, Renewal? Democracy in Eras of Transformation\, which will take place at the \;University of Passau\, Germany from \;Monday 5th \;to Wednesday 7th \;October 2026. Submissions of up to 400 words should be made directly onto the \;webpage \;from Wednesday 26th \;November to Monday 15th \;December 2025. Notification of acceptance will be made by Tuesday 20th \;January 2026.
\nFor organisational inquiries\, please contact Silvia Haider (second.congress@uni-passau.de). The panel is part of the transatlantic project "Open Constitutional Democracy: Reconciling Deliberation and Constitutional Democracy". More information about the call for papers and the panel proposal can be found on the link below. We look forward to your submission!
ORGANIZER;CN="Sonia Anaid Cruz Dávila": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261005T113000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261130T170000 SUMMARY:Computational Social Philosophy of AI Seminars (CSPAIS 2026) UID:20261015T095028Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Computational methods and simulations have become a fruitful methodology for philosophers\, particularly for understanding how social relations\, norms\, and communicative structures could and should shape inquiry. Work in computational social philosophy has illuminated phenomena ranging from the epistemic value of diversity and the dynamics of epistemic belonging to the emergence and erosion of norms and processes of polarization.
\nGenerative and agentic AI tools stand to profoundly reshape computational social philosophy in at least two ways:
\nAs objects of study for computational social philosophy. Generative and agentic AI are increasingly embedded in epistemic life: as sources of information\, interlocutors\, surrogates for social participants\, gatekeepers within epistemic communities\, and even partially autonomous epistemic actors. This should motivate a broadening of purview in social epistemology\, which has tended to focus primarily on personal\, interpersonal\, and institutional factors that impact inquiry\, but comparatively less on technological factors. \;
\nAs tools of study for computational social philosophy. These systems can lower the technical barriers to computational work. More interestingly\, they may expand the range of social phenomena philosophers can model\, including richer representations of agents&rsquo\; beliefs and behavior\, more complex interactions and environments\, and even digital-twin-style models of particular communities or institutions.
\nThis cluster brings together philosophers working in\, or seriously engaging with\, computational social philosophy. We are eager to gather a cohort who can bring rigor\, clarity\, and intellectual generosity to advancing understanding in relation to the above themes.
\nWe&rsquo\;re particularly interested in philosophical contributions that engage one or more of the following cross-cutting threads:
\nModeling of AI systems as socio-epistemic phenomena: How might explicitly modeling the effects of AI systems within social epistemic processes challenge\, deepen\, or expand existing understanding in social epistemology and philosophy of science?
\nModeling of socio-epistemic phenomena with AI-based tools: What new forms of social epistemological phenomena can AI-based tools help us represent and investigate beyond traditional methods\, such as typical agent-based models?
\nUnderstanding aims and tradeoffs: How should we think about the tradeoffs between promises of AI-based tools (e.g.\, flexibility\, expressive power\, scale) and other desiderata (e.g.\, robustness\, justification\, tractability\, understanding) that have long been central to computational social philosophy? What can we learn about these issues from the use of AI-based tools in other disciplines such as computational social science?
\nMethodological standards: What standards should guide reliable\, reproducible\, and more generally epistemically and ethically responsible philosophical inquiry using AI-based methods in computational social philosophy?
\nPlease note that\, while we welcome expressions of interest from all disciplines\, this is not a general workshop about AI or AI-based simulations. It is a workshop about how deeper engagement with AI systems as objects of modeling studies and as a modeling tool can ultimately enrich and expand philosophical inquiry.
\nFormat
\nThe series will consist of bi-weekly virtual meetings\, in the style of CSPS\, starting in October 2026.The meetings are on Mondays at 11:30am ET.
\nApplications
\nYou can submit your application to join the seminars by using this application form: https://forms.gle/SC2iqbZUBU6iB52v6 \;
\nThe application form includes:
\nBasic details: Your name\, email address\, affiliation\, career stage
\nExtended abstracts of up to 750 words and prepared for anonymous review (no identifying information in the abstract itself).
\nThe submission deadline for applications is July 27th\, 2026.
\nOrganizers
\nSina Fazelpour (Northeastern)
\nLuca Garzino Demo (UPenn) \;
\nPlease direct inquiries to lgarzino@sas.upenn.edu
ORGANIZER;CN=Sina Fazelpour;CN=Luca Garzino Demo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261006T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261007T170000 SUMMARY:The Nature of Social Identities: Metaphysics\, Epistemology\, and Politics UID:20261015T095029Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Arna Nováka 1\, Brno \, Czech Republic\, 60200 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Philosophy\, Faculty of Arts\, Masaryk University in Brno\, Czech Republic\, invites submissions for a conference on the metaphysical and epistemological foundations of social identities\, organised within the research project Identity Politics: Metaphysics and Epistemology.
\nConference Theme
\nIn recent decades\, political and social debates have increasingly focused on identity-based groups defined by characteristics such as race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, disability\, class\, religion\, or age. These developments have generated extensive discussion in political philosophy and social theory. However\, many of the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions underlying identity politics remain insufficiently examined.
\nThis conference aims to investigate the nature\, constitution\, and epistemic role of social identities. In particular\, we seek to explore the mechanisms through which identities emerge as robust social and political entities\, and the ways in which identity-related features&mdash\;such as lived experience\, self-identification\, social recognition\, and shared narratives&mdash\;contribute to their formation and persistence. \;
\nAnother central aim is to examine whether different identities (for example\, race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, or class) are constituted through similar or distinct metaphysical and epistemic mechanisms. Comparative approaches that analyse similarities and differences across identities are especially welcome. \;
\nThe conference will also address the epistemological aspects of social identities\, including questions concerning situated knowledge\, epistemic authority\, intersectionality\, and conflicts among different socially situated perspectives.
\nTopics
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nMetaphysics of Social and Political Identities
\nEpistemology of Social Identity
\nSubmissions from metaphysics\, epistemology\, social philosophy\, feminist philosophy\, philosophy of race\, and related areas are welcome.
\nKeynote speaker: Kristina Rolin (Tampere University)
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPlease submit an anonymous abstract of 400&ndash\;500 words.
\nThe submission should be attached to the email in .pdf format and prepared for blind review. Please include the following information separately in the body of the email: your name(s)\, affiliation(s)\, contact information\, the title of your talk.
\nImportant Dates
\nConference Details
\nSubmission
\nPlease send submissions to: belohrad@phil.muni.cz
\nContact
\nFor inquiries\, please contact: Radim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. (belohrad@phil.muni.cz)
\nOrganizing committee
\nRadim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. \;
\nZdeňka Jastrzembská\;\, Ph.D. \;
\nMarek Picha\, Ph.D.
\nDagmar Pichová\;\, Ph.D.
ORGANIZER;CN=Radim Belohrad: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261006T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270706T170000 SUMMARY:Emotion and Society Lab's Works-In-Progress Series (2026-27) UID:20261015T095030Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261006T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261008T170000 SUMMARY:17th Latin American Workshop on New Methods of Reasoning LANMR 2026 UID:20261015T095031Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/Mexico_City LOCATION:Mexico City\, Mexico DESCRIPTION:LANMR 2026 is the seventeenth edition of the Latin American Workshop series on Logic/Languages\, Algorithms and New Methods of Reasoning organized by Universidad Nacional Autó\;noma de Mé\;xico through Facultad de Ciencias (DGAPA-PAPIIT IN111126) and Facultad de Ingenierí\;a (DGAPA-PAPIIT IN116726 and IA103026\, and DGAPA-PAPIME PEI110226).
\n\nThe aim of this workshop is to bring together people from different fields such as programming languages foundations\, formal verification\, philosophy or artificial intelligence\, around methods of reasoning and applications involving logic. We call for extended abstracts. In particular you can present work in progress or work that is recently published elsewhere.
\n\n\nSuggested topics include\, but are not limited to the following:
\n\n\n\nCALL FOR PAPERS\, EXTENDED DEADLINE 19th June 2026.
\n17th Latin American Workshop on Logic and New Methods of Reasoning LANMR 2026
\nOctober 6th\, 7th &\; 8th\, 2026.
\nCiudad Universitaria UNAM\, CDMX\, Mé\;xico and Online
\nhttps://www.lanmr.unam.mx/
\nLANMR 2026 is the seventeenth edition of the Latin American Workshop series on Logic/Languages\, Algorithms and New Methods of Reasoning\, organized by Universidad Nacional Autó\;noma de Mé\;xico through Facultad de Ciencias (DGAPA-PAPIIT IN111126) and Facultad de Ingenierí\;a (DGAPA-PAPIIT IN116726 and DGAPA-PAPIIT IA103026).
\nSCOPE
\nLogic is a robust discipline that nowadays influences several fields going from the study of philosophical problems to the development of algorithms and systems for Artificial Intelligence and formal verification. The LANMR workshop series aims to stimulate and promote international research and collaboration on logic and its applications from philosophy to computer science. Our goal is to bring together people from different fields related to logic\, such as proof theory\, philosophy of logic\, model theory and semantics\, computability theory\, programming language foundations\, formal verification\, or artificial intelligence\, around methods of reasoning and applications involving logic.
\nTOPICS OF INTEREST
\nLANMR 2026 solicits original research articles\, not published elsewhere. Topics of interest encompass all areas of logic and its applications broadly understood\, including\, but not limited to\, the following:
\nLogics (classical and non-classical): constructive\, modal\, epistemic\, temporal\, paraconsistent\, description\, substructural\, connexive\, quantum\, algebraic\, multi-valued\, higher-order\, lambda calculi and type theory\, etc.
\nMethods: natural deduction and sequent calculi\, tableaux\, answer set programming\, model checking\, term rewriting and equational reasoning\, automated and interactive theorem proving\, SAT and SMT solving\, etc.
\nApplications: mechanized proofs\, formalized mathematics\, declarative and dependent-type programming\, program synthesis and analysis\, formal methods\, type systems\, formal semantics of languages and systems\, process calculi\, proof-theoretic semantics\, philosophical logic\, philosophy of computing\, AI-related applications\, etc.
\nImportant Dates
\nPaper submission: EXTENDED DEADLINE June 19th\, 2026
\nNotification of acceptance: August 5th\, 2026
\nWorkshop (Hybrid): October 6th\, 7th &\; 8th\, 2026
\nSubmission Guidelines: papers written in English\, limited to 12 pages excluding footnotes\, appendices\, and references. Contributions are to be prepared for anonymous review\; that is\, authors' names and institutions must be omitted\, and references to authors' own related work should be in the third person. Papers must use the Easychair Latex Class and be submitted via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lanmr2026
\nThe language of the workshop is English\; at least one of the authors of accepted papers is expected to attend the workshop in order to present their contribution in a 25-minute presentation.
\nPublication
\nA book of abstracts will be distributed previous to the meeting. A post-proceedings volume with full accepted papers will be organized for publication in a new series by College Publications (https://www.collegepublications.co.uk/LLA/)
\nVenue
\nLANMR 2026 will be held as a hybrid workshop. The physical component will take place in Ciudad Universitaria (CU)\, which houses the Central Campus listed as a World Heritage UNESCO site in 2007.
\nProgram Committee
\nPaoli Baldi\, University of Salento\, Italy.
\nVeró\;nica Borja Mací\;as\, Universidad Tecnoló\;gica de la Mixteca\, Mé\;xico.
\nRaú\;l Fervari\, Universidad de Có\;rdoba\, Argentina.
\nDavid Fuenmayor\, University of Bamberg\, Germany.
\nAna Claudia Golzio\, Universidade Estadual de Campinas\, Brasil.
\nAlejandro Herná\;ndez Tello\, Universidad Tecnoló\;gica de la Mixteca\, Mé\;xico.
\nMalena Ivnisky\, Universidad de Buenos Aires y CONICET\, Argentina.
\nJosé\; de Jesú\;s Lavalle\, Benemé\;rita Universidad Autó\;noma de Puebla\, Mé\;xico.
\nSelene Linares Aré\;valo\, University of Melbourne\, Australia.
\nNancy Abigail Nú\;ñ\;ez Herná\;ndez\, FES Acatlá\;n UNAM\, Mé\;xico.
\nCarlos Olarte\, LIPN Université\; Sorbonne Paris Nord\, France.
\nUmberto Rivieccio\, UNED Madrid\, Spain.
\nJuan Slagter\, Universidad Nacional del Sur\, Argentina.
\nAlejandro Solares-Rojas\, Universidad de Buenos Aires\, Argentina.
\nFernando Velá\;zquez Quesada\, Universitetet i Bergen\, Norway.
\nOrganizing Committee
\nEverardo Bá\;rcenas\, Facultad de Ingenierí\;a\, UNAM\, Mé\;xico
\nLourdes Gonzá\;lez Huesca\, Facultad de Ciencias\, UNAM\, Mé\;xico
\nFavio E. Miranda Perea\, Facultad de Ciencias\, UNAM\, Mé\;xico
\nMiguel Pé\;rez Gaspar\, Facultad de Ingenierí\;a\, UNAM\, Mé\;xico
ORGANIZER;CN=Favio E. Miranda-Perea: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261007T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Causality and Causal Inference in Medicine UID:20261015T095033Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Facultad de Filosofia\, C/Camilo José Cela S/N\, Sevilla\, Spain\, 41018 DESCRIPTION:Interactions between the philosophy of causality and investigations of inferential practices in the sciences\, particularly medicine\, have yielded key developments across disciplines. One such example is evidential pluralism\, arguing for broadening the evidence range beyond difference-making to overcome the rigidity of evidence-based medicine. Further interdisciplinary engagements can assess the adequacy of different philosophical analyses of causation and corresponding causal concepts with respect to particular scientific problems or areas or draw on practices from the sciences to adjust the philosophical toolkit. At the same time\, there are also challenges to address\, such as working across areas with different\, sometimes conflicting\, methods and approaches. This conference aims to bring together current research dealing with causality and inferential practices in the health sciences\, broadly construed\, welcoming philosophical\, methodological\, and scientific contributions\, among others.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nJonathan Fuller (University of Pittsburgh)
\nNaja Hulvej Rod (University of Copenhagen)
\nSaana Jukola (University of Twente)
\nLocal organizing team: Cristina Baré\;s Gó\;mez\, Matthieu Fontaine\, Elena Popa\, Quentin Ruyant.
This conference is the 16th in the series of Causality in the Sciences conferences. Steering committee: Phyllis Illari\, Science &\; Technology Studies\, UCL\; Samantha Kleinberg\, Computer Science\, Stevens\; Bert Leuridan\, Philosophy\, Antwerp\; Julian Reiss: Philosophy\, Linz\; Federica Russo: History and Philosophy of Science\, Utrecht\; Erik Weber: Philosophy\, Ghent\; Jon Williamson: Philosophy\, Manchester. \; \;
Funding and organization
Schools and universities are increasingly becoming places that reflect global struggles: from culture wars over curriculum content to economic pressures that radically change teachers&rsquo\; working conditions\, the availability of education\, and the very purpose of learning. Within them\, the interests of various social actors inevitably intersect\, and often clash. Educational institutions can serve as instruments of control and reproduction of the existing order &ndash\; entrenching inequalities\, normalizing authority\, and limiting dissent. Conversely\, education can also be a site of resistance - a space for critical thinking\, challenging\, social mobilization\, and the creation of alternatives.
\nContemporary education has a strong moral\, political\, and ideological dimension: it aims\, among other things\, to educate active citizens and skilled entrepreneurs\, encourage care for others and the environment\, foster national identity\, and a sense of belonging. The values of the wider community spill over into the educational system\, but the reverse can also be true - educational institutions and educational actors can contribute to shaping the values of the wider community through their own\, autonomous values. If we view educational institutions as communities that possess a certain autonomy and resilience in relation to the local and wider community\, questions arise about the principles on which they should be built as good communities.
\nOn the other hand\, contemporary social and educational contexts confront us with forms of community that consolidate themselves through exclusion\, as well as with forms of resistance directed against democratic values. Rather than presupposing their emancipatory character\, the conference invites critical reflection on the many directions and forms that community and resistance can take in educational contexts.
\nThis also reopens the question of what education itself is\, and ought to be\, under present social conditions. The conference aims to open an interdisciplinary discussion on the interrelationships between education\, community\, and resistance. Authors are invited to address the following\, as well as other questions they deem relevant to the conference theme:
\n&bull\; What is the meaning of education in new social circumstances?
\n&bull\; In what way does education reproduce or challenge power relations and dominant ideologies?
\n&bull\; In relation to what\, when\, and how can education become a place and practice of resistance?
\n&bull\; How do practices within educational institutions contribute to the transformation of the wider community?
\n&bull\; What can we learn from the movements and protests spurred by educational actors?
\n&bull\; In what ways do various forms of democratic participation in education influence the reflection on and the construction of community?
\n&bull\; What pedagogical practices nurture community\, togetherness\, and a sense of belonging within educational institutions and outside of them? How to overcome alienation within educational institutions?
\n&bull\; How do different forms of non-formal education within the community contribute to the development of critical awareness\, collective action\, and resistance?
\n&bull\; Given the current social circumstances\, can the concepts of community and resistance still function as markers of progressive educational practices?
\nThe conference is open to theoretical and empirical contributions\, case studies\, as well as comparative approaches from all disciplines of social sciences and humanities.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nProf. Michalinos Zembylas\, Open University of Cyprus
\nProf. Aleksandar Baucal\, University of Belgrade
\nProf.Helen Haste\, University of Bath
\nIn addition to individual presentations\, panel proposals of three to four papers\, with a designated convener\, are also welcome. Panel proposals should include the title of the panel\, panel abstract (up to 300 words)\, the title of the individual presentations\, individual paper abstracts (up to 300 words)\, and information about all panel participants.
\nWe especially invite teachers and educators to present school projects and teaching initiatives that embody critical pedagogy\, democratic participation\, or creative resistance. These presentations aim to highlight examples of good practice that connect theory and action\, research and education\, community and resistance. We encourage teachers to submit presentations based on their everyday practice and experiences\, such as:
\n&bull\; school projects related to the main themes of the conference\,
\n&bull\; initiatives that promote students&rsquo\; democratic participation\,
\n&bull\; forms of creative or quiet resistance to injustice and bureaucratic pressures\,
\n&bull\; examples of critical pedagogy in the classroom\,
\n&bull\; ways of connecting the school with the local community.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20261007T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20261008T170000 SUMMARY:Mathematical Proof in the Age of AI: Conceptual Implications of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Mathematical Research UID:20261015T095035Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Oslo LOCATION:Bergen\, Norway DESCRIPTION:This conference will be about the conceptual-philosophical implications of AI-based proving and autoformalisation for mathematics. Examples include the resolution of various Erdos problems by Google DeepMind&rsquo\;s Alethia model\, the recent disproof of the unit distance conjecture by OpenAI&rsquo\;s GPT model\, and the (partial) autoformalisations of sphere packing in dimension 8 and 24 by the model Gauss from Math Inc. \;
We aim to reflect on how these technologies may transform mathematical practice\, with a concentration on the practice of creating and verifying proofs. While some view the use of LLMs\, and AI in general\, as heralding a new era of machine-assisted mathematics\, others caution against overestimating their capabilities and warn of the downsides of automating mathematics. The workshop aims to critically assess the role of AI-based mathematics\, striking a balance between optimism and scepticism.
The conference will be livestreamed\, recorded\, and made available online (with speakers&rsquo\; permission).
This is a save the date for the annual PhilML conference.
\nPhilML is an annual conference dedicated to the philosophy of machine learning. It addresses foundational epistemological\, ethical\, and social questions concerning machine learning from the perspective of analytic philosophy. The conference welcomes both (1) work that applies philosophical concepts and methods to gain insight into machine learning\, and (2) work that critically reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of machine learning research. To foster close and productive exchange\, PhilML brings together philosophers and philosophically inclined machine learning researchers\, with an openness to engaging direclty with scientific and mathematical details. \;
\nPhilML'26 will take place at LMU Munich from October 7-9. The call for papers will be announced in May\, at which point we will invite people to submit extended abstracts. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Kate Vredenburgh;CN=Thomas Grote;CN=Tom F. Sterkenburg;CN=Timo Freiesleben: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261007T141500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:La fondazione scientifica del discorso teologico in età imperiale. Interpretazioni e testi UID:20261015T095037Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Piazza di San Giovanni in Laterano 10\, Roma\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Speakers:
\nMiriam Cutino\; Diego De Brasi\; Marc-Antoine Gavray\; Luca Gili\; Christoph Helmig\; Adrien Lecerf\; Irmgard Mä\;nnlein\; Anna Motta\; Dimitri Nikulun\; Jan Opsomer\; Helmut Seng\; Daniela P. Taormina\; Angela Ulacco \;
\n\nOrganisation: Daniela P. Taormina
\nFor more info:
\ntaormina@lettere.uniroma2.it
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261007T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261007T183000 SUMMARY:Reviving Logical Empiricism UID:20261015T095038Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:I am pleased to announce that the next talk of the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026 will be delivered by Hannes Leitgeb on Wednesday\, October 7\, 2026.
\nSpeaker: Hannes Leitgeb (LMU)
Title: Reviving Logical Empiricism
Time: Wednesday\, October 7\, 2026 &mdash\; 4:30&ndash\;6:30pm CET (10:30am&ndash\;12:30pm EDT)
Link: \;Meet - uaq-jqpf-mwr
The abstract is provided below. For further information about the Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026\, please consult the following webpage: https://valep.vc.univie.ac.at/files/External/2026_Reconstructing_Carnap-original.pdf
\nVideos of past presentations are available on the YouTube channel of the series&mdash\;feel free to explore and subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@reconstructingcarnap.
\nThe series is organized in collaboration with Carnap in Context IV (Ö\;AW\, FWF Grant PAT7905424) and Rudolf Carnap Digital (MCMP\, LMU Munich).
\nLooking forward to seeing you all again on October 7!
\nAll the best\,
Caterina
Reviving Logical Empiricism
By Hannes Leitgeb (LMU)
Logical Empiricism is widely regarded as a philosophical failure. In my lecture\, I will argue that there is an (only slightly updated) &ldquo\;enlightened&rdquo\; Carnapian version of Logical Empiricism that neither excludes metaphysics nor ethics and that may well serve successfully as a metaphilosophy of scientific philosophy today and in the future. In short: maybe it is time to revive Logical Empiricism.
ORGANIZER;CN=Caterina Del Sordo;CN=Luca Oliva;CN=Silvano Zipoli Caiani: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261007T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261007T183000 SUMMARY:How moods represent future prospects? UID:20261015T095039Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to the next session of the Empirically Informed Philosophy of Mind online Seminar \;
\nWho: Sté\;phane Lemaire (University of Rennes)
When: Wednesday\, October 7th\, 2026 &mdash\; 5&ndash\;6:30 pm (CET)
Where: Online via Zoom:
https://pantheonsorbonne.zoom.us/j/92782580594?pwd=a5p3WfunQQxJICrjJaUenFJFzmllbx.1
What: How moods represent future prospects?
It has been argued by several philosophers\, psychologists and neuroscientists that moods represent future prospects. I believe this idea is correct. But how should we understand this representation? In order to respond to this question\, I first characterize the functional role of moods\, how they are triggered\, what are their influences on actions\, emotions\, and cognition. Hence\, I argue that if moods represent future prospects\, this content is neither perceived nor the result of a cognitive unconscious appraisal that would have a componential structure. But if this is correct\, is there a sense to say that moods represent future prospects? I argue that there is one. Moods may be said representing future prospects within the teleosemantic framework. However\, these representations don&rsquo\;t satisfy a more severe constraints of constancy akin to what Burge requires of perceptual representations. I argue that this is due to the fact that these representations are plausibly realized by neurotransmitters levels rather than neural states. To this extent\, the content of mood constitutes an interesting case at the margin of cognition which sheds light on the fact that moods represent and contribute to rationalize actions and emotions while being so recalcitrant to cognition.
\nFor any questions\, please contact:
Sacha Behrend &mdash\; sachabehrend1991@gmail.com
Elodie Boissard &mdash\; elodie.boissard@umpv.fr
Program
\nSeptember 30 &mdash\; Christophe Heintz (Central European University)
When Do People Trust What They Are Told? Studies on Epistemic Vigilance
October 7 &mdash\; Sté\;phane Lemaire (Université\; de Rennes)
How Do Moods Represent Future Prospects?
November 6 &mdash\; Charlotte Gauvry (King&rsquo\;s College London)
TBA
December 17 &mdash\; Fré\;dé\;rique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)
TBA
Organizers:
\nSacha Behrend
Postdoctoral Researcher\, University of Hradec Krá\;lové\;\, Czech Republic
Affiliated Researcher\, Institut d&rsquo\;histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST)\, Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on-Sorbonne
Elodie Boissard
Maî\;tresse de confé\;rences en philosophie de la mé\;decine
Université\; de Montpellier Paul Valé\;ry
We invite submissions of abstracts for the 2027 Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop\, to be held on March 26-27\, 2027. (Please note that this year's workshop\, unfortunately and unavoidably\, conflicts with the Pacific APA.) Abstracts should be between 750-1000 words (inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of any bibliography) and should summarize a paper that can be presented in no more than 40 minutes. The title of the paper should be included within the document above the abstract. Please prepare your abstract for anonymous review\, and submit it in .pdf or .docx form to chnormativity@gmail.com by October 7th\, 2026.
\nWe will consider papers on any aspect of normativity\, construed broadly to include:
\nThose who presented papers at the last two Normativity Workshops (the 8th annual workshop\, held in 2026\; and the 7th annual workshop\, held in 2025) are not eligible to submit papers this year. Those who chaired/commented at the last two workshops\, or who presented at previous workshops\, are eligible to submit. There is a limit of one submission per person\; co-authored papers count toward this limit.
\nFor the eighth workshop running\, papers accepted to the workshop will be eligible for publication in a special issue of Philosophical Studies. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged\, but not required\, to submit their papers to the special issue.
\nThe authors of the seven best abstracts not selected for the workshop will be invited to chair a session at the workshop and\, as part of that\, to act as a "mini-commentator"\, asking an extended (3-5 minute) first question. In order to facilitate this\, we will ask authors of accepted papers to send their chair-commentators a draft of their full paper by March 1st.
ORGANIZER;CN=Chris Howard;CN=Margaret Shea;CN=Alex Worsnip: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Bacon and European modernity UID:20261015T095041Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:6 Emile Zola\, Bucharest\, Romania\, 7 000 DESCRIPTION:Leibniz Society of Romania
\nAnnounces the organization of the international symposium on the theme "Bacon and European modernity"\, which will take place on October 8-9\, 2026\, at the Francophone Regional Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences (CEREFREA) in Bucharest.
\nIn the year in which we commemorate four centuries since his passing\, we aim to see the contribution made by Bacon to European modernity\, on the following levels:
\n- Bacon's contribution to the scientific revolution\;
\n- relationship with his contemporaries\;
\n- knowledge reform projects\;
\n- the new instrument of knowledge\;
\n- natural philosophy and experimental philosophy\;
\n- utopian projects and socio-political criticism\, etc.
\nThe list is open\, and any topics in the field of Baconian studies can be addressed - in French or English.
\n\nWe invite interested researchers to send \; title\, \; 10-20 lines abstract and a CV to societatea.Leibniz@yahoo.ro \;or adriannita2010@gmail.com\, until May 1\, 2026\; the acceptance announcement will be May 15\, when the second circular letter will be published containing details regarding the participation fee (60 euros)\, account and other organizational details.
\nOrganizers: Leibniz Society of Romania\, Institute of Philosophy and Psychology "Constantin Rădulescu-Motru"\, Francophone Regional Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences (CEREFREA) of the University of Bucharest.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:AvataResponsibility 2026: Virtues without borders: humans\, avatars and collective agents UID:20261015T095042Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Splaiul Independenței 204\, Bucharest\, Romania DESCRIPTION:Venue: Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Bucharest\, 8 &\; 9 October 2026
\nDescription: Alongside the growing complexity of collective agents such as organizations\, groundbreaking developments in AI and robotics are reshaping our moral landscape in profound and unprecedented ways. With LLM-powered avatars\, AI companions\, and hybrid human-AI assemblages taking the scene\, we are witnessing radical challenges to longstanding assumptions about the nature of agency\, virtue and moral character. Can virtues such as honesty\, practical wisdom\, or care be attributed to artificial or collective agents\, or do they remain the exclusive province of individual human beings? The purpose of this two-day workshop is to explore the puzzle of virtue attribution across an emerging taxonomy of agents\, from human to LLM-powered avatars operating in professional\, educational\, healthcare or virtual gaming environments\, to collective agents encompassing human and artificial agency in organizational settings. Drawing on research from virtue ethics\, AI ethics\, and business ethics\, the workshop aims to interrogate both the theoretical foundations and the practical stakes of extending the traditional virtue-theoretic framework beyond its traditional human-centered scope.
\nOrganizers: This is the third of a series of five yearly workshops hosted by the Research Center in Applied Ethics of the Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Bucharest\, within the framework of the ERC Starting Grant project &ldquo\;avataResponsibility&rdquo\; (Avatar agency. Moral responsibility at the intersection of individual\, collective\, and artificial social entities in emergent avatar communities). Details of the previous edition are available here. The workshop is part of the larger series of events &ldquo\;Responsibility Matters Workshop Series&rdquo\; (RMWS) covering topics related to responsibility across various fields. For further details please contact Mihaela Constantinescu\, PI of the ERC grant avataResponsibility: mihaela.constantinescu@filosofie.unibuc.ro.
\nKeynote and Guest Speakers include
\nRoger Crisp\, University of Oxford
\nMiguel Sicart\, University of Copenhagen \;
\nAlejo Sison\, University of Navarre \;
\nDulce Redin\, University of Navarre \;
\nAnna Puzio\, University of Bern
\nCristian Iftode\, University of Bucharest \;
\nBenjamin Lange\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitä\;t Mü\;nchen
\n
Submissions: We have two open slots for workshop talks and four open slots for workshop posters. We welcome submissions of abstracts (maximum 500 words\, excluding references) on topics relating virtue to avatars\, AI companions\, artificial or collective agents . Please send your anonymised abstract and short bio by 9 August 2026 to avataresponsibility@ccea.ro. Successful candidates will be notified by the beginning of August. Although full costs cannot be covered\, there might be several (partial) travel/ accomodation reimbursements available for PhD students and post-doctoral researchers without current funding.
Keynote Speakers at this event are:
\nKaterina Ierodiakonou (University of Athens)
\nRobert Roreitner (Charles University\, Prague)
\nOrganisers: Bishakha Dutta (University of Vienna)\, Nikolina Kamzola (University of Vienna)\, Má\;té\; Hé\;thelyi (ELTE\, Budapest)\, Quishi Bao (University of Vienna)
\n\nTopic: 5th CEGCAP
Time: Oct 8\, 2026 09:00 AM Vienna
Join Zoom Meeting
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/68364556851?pwd=pbbzNz74f22BizqY9743rbj012Ge4i.1
Meeting ID: 683 6455 6851
Passcode: 560954
If you want to attend as an audience please send an email to
\n\nwith the following subject &ldquo\;CEGCAP registration as audience&rdquo\;
\nand in the body your name and institution.
ORGANIZER;CN=Bishakha Dutta;CN=Nikolina Kamzola;CN="Máté Héthelyi": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Myth and the More-than-Human Community in the Twenty-First Century UID:20261015T095044Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Workshop Topic
\nCan community&mdash\;and\, more specifically\, the more-than-human community&mdash\;be conceived as anything other than a myth? The term myth itself embodies a fundamental ambivalence: it can signify a lie\, fabrication\, or ideological fiction\, yet it simultaneously refers to a primordial\, sacred\, and potentially non-hierarchical form of speech through which worlds are disclosed and relations instituted. Rather than seeking to resolve this tension\, the workshop places it at the centre of its inquiry\, examining the processes through which community is enacted\, reflected upon\, and mediated. It asks how more-than-human forms of coexistence might be conceptualised through engagement with relational and Indigenous ontologies\, without romanticising or appropriating them. Ultimately\, the workshop questions whether myth can serve not merely as an object of critique but also as a resource for rethinking community beyond identity\, hierarchy\, sovereignty\, and mastery.
\nAgainst this backdrop\, the question of belonging emerges as the political and religious articulation of community: who belongs and on what terms. Contemporary debates oscillate between nationalist and exclusionary imaginaries grounded in identity\, sovereignty\, and closure\, and emerging concepts of more-than-human communities shaped by interdependence\, exposure\, and entanglement in the face of ecological crisis. This workshop starts from the premise that what these formations share is not a stable foundation\, but a constitutive mythic dimension that determines who can speak\, act\, and share responsibility. It asks how the institutionalisation of community through myth can enact an immunitarian logic\, simultaneously protecting certain members while delimiting others\, rendering belonging both a safeguard and a justification for exclusion or even sacrifice.
\nAgainst this background\, the workshop also asks how more-than-human community can be thought politically beyond the logic of sovereignty and moral universalism. How might concepts of vulnerability\, exposure\, becoming-animal\, and ecological entanglement challenge dominant political imaginaries of protection\, mastery\, and immunisation? In this sense\, the workshop seeks to open a space for rethinking community not as a moral or juridical project of inclusion\, but as a fragile\, conflictual\, and transformative field of shared life across species.
\nContent of Submission
\nBracketing the binary between the real and the fictive\, and drawing on thinkers such as Derrida\, Nancy\, Latour\, Haraway &mdash\; as well as Nietzschean and post-Nietzschean critiques of humanism\, morality\, and political sovereignty &mdash\; the workshop explores community as poised between impossibility and inevitability\, between rupture and relational becoming. Focusing on myth as both a totalising and interruptive form\, it investigates how communities take shape through narratives\, practices\, and institutions&mdash\;such as taboo\, sacrifice\, ritual\, law\, technology\, and regimes of purity and pollution&mdash\;and how these determinations are legitimised\, naturalised\, and contested. Centering on the consequences for interspecies relations and ecological entanglements\, the workshop examines how the stabilisation of community simultaneously establishes boundaries and exclusions.
\nRecognising the wide spectrum of questions encompassed by the workshop&rsquo\;s theme\, we invite contributions that engage with\, but are not limited to\, the following questions:
\n \; \; &bull\; Can myth operate as an interruptive rather than totalising form\, enabling non-identitarian\, non-sovereign modes of coexistence?
\; \; &bull\; How can community be approached as a process of exposure and relation rather than a stable foundation\, particularly in more-than-human contexts?
\; \; &bull\; How can Nietzschean critiques of humanism\, morality\, and political sovereignty help to rethink community beyond liberal inclusion and moral universalism?
\; \; &bull\; How might diverse modes of relationality&mdash\;such as kinship\, companion species\, sympoiesis\, and Terrestrials&mdash\;shape\, extend\, or even rethink the notion of community?
\; \; &bull\; How do narratives and practices relate to one another\, and in what ways do myths both reflect and enable practices of eating\, killing\, sacrifice\, care\, mediation\, and automation while drawing lines of inclusion and exclusion?
\; \; &bull\; In what ways can dialogue between postmodern thought and Indigenous knowledge generate productive insights for understanding community\, relationality\, and practice?
Forms of Submission
\nPresentations may take the form of individual papers. To be considered\, proposals must include the presenter&rsquo\;s name\, paper title\, and full contact details (email address and institutional affiliation)\, along with an abstract (500 words) and a brief biographical note. The workshop will take place in Vienna on 8&ndash\;9 October 2026. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Submissions should be sent electronically as a single PDF file. Scholars at all stages of their academic careers are warmly encouraged to apply.
\nContact
\nPlease submit proposals to: myth.community@lists.univie.ac.at until the 17.7.2026 \;
The organizers are exploring publication options\; however\, participation in the workshop does not imply a promise of publication.
This two-day workshop aims to introduce and discuss the topic of interpretation between theories\, as well as various related results. It is aimed for PhD students\, postdocs and anyone who wish to study and learn more about these topics.
The workshop is free of charge and open to all interested participants.
No registration is required to attend.
This workshop is the Fall 2026 meeting of the Swiss Graduate Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science.
For abstracts and more information see:
ORGANIZER;CN="Léon Probst": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261008T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261008T140000 SUMMARY:Solitude: From Alienation to Enstasy in Urban Cultures UID:20261015T095046Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The philosophy of solitude is complex\, \;and how solitude is presented culturally &ndash\; especially in art\, literature and music \;&ndash\; illuminates \;at least as well as academicstudies how solitude is experienced. \;This paper focuses on the philosophy of solitude as experienced over the last two centuries of largely urban solitude. It explores the culturally-mediated negative experiences of urban alienation and loneliness\, and the positive experiences of healthful urban solitude and enstasy &ndash\; the latter meaning to be comfortable within oneself (in contrast to ecstasy\, escaping from oneself). Drawing on a range of work on solitude in general\, the philosophy of solitude\, and specific work on the culture of solitude\, this paper shows\, speaks\, and sounds of the variety of solitudes.
\n\;https://meet.google.com/idm-boup-spy
\nNo registration required.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261008T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Loneliness - 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20261015T095047Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: \;loneliness and war
\nloneliness and illness \;
\nloneliness and self-isolation\, social distancing
\nloneliness among children
\nloneliness among seniors
\nthe lonely crowd
\nloneliness in urban spaces
\nloneliness as an epidemic
\nloneliness and pandemic
\nloneliness \; and social exclusion (social class\, racism\, gender factors\, educational status) \;
\nloneliness and social media (Facebook\, Instagram\, etc.)
\nloneliness in different parts of the world
\nloneliness and religions
\nloneliness and initiation rituals
\nlonely communities
\nabandoned nations
\nexpelled minorities
\nloneliness and digital cultures / virtual communities
\nthe cultural taboo of solitude vs. hyper-individualism
\nmigrant loneliness and diaspora experiences
\nloneliness during self-isolation\, quarantanne\, \;
\nloneliness as a state of mind
\nloneliness and emotional isolation
\nloneliness and depression
\nloneliness and shame
\ncreative loneliness
\nloneliness as a rest
\nsituational loneliness
\nexistential loneliness
\nloneliness\, aloneness\, and solitude
\nthe commercialization of loneliness (the "rent-a-friend" industry\, monetized companion apps\, dating algorithms\, and AI relationships)
\nsynthetic companionship &\; AI (digital intimacy\, dating algorithms\, and robotic care)
\nloneliness in literature\, film\, theatre \; and visual arts
\nlonely artists
\naesthetics\, spaces\, and narratives of isolation (e.g.\, in pop culture\, life-writing\, and architecture)
\n
Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations\, together with a short biographical note\, by \; \;18 September 2026 to: lonelinessconference@gmail.com
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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261009T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20270527T170000 SUMMARY:Modelling the Mind. Seminar Series in the Philosophy of Cognitive Science UID:20261015T095049Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici\, Via Porta di Massa 1\, Napoli\, Italy\, 80133 DESCRIPTION:What do cognitive scientists explain when they explain a behaviour\, and what would count as having explained it? How do computational\, mechanistic\, representational and dynamical accounts of the same phenomenon relate &mdash\; do they compete\, complement one another\, or answer different questions? Where do the methods and models of empirical research come from\, and how well do they fit what they are meant to describe? What\, if anything\, do artificial systems teach us about biological minds?
\nQuestions of this kind keep coming up because there is no shortage of findings about the mind. What is scarce is a clear account of how they hang together\, or whether they do. Modelling the Mind is a seminar series for working that out in the open\, one talk at a time. The aim is to contribute to an empirically informed philosophical understanding of the mind and of the methods by which it is studied.
\nUpcoming talks:
\nFri 9 October 2026 - Silvano Zipoli Caiani (Università\; degli Studi di Firenze)
\nFri 16 October 2026 - Matteo Colombo (Tilburg University)
\nThu 12 November 2026 - Dimitri Coelho Mollo (Umeå\; University)
\nThu 10 December 2026 - Beate Krickel (Technische Universitä\;t Berlin)
\nMon 18 January 2027 - Nina Poth (Radboud University)
\nThu 11 February 2027 - Andrew Richmond (University of Otago)
\nWed 3 March 2027 - Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri)
\nWed 31 March 2027 - Grace Lindsay (New York University)
\nWed 21 April 2027 - Mazviita Chirimuuta (University of Edinburgh)
\nFri 7 May 2027 - Danielle Williams (New York University)
\nThu 27 May 2027 - Alfredo Paternoster (Università\; degli Studi di Bergamo)
\nEach session pairs a 45-minute talk with an extended discussion. Each talk of the seminar series is in hybrid form. Attendance is free\, in person and remotely\, and everyone is welcome at any career stage.
\nFor info on abstracts\, Zoom links\, times of the talks (in UTC) and to subscribe to the mailing list - \;in order to receive by email all of the above information and reminders of the talks \;- visit our website at the link below.
ORGANIZER;CN=Claudio Fabbroni: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261009T103000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261009T113000 SUMMARY:Persuasive but Unfaithful. Conversational Diagnostic Artificial Intelligence and the Trust-Alignment Divide UID:20261015T095050Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici\, Via Porta di Massa 1\, Napoli\, Italy\, 80133 DESCRIPTION:Abstract:
\n\n\n\nConversational Diagnostic Artificial Intelligence promises to reduce opacity in medical AI by producing explanations that resemble human clinical reasoning. This presentation argues\, however\, that this promise gives rise to a trust&ndash\;alignment divide. AI-generated chains of thought can be highly persuasive\, making recommendations appear coherent and worthy of trust\, while remaining only weakly faithful to the processes that produced them. This divergence matters because\, as evidence shows\, users are more likely to rely on systems that can articulate reasons\, even when those reasons do not reliably disclose the basis of the recommendation. The presentation argues that the persuasiveness&ndash\;faithfulness gap is not merely a contingent failure of current systems\, but partly reflects the autoregressive and probabilistic architecture of large language models\, which generates reasons through the same sequence-based mechanisms that generate outputs. In clinical settings\, this creates the distinctive risk that persuasive but unfaithful explanations may reinforce automation bias by making reliance on AI appear not only convenient\, but epistemically justified. The challenge for explainable medical AI is therefore not simply to produce more fluent and human-like explanations\, but to distinguish explanations that merely elicit trust from explanations that can genuinely justify it.
\n \;\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Claudio Fabbroni: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:2026 Southern Aesthetics Workshop UID:20261015T095051Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Voir-Dire: "World-Building" UID:20261015T095052Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T170000 SUMMARY:Metaphysics in a Rationalist Spirit UID:20261015T095053Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261011T170000 SUMMARY:2nd Tulane Undergraduate Philosophy Conference UID:20261015T095054Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T161500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T181500 SUMMARY:Making Room for Voluntary Belief: Belief\, Choice\, and Epistemic Options UID:20261015T095055Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Newark\, United States ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261010T091500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Journée stoïcienne 2026 : Stoïcisme et écologie – Penser notre relation à la nature aujourd’hui UID:20261015T095056Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:4 rue du Guignier\, Paris\, France\, 75020 DESCRIPTION:La Journé\;e stoï\;cienne est le seul é\;vé\;nement en France entiè\;rement consacré\; à\; l&rsquo\;é\;tude et à\; la pratique du stoï\;cisme aujourd&rsquo\;hui. Confé\;rences expertes\, ateliers pratiques et moments de discussions collectives ou en petits groupes rythmeront la journé\;e !
\nFace aux bouleversements é\;cologiques\, le stoï\;cisme nous offre un cadre de pensé\;e d&rsquo\;une é\;tonnante modernité\;. Nous l'explorerons ensemble à\; travers des questions é\;thiques et physiques\, lié\;es au concept central de la nature !
\nProgramme de la Journé\;e stoï\;cienne 2026\nÀ\; partir de 9h15
\nOuverture des portes &ndash\; bienvenue à\; la Journé\;e stoï\;cienne 2026 !
\n\n10h-10h15
\nMot d&rsquo\;accueil par Maë\;l Goarzin\, pré\;sident de Stoa Gallica.
\n\n10h15-11h
\nConfé\;rence [thè\;me à\; venir]
\npar Christelle Veillard\, maî\;tre de confé\;rences en philosophie antique.
\n\n11h-11h30
\nMoment convivial / é\;changes
\n\n11h30-12h30
\nAtelier pratique : «\; Suivre la Nature »\; : la physique stoï\;cienne peut-elle mener à\; une é\;thique é\;cologique ?
\npar Silvain Margot\, fondateur du portique Stoa Gallica de Montré\;al
\n\n12h30-14h
\nPause du midi
\n\n14h-14h45
\nConfé\;rence [thè\;me à\; venir]
\npar Cé\;line Dennevault\, doctorante en philosophie stoï\;cienne\, avec comme sujet de thè\;se (en cours) : «\; Le statut du beau dans la pensé\;e stoï\;cienne. »\;
\n\n14h45-15h45
\nAtelier pratique : Les quatre vertus stoï\;ciennes au chevet de la nature
\npar Guillaume Beauquesne\, fondateur de l'Agora Stoï\;cienne au thé\;â\;tre de la Concorde
\n\n15h45-16h
\nPause
\n\n16h-17h
\nAtelier pratique : Une lecture é\;picurienne de la Gé\;ographie de Strabon : habiter la Terre hier et aujourd&rsquo\;hui
\npar Ludovic Jeanne\, docteur en gé\;ographie et co-fondateur du Cercle philosophique Le Jardin de Philodè\;me
\n\n17h-18h
\nTable-ronde [thè\;me à\; venir]
\n\n18h-18h15
\nLe mot de la fin
\n\n\n\n\nLieu \;:
\nLe Transformateur
\n4 rue du Guignier
\n75020 Paris
\n\n\n\nPourquoi cet é\;vé\;nement est-il payant ?
\nLe prix du ticket nous permet de :
\ndé\;dommager les intervenants (transport\, repas\, hé\;bergement é\;ventuel) \;
\ncouvrir les coû\;ts lié\;s à\; l&rsquo\;organisation de l&rsquo\;é\;vé\;nement (location des salles\, impression des brochures\, affiches&hellip\;) \;
\nfaire grandir l&rsquo\;association pour qu&rsquo\;elle propose toujours plus d&rsquo\;actions en lien avec le stoï\;cisme !
\nVous hé\;sitez à\; venir ?
\nLes organisateurs
\nOrganisé\;e par l&rsquo\;association
Stoa Gallica est une association qui encourage l&rsquo\;é\;tude de la philosophie stoï\;cienne et dé\;fend la pertinence d&rsquo\;un stoï\;cisme contemporain. Elle a pour but de favoriser les é\;changes entre les personnes francophones dé\;sireuses de dé\;couvrir et de mettre en pratique la philosophie stoï\;cienne aujourd&rsquo\;hui.
ORGANIZER;CN=Stoa Gallica: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T170000 SUMMARY:Formal Approaches to Rationality and Meaning (FARM) UID:20261015T095057Z-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:20261007T003508Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261012T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261012T170000 SUMMARY:Diverging Minds workshop UID:20261015T095058Z-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:20261007T003508Z 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:20261015T095059Z-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:20261007T003509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261012T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:Models of Consciousness 7 UID:20261015T095100Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:c81e:70ff:fee7:7e34%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Copenhagen\, Denmark ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261007T003509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261012T160000 SUMMARY:The Sounds of Affect UID:20261015T095101Z-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:20261007T003509Z 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:20261015T095102Z-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:20261007T003509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261012T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261012T234500 SUMMARY:What is Economic Planning? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives UID:20261015T095103Z-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
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