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Stellenausschreibung (Beer Sheva and Berlin, Deadline: 29.05.2025)
PhD-Fellowship (m/w/d) 100 | 4
(2)
Stellenausschreibung (Bremen, Deadline: 06.06.2025)
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:in (Doktorand:in) (m/w/d) 50 | TVL E-13
(Drei Jahre)
(3)
Call for Papers (Wien, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
(Hörsaal 2H), Deadline: 17.05.2025)
Sonstige (studentische Veranstaltung): Genetic Pain Surgery Animal
Disenhancement in the Context of Genome Editing
(4)
Call for Papers (Graz University, Deadline: 18.05.2025)
Konferenz: AI Assertion
(5)
Call for Papers (Flensburg, Deadline: 31.07.2025)
Workshop: 2. SWIP Doktorand:innen-Workhop für FLINTA*-Personen
(6)
Call for Papers (Bielefeld, Deadline: 15.09.2025)
Workshop: 10th Bielefeld-Southampton-Berlin Normativity Workshop
(BiSoBer 2025)
(7)
Call for Papers (Sonderband, Deadline: 31.07.2025)
Synthese: Gatekeeping in Science
(8)
Call for Papers (Sonderband, Deadline: 15.10.2025)
Synthese: Agency and Free Will in an Indeterministic World
(9)
Veranstaltungsankündigung (University of Lisbon), 22.05.2025 -
23.05.2025
Workshop: First Workshop of the Indeterminacy in Science project
(10)
Veranstaltungsankündigung (Fribourg), 23.05.2025 - 24.05.2025
Workshop: Aristotle's Methods of Philosophical Inquiry
(11)
Veranstaltungsankündigung (Greifswald), 27.05.2025 - 27.05.2025
Sonstige: Kant's moral philosophy - beyond the straw man
(12)
Veranstaltungsankündigung (Online), 04.06.2025, 16:00 Uhr - 04.06.2025,
17:30 Uhr
Kolloquium: Philosophieren mit KI? - Large Language Models und
Philosophiezeitschriften
(13)
Veranstaltungsankündigung (Bochum), 10.06.2025 - 11.06.2025
Workshop: Evaluating Artificial Consciousness
(14)
Veranstaltungsankündigung (Bern), 12.06.2025 - 13.06.2025
Workshop: Schaber on Requests
(15)
Veranstaltungsankündigung (Frankfurt am Main), 20.06.2025 - 21.06.2025
Konferenz: FrankMeta.7
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Stellenausschreibung (Beer Sheva and Berlin, Deadline: 29.05.2025)
PhD-Fellowship (m/w/d) 100 | 4
Dear colleagues
We--Nir Fresco and Beate Krickel - are seeking a Ph.D. student in
philosophy of cognitive science to work on a project centred broadly on
computational, representational, and/or mechanistic explanation in
cognitive science, neuroscience, and/or cognitive robotics. The
Ph.D.-position is fully funded for four years.
The successful candidate will enroll in the Ph.D. programme at the
Department of Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev. Neither living in Beer Sheva nor proficiency in Hebrew is
required. The successful candidate will be supervised by both, Fresco
(BGU) and Krickel (TU Berlin). The project will include a long research
stay (approximately a year) at TU Berlin and a joint-PhD (cotutelle) is
planned.
Starting date: October 2025
The initial deadline for applications is 29 May, 2025. However,
applications will be considered on a rolling basis until the position is
filled.
Candidates should have a Master's degree in philosophy and some
background in psychology, computer science, robotics, or biology. The
main selection criteria are scientific excellence, suitability for the
research project, and passion for research in philosophy.
A complete application should consist of
* a cover letter describing the candidate's background and the fit for
pursuing a PhD in the area of interest (see questions below);
* a short description of the planned PhD-project (1 page);
* a CV;
* a transcript of records (showing course titles and grades);
* a list of scholars who could provide a reference;
* a short writing sample (e.g., a chapter of the Master's thesis, a
conference paper, or a published paper).
The following (non-exhaustive) list includes possible questions of
interest:
* When does a physical computing system miscompute and can present
accounts of computation explain this phenomenon?
* Given that computation and representation are very often intertwined
in describing cognitive and artificial systems, should cases of
misrepresentation be explained as the result of miscomputation or,
rather, the other way around?
* How does approximation in Bayesian cognitive science differ from,
and relate to, miscomputation?
* Do cognitive explanations that use the notion of miscomputation
assume mind-independent, or rather perspectival and pragmatic, notions
of computation and representation?
* Are there coherent, unified concepts of 'representation' and/or
'computation' that can justify their theoretical role in both computer
science and engineering, as well as in the computational sciences of
mind and brain?
* Can mechanistic explanations in cognitive science be simultaneously
representational? (in other words, do representational explanations
violate the constraints of mechanistic explanation?)
* Can there be a non-representational account of computation that does
justice to the explanatory practices of cognitive science?
* What role does the mechanistic/computational/representational
distinction or connection play in AI and cognitive robotics?
* Can mechanistic/computational/representational explanatory models
from cognitive (neuro-)science provide blueprints for building smart
robots?
* Do AI systems or smart robots make use of representations in the
same way as biological systems?
Please send us the application via email to nfresco-at-bgu-dot-ac-dot-il
and beate-dot-krickel-at-tu-berlin-dot-de.
Regards,
Nir Fresco https://ben-gurion.theopenscholar.com/nir-fresco
Beate Krickel https://www.tu.berlin/en/philkognition
Bewerbungsfrist: 29.05.2025
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Stellenausschreibung (Bremen, Deadline: 06.06.2025)
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter:in (Doktorand:in) (m/w/d) 50 | TVL E-13
(Drei Jahre)
The Institute of Philosophy at the University of Bremen is looking to
fill two positions associated with the working group of practical
philosophy (Prof. Dr. Gabriel Wollner), beginning August 1, 2025 at the
earliest or as soon as possible thereafter, as:
PhD Student / Research Assistant (f/m/d) / Paygrade 13-TVL
with 50% of weekly working hours (19.6 hours) for a fixed term of three
years in the area of practical philosophy.
Candidate Profile
* Above-average academic degree (Master Degree/University Diploma) in
philosophy (with a focus on practical philosophy) or a related
discipline combined with very good knowledge of practical philosophy
* Expertise in other disciplines relevant to the candidate's research
project, such as political science, sociology or economics is an
advantage
* Very good knowledge of English
* Strong organizational skills and ability to work in a team
Tasks
* Teaching in practical philosophy (2hrs per week/1 seminar per
semester)
* Contribution to research, in particular through participation in
research projects of the professorship
* Own scientific project in the context of a doctorate in the field of
practical philosophy (especially political philosophy, social
philosophy, moral philosophy or action theory)
* Other university tasks, such as participation in academic
self-administration
Further details and how to apply
* The university is family-friendly, diverse and sees itself as an
international university. We therefore welcome all applicants:
regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social background,
religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.
* As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of
female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply.
* Disabled persons with essentially equal professional and personal
qualifications will be given priority when applying.
* For general questions about the advertised position, please contact:
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Wollner (wollner(a)uni-bremen.de).
* Please enclose a CV, copies of degree certificates/transcripts, a
description of your research interests and PhD project, two writing
samples (e.g. seminar papers, BA or MA theses) and the names of two
referees with your application.
* Please send your application with your complete documents to the
following address, quoting the reference number A155-25 until June 6,
2025 as a PDF file by unencrypted electronic mail to:
philosek(a)uni-bremen.de or by post to:
University of Bremen
Institute of Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Gabriel Wollner
Postfach 33 04 40
28334 Bremen
* For the full and official job descriptions and details in English
and German, please see:
https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/university/the-university-as-an-employer/job-v…
[2]
https://www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitgeber/offene-stell…
Kontaktadresse: wollner(a)uni-bremen.de
URL zum Call: https://www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet/die-uni-als-arbeitg
... [3]
Bewerbungsfrist: 06.06.2025
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Call for Papers (Wien, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
(Hörsaal 2H), Deadline: 17.05.2025)
Sonstige (studentische Veranstaltung): Genetic Pain Surgery Animal
Disenhancement in the Context of Genome Editing
14 May 2025, 17:00 - 19:00
Wien, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, Austria (Hörsaal 2H)
The advent of CRISPR/Cas9 and other modern gene-editing technologies has
opened up unprecedented possibilities for modifying research animals.
Following this technological progress, the possibility of genetically
disenhancing animals' ability to feel pain and pain-related suffering
(hereafter referred to as "GPD" for genetic pain disenhancement) is
currently being discussed as an innovative and potentially powerful
solution to mitigate the ethical challenges of animal research, farm
animal husbandry, and, ultimately, the suffering of wild animals. The
idea of altering research animals and livestock to enable specific uses
by humans emerged during the 1980s and 1990s. The fundamental concept is
to adapt the phenotype of an animal so that it is better suited to life
in the (otherwise harmful) conditions associated with specific uses,
such as animal experimentation or meat production. With reference to the
latest biotechnological developments and the advancement of
genome-editing methods, Dr Samuel Camenzind's lecture will address the
current state of research and address ethical and philosophical, that
have not received sufficient attention in the current debate.
Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung
Veranstaltungs-URL:
https://www.viennaanimalstudies.com/event-details/genetic- ... [4]
Kontaktadresse: samuel.camenzind(a)univie.ac.at
Bewerbungsfrist: 17.05.2025
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Call for Papers (Graz University, Deadline: 18.05.2025)
Konferenz: AI Assertion
AI ASSERTION
Perspectives from Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Linguistics & HCI
INVITED SPEAKERS
Mark Alfano (Macquarie University)
Jean-François Bonnefon (Toulouse School of Economics)
Ophelia Deroy (LMU Munich)
Edouard Machery (Pittsburgh University)
Bertram Malle (Brown University)
Saskia Nagel (RWTH Aachen)
TOPIC
We are organizing a conference on questions related to AI assertion (or
AI "testimony"). The topic will be addressed from the perspectives of
philosophy, cognitive science, linguistics and human-computer
interaction. Key questions include, though are not limited to the
following:
* Can LLMs (such as ChatGPT) make assertions?
* Are our normative expectations towards AI interlocutors similar to
those which govern linguistic human-human interaction?
* If they differ, what are the norms of AI assertion?
* Can artificial agents make "dark moves" in linguistic communication
(e.g. lie, bullshit, deceive etc.), or do those require a full-fledged
human agent?
* Who is responsible for shortcomings in linguistic AI-human
communication?
* How do our normative expectations towards AI assertors interact with
our dispositions to trust and rely on them?
* Does the concept of trust make sense in linguistic human-AI
interaction?
Detailed information is available here: www.talkingtobots.net [5]
SUBMISSION
Please send an anonymized abstract of 500 words (not including
references) in PDF format to ai.assertion.graz(a)gmail.com. A strong
connection to the topic is required. All submissions will be reviewed
double-blind by the organizing team. Successful submissions will either
be accepted as short presentations or posters.
DATES
Submission of abstracts: May 18 2025
Decisions announced: May 21 2025
Conference: June 22-23, Pre-conference dinner June 21.
CONTACT
The conference is organized by Prof. Markus Kneer and Dr. Miklos Kurthy.
For questions, please contact mikloskurthy(a)gmail.com.
Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung
Veranstaltungszeitraum: 22.06.2025 - 23.06.2025
Veranstaltungs-URL: https://philevents.org/event/show/135777
URL zum Call: http://www.talkingtobots.com
Kontaktadresse: ai.assertion.graz(a)gmail.com
Bewerbungsfrist: 18.05.2025
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Call for Papers (Flensburg, Deadline: 31.07.2025)
Workshop: 2. SWIP Doktorand:innen-Workhop für FLINTA*-Personen
2. SWIP Doktorand:innen-Workshop
für Frauen, Lesben, inter, nicht-binäre, trans und agender Personen
(FLINTA*)
Organisiert von Anne Reichold und Adriana Pavić für SWIP Germany e.V.,
findet statt am 27./28.11.2025 an der Europa-Universität Flensburg.
Nach wie vor sind Frauen auf den oberen Karrierestufen der akademischen
Philosophie in Deutschland unterrepräsentiert und dies gilt auch für
FLINTA* - Personen, auch wenn statistische Erhebungen hierzu noch
ausstehen. SWIP Germany e.V. organisiert den zweiten
Doktorand:innen-Workshop für diese Personengruppen. Im Rahmen des
Workshops erhalten die Vortragenden inhaltliches Feedback zu ihren
Projekten und zudem die Gelegenheit, sich mit anderen Promovierenden zu
vernetzen und sich über philosophische Fragen genauso wie über
organisatorische Aspekte des Promovierens auszutauschen. Ziel der
Veranstaltung ist, in kooperativem Klima gemeinsam zu philosophieren,
sich zu vernetzen und sich gemeinsam über die nächsten akademischen
Schritte auszutauschen.
Ablauf:
* Zeit: 27.11.25 ca. 9.00 bis 28.11.2025 ca. 14 Uhr
* Ort: Europa-Universität Flensburg
* Zielgruppe: Frauen, Lesben, inter, nicht-binäre, trans und agender
(FLINTA*) Personen in allen Phasen ihrer Promotion im Fach Philosophie
* Geplant sind acht Vortragsslots. Die Vorträge sollen nicht länger als
20 Minuten sein und werden gefolgt von ca. 30 Minuten Diskussion.
* Diskussionssprachen während des Workshops sind Deutsch und ggf.
Englisch, Präsentationen auf Deutsch oder Englisch möglich.
Bewerbung:
* Bitte bewerben Sie sich mit einer Skizze Ihres Promotionsprojektes und
einem Motivationsschreiben. Die Projektskizze soll max. 1000 Wörter
umfassen und auf Deutsch oder Englisch verfasst sein; das
Motivationsschreiben soll max. 600 Wörter umfassen und deutlich machen,
was Sie sich von Ihrer Teilnahme am Workshop erhoffen. Bitte speichern
Sie beide Dokumente in einem PDF und senden dieses an
_swipgermany(a)gmail.com_
* Willkommen sind Promotionsprojekte sowohl aus der praktischen als auch
der theoretischen Philosophie. Einreichungen aus unterschiedlichen
philosophischen Traditionen (analytische Philosophie, Phänomenologie,
Kontinentalphilosophie, Kritische Theorie, Geschichte der Philosophie
etc.) sind explizit erwünscht!
* Einsendeschluss Bewerbung: 31.7.2025
* Rückmeldung: Bis Ende August 2025
* Einsendeschluss für die fertigen Präsentationen: 21.11.2025
* Für alle ausgewählten Teilnehmer:innen werden Reise- (Bahnfahrt 2.
Klasse) und Unterbringungskosten (2 Nächte) während des Workshops
übernommen.
Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung
Veranstaltungszeitraum: 27.11.2025 - 28.11.2025
Bewerbungsfrist: 31.07.2025
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Call for Papers (Bielefeld, Deadline: 15.09.2025)
Workshop: 10th Bielefeld-Southampton-Berlin Normativity Workshop
(BiSoBer 2025)
Keynote speakers: John Skorupski (St. Andrews), Sarah Stroud (UNC Chapel
Hill)
This workshop will bring together philosophers working on normativity.
We invite submissions on practical, epistemic, and other forms of
normativity, on foundational problems of moral philosophy, and on
reasons, rationality, and value. Our primary aim is to provide a forum
for lively and constructive exchange amongst philosophers currently
working in the field.
There are eight slots for contributed papers. Please submit an abstract
(800-1500 words, prepared for blind review) by 15 September 2025 as a
pdf file to:
bisober[at]uni-bielefeld[dot]de
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 15 October 2025. Papers
should be suitable for a 30-minute presentation.
The Bielefeld-Southampton-Berlin (BiSoBer) Normativity Workshop,
formerly known as Humboldt-Southampton Normativity Conference, is the
tenth edition in a series of annual workshops, alternating between
Humboldt University in Berlin, Southampton University, and, starting in
2025, Bielefeld University.
Organisers: Dmitry Ananiev, Singa Behrens, Benjamin Kiesewetter, Shane
Ward, Marie Wegener, Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University,
Germany.
Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung
Veranstaltungszeitraum: 11.12.2025 - 12.12.2025
Kontaktadresse: bisober(a)uni-bielefeld.de
Bewerbungsfrist: 15.09.2025
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Call for Papers (Sonderband, Deadline: 31.07.2025)
Synthese: Gatekeeping in Science
The topical collection, co-edited by Katherine Dormandy (Innsbruck) and
Erick Winsberg (South Florida, Cambridge), concerns gatekeeping in
science.
Science, which we may understand broadly as the natural, social and
human sciences, depends on gatekeeping to maintain its epistemic
credentials. It must keep out pretenders while remaining porous to
outside-the-box insights and to criticisms of its own shibboleths.
Overly lenient or overly strict gatekeeping can get science in trouble -
we might let in racist biology, or keep out the next Einstein. Yet
gatekeeping in science is far from straightforward, with many issues
needing philosophical elucidation.
One is that gatekeeping, like science itself, is a human activity and
thus vulnerable to groupthink, prestige bias, and careerism, as well as
to the influence of ideologies, or problematic background assumptions or
conceptual frameworks. Political and financial pressures are also well
documented risks. Another issue is the difficulty in solving the
demarcation problem, which, though an expression of science's creativity
and flexibility, makes science vulnerable to unprincipled gatekeeping.
A third issue is that it is natural to leave gatekeeping to individual
scientific disciplines since they surely know best what they are doing -
but it is unclear whether object-level expertise translates to the
meta-level competencies needed to gatekeep effectively. And this raises
the additional concern that interdisciplinary researchers are vulnerable
to weak links among poorly gatekeeping collaborators. Fourth, individual
disciplines and research programs in their current form result largely
from contingent historical processes; we cannot take for granted that
gatekeeping worked smoothly to get them there, raising questions about
the scientific status they currently enjoy.
And bad gatekeeping has social upshots, both for science and the broader
public. For example, accusations of pseudoscience and disinformation,
even when made in good faith by established scientists, can be
weaponized to shut down the very debate on which scientific integrity
depends. In this way and others, bad gatekeeping can damage public trust
in science, perhaps in some cases deservedly. And bad gatekeeping can
have wide-reaching practical consequences - not just in areas such as
the natural sciences that feed technology or medical development, but
also in areas such as the humanities that shape thought and ideology.
A list of sample topics can be found here:
https://link.springer.com/collections/dijeggebce?sv1=affiliate&sv_campa…
For further information, please contact the guest editor(s):
Katherine Dormandy: katherine.dormandy(a)uibk.ac.at
Eric Winsberg: Ew652(a)cam.ac.uk
The deadline for submissions is: 31 July 2025
URL zum Call: https://link.springer.com/collections/dijeggebce?sv1=affil
... [6]
Kontaktadresse: katherine.dormandy(a)uibk.ac.at
Bewerbungsfrist: 31.07.2025
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Call for Papers (Sonderband, Deadline: 15.10.2025)
Synthese: Agency and Free Will in an Indeterministic World
CfP _Agency and Free Will in an Indeterministic World: New Perspectives
from Philosophy, Biology and Neuroscience_
Topical Collection in _Synthese. An International Journal for
Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science_
Guest Editor: Anne Sophie Meincke, University of Vienna
The philosophical debate about free will has long been concerned with
whether free will is compatible with the deterministic laws of classical
physics. The truth of universal determinism is commonly taken for
granted also by those who judge free will to be incompatible with
determinism and conclude from this that free will is illusory. Indeed,
scepticism about free will is on the rise, fuelled additionally by
claims from biology and neuroscience that our genes determine who we are
and how we behave, or that we are passive bystanders to the decisions
made by our brains. Given this intellectual landscape, it is not
surprising that libertarian conceptions of free will have remained a
minority position to date. Turning its back on determinism and famously
having been accused by Peter F. Strawson of subscribing to an 'obscure
and panicky metaphysics', libertarianism about free will is still widely
dismissed as inconsistent with a scientific worldview.
This topical collection aims to take a fresh look at libertarianism and,
more broadly, to explore the prospects for robust notions of agency and
free will under indeterminism that do not run counter to science but may
even be scientifically grounded. Could there be something like
scientific libertarianism? What would it entail? Addressing these
questions is timely, given the mounting evidence that our world is
indeed indeterministic. As far as physics is concerned, the
indeterminacy of quantum behaviour poses a well-known threat to the idea
of universal determinism. But also recent developments in biology, such
as epigenetics, the noticeable shift from gene-centred to
organism-centred theories of evolution and the rediscovery of organisms
as agents, challenge biological versions of determinism, especially
genetic determinism. At the same time, neuroscientists, such as Björn
Brembs, Kevin Mitchell and Peter U. Tse, are disputing the popular
narrative that neuroscience has disproved free will, instead providing
evidence for indeterministic neural mechanisms that support libertarian
free will.
This call for papers invites philosophers (working, e.g., in
metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and action and the philosophy of
biology) as well as philosophically-interested biologists and
neuroscientists to present their visions of what it means to be an agent
with free will in an indeterministic world. A scientifically grounded
account of an ontologically robust, libertarian notion of free will can
only be achieved through a collaborative effort across disciplines.
Therefore, this topical collection brings together cutting-edge work
from all three perspectives in the hope of fostering a productive
interdisciplinary dialogue that breaks new ground in the understanding
of free will.
The topical collection is associated with the interdisciplinary
conference "Free Will: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Biology and
Neuroscience" [7], taking place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Vienna, Austria, on 11 and 12 June 2025.
The complete text of the CfP, including a list of appropriate topics for
submission, is available here [8].
The deadline for submissions is 15th October 2025.
I am looking forward to your submissions.
URL zum Call: https://link.springer.com/collections/cjjciagiei
Kontaktadresse: anne.sophie.meincke(a)univie.ac.at
Bewerbungsfrist: 15.10.2025
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Veranstaltungsankündigung (University of Lisbon), 22.05.2025 -
23.05.2025
Workshop: First Workshop of the Indeterminacy in Science project
Indeterminacy in Science - First Workshop
Location: Room B112.C, Faculdade de Letras, University of Lisbon
Thursday 22 May 2025
* 11:00-12:30 Lisa Vogt (University of Geneva): How Should Humeans
Deal With Tied Best Systems?
* 12:30-14:00 Lunch break - Brunch buffet at the Uni
* 14:00-15:30 Andrea Oldofredi (LanCog, University of Lisbon):
Entanglement Indeterminacy: A Lesson from Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
* 15:30-15:45 Coffee break
* 15:45-17:15 Vera Hoffmann-Kolss (University of Bern): A
Supervaluationist Theory of Causal Indeterminacy
* 17:30-18:30 INDIS project team meeting
* 20:00 Conference dinner
Friday 23 May 2025
* 11:00-12:30 Jonas Werner (University of Bern): Metaphysical
Indeterminacy on the Cheap?
* 12:30-14:00 Lunch break - Brunch buffet at the Uni
* 14:00-15:30 Alessandro Torza (University of Parma): From Chance to
Metaphysical Indeterminacy
* 15:30-15:45 Coffee break
* 15:45 End of conference/potential bonus talk
Attendance of the talks is free, all are welcome. This is an in-person
only event.
Please register by sending an e-mail with subject "First INDIS workshop
registration" to:robert.michels@edu.ulisboa.pt
Organization:
Robert Michels (robert.michels(a)edu.ulisboa.pt)
Project Indeterminacy in Science:
https://sites.google.com/view/indeterminacy/
LanCog, Centre of Philosophy, Universidade de Lisboa:
https://cful.letras.ulisboa.pt/lancog/
Sponsored by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).
Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung
Veranstaltungs-URL: https://sites.google.com/view/indeterminacy/events
Kontaktadresse: robert.michels(a)edu.ulisboa.pt
Anmeldefrist: 20.05.2025
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Veranstaltungsankündigung (Fribourg), 23.05.2025 - 24.05.2025
Workshop: Aristotle's Methods of Philosophical Inquiry
CONFERENCE
ARISTOTLE'S METHODS OF PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY
23-24 MAY 2025
Organisation:
* Nevim Borçin
* Béatrice Lienemann
FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2025:
Location: Espace Güggi-MIS 08 0101, University of Fribourg
08:45 - 09:15: _Registration_
09:15 - 09:30: Béatrice Lienemann (University of Fribourg)
_Welcome & Introduction_
09:30 -10:30: Nevim Borçin (University of
Fribourg)
_Aristotle on Philosophising with Aporiai _
10:30 - 11:30: Joseph Bjelde (Humboldt University
Berlin)
_The puzzle of Topics 8.3 & The
task of 8.5_
11:30 - 11:50: Coffee Break
11:50 - 12:50: Giulio Di Basilio (Goethe
University Frankfurt)
_Ethical Enquiry in Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics: Argument &
Observation _
12:50 - 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30: Christof Rapp (LMU Munich)
_Eleven Shades of Dialectic. On the Variety of Non-Demonstrative Methods
in Aristotle _
15:30 - 16:30: Ronja Hildebrandt (TU Dortmund)
_Ethics and Rhetoric in
Aristotle's Protrepticus_
16:30 - 16:50: Coffee Break
16:50 - 17:50: Thornton Lockwood (Quinnipiac
University)
_The puzzling nature of
Nicomachean Ethics Book 5_
19:30 - 22:00: Conference Dinner
SATURDAY, 24 MAY 2025
Location: Laure Dupraz MIS 11 2 102 24.05, University of Fribourg
09:00- 10:00: Dorothea Frede (University of Hamburg)
Keynote Address: _All Teaching and All Learning Proceeds From
Preexisting Knowledge_
10:00 - 11:00: Giulia Bonasio (Durham University)
_Aristotle on Protagoras' dictum: a case study of the endoxic method_
11:00 - 11:20: Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:20: Lucas Angioni (University of
Campas)
_Commensurate Universality in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics (what ties
Book I and Book II together)_
12:20 - 14:30: Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:30: Paolo Crivelli (University of
Notre Dame)
_Aristotle's Strategy for a Defense of the Principle of
Non-Contradiction _
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:50: Pieter Sjoerd Hasper (University
of Hamburg)
_Aristotle's Scientific Methodology: Explanation by Composition from
Principles_
Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung
Veranstaltungs-URL:
https://www.unifr.ch/philosophie/fr/actualites-et-evenemen ... [9]
Kontaktadresse: nevim.borcin(a)unifr.ch
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Veranstaltungsankündigung (Greifswald), 27.05.2025 - 27.05.2025
Sonstige: Kant's moral philosophy - beyond the straw man
Vortrag: The Empowering Conception of Humanity
Uhrzeit: 18:15
Ort: Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald und online
URL:
https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/digitale-veranstaltungen/zugang-zum…
Öffentlicher Abendvortrag von Professorin Carla Bagnoli, Ph. D.
(Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio
Emilia/Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) im Rahmen der
internationalen Fachtagung „Kant's moral philosophy - beyond the straw
man" (27-28 Mai 2025, Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald).
In Kant's view, progress towards the realization of the moral ideal
begins with the individual radical change of mind, but it ultimately
depends on the human capacity to form collectives driven by shared
rational norms. This is an empowering conception of humanity, which can
be appreciated in contrast to two views. First, differently than the
habituation theory, it acknowledges that changes in habits may be
instrumental to achieving the necessary varieties of shared action, but
they are not sufficient to sustain individual and collective commitment
to the moral ideal and must be held in check by reason. Second, it shows
that grace is theoretically and practically untenable. The collective
pursuit of the moral ideal requires a complex institutional organization
of rational agency, structured by appropriate legal frameworks. Faith
and hope are distinct practical attitudes key to sustain the complex
varieties of individual, social and institutional agency that allow for
the full realization of the moral ideal. By considering them
disjunctively, we gain a convincing explanation of the dynamics of inner
moral change and its agentive impact, the role of corporative agency
recruited to resist the propensity to evil, and the distinctive ways in
which ethical and religious congregations are vulnerable to heteronomy.
Carla Bagnoli is a Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, where she also coordinates the
Ph.D. program in "Religions, Cultures, and Societies." She has held
visiting positions at prestigious institutions such as All Souls
College, University of Oxford, and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.
Her research focuses on philosophy of agency, moral epistemology, and
Kantian constructivism, with a particular interest in practical
reasoning and responsibility. Among her numerous publications, her
recent book _Ethical Constructivism_ (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
explores the foundations of moral normativity.
Moderation: Professor Dr. Micha H. Werner
Modus: Hybridveranstaltung
Veranstaltungs-URL:
https://www.wiko-greifswald.de/programm/allgemeines/verans ... [10]
Kontaktadresse: charlotte.gauckler(a)uni-greifswald.de
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Veranstaltungsankündigung (Online), 04.06.2025, 16:00 Uhr - 04.06.2025,
17:30 Uhr
Kolloquium: Philosophieren mit KI? - Large Language Models und
Philosophiezeitschriften
Philosophieren mit KI? - Large Language Models und
Philosophiezeitschriften
4. Juni 2025, 16.00-17.30 online via Zoom
Link:
https://tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/69026773422?pwd=V197wXSTAcPyDrn7vQoFbZx29vyay…
Es diskutieren: Suzana Alpsancar (Paderborn), Martin Hähnel (Bremen),
Luise Müller (FU Berlin), Karoline Reinhardt (Passau), Moderation:
Birgit Beck (TU Berlin)
KI und insbesondere Large Language Models (LLMs) wie ChatGPT oder Gemini
werden bereits jetzt vielfach im wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten eingesetzt.
Gerade für die Philosophie, für die das Lesen und Verfassen von Texten
zentral ist, werden sie zur Herausforderung, in der Lehre genauso wie in
der Forschung. Das betrifft auch das wissenschaftliche Publizieren in
Fachzeitschriften. Diese Veranstaltung will sich einigen der damit
verbundenen Fragen widmen: Inwiefern können LLMs den wissenschaftlichen
Schreibprozess unterstützen oder gar ersetzen? Wie sollten Zeitschriften
und Herausgeber:innen darauf reagieren - mit Verboten,
Kennzeichnungspflichten oder affirmativ den Einsatz von LLMs
befürworten? Wie geht die scientific community mit Texten um, die ganz
oder teils von LLMs geschrieben wurden - schadet die Angabe der
Verwendung dieser Technologien der Reputation der Autor:innen oder der
Zeitschriften, die diese Texte veröffentlichen? Wird durch den Einsatz
von LLMs die intellektuelle Autonomie von Autor:innen infrage gestellt?
Zudem wird diskutiert, ob LLMs als Werkzeuge zur Vereinfachung des
Peer-Review-Prozesses fungieren können und ob dies die Qualität und
Objektivität von Begutachtungen - positiv wie negativ - beeinflussen
könnte. Weitere Fragestellungen betreffen die Zukunft wissenschaftlicher
Publikationen: Verändert sich durch den Einsatz von LLMs die Struktur
von Philosophiezeitschriften? Besteht die Gefahr, dass traditionelle
Methoden des Philosophierens in den Hintergrund rücken? Welche neuen
Ungerechtigkeiten könnten LLMs und ihr Einsatz hervorbringen und wo
könnte ihr Einsatz helfen, bestehende zu reduzieren? Was geht verloren,
wenn LLMs großflächig in der Produktion fachphilosophischer Aufsätze
eingesetzt werden, was kann dadurch gewonnen werden? Wie können ethische
und rechtliche Herausforderungen, wie beispielsweise das Risiko von
Plagiaten oder die Sicherstellung der Urheberschaft, aber auch
Falschbeschuldigungen und Unsicherheiten bezüglich des Einsatzes von
LLMs, adressiert werden?
Modus: Online-Veranstaltung
Veranstaltungs-URL:
https://www.praktische-philosophie.org/zfpp/announcement/v ... [11]
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Veranstaltungsankündigung (Bochum), 10.06.2025 - 11.06.2025
Workshop: Evaluating Artificial Consciousness
The workshop will take place on the 10th & 11th of June 2025, at Ruhr
University Bochum, Germany. Remote attendance will be possible.
If you intend to attend in person, please register until 31 May:
https://eac-2025.sciencesconf.org/?lang=en
For remote attendance, no registration is required.
A zoom link and the schedule will soon be available here:
https://artificialconsciousness.philosophy-cognition.com/
The problem of artificial consciousness will be discussed from multiple
perspectives, including metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical
perspectives.
Invited speakers: Patrick Butlin, Joanna Bryson, Leonard Dung, Michele
Farisco, François Kammerer, Johannes Kleiner, Lucia Melloni, Winnie
Street.
Among others, talks at this workshop will discuss the following
questions:
* How can the science of consciousness contribute to evaluating the
possibility of consciousness in artificial systems?
* How can we evaluate the strength of evidence for consciousness in
artificial systems?
* How can we evaluate to what extent artificial systems have agency?
* How are consciousness and agency related to moral status?
* Specifically: what moral significance (if any) does phenomenal
consciousness have?
* To what extent, and how, should considerations about AI welfare
inform policy decisions?
After the workshop, a separate call for papers for a special issue on
the workshop's topic will be launched. All speakers are welcome to
submit a manuscript version of their talk to the special issue. The
issue will be published in the diamond open access journal Philosophy
and the Mind Sciences (PhiMiSci; https://philosophymindscience.org).
Funding for the workshop is provided by the Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) - project
number 514161146 [12].
Modus: Hybridveranstaltung
Veranstaltungs-URL:
https://artificialconsciousness.philosophy-cognition.com/
Kontaktadresse: wanja.wiese(a)rub.de
Anmeldefrist: 31.05.2025
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Veranstaltungsankündigung (Bern), 12.06.2025 - 13.06.2025
Workshop: Schaber on Requests
The Institute of Philosophy in Bern is hosting a workshop with Peter
Schaber (University of Zurich) on his forthcoming book _Requests as
Reasons. A philosophical account_. The workshop takes place at the
University of Bern, Switzerland, on 12-13 June. It will be an in-person
event and feature comments by
* Susanne Boshammer (Osnabrück University)
* Micha Gläser (University of Cologne)
* Dan Khokhar (New York University)
* Jennifer Page (City University of New York)
* Danny Weltman (Ashoka University)
Organiser: Andreas Müller (University of Bern).
If you would like to attend, please write to ws.request.bern(a)gmail.com
before 1 June.
Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung
Kontaktadresse: ws.request.bern(a)gmail.com
Anmeldefrist: 01.06.2025
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Veranstaltungsankündigung (Frankfurt am Main), 20.06.2025 - 21.06.2025
Konferenz: FrankMeta.7
Call for Registration:
FrankMeta.7 - 7th Annual Frankfurt Metaethics Conference
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Frankfurt, Germany
20th & 21st of June 2025
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Registration for FrankMeta.7 is now open.
_Programme_
Friday, 20th of June
09.30 - 10.00 Registration
10.00 - 11.30 Pekka Väyrynen - _Make it Right_
_11.30 - 11.45 Coffee break_
11.45 - 13.15 Euan Metz - _Assessing Normative Neutrality_
_13.15 - 14.30 Lunch_
14.30 - 16.00 Mikayla Kelley & Keshav Singh -
_Non-naturalism without Alienation_
_16.00 - 16.15 Coffee break_
16.15 - 17.45 Stephanie Leary - _A Metaphysics-first
Approach to Metaethics_
19.00 - _Conference Dinner_
Saturday, 21st of June
09.30 - 11.00 Jamie Dreier - _Expressivism: Semantics or
Metasemantics?_
_11.00 - 11.15 Coffee break_
11.15 - 12.45 Tobias Wilsch - _Explanationism and Rational
Motivation_
_12.45 - 14.00 Lunch_
14.00 - 15.30 Bennett Eckert-Kuang - _Two Concepts of
Constitutive Standards_
_15.30 - 15.45 Coffee break_
15.45 - 17.15 Michael Smith _- A Neo-Humean View of
Intrinsic Desire and Intrinsic Desirability_
To register, please visit our website
(https://www.frankfurt-school.de/home/research/conferences-workshops/fmc).
There is no registration or conference fee. As the spaces available are
limited, please book as soon as possible. Registration closes on the
13th of June. On the website, you will also find further information
regarding travel directions and accommodation. If you have any further
questions, please direct any enquiries to s.koehler(a)fs.de.
Organisers:
Derek Baker (Frankfurt, d.baker(a)fs.de)
Sebastian Köhler (Frankfurt, s.koehler(a)fs.de)
Christine Tiefensee (Frankfurt, c.tiefensee(a)fs.de)
Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung
Veranstaltungs-URL:
https://www.frankfurt-school.de/home/research/conferences- ... [13]
Kontaktadresse: s.koehler(a)fs.de
Anmeldefrist: 13.06.2025
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