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(1) CALL FOR PAPERS (Tübingen, Deadline: 10.02.2025)
Suffering and Attention. A student conference and a workshop
(2) CALL FOR PAPERS (Berlin, Deadline: 03.03.2025)
2. Studi-Kongress für öffentliche Philosophie 25.-27.4
(3) CALL FOR PAPERS (Saarbrücken, Deadline: 10.04.2025)
WoW 2025 - Workshop on Welfare and Ethics
(4) VERANSTALTUNGSANKÜNDIGUNG (Innsbruck, 29.01.2025)
Aquinas Lecture 2025 und Masterclass mit Anna Marmodoro (Saint
Louis/Oxford)
(5) VERANSTALTUNGSANKÜNDIGUNG (Regensburg, 11-12.02.2025)
Conference "Perspectives on human rights: Historical, conceptual,
political"
(6) VERANSTALTUNGSANKÜNDIGUNG (Wuppertal, 27-28.03.2025, Registration
Deadline: 07.02.2025)
Workshop on Scientific Pluralism, Epistemic Diversity, and Progress in
Science
(7) PREISAUSSCHREIBUNG (Deadline: 30.06.2025)
Kurt Gödel Preis 2025
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(1) CALL FOR PAPERS (Tübingen, Deadline: 10.02.2025)
Suffering and Attention. A student conference and a workshop
Tübingen, 15-17 April 2025
Organised by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and Eva-Maria Düringer
Funded by the DFG Research Grant Natural Badness: Suffering and Its
Place in Contemporary Virtue Ethics
We welcome abstract submissions for the student conference on 'Suffering
and Attention' which will take place at the University of Tübingen on 15
April 2025. Students at all stages, from BA and MA to PhD, are very
welcome to apply. Come and share your ideas in an inclusive,
constructive, and non-adversarial environment!
The conference will be followed by a workshop with invited speakers on
16 and 17 April 2025 (see below).
Description:
Suffering has always been topical. Where there is life, there is the
capacity to suffer. The contemporary world is plagued by increasing
wars, migration crises, and political extremism. Billions of animals
suffer and die every day due to human consumption and climate change.
Global mental health has been worsening for decades. But what precisely
is suffering? It is more than pain, and it is more than things going
badly. But what? And what, if anything, should we do about it?
The nature of suffering has recently become a topic of lively debate in
analytic philosophy. In Suffering and Virtue (2018), Michael Brady
thinks of suffering as 'displeasures that we mind', while the volume The
Philosophy of Suffering (2020), co-edited by Brady, David Bain and
Jennifer Corns, collects a wide array of different views: suffering is
conceived e.g. as negatively construing one's situation, as a severe
mental disruption, or as an emotion directed at pain. Different as these
views are, they all agree that suffering is essentially experiential.
But not even this seems to be a given. Corns (2022) has recently argued
that suffering is significantly disrupted agency, hence not essentially
marked by any experience at all - a view shared by some virtue ethical
stances on suffering who take suffering to consist in prevention of
flourishing, experienced or not.
The account of suffering we accept has a bearing on the way we will
answer the ethical questions that suffering gives rise to: How do we
engage with suffering, in ourselves and others? Do we have a duty always
to alleviate or minimise it? Should we ever welcome it? Is it acceptable
to look away, or do we have a responsibility to pay attention to it? And
how do we attend to it without being crushed?
The aim of this conference is to raise questions about the nature and
ethics of suffering by putting in conversation contemporary analytic
approaches with historical, continental, and non-Western traditions, and
by broadening the scope to include reflections on the suffering of both
human and non-human animals, environmental perspectives, and questions
of suffering in the philosophy of medicine and mental health.
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Students with an interest in the topic should feel encouraged to apply,
even if their work does not fit neatly into any of the approaches
outlined. Questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to:
- What is the nature of suffering?
- Is suffering ever to be welcomed?
- Simone Weil, attention and affliction
- Suffering and attention in Buddhist philosophy
- What does it mean to attend to suffering? Is it possible,
and ought we to do it?
- What kinds of moral responsibility, if any, does suffering
give rise to?
- How does suffering in oneself compare to our perception and
response to suffering in others?
- What is the proper way to respond to suffering?
- How do different philosophical traditions understand
suffering, and what are their main contributions and weaknesses?
Students are invited to submit a 200 word abstract (approximately),
suitable for a 15-20 minute talk followed by a short Q&A, to
silvia.caprioglio-panizza(a)uni-tuebingen.de by 10 February 2025.
Decisions will be sent within two weeks of that date. If you have any
queries, please do not hesitate to contact us at the email address
above.
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Participants at the conference are welcome, but not required to, attend
the workshop after the conference. The workshop speakers are: Elisa
Aaltola (University of Turku), Michael Brady (University of Glasgow),
Silvia Caprioglio Panizza (University of Tübingen), Dorothea Debus
(University of Konstanz), Eva-Maria Düringer (University of Tübingen),
Ian James Kidd (University of Nottingham), Kamila Pacovská (University
of Pardubice), Christopher Thomas (Manchester Metropolitan University),
Mariëtte Willemsen (Amsterdam University College)
Please note that the conference/workshop and refreshments are free for
everyone, but unfortunately we are unable to offer travel bursaries for
accepted participants.
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(2) CALL FOR PAPERS (Berlin, Deadline: 03.03.2025)
2. Studi-Kongress für öffentliche Philosophie 25.-27.4
Wir sind eine Initiative von Studierenden der Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin und veranstalten vom 25.-27. April 2025 unseren zweiten
Studierenden-Kongress für öffentliche Philosophie.
Angesichts einer zunehmend polarisierenden Diskurskultur und dem
Erstarken von Post-Truth Phänomenen wie Fake News und Bullshitting, ist
es unser Ziel, den Wert der differenzierten Argumentation wieder in den
Mittelpunkt zu stellen. In der Philosophie behandeln wir viele
gesellschaftsrelevante Themen auf hohem Niveau - verbleiben damit aber
häufig im akademischen Elfenbeinturm. Das wollen wir ändern. Zudem
möchten wir Studierenden die Möglichkeit geben, ihre Forschung der
Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren und dadurch philosophische
Selbstwirksamkeit zu erfahren.
Wir würden uns freuen, wenn Sie unseren Call for Paper an Studierende
weiterleiten würden bzw. in Ihren Seminaren darauf aufmerksam machen.
Die Einsende-Deadline ist der 3.3.2025.
Den Call for Paper und alle weiteren Informationen und
Kontaktmöglichkeiten finden Sie in unserem Linktree:
https://linktr.ee/pragmatische.philosophie
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(3) CALL FOR PAPERS (Saarbrücken, Deadline: 10.04.2025)
WoW 2025 - Workshop on Welfare and Ethics
2-3 July 2025
Saarland University, Germany
_Keynote speakers_
Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Hilary Greaves (Oxford University)
_Information on the workshop_
Considerations about the nature of welfare, the value of welfare, its
distribution, or welfare-based claims and complaints are central to
moral philosophy. They are of particular concern for all philosophers
who take welfare to be (at least) one source for normative reasons.
Evaluative and deontic considerations about welfare provide an array of
fascinating philosophical questions.
It is (quite) uncontroversial that welfare has moral value and provides
moral reasons; but it is highly contested how in particular. We ought
not to harm people, but do we also ought to benefit them? Does this
include future people - even if their existence depends on our actions?
And can we aggregate people's welfare, or should we limit the trade-offs
between their harms and benefits?
Our account of welfare has implications for ethics; but do ethical
considerations also provide reasons to adopt one or another theory of
welfare? What is the interaction between theories of welfare and the
ethics of welfare?
Some lives are better and some are worse; but what constitutes their
prudential value? Are well-being and ill-being analogous or do they
differ in structure and relevance - and what do particular theories
imply? What are the relevant underlying concepts of desire, pleasure,
friendship, or other objective goods on which welfare may depend?
This workshop provides a forum for the discussion of those and related
questions. It aims at rallying scholars of philosophy to expand our
understanding in these issues, and we hope to promote the philosophical
engagement with ethics, welfare, and how they interact.
_Call for Papers_
We are inviting submissions for talks, which should be between 20 and 30
minutes in length. We are particularly interested in current or future
research projects, and especially welcome submissions from philosophers
in underrepresented groups. To propose a talk, please send an abstract
of approximately 500 words as a PDF attachment to
workshoponwelfare(a)gmail.com. The abstract should be suitable for blind
review, i.e. it should not contain any information that may identify you
as the author. The deadline for submission is 10 April 2025. We aim to
notify you about the acceptance of your paper by the end of April.
Please make sure that the email to which the abstract is attached
contains your name, institutional affiliation, and the title of the
paper.
The workshop is organised by Jonas Harney (TU Dortmund University),
Thorsten Helfer (Saarland University), Maximilian Klein (Saarland
University) and Hasko von Kriegstein (Toronto Metropolitan University)
and generously supported by UdS Professorship for Practical Philosophy.
More details and updates on https://tinyurl.com/c62fj5k9
For further information please contact the organisers at
workshoponwelfare(a)gmail.com.
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(4) VERANSTALTUNGSANKÜNDIGUNG (Innsbruck, 29.01.2025)
Aquinas Lecture 2025 und Masterclass mit Anna Marmodoro (Saint
Louis/Oxford)
_Aquinas Lecture 2025: 29. Januar.2025, 17.00 Uhr, Hörsaal I
(Karl-Rahner-Platz 3):_
_The Ontology of Individual Particulars_
_Abstract_
Peter Strawson claimed that each object of our everyday experience is
one qua individual particular. However, why would something be one (=
single), if it is individual and also particular? I argue that
individuality and particularity introduce two different ways of being
one; individuality is descriptive, while particularity is indexical. And
yet, each object is one! How can this be? I argue that Aristotle, too,
had thought that an object is an individual particular (_tode ti -
hekaston/ti_), but he argued that, additionally, the oneness of an
individual particular requires metaphysical justification. Aristotle's
solution is that an 'individual particular' is one because what's
particular qualifies what's individual in the object (particularising
it). I further suggest the alternative possibility of developing the
converse of Aristotle's solution for oneness, namely, that an
'individual particular' is one because what's individual qualifies
what's particular in the object (individualising it). I do so by leaning
on the (anti-Aristotelian, anti-descriptivist) 'indexical metaphysics'
of Michael Ayers.
_Masterclass With Anna Marmodoro: 29. Januar.2025, 10.00 Uhr,
Dekanatssitzungssaal (Karl-Rahner-Platz 3):_
_Augustine's De Ordine_
Augustine approaches the problem of evil in _De Ordine_, trying to show
that God is not causally responsible for _all_ human actions
-specifically, he is not responsible for evil ones. In her unpublished
paper, Marmodoro argues that Augustine's intuition, as developed through
his dialectical engagement with Licentius, is that _all _human actions
are governed by determinism, but _not all_are governed by teleology.
More abstractly, Augustine's idea is that efficient causation may be
decoupled from teleological causation; this is the case when evil
happens. In this masterclass, we explore Marmodoro's main ideas on _De
Ordine_ and discuss her interpretation of the metaphysical commitments
underlying Augustine's thought.
Für eine Teilnahme an der Masterclass ist eine kurze Anmeldung unter
christliche-philosophie(a)uibk.ac.at erbeten.
Kontakt
_Institut für Christliche Philosophie | Universität Innsbruck_
Karl-Rahner-Platz 1
A-6020 Innsbruck
+43 512 507-85001
Christliche-philosophie(a)uibk.ac.at
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(5) VERANSTALTUNGSANKÜNDIGUNG (Regensburg, 11-12.02.2025)
Conference "Perspectives on human rights: Historical, conceptual,
political"
Ort: Haus der Begegnung, Hinter der Grieb 8
_Tuesday, February 11_
13.15 - 13.30: Welcome address
13.30 - 14.30: Johan Olsthoorn (Amsterdam): „Natural
rights, human rights and punishment" - _Chair: Daniel Eggers
(Regensburg)_
14.30 - 14.45: Break
14.45 - 15.45: Stefanie Buchenau (Paris): „Human dignity
and rights" - _Chair: Oliver Hidalgo (Passau)_
15.45 - 16.15: Coffee break
16.15 - 17.15: Markus Stepanians (Bern): „The
significance of right/duty-correlativity" - _Chair: Marie-Luisa Frick
(Innsbruck)_
17.15 - 17.30: Break
17.30 - 18.30: Heiner Bielefeldt (Erlangen-Nürnberg):
„Anti-liberal twists of a liberal right? Recapturing the right to
religion or belief" - _Chair: Peter Schröder (UCL)_
19.30: Dinner, _Weltenburger am Dom_,
Domplatz 3
_Wednesday, February 12_
9.15 - 9.30: Coffee
9.30 - 10.30: Lena Halldenius (Lund): „Human rights as
levers for equality" - _Chair: Eva Odzuck (Regensburg)_
10.30 - 10.45: Break
10. 45 - 11.45: Daniel Eggers (Regensburg): „Does
adequate access to scientific findings qualify as a human right?" -
_Chair: Manfred Brocker (Eichstätt)_
11.45 - 12.00: Farewell address
12.00 - 13.00: Lunch
contact: Dietrich Schotte, Regensburg ( dietrich.schotte(a)ur.de )
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(6) VERANSTALTUNGSANKÜNDIGUNG (Wuppertal, 27-28.03.2025, Registration
Deadline: 07.02.2025)
Workshop on Scientific Pluralism, Epistemic Diversity, and Progress in
Science
_Registration Deadline: 07.02.2025_
_Workshop Date: _27. - 28.03.2025
_Location: _University of Wuppertal
Glanzstoffhaus, 6th Floor
Kasinostraße 19-21
42103 Wuppertal
We invite researchers, students, and professionals from all scientific
disciplines to participate. Please register by sending an e-mail to
pluralism.workshop(a)uni-wuppertal.de by _07.02.2025_.
_About the Workshop_
The idea that science should converge on a single, ultimate truth has
become contested as the dominant view in the academic world; scientific
pluralism has gained wide acceptance. However, these discussions have
become so rich and entangled that now we can speak of a confusing
"plurality of [scientific] pluralisms" (Wylie 2015). The overall goal of
this workshop is to examine and clarify different ideas of scientific
pluralism.
While proponents of scientific pluralism argue that pluralism offers a
range of epistemic benefits which are conducive to scientific progress
(Chang, 2012, 2022), pluralism not only comes with benefits but also
with costs (e.g., Lari and Mäki 2024). This raises the question of the
conditions under which pluralism contributes to scientific progress and
those under which it may impede it. In addition to its role in promoting
progress, the relationship between pluralism and the social and
institutional organisation of science is also a subject of growing
debate. Given that science is significantly shaped by social values
(Longino 1990), scientific pluralism is increasingly discussed in the
context of social and epistemic diversity as a crucial element for
objective and inclusive knowledge production. One of the primary
subjects to be addressed is that of how diverse research groups can
fruitfully collaborate in order to foster scientific progress, and what
part institutions play in this process.
The workshop investigates the complex relationship between scientific
pluralism, epistemic diversity and scientific progress, both
theoretically and through the examination of case studies. The overall
goal is to discuss whether pluralism hinders or contributes to progress,
and to explore the roles of institutional and social structures in this
dynamic. A particular focus is put on the social sciences, with an
emphasis on the fields of psychology and economics, but case studies
from any other field of science are very welcome.
_Workshop Themes and Questions:_
_1. Pluralism and Scientific Progress:_
* Under what specific conditions does pluralism contribute to scientific
progress, and in what contexts might it impede progress?
* How do different forms of pluralism (such as methodological,
theoretical, and epistemic) affect the course of scientific progress
across various disciplines?
* What kind of progress are we talking about in relation to scientific
pluralism?
_2. Epistemic Diversity:_
* What is the link between epistemic and social diversity and (value)
pluralism?
* How does epistemic diversity within research teams and scientific
communities influence the generation of knowledge?
* What are the benefits and challenges of fostering epistemic diversity
in scientific research, particularly in the social sciences?
_3. __Social Organization and Institutional Structures:_
* What roles do social organization and institutional structures play in
fostering or hindering pluralism and epistemic diversity in scientific
research?
* What institutional measures can be implemented to overcome barriers
and promote a more inclusive and cooperative scientific environment?
_4. Case Studies:_
* Which scientific fields, e.g. in the social sciences, are particularly
interesting for investigating the relationship between pluralism,
epistemic diversity, and progress? What lessons can be learned from
historical and current examples of pluralistic approaches in the various
scientific fields?
* What lessons can be learned from historical and current examples where
plurality seems to be lacking?
_Organizing Committee:_
* Jeremias Düring, University of Wuppertal
* Anastasiia Lazutkina, University of Wuppertal
* Charlotte Constanze Poller, University of Wuppertal
_Keynote Speakers:_
* Paul Hoyningen-Huene
* Inkeri Koskinen
* David Ludwig
For more information, please visit our workshop website
https://grk2696.de/scientific-pluralism-workshop/ or contact us at
pluralism.workshop(a)uni-wuppertal.de.
This workshop is generously supported by the German Society for Analytic
Philosophy (GAP) [1].
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(7) PREISAUSSCHREIBUNG (Deadline: 30.06.2025)
Kurt Gödel Preis 2025
Der Kurt Gödel Freundeskreis in Kooperation mit Prof. Christoph
Benzmüller,
Universität Bamberg sowie PD. Dr. Oliver Passon, Bergische Universität
Wuppertal verleiht den _Kurt Gödel Preis 2025_zur Förderung und
Verbreitung von Gödels Werk in Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften.
Dieser Preis wird wieder im Rahmen eines Essaywettbewerbs für die besten
Antworten auf die folgende Frage verliehen:
_Wie sind Gödels begrifflicher und mathematischer Realismus, sein
Argument gegen die Existenz der Zeit und sein ontologisches Argument mit
einer kohärenten Ontologie vereinbar?_
Willkommen sind Beiträge, die den Gegenstand aus logischer,
philosophischer und physikalischer Perspektive beleuchten, und einen
Bezug zum Werk von Kurt Gödel herstellen.
_1. Preis: 10.000,- EUR_
_sowie fünf weitere Preise für besonders gute Beiträge aus der Shortlist
mit jeweils 1.000,- EUR_
Die Teilnahmebedingungen sind hier veröffentlicht:
_https://kurtgoedel.de [2]_
Außerdem möchten wir auf unsere Planung des _Kurt Gödel Jahres 2028_
hinweisen, siehe: _https://kurtgoedel.de/jahr [3]_
Am 14.1.2028 ist Kurt Gödels 50. Todestag und 100 Jahre davor, Anfang
1929, hatte er den bekannten Unvollständigkeitssatz formuliert, den er
1931 veröfentlichte.
Gödels logische Überlegungen und weiteren Berechnungen sind so
bedeutend, dass sie und Kurt Gödel als Person im Mittelpunkt einer
einjährigen Würdigung stehen sollen. Wir bereiten dieses Kurt Gödel Jahr
gemeinsam mit einem Festkomitee vor.
Mit besten Grüßen
Hans Schwarzlow und René Talbot
(für den _Kurt Gödel Freundeskreis Berlin [2]_)
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