Wir sind um die Verbreitung der unten stehenden Informationen gebeten worden. Wenn Sie selbst einen Beitrag zur GAP-Infomail haben, senden Sie uns diesen bitte als einfachen Text im Emailkorpus unter info(a)gap-im-netz.de zu. Beiträge, die uns bis Freitag 10 Uhr erreichen, werden per GAP-Infomail am darauf folgenden Montag verschickt - Beiträge, die uns danach erreichen, entsprechend eine Woche später. ****************************************** (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 ****************************************** (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. * 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. * 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. ****************************************** (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 ****************************************** (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. ****************************************** (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 ****************************************** (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 ) ****************************************** (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]. ****************************************** (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]_) -- Links: ------ [1] https://www.gap-im-netz.de/de/ [2] https://kurtgoedel.de/ [3] https://kurtgoedel.de/jahr/