Art der Ankündigung: Call for Paper (Veranstaltung)

Deadline Approaching [15 July]: CfA Normative Reasons and Morality, 19-20 November 2026, Goethe University Frankfurt

While the concept of a normative reason is often taken to provide a common currency across different domains of normativity, its role and nature within the moral domain continue to raise a number of difficult and intriguing questions. Some philosophers have argued that moral reasons are distinctive in virtue of their stringency or overridingness; others question whether the notion of a normative reason provides the most illuminating framework for understanding moral demands at all. More generally, the relationship between morality and normative reasons remains contested, both with respect to the nature of moral reasons and their place within moral thought and practice. This workshop aims to examine these issues from a variety of perspectives and to explore the significance of reasons-based approaches for contemporary moral philosophy.

We welcome contributions addressing questions including (but not limited to):

• What is the relationship between moral reasons and moral obligations?
• What distinguishes moral reasons from other kinds of reasons, such as prudential or epistemic reasons?
• How should conflicts between moral reasons and other normative reasons be understood?
• How should cases of supererogation be understood within a reasons-based account of morality?
• Are moral reasons agent-relative or agent-neutral?
• What role do moral advice and moral testimony play in moral thought and practice?
• How should moral uncertainty affect the reasons we have for action?
• How should we understand the relationship between moral reasons and moral reasoning?

Confirmed speakers: Ulrike Heuer (London), Brendan de Kenessey (Toronto), Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld), Peter Schaber (Zürich), Thomas Schmidt (Berlin), Matthea Slåttholm Sagdahl (Oslo), Paulina Sliwa (Vienna), Jonathan Way (Southampton).

A limited number of slots are available through an open call for abstracts. Please send your abstract, prepared for anonymous review, as a PDF file to si [dot] behrens [at] em [dot] uni [hyphen] frankfurt [dot] de (subject line: “Morality and Reasons”). Abstracts should be between 500 and 1,000 words (including notes but excluding bibliography). Papers should be suitable for a 40-minute presentation. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2026. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by July 31, 2026.

We particularly encourage Ph.D. students and individuals from underrepresented groups to submit.

Organizer: Singa Behrens

We are pleased to announce the latest iteration of PhilML, from October 7-9 2026, at the LMU Munich.

PhilML 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 directly with scientific and mathematical details.

Central topics that will be covered at the conference include:

•  Reflections on key topics such as learning, benchmarking, robustness, explanation, causality, trust, transparency, reliability, and fairness.
• Novel considerations raised by foundation models e.g., agency, alignment, authorship, mechanistic interpretability, safety, or homogenization.
• Issues arising at the intersection of machine learning and public policy, e.g. public services, resource allocation, or climate policy.
• Implications of machine learning for the sciences or their methodology, e.g. physics, cognitive science, biology, social science, or medicine.

The conference has space for a number of contributing speakers. We are soliciting abstracts of up to 1,000 words. Abstracts can be submitted through Oxford Abstracts: https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/82713/submitter

Abstracts must be submitted by July 1, 2026. Abstracts from scholars at all career stages are welcome, including PhD students.

We are excited to announce that the speakers at this year’s conference will include: Sara Aronowitz, Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Ali Boyle, Annemarie Friedrich, Konstantin Genin, Lily Hu, Christoph Kern, and Anders Søgaard.

There will also be a PhD student workshop on October 6, 2026. The call for abstracts will be announced in due course.

This iteration of PhilML is funded by the Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML), Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI (relAI), and the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP).

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. SW*IP Germany e.V. organisiert den dritten 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: 26.11.2026 ca. 9.00 bis 27.11.2026 ca. 14 Uhr

• Ort: TU Dortmund

• Zielgruppe: Frauen, Lesben, inter, nicht-binäre, trans und agender Personen (FLINTA*) in allen Phasen ihrer Promotion im Fach Philosophie

• Geplant sind acht Vortragsslots. Die Vorträge sollen nicht länger als 30 Minuten sein und werden gefolgt von ca. 30 Minuten Diskussion.

• Diskussionssprachen während des Workshops sind Deutsch und ggf. Englisch, Präsentationen sind 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 Wörterumfassen und deutlich machen, was Sie sich von Ihrer Teilnahme am Workshop erhoffen. Bitte speichern Sie beide Dokumente in einem PDF und senden dieses an rebecca.sadowski@tu-dortmund.de unter Angabe des Betreffs „SW*IP-Workshop“.

• 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: 15.9.2026

• Rückmeldung: Bis Mitte Oktober 2026

• Für alle ausgewählten Teilnehmer:innen werden Reise- (Bahnfahrt 2. Klasse) und Unterbringungskosten (2 Nächte) während des Workshops übernommen.

Organisiert von Ronja Hildebrandt, Eva Schmidt und Jasmin Trächtler für SW*IP Germany e.V.

Normative Reasons and Morality, 19-20 November 2026, Goethe University Frankfurt

While the concept of a normative reason is often taken to provide a common currency across different domains of normativity, its role and nature within the moral domain continue to raise a number of difficult and intriguing questions. Some philosophers have argued that moral reasons are distinctive in virtue of their stringency or overridingness; others question whether the notion of a normative reason provides the most illuminating framework for understanding moral demands at all. More generally, the relationship between morality and normative reasons remains contested, both with respect to the nature of moral reasons and their place within moral thought and practice. This workshop aims to examine these issues from a variety of perspectives and to explore the significance of reasons-based approaches for contemporary moral philosophy.

We welcome contributions addressing questions including (but not limited to):

• What is the relationship between moral reasons and moral obligations?
• What distinguishes moral reasons from other kinds of reasons, such as prudential or epistemic reasons?
• How should conflicts between moral reasons and other normative reasons be understood?
• How should cases of supererogation be understood within a reasons-based account of morality?
• Are moral reasons agent-relative or agent-neutral?
• What role do moral advice and moral testimony play in moral thought and practice?
• How should moral uncertainty affect the reasons we have for action?
• How should we understand the relationship between moral reasons and moral reasoning?

Confirmed speakers: Ulrike Heuer (London), Brendan de Kenessey (Toronto), Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld), Peter Schaber (Zürich), Thomas Schmidt (Berlin), Matthea Slåttholm Sagdahl (Oslo), Paulina Sliwa (Vienna), Jonathan Way (Southampton).

A limited number of slots are available through an open call for abstracts. Please send your abstract, prepared for anonymous review, as a PDF file to si [dot] behrens [at] em [dot] uni [hyphen] frankfurt [dot] de (subject line: “Morality and Reasons”). Abstracts should be between 500 and 1,000 words (including notes but excluding bibliography). Papers should be suitable for a 40-minute presentation. The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2026. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by July 31, 2026.

We particularly encourage Ph.D. students and individuals from underrepresented groups to submit.

Organizer: Singa Behrens 

In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding mental disorders through the lens of responsiveness to reasons. Several accounts suggest that impairments in this responsiveness may underlie various psychiatric conditions. This workshop brings together scholars working on these themes to discuss, in an accessible way, how (and whether) mental disorders restrict reason-responsiveness and what follows for rational agency, explanation, stigma, and responsibility. We invite early career scholars at any level to submit abstracts to be considered for the programme.

Key thematic questions:

• Is there a conceptual connection between mental disorders and restricted reason-responsiveness?
• How do impairments in reason-responsiveness manifest across different mental disorders?
• If reason-responsiveness is restricted, does this imply a restriction of rational agency?
• How might we mitigate stigma associated with disorders that appear to involve a lack of reason-responsiveness?
• What causal relationship might a lack of reason-responsiveness have to the pathology of mental disorder?
• What implications does restricted reason-responsiveness have for free will, and moral and legal responsibility?
• Do mental disorders challenge the idea that rationality is the constitutive ideal of the mental?
• Are (at least some) mental disorders (at least partially) amenable to rational explanation?

Those wishing to apply should submit a blinded abstract (300-350 words) to mddrvalencia@outlook.com.

The deadline for abstract submission is June 10th 2026. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of August. Do feel free to contact us if you have any questions/inquiries regarding submission.

Confirmed speakers:

• Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham)
• Somogy Varga (Aarhus University)
• Sanja Dembić (Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Carolina Flores (University of Lisbon)
• Juliette Vazard (University of Zurich)
• Sophie Keeling (UNED, Madrid)

Organisers:

• Aida Roige (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
• Fabian Hundertmark (Universitat de València)
• Ed Armitage (Aarhus University)

Call for Abstracts

Philosophie-Tagung

„Reichtum neu denken. Limitarismus und die Zukunft der Sozialen Demokratie“

10.-11. September 2026 in Berlin

Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung & AK Philosophie der Sozialen Demokratie

Der globale Reichtum konzentriert sich in den Händen einer kleinen Minderheit. Wenn Hyperreichtum zu einer massiven Asymmetrie politischer Macht führt, steht die Demokratie auf dem Spiel. Und wenn der exorbitante Ressourcenverbrauch der Superreichen die planetaren Grenzen weiter sprengt, wird auch eine sozial-ökologische Transformation unmöglich. Die Limitarismus-Forschung argumentiert daher für eine moralische, politische und ökologische Obergrenze des privaten Reichtums und fragt: Kann es ein Maximum geben? Haben manche einfach zu viel? Der Limitarismus kann helfen die festgefahrene Debatten über Umverteilung, Freiheit und Solidarität aufzubrechen und einen Beitrag zu einer zeitgemäßen Politik aus Sicht der Sozialen Demokratie zu leisten. Inwiefern und auf welche Weise dies gelingen kann, wollen wir während einer philosophischen Fachtagung diskutieren.

 

Das Abstract soll in Form einer pdf-Datei bis zum 1. Juli 2026 an folgende Adresse eingereicht werden: soziale.demokratie(at)fes.de Die Auswahl der Beiträge erfolgt bis 15. Juli 2026.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Workshop “What is Good Reasoning?”

University of Bern, Switzerland

10–11 September 2026

The aim of the workshop is to investigate the nature of good reasoning and its place within the normative domain. We will explore how good reasoning should be understood and how it relates to other central normative notions, such as reasons, ought, value, and fittingness. The workshop seeks to foster discussion of questions including: What are the norms and aims of reasoning? Can we explain what it means to reason well in terms of other normative or non-normative notions? And what roles do normative reasons play in good reasoning?

Confirmed speakers:

– Frank Hofmann 

– Benjamin Kiesewetter 

– David Lussi 

– Alessandra Marra 

– Connor McHugh 

We invite submissions for additional talks. If you are interested, please send an abstract of 600–800 words (suitable for a talk of 40 minutes) as a PDF attachment to ethicsbern@gmail.com by 14 June 2026. We will notify you about the decision by the end of June.

The abstract must be suitable for blind review and not contain any information that may identify you as the author. However, please make sure that the e-mail to which the abstract is attached contains your name and institutional affiliation (if applicable).

Researchers from underrepresented groups in academic philosophy are especially encouraged to submit. We will provide hotel accommodation for all accepted speakers. In addition, there is a limited budget for covering (some of) the travelling expenses of those who do not have access to financial support from their home institution.

Organizers: David Lussi, Andreas Müller (University of Bern)

If you have any questions, please contact us at ethicsbern@gmail.com.

Call for Abstracts on Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical (University of Zurich, 18th-20th February 2027)

We invite the submission of extended abstracts (but no longer than 1000 words) for presentations at the international conference on “Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical” that takes place at the University of Zurich from 18th to 20th February 2027. The abstracts should be sent to sebastian.schmidt@uzh.ch until August 31st 2026.

The conference will host a series of renowned experts from ethics and epistemology to discuss the role of relational normativity across philosophical disciplines. If your talk gets accepted, travel expenses, including up to three nights at a central hotel in Zurich, flight and train tickets, as well as lunch and dinner, will be covered. We also plan a follow-up project such as an edited volume with a major publisher or a special issue for an academic journal. Accepted talks will be invited as contributions to this follow-up project.

For details on the topic of the conference, see the extended version of the call for abstracts:

Relational Normativity: Epistemic and Practical – ZEGRa

Speakers who accepted our invitation to present at the conference include:

• Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna College, California, USA)
• Monika Betzler (LMU Munich, Germany)
• Cameron Boult (Brandon University, Canada)
• Stephen Darwall (Yale University, Connecticut, USA)
• Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University, Illinois, USA)
• Antti Kauppinen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick, England, UK)
• R. Jay Wallace (University of Berkeley, California, USA)

We are very much looking forward to receiving your abstracts,

Jonas Vandieken (LMU Munich) & Sebastian Schmidt (University of Zurich)

This conference is part of the Swiss National Science Foundation project on Relational Epistemology (https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/223891).

The 9th Workshop in Political Philosophy will be held on January 14 and 15, 2027 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. This edition of the series is organized by David P. Schweikard, Laura Valentini, and Fabian Wendt. Submissions on any topic in analytical political philosophy, very broadly construed, are welcome. For the peer review process, please send your anonymized abstract of ca. 750 words as a pdf (named “title_of_your_paper.pdf”) by August 23, 2026 to fabianwendt@vt.edu. Only submissions in English will be accepted. This is a small, friendly workshop, and we expect everyone to participate for the whole two days (Thu/Fri). Speakers will have 45 minutes including Q&A.

We invite submissions to the „Responsible and Trusted AI: An Interdisciplinary Perspective“ track at AISoLA 2026 (Kos, Greece, October 27–31, 2026).

This track brings together researchers from philosophy, psychology, law, and computer science to examine the conceptual and normative foundations of trusted and responsible AI. We welcome work at the intersection of analytic philosophy, applied ethics, and AI governance. Topics of interest include:

• Trust and trustworthiness in AI: conceptual analysis and critical appraisal
• The ethics and epistemology of human oversight — when is oversight meaningful, and what does it require?
• Normative assumptions embedded in AI system design and standards
• Moral responsibility and accountability for AI-caused harms
• Value alignment and the limits of formalizing normative desiderata
• AI „companions“, deadbots, and AI in (pseudo-)therapeutic contexts
• Autonomy, paternalism, and reliance in human–AI interaction
• AI and academic integrity: ethical dimensions

Two ways to contribute:

→ Option (1): On-site Proceedings (full paper)

Submit a full paper of 12–15 pages. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and published in the on-site proceedings.

• Titles & abstracts: May 25, 2026
• Full paper submission: June 01, 2026
• Notification: June 22 | Final versions: July 15

→ Option (2): Presentation + Post-Proceedings (abstract first)

Submit an abstract of max. 500 words. Accepted contributions will be presented at the conference. Normally, authors then submit — after the conference — either an extended abstract (4–6 pages) or a full paper (12–15 pages) for the post-proceedings (due end of January).

• Titles & abstracts: June 30, 2026
• Notification: July 31 | Final abstracts: August 31

We particularly encourage interdisciplinary authors and, especially, teams of authors from diverse fields to submit their work!

→ Submit at: https://submission.paperplane.services/project/RTAI-IP_2026

→ Track info: https://2026-isola.isola-conference.org/aisola-tracks/

For any questions, please feel free to contact Kevin Baum at kevin.baum@dfki.de

This track is co-organized by the Centre for European Research in Trusted Artificial Intelligence (CERTAIN).

Organizers: Kevin Baum (DFKI / TUHH), Thorsten Helfer (CISPA), Felix Jahn (DFKI), Sophie Kerstan (Freiburg), Andreas Sesing-Wagenpfeil (UdS), Timo Speith (Bayreuth), Sarah Sterz (UdS)