Art der Ankündigung: Call for Paper (Veranstaltung)

8th European Advanced School in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS), “Philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”

KLI (Klosterneuburg, Austria, https://www.kli.ac.at), September 7-11, 2026

Directors

Sabina Leonelli (Technical University of Munich) and Thomas Reydon (Leibniz University Hannover)

Keynote speakers

Alkistis Elliott-Graves (Bielefeld University) and Julie Jebeile (University of Bern)

Applications

Applications should include a letter of motivation (max. 500 words), an abstract of your current research (max. 500 words) and a short CV (max. 3 pages). Please send applications as a single PDF to EASPLS2026@philos.uni-hannover.de (the deadline for applications is 15 January 2026).

Registration

Registration fees will be 350 €. The summer school will cover lunches and two dinners. Participants should arrange their own accommodation and travel expenses. The EASPLS consortium may be able to provide some financial support for participation. For inquiries please write to EASPLS2026@philos.uni-hannover.de.

About the summer school

The European Advanced School for the Philosophy of the Life Sciences (EASPLS) is a biennial one-week summer school that aims at fostering research, facilitating collaborations, and providing professional training to students in the field of the philosophy, history, and social studies of the life sciences, broadly construed. The summer school includes lectures by invited keynote speakers as well as by senior researchers from the organizing consortium, group work, and general discussions. Special sessions will be dedicated to career and skills development.

The summer school is aimed at early-career researchers working on any topic in the philosophy, history, and social studies of the life sciences, but every edition of EASPLS has a focus theme. The 2026 focus theme is  “philosophy of biology for a healthy planet”. Our planet is increasingly facing threats of climate emergency, biodiversity depletion and anthropogenic harms to life cycles around the globe, with challenges including a radical threat to the „health, maintenance and future of the web of life on planet Earth” (UNESCO – Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems). This situation raises the question what it means to lead a healthy life on a threatened planet, what the goal of a “healthy planet” would encompass, and how scientific research may contribute to achieving it. Never before has biological research been under more pressure to address what may constitute healthy living, under which conditions healthy living can still be achieved, and for which species and ecosystems a concept of healthy living can be applied. The philosophy of the life sciences can and should play an important part in addressing such questions. 

Participants will be able to present their own research and there will be ample time for discussion on participants’ own topics, but participants will also be asked to reflect on how their work could contribute to achieving a “healthy planet”.

CfA: Workshop for Doctoral Researchers and Recent Postdocs, June 18, 2026, Hannover

Deadline: November 30, 2025

As part of the International Conference “Wissenschaftsreflexion – What is it? What is the need for it?” (June 17-19, 2026).

We invite early-career researchers (PhD candidates and recent postdocs) to present their research within a dedicated workshop on June 18, 2026. Selected participants will:

➢ Develop a 10-page paper on a topic related to Wissenschaftsreflexion.

➢ Propose a preferred commentator (to be invited in person or virtually, subject to funding constraints).

➢ Receive feedback from two commentators: one from their suggested expert and another from conference participants (e.g., speakers or panelists).

We can cover the travel and accommodation costs of the selected participants. We do not charge a conference fee.

Find the whole CfA here: https://www.wissenschaftsreflexion.uni-hannover.de/en/news-und-veranstaltungen/inaugural-conference/workshop

Conference Website: https://www.wissenschaftsreflexion.uni-hannover.de/en/news-und-veranstaltungen/inaugural-conference

If you want to read up on Wissenschaftsreflexion: Barlösius, E., Carrier, M., Bogner, A. et al. Wissenschaftsreflexion: What is it? What is the need for it? Contemporary challenges for studies in science. Minerva (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-025-09601-2

“SIE WAREN IHRER ZEIT VORAUS.” PHILOSOPHINNEN UND WISSENSCHAFTLERINNEN UND IHR PLATZ IN DER GESCHICHTE.

CALL FOR PAPER ZUR HYBRID-VERANSTALTUNG DER ARBEITSGRUPPE FRAUEN IN DER GESCHICHTE DER PHILOSOPHIE.

Deadline 30. November 2025; Mitteilung über die Annahme max. 4 Tage nach Einsendung.

WORKSHOP. 08 DEZEMBER 2025, 10-18 UHR

Wo: Universität Paderborn, Technologiepark 8 und Online per Zoom.

Das immense Material der Philosophinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen wird allmählich  in die Philosophie- und Forschungsgeschichte eingegliedert. Dabei fällt auf, dass Beiträge von Frauen sich als Vorläufertheorien erweisen, aber noch nicht immer als solche erfasst sind. Du Châtelet, zum Beispiel, formulierte die Kopernikanische Wende lange vor Kant. Ihre Überlegungen zu den Hypothesen wirkten bis in das 20. Jahrhundert. Hazel Kirk hat die Kreislaufwirtschaft vorausgedacht und Charlotte Perkins Gilman den sexualisierten ausbeuterischen Kapitalismus identifiziert.

Weitere Beispiele finden sich bei jenen Denkerinnen, die im Schnittpunkt von Philosophie und Wissenschaften tätig waren, wie unter anderem in der Medizin (Hildegard von Bingen, Olivia Sabucco, Dorothee Erxleben u.v.a.), der Mathematik (Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Laura Bassi, Marie-Sophie Germain u.v.a.), der Ökonomie- Sozial- und Rechtsgeschichte (z.B. Harriet Taylor Mill, Charlotte Perkins Gilman), der Logik- und Physikgeschichte (Grete Herrmann, Constance Naden) und der analytischen Philosophie (Constance Jones, Susan Stebbing).

Das Jahrestreffen am 08. Dezember der AG Frauen in der Philosophie lädt dazu ein, Beispiele für dieses Paradigma aufzuzeigen. Wir ermuntern, am Beispiel von Fallstudien das Determinationsgefüge von Diskursentwicklungen auf den Begriff zu bringen und so daran mitzuwirken, Strukturformen zu erkennen, durch die der Vergleich mit der Entwicklung in unterschiedlichen Disziplinen oder Theorien möglich wird.

Keynote Dr. Andrea Reichenberger, TU München

Bitte senden Sie Ihren Vorschlag von ca. 500 Wörtern und 1 Seite CV bis zum 30. November 2025 an ruth.hagengruber@upb.de

Für die Teilnahme am Workshop ohne Paper  melden Sie sich bitte ebenfalls hier an: https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/143/

Die Arbeitsgruppe Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie wurde 2017 im Rahmen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie gegründet.

Der Zweck der Arbeitsgruppe liegt darin, die Erforschung und Lehre der Beiträge von Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie zu fördern.

AGENDA 8. Dezember 2025: 

10-16 Uhr: Vorträge der Mitglieder: „Sie waren ihrer Zeit voraus“

12 Uhr: Keynote: Ass. Prof. Dr. Andrea Reichenberger, TU München

16-18 Uhr: Mitgliederversammlung

1) Publikationsmöglichkeit der Beiträge AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie 2025 

2) neue Optionen der Webpage DGPhil für die AGs

3) Entwicklung von Lehrmaterialien 

4) Workshop 2026

5) Kongress 2027

6) Repräsentation der AG

Workshop “Grounded Language, Situated Minds: Ecological Approaches to Saying, Doing and Feeling”

February 19-20, 2026

Technische Universität Berlin, H 2051 (Straße des 17. Juni 135)

Confirmed Speakers:

Erik Rietveld

Laura Desirèe di Paolo

Jan Slaby

Axel Gelfert

Adrian Wieczorek

Ludger Van Dijk

Arianne Shavisi

Bert Hodges

Penelope Freund

Workshop Description:

This workshop explores cognition, language and feeling through the lenses of ecological psychology and phenomenology. Central themes of investigation include:

-the situatedness of action and cognition

-the affective disclosure of situations

-the evolution and use of language

The workshop invites inquiry into questions such as: How do we come to know and inhabit places? What constitutes a situation? What makes an environment feel safe, threatening, or enabling? and other related themes. We will explore how our embeddedness shapes both perception and speech, and how place constitutes our knowledge of self and others.

The workshop will take place over two days, on February 19-20, 2026, and is open to scholars and students from all disciplines. The workshop is an in-person event but talks (without discussions) will be streamed when permitted. Attendance is free but registration is required.

Registration:

To attend, please register via email: a.wieczorek [at] tu-berlin [dot] de.

Call for Papers:

The workshop has one slot available for a 45 min – talk: To apply, please submit an abstract (max. 600 words, including references) until December 16, 2025 to: a.wieczorek [at] tu-berlin [dot] de

For more information, see:

https://www.tu.berlin/hpstl/veranstaltungen-1/konferenzen-und-workshops

WoW 2026 – Sixth International Workshop on Welfare and Ethics

1–2 July 2026

Saarland University, Germany

Keynote speakers

Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (University of Lodz)

Theron Pummer (University of St Andrews)

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@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 1 April 2026. 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.

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 ought we also to benefit them? Does this include non-human animals and other agents, and does it include future people even if their existence depends on our actions? 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.

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/48twvh29

For further information, please contact the organisers at workshoponwelfare@gmail.com.

CfA: Kant’s Concept of Freedom: Transcendental, Moral, Political (Mainz, Germany, 28–29 September 2026)

We are pleased to announce the call for abstracts for the 5th International Doctoral Colloquium of the Kant-Gesellschaft for 2026, on Kant’s Concepts of Freedom: Transcendental, Moral, Political. The workshop will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 28–29 September, in collaboration with the Kant-Forschungsstelle Mainz.

Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Pauline Kleingeld (University of Groningen)

Dr. Joe Saunders (Durham University)

The workshop will examine Kant’s multifaceted conception of freedom across his critical and pre-critical works, investigating its transcendental, moral, and political dimensions. Submissions are invited to engage with the following aspects of Kant’s concepts of freedom:

• Metaphysical and cosmological debates: spontaneity and free causality versus empirical temporality.
• Moral-ethical debates: autonomy and the ability-to-do-otherwise; the possibility of free immoral willing; Willkür/Selbstbestimmung.
• Political and juridical debates: external freedom, the Doctrine of Right, and coercion as protection.
• Ethical-theological debates: freedom as a postulate of practical reason; God, immortality, and radical evil.
• Sources and reception: historical influences and transmission of Kantian ideas.
• Debates in the secondary literature and contemporary interpretative controversies.

The call for abstracts is open to all doctoral students working on Kant’s theory of freedom. The abstracts should be suitable for a 30-minute presentation, with 15 minutes for discussion, and they should be about 500 words in length. The workshop languages are English and German. Abstracts should be prepared for anonymous refereeing and be sent to henning.kirschbaum@uni-mainz.de. In the same message, please, include your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and paper title.

We will cover travel expenses up to a maximum of €200 and accommodation costs for the doctoral students giving presentations. Details to follow after decisions.

Deadline for abstracts is 15 January 2026.

We aim to send decision letters by mid-February 2026.

For any further queries, please contact Henning Kirschbaum, henning.kirschbaum@uni-mainz.de, or Lucia Volonté, lvolont@uni-mainz.de.

[CfP] Workshop: Mathematical Knowledge: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives

Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), 11–13 February 2026

We invite submissions for a 3-day workshop on “Mathematical Knowledge: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives”, to be held at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) from 11–13 February 2026. The event aims to bring together philosophers and sociologists of mathematical and scientific practices to explore the social dimensions of mathematics and to foster dialogue between these two research traditions.

Keynote Speakers:

• Paola Cantù (CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France)
• Christian Greiffenhagen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China)
• Mikkel Willum Johansen (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Bart Van Kerkhove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium)
• Claude Rosental (CNRS, EHESS, Paris, France)
• One additional keynote speaker to be confirmed.

Workshop Structure and Themes:

Days 1–2: Keynote lectures and four contributed talks. Day 3: A methodological day dedicated to interview studies and qualitative research, with roundtable discussions and short empirical presentations.

We welcome contributions on topics such as:

• Philosophical or sociological analyses of mathematical practices;
• Comparative perspectives on epistemology, methodology, or the social organization of mathematics;
• Interactions between mathematical reasoning, communication, and community structures;
• Methodological reflections on interview studies and qualitative research in the philosophy or sociology of science and mathematics.
• Social philosophy of mathematics
• Reflections on the interactions between the philosophy and sociology of mathematics

Submissions:

Abstracts (max. 500 words) for longer presentations (4 slots) or brief empirical project presentations (2 slots) should be submitted before 30 November. Applicants can submit abstracts for both a short and a long presentation. Please indicate whether your proposal is philosophical or sociological, and if you wish to present empirical work on Day 3. Attendance is free and open to anyone interested, but registration is required. Both submissions and registrations can be done by filling out the registration form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScQS78gmgS_nUJjA_MOjHGlg-EQSbPle-vGEWeqc7F9nFJE0g/viewform).

Important Dates:

• Submission deadline: 30 November 2025
• Notification of acceptance: Before 15 December 2025
• Workshop dates: 11–13 February 2026

Organisers:

Yacin Hamami (CNRS, Université de Lorraine), Deborah Kant (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sander Pouliart (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Colin Rittberg (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Deniz Sarikaya (University of Lübeck), Bart Van Kerkhove (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Erik Weber (Ghent University)

For inquiries, please contact: [sander.ann.r.pouliart@vub.be]

Call for abstracts: Ruhr-University Bochum & London School of Economics

joint workshop “Animal Minds: New Theories and New Observations”, 9th-10th

of February 2026 in Bochum, abstract deadline: 01.12.2025

https://philevents.org/event/show/140806

The interdisciplinary workshop “Animal Minds: New Theories and New

Observations”, jointly organized by Ruhr-University Bochum and The London

School of Economics, will take place on the 9th & 10th of February 2026 at

Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

The workshop will combine discussions of new theoretical and methodological

approaches with presentations of novel empirical findings about animal

minds.

The following speakers are confirmed: Colin Allen, Kristin Andrews,

Jonathan Birch, Thomas Bugnyar, Tomer Czaczkes, Rebecca Dreier, Leonard

Dung, Albert Newen, Simone Pika, Sanja Sreckovic, and Daria Zakharova.

We are inviting contributions from philosophy, psychology, ethology,

neuroscience, biology, and other relevant disciplines. Potential topics

include, but are not limited to, the following:

– What do we know about capacities such as reasoning, sentience, or

  social understanding in other species?

  

– How do the cognitive and affective capacities of different species

  compare and contrast with each other and with human capacities?

  

– What is the evolutionary origin of important human psychological

  features?

  

– What are promising methodological frameworks and experimental

  paradigms for investigating animal minds?

  

– Which theories about animal minds are supported by recent empirical

  findings?

  

– What are the promises and limitations of multidimensional profile and

  signature testing accounts in comparative psychology?

To be considered for a talk (30 minutes + 15 minutes discussion) or poster

presentation, please send an abstract of your proposed presentation of up

to 500 words (excluding references) to: hilfskraefte-newen@rub.de

The abstract should be anonymous, allowing blinded

review, and accompanied by a second Word or PDF file containing author

name(s), affiliation(s), and contact details. The deadline for abstract

submissions is the 1st of December 2025. We plan to notify everyone about

whether their abstract is accepted within two weeks after the deadline.

This joint event is organized by the following team:

Ruhr-University Bochum: Sanja Sreckovic, Leonard Dung, & Albert Newen

London School of Economics: Jonathan Birch

Please direct any questions to: leonard.dung@rub.de

This PLM workshop aims to bring together philosophers and scientists working on memory. The workshop focuses on the role of memory traces and engrams for remembering. We intend to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on the theoretical foundations and empirical underpinnings of traces and engrams across philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and related disciplines.

The workshop will take place at Ruhr University Bochum, 18-20 February 2026.

Invited speakers:

Nikola Andonovski (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Andrea Blomkvist (University of Glasgow)

Sen Cheng (Ruhr University Bochum)

Denis Perrin (Université Grenoble Alpes)

Sarah Robins (Purdue University)

Markus Werkle-Bergner (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)

We invite submissions of abstracts for paper and poster presentations.

Abstracts should be anonymous, no more than 250 words (not including references). Please submit your anonymized abstracts through our submission page: https://forms.gle/Gkjbvmb8Q8v9KRyS9

Participation in the workshop is free.

Selected contributions from the workshop will be considered for publication in a dedicated special issue.

Submission deadline: 30 Nov 2025

Notification of acceptance: 15 Dec 2025

Registration opens: 16 Dec 2025

The workshop will be preceded by a masterclass with Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes) on the philosophy of memory. The masterclass will be held on 17 February. A separate call for the masterclass will be distributed shortly.

PLM is a European network of centers devoted to the Philosophy of Language and Mind. This workshop is funded by the German Science Foundation DFG.

Organizers: Markus Werning & Jonathan Najenson (Ruhr University Bochum)

For more information about the workshop, please visit: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tracesandengrams2025.html

For further information please contact: Jonathan.Najenson@ruhr-uni-bochum.de

PhilPublica organisiert zum siebten Mal einen Philosophie-Journalismus-Workshop, diesmal zusammen mit dem FWF Exzellenzcluster „Knowledge in Crisis“ der Universität Wien. Lina Paulitsch (Der Falter) und Eva Stanzl (Wiener Zeitung) erklären die Basics des journalistischen Handwerkszeugs, analysieren mit den Teilnehmenden gemeinsam Beispieltexte aus verschiedenen Medien und begleiten beim Verfassen eines eigenen Kurz-Essays für die Zeitung. 

 

Datum: 25.-27. März 2026 

Ort: Wien

 

Bewerben können sich Philosophie-Master-Studierende, Promovierende der Philosophie, Philosophie-PostDocs und alle, deren Philosophie-Master-Abschluss oder Promotion nicht länger als zwei Jahre zurückliegt. Bewerbungsfrist ist der 4. Januar 2026. Die vollständige Ausschreibung (mit Angabe der nötigen Bewerbungsunterlagen) findet sich hier:

https://philpublica.de/Publizieren/Workshops

Bei Nachfragen melden Sie sich bei Prof. Eva Weber-Guskar (PhilPublica, Ruhr-Universität Bochum) oder Prof. Paulina Sliwa (Exzellenzcluster „Knowledge in Crisis“, Universität Wien) über:  workshop@philpublica.de.