Art der Ankündigung: Call for Paper (Veranstaltung)

Philosophy of Religion in the Anthropocene

The Munich Colloquium in Philosophy of Religion is a forum for early career philosophers (PhD students and PostDocs) from all fields and backgrounds working on issues in philosophy of religion. It offers an open space to present and discuss the participants’ current projects. The colloquium is organized jointly by LMU’s Center for Religion and Philosophy, the Chair for Philosophy of Religion (Sebastian Gäb) and the Romano Guardini Chair (Ana Honnacker).

For roughly a quarter of a century, the idea of the Anthropocene – the ‘age of humankind’ – has shaped discourse across the sciences, the humanities, and the arts. Although the concept originated in geoscience, it functions not only as a diagnosis of the planet’s current geophysical condition (often used synonymously with the various ecological crises) but has also triggered significant shifts in how concepts such as nature, history, and agency are understood. The term Anthropocene has thus become a catalyst for reflection on the relationship between human and non-human nature and a prompt to reconsider fundamental philosophical categories. While areas such as environmental philosophy, religious studies, and theology have taken up this challenge and explored topics like the role of religious traditions in ecological issues, or proposed alternative anthropologies, the philosophy of religion appears to have been only marginally affected by these developments.

The colloquium invites contributions that seek to bring the discourse on the Anthropocene into dialogue with the philosophy of religion and to explore possible reconfigurations, both in terms of subject matter and methodological approach. It shall address questions like: Which concepts and frameworks from the philosophy of religion could enrich or refine our ways of speaking about the Anthropocene? How does, or should, the discourse on the Anthropocene transform the ways we reflect on religion? Should traditional religious cosmologies be revised in light of the Anthropocene? How might religious conceptions of the relationship between humans and the world, or between humans and God, be reshaped by it? What resources can religious and spiritual traditions offer for coping with life in the Anthropocene? And finally, how does the fact that, in the Anthropocene, humans themselves have become a major cause of suffering alter our understanding of the problem of evil?

Deadline for submissions: January 12, 2026

Please submit an abstract for your presentation (25 minutes + 20 minutes Q&A) as email attachment to: s.gaeb@lmu.de. Abstracts should not exceed 400 words (excluding references).

Limited funds are available for travel support.

*** Call for Papers: Diagrams 2026***

 

15th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams

August 24–28, 2026

Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia

https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/

 

*** Highlights ***

– Proceedings published by Springer

– Graduate Symposium

– Three Tracks: Main, Philosophy, and Psychology and Education

– Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards

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The Diagrams conference offers a collective platform for researchers interested in diagrams. It promotes interdisciplinary collaboration by uniting specialists from diverse fields—such as computer science, mathematics, psychology, philosophy, history (including the histories of science and art), education research, and more—to share insights on both the theory and practical uses of diagrams.

Diagrams 2026 will feature three dedicated special tracks: Main, Philosophy and Psychology and Education. Submissions whose primary research contribution aligns with these themes are encouraged to be directed to the relevant track, each overseen by its own program committee. Details of the theme and program committees will be provided in the call for each track.

The conference program will include presentations of accepted papers, posters, and abstracts, as well as a graduate symposium, workshops, and tutorials. At least one author of every accepted submission is expected to attend the conference to present their work and engage with questions from participants.

For information about the topics of interest for each track, see: https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/calls/

 

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SUBMISSION

We invite submissions for peer review that focus on any aspect of diagram research for each track, as follows:

•          Long Papers (16 pages)

•          Short Papers (8 pages)

•          Posters (4 pages – this is both a maximum and minimum requirement)

•          Abstracts, i.e. non-archival contributions (3 pages)

 

Submission date: March 1, 2026.

At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to attend the conference to present their research and respond to questions presented by delegates. Multiple submissions are accepted.

Long Papers, Short Papers, and Posters will be included in the conference proceedings. Abstracts, however, will not appear in the published proceedings but will be made available on the conference website. The Abstracts category is designed for presenting research at the conference without publishing a paper and is not intended for work-in-progress; such work should be submitted as a Poster.

More details, including formatting instructions and all-important dates, can be found at https://diagrams-conference.org/2026/calls/

Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently all the rage in most sciences and medical practice. Deep neural networks and other AI systems are successfully utilized to diagnose diseases from medical data, make predictions, and support treatment planning. Most of its tasks are epistemic, i.e., AI is used to gain knowledge or support inquiry and decision-making. As AI applications learn on the spot and become increasingly autonomous, it seems appropriate to consider them as epistemic agents.

This opens up a new perspective on AI applications: They become partners with which humans can interact in similar ways as with other humans. The idea that our inquiries are social – that they involve several humans and take place in specific “information ecosystems” – is crucial for social epistemology, a young and thriving subfield of epistemology. It is thus no surprise that scholars have begun to assess the use of AI in social epistemological terms.

This workshop brings together philosophers from the philosophy of AI and social epistemology to explore the current state of thinking about AI as a social, epistemic agent. The aim of the workshop is to find out how AI applications and their work can be understood using concepts and insights from social epistemology. A special focus is on applications from medicine.

Questions to be addressed include, but are not limited to:

• Are current AI applications really epistemic agents or rather mere tools?
• Which epistemic roles can current AI tools take in inquiry?
• Which insights and concepts from social epistemology can be transferred to the use of AI tools in medicine?
• Can, and should, some AI tools be treated as epistemic authorities?
• Which collaborative settings are recommendable for AI use in medicine?
• What consequences does the social epistemology of AI tools have for the demands of explainability?

We invite scholars interested in contributing their research to this workshop to submit an extended abstract of 500-1000 words and a short abstract of about 150 words. Please send your abstracts in a pdf-file suitable for anonymous peer review to andreas.wolkenstein@med.uni-muenchen.de until 01.12.2025 at the latest. Decisions will be communicated until 16.12.2025. Funding is available to cover travel and accommodation costs for those whose abstract is accepted.

The workshop provides room for ample discussion of the presenters’ work, the individual presentations are set to 75 minutes, including 30 minutes discussion.

The workshop will start on 26.03.2025 in the morning and end on 27.03.2026, late afternoon. Invited speakers who have confirmed their participation include Thomas Grundmann, Rico Hauswald, Inkeri Koskinen, Federica Malfatti, and Andreas Wolkenstein.

Organizers: Claus Beisbart (University of Bern), Andreas Wolkenstein (LMU Munich)

For inquiries please contact the organizers (claus.beisbart@unibe.ch and/or andreas.wolkenstein@med.uni-muenchen.de).

Workshop with Susanna Schellenberg on “The Nature of Perspectives” (her new book project)

at Ruhr-University Bochum, Dec. 11-12, 2025 (11th of Dec. 10.30 a.m. to 12th of Dec. 13.00/1.00 p.m.)

It’s an honour and a pleasure to host Prof. Susanna Schellenberg in Bochum. She is DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY & COGNITIVE SCIENCE at Rutgers University. She is an international expert on philosophy of perception. In her recent publications she also discusses aspects of the self and artificial intelligence. Those are the basis for her new upcoming book, in which she aims to discuss the nature of visual and cognitive perspectives. 

She will present three lectures on this new book project ‚The Nature of Perspectives’ and we invite early career researchers (PhD students and Postdocs) to submit abstracts (max. 700 words) for talks discussing and commenting on research topics of her work (see the folder with relevant articles https://ruhr-uni-bochum.sciebo.de/s/sypyY3KdbBrjiXq) or related own research. The abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Please send them by email to ‚Maja Griem‘ center-mindcognition@rub.de. Deadline is November 6th, 2025.

Organization:

Albert Newen & Team

Ruhr-University Bochum

The Food, Waste, and Sustainability: Synergizing Ontology Efforts 2025 Workshop will be held on November 14th as part of the 16th International Conference on Biological and Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2025).

Aim

In the last decades, several initiatives have dealt with developing ontologies for health, as witnessed by many of the resources provided by the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontology (OBO) Foundry. Recently, attention has also been given to modeling sustainability issues, which resulted in ontologies like Sustainability Core Ontology (SCO), Sustainable Development Goals Interface Ontology (SDGIO), Sustainable Met Systems Ontology (SuMSO), and Sustainable Development and Climate (SDC) Ontology. It is imperative to enhance interconnectedness among these ontologies and related applications. In particular, it will be important to communicate across different ontology communities to adequately capture the intrinsic connections between health and sustainability. This workshop aims at promoting discussions in this direction, focusing on waste, especially food and plastic waste, as a starting use case. The choice of this use case is motivated by the intrinsic relevance that this theme holds both in terms of human health and food systems sustainability. 

Topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

• Ontologies, logics, and semantics for sustainability and health.
• Conceptualizations and models of food and plastic waste. 
• Ontologies of plastic pollution, including micro- and nanoplastics
• Ontology applications to reduce and upscale waste in food systems.
• Initiatives to synergize sustainability and health ontologies and applications across ontology communities.

Important Dates

• Paper submission deadline: 20 October
• Abstract submission deadline: 20 October
• Notification of acceptance: 30 October
• Camera-ready papers: TBD according to ICBO2025 schedule.
• Workshop Date: November 14, 2025 

Location: Fully remote. 

Time and Duration: 4-7 pm CET.

Submission Guidelines

The workshop accepts both papers and abstracts for presentation addressing at least one of the aforementioned topics of interest. For each paper or abstract presentation accepted, at least one author must register. 

We welcome the following submission categories:

• Full-length papers: 7-10 pages (Including references).
• Short papers: up to 6 pages (Including references).
• Abstract: up to 2 pages (excluding references)

Please follow the guidelines for ICBO2025 main track submissions to format both papers and abstracts. Regarding the AUTHOR-AGREEMENT form, follow ICBO2025 guidelines and upload within your submission.

Submission Link

Please submit your work, in Word or PDF format, at the following link: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICBO2025/Submission/Index (Please select the author track:Food, Waste and Sustainability: Synergizing Ontology Efforts)

Publications

Accepted papers can be published as part of the ICBO Conference proceedings, which will be published as CEUR Workshop Proceedings within the IAOA series. Mere abstracts are not accepted by CEUR-WS.

Organizing Committee

Dr. Giorgio A. Ubbiali, PTH Brixen College, Bressanone, Italy 

Prof. Dr. Ludger Jansen, PTH Brixen College, Bressanone, Italy 

For more information, please consult the workshop website and contact Giorgio Ubbiali at giorgio.ubbiali@pthsta.it 

Sincerely,

Giorgio Ubbiali

Lug, Trug und Fake News: Über Formen der Unaufrichtigkeit

Internationale Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie

Erfurt, 4.–6. Juni 2026

Unaufrichtigkeit ist ein kommunes Phänomen, das in einer Reihe von Spielarten vorkommt. Doch obwohl die Unaufrichtigkeit menschenalt sein dürfte und menschenweit etwas so Gewöhnliches ist, sind die Definitionen ihrer Spielarten nach wie vor umstritten. Ebenso verhält es sich mit ihrer moralischen Beurteilung und den Antworten auf die Frage nach ihrer politischen Bedeutung.

Die Erfurter Tagung der Deutsch-Polnischen Gesellschaft für Philosophie zum Thema ‚Lug, Trug und Fake News: Über Formen der Unaufrichtigkeit’ soll Fragen der Moralphilosophie, der politischen Philosophie und Sprachphilosophie sowie der Philosophiegeschichte gewidmet sein. Es geht um sprachliche Formen der Unaufrichtigkeit: Lügen, Irreführen, Bullshitting, Gaslighting und irrationale Gegenerzählungen (big lies). Wie finden wir die richtigen Definientia und Unterscheidungen für Formen der Unaufrichtigkeit? Können Lügen wahr sein? Können alle Kreter immer lügen? Sind bald-faced lies Lügen? Wie funktionieren sprachliche Irreführungen? Ist Bullshitting gegenüber Fakten notwendig indifferent? Ist die kantische Auffassung der Lüge haltbar? Ist Hegels Kritik an ihr gerechtfertigt? Wie soll Unaufrichtigkeit moralisch beurteilt werden? Gibt es eine Pflicht zu lügen? Wann ist Unaufrichtigkeit politisch gerechtfertigt? Wie bedrohen irrationale Gegenerzählungen (big lies) die offene, demokratische Gesellschaft? Wie sollen wir uns zu den gesellschaftlichen und politischen Auswirkungen massenhafter Propagandalügen stellen?

Abstracts von ca. 300 Wörtern für Vorträge von 30 Minuten Länge schicken Sie bitte bis spätestens 1. November 2025 an gina-maria.leusenrink@uni-erfurt.de. Bitte geben Sie in der E-Mail Ihren Namen und Ihre institutionelle Zugehörigkeit an und fügen Sie das Dokument mit dem Abstract ohne Ihre persönlichen Daten als Anhang bei. Bei Rückfragen kontaktieren Sie bitte Prof. Dr. Guido Löhrer (guido.loehrer@uni-erfurt.de).

Einreichungsfrist für Abstracts: 01.11.2025

Ort: Erfurt

Beginn: 04.06.2026, 14:00

Ende: 06.06.2026, 13:00

Veranstaltende Institution: Deutsch-Polnische Gesellschaft für Philosophie

Professur für Praktische Philosophie, Universität Erfurt

Department of Philosophy Adam Mickiewicz University, in Pozńan, Poland

We are pleased to announce that iSAME – The International Symposium on Algorithms, Medicine and Ethics will take place, addressing the tactical care of people through joint action between humans and machines in the safety and security environment.

The symposium is aimed at both scientists and practitioners involved in technological development in the context of intelligent tactical capabilities for medical care. This includes the monitoring, medical care and evacuation of infectious, injured and contaminated persons and the ethical and technological implications thereof. The aim of the symposium is to promote exchange between expert groups from science and practice through various lecture and discussion formats. The symposium is aimed at all stakeholders, researchers and decision-makers from institutes, associations, federations and other organisations involved in safety and security issues relating to hazard prevention.

With lectures, panel discussions, poster presentations and workshops, it bears witness to the great variety of a modern and digital European rescue system.

We invite you to submit original, high-quality contributions in the following categories:

• Papers
• Posters (current work) | Image material | Demos
• Workshops | Tutorials

The submission topics include, but are not limited to:

Medical Ethics & Technology:

• Safety, security, risk, and emergency management – How to prioritize life, minimize damage, establish clear rules for operations, and weigh risks and benefits.
• Telemedicine, remote diagnostics, and field diagnostics – Access to medical care in crisis areas, data protection, and system reliability.
• Robotics and autonomous systems – robot-compatible support, drone technology, autonomous medical devices; ethical questions regarding control, responsibility, sources of error, and dehumanization.
• Artificial intelligence in diagnostics and decision support – transparency, explainability, bias avoidance, responsibility for incorrect recommendations in high-risk situations.
• Patient sovereignty, data protection, and data security – protection of sensitive health data in military contexts, GDPR-like requirements, access controls.
• Conflict and crisis ethics in research – ethical standards for studies in extreme situations, consent, vulnerability of population groups.
• Neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces – potential for healing vs. misuse, long-term consequences, safety.
• Personalized medicine – benefits and ethical risks in specialized application scenarios, fairness in access to advanced medicine.
• Sustainability, environmental and resource ethics – Environmental impact of medical technologies in areas of application, disposal, material consumption.
• Governance, regulation, and accountability – Who is liable for malfunctions in autonomous medical systems?

The iSAME consortium also invites selected authors of contributions to publish their results in the interdisciplinary book series Military and Humanitarian Health Ethics (https://link.springer.com/series/16133) by Springer Nature.

We are looking forward to your contributions!

The iSAME’26 Organizing Committee

Keynotes: Chiara Cordelli (University of Chicago), Bas van der Vossen (Chapman University)

The annual ‘Dortmund Disputes on Economic Justice’ serve as a forum for discussing questions of economic justice, including the role of markets, the nature of property, the justifiability of taxes, the importance of workplace democracy, the problem of economic inequality, and, more generally, the merits of capitalism and socialism. While debates on economic justice often occur within specific political camps, the Dortmund Disputes aim to foster discussion across political boundaries by bringing together scholars with diverse outlooks—liberal egalitarian, libertarian, socialist, conservative, or otherwise—who share the goal of advancing our understanding of economic justice.

Following the successful first installment in 2025, which featured Miranda Fleischer and Nicholas Vrousalis, the second installment will take place on June 25–26, 2026. The keynote speakers are Chiara Cordelli and Bas van der Vossen. Chiara Cordelli, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, works on social and political philosophy, especially political economy and democratic theory. She is the author of The Privatized State (2020), a Kantian critique of privatization that develops a democratic theory of public administration. Bas van der Vossen, Professor in the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy and the Philosophy Department at Chapman University, works on political philosophy, with a focus on political economy, global justice, and property rights. His books include In Defense of Openness (2018) and Debating Humanitarian Intervention (2017).

We invite scholars to apply with an abstract of around 500 words for a 40-minute talk. Abstracts will be selected based on their quality, fit with the spirit of the conference, and alignment with the research interests of the keynote speakers. They should be sent as PDF attachments to Karina Janke [karina.jahnke@tu-dortmund.de], prepared for blind review. The deadline for submission is February 1, 2026.

Organizers of the Conference: Jonas Harney, Peter Königs

Organizers of the Conference Series: Jonas Harney, Peter Königs, Christian Neuhäuser, Lea Prix, Dick Timmer (TU Dortmund University)

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)
• Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes)
• 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, not more than 250 words (not including references). Please submit your anonymized abstracts through our submission page.

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 2026

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: Jonathan Najenson & Markus Werning (Ruhr University Bochum)

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

Website: https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/phil-lang/tracesandengrams2025.html

Ergänzend zu ihrer Jahrestagung, die traditionell im Herbst stattfindet, veranstaltet die Akademie für Ethik in der Medizin (AEM) eine jährliche Frühjahrstagung. Diese wendet sich an Wissenschaftler*innen in allen Karrierestufen, die auf dem Gebiet der Medizin- und Gesundheitsethik forschen. Eingerahmt von zwei Keynote-Lectures international renommierter Fachkolleg*innen besteht die Möglichkeit, in thematisch gruppierten parallelen Sektionen eigene Forschungsarbeiten vorzustellen und sich zum eigenen Forschungsgebiet auszutauschen.

Willkommen sind Bewerbungen mit einschlägigen Fachbeiträgen aus allen relevanten Disziplinen, deren Fokus auf ethischer Forschung zu Medizin, Gesundheitswesen, Lebens- oder Pflegewissenschaften liegt. Vorträge zu konzeptionellen Überlegungen sind ebenso erwünscht wie die Präsentation empirischer Studien mit ethischer Reflexion. Es sind sowohl deutsch- als auch englischsprachige Vorträge möglich.

Die Dauer der Vorträge beträgt 20 Min. + 10 Min. Diskussion.

Die Teilnahme an der Tagung ist kostenlos, es wird aber eine verbindliche Anmeldung vorausgesetzt. Eine Teilnahme ist auch ohne eigenen Beitrag möglich.

Bewerbung:

Um sich für einen Vortrag zu bewerben, reichen Sie bitte ein Abstract von maximal 2.500 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen) ein. Um möglichst vielen Personen Gelegenheit zur Präsentation ihrer Forschungsergebnisse zu geben, bittet der Vorstand der AEM, nur einen Abstract pro Erstautor*in einzureichen. Ferner bittet der Vorstand darum, keine gleichartigen Abstracts für die Frühjahrs- und die Jahrestagung einzureichen. Die Auswahl der Abstracts erfolgt anonymisiert durch die Mitglieder des Vorstands, nach den Kriterien der wissenschaftlichen Qualität, Originalität und ethischen Relevanz.