Art der Ankündigung: Veranstaltung

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Die politische Epistemologie untersucht die epistemischen Bedingungen demokratischer Politik. Die politische Phänomenologie richtet demgegenüber den Fokus auf die Erfahrungsdimension des Politischen. Ziel des Workshops ist es, einen strukturierten Austausch zwischen beiden Ansätzen zu findet, in dem erkenntnistheoretische und phänomenologische Perspektiven auf demokratische Institutionen und Prozesse zusammengeführt werden. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei insbesondere institutionelle Prozesse demokratischer Gesellschaften sowie die Frage, wie Gemeinschaften und Mitglieder dieser Gemeinschaften sich innerhalb dieser Prozesse orientieren und Handlungsmöglichkeiten erschließen.

Vortragende sind: Thomas Bedorf, Gerhard Thonhauser, Gabriel Mehmel, Ezgi Sertler, Sonja Riegler und Nikita Dhawan. Die Vorträge und Diskussionen sind auf Englisch.

Der Workshop findet am Montag, 23. November von 11-20.00 Uhr an der TU Dresden statt. Die Veranstaltung wird finanziell unterstützt durch die GAP und den Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie an der TU Dresden, Prof. Tamara Jugov.

Zur Anmeldung und bei Fragen bitte bei den Organisator*innen melden: Gabriel Mehmel & Hilkje C. Hänel (hilkje_charlotte.haenel@tu-dresden.de)

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Political epistemology examines the epistemic conditions of democratic politics. Political phenomenology, by contrast, focuses on the experiential dimension of the political. The goal of the workshop is to facilitate a structured exchange between the two approaches, bringing together epistemological and phenomenological perspectives on democratic institutions and processes. The focus is particularly on institutional processes in democratic societies, as well as on the question of how communities and their members navigate these processes and identify opportunities for action.

The speakers are: Thomas Bedorf, Gerhard Thonhauser, Gabriel Mehmel, Ezgi Sertler, Sonja Riegler, and Nikita Dhawan. Talks and discussion will be in English.

The workshop will take place on Monday, November 23, from 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at TU Dresden. The event is financially supported by GAP and the Chair of Practical Philosophy at TU Dresden, Prof. Tamara Jugov.

To register or if you have any questions, please contact the organizers: Gabriel Mehmel & Hilkje C. Hänel (hilkje_charlotte.haenel@tu-dresden.de)

The workshop takes place at the TU Dortmund, Lamarr Institute, and can be attended online via Zoom. It is part of the interdisciplinary research project „Data, Theories, and Scientific Explanation: The Case of Astroparticle Physics“ funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation). It will bring together philosophers of science and colleagues from astroparticle physics, computer science, and statistics. It will focus on the way in which machine learning models manage to extract significant data from data sets that contain a huge background of irrelevant data. Current methods of statistical data analysis base the extraction of the significant data on probabilistic quality standards for representative signatures and employ machine learning models to extract the relevant data subsamples.

Invited Speakers: Pierre-Hugues Beauchemin (Tufts University), Silvia De Bianchi (Milano), Koray Karaca (Ankara), Mahdi Khalili (Bern), Michael Schmelling (Heidelberg), Dinah Pfau (München), Kent W. Staley (Saint Louis University), Michael Stöltzner (South Carolina)

For further information and the zoom-link, see https://events.lamarr-institute.org/event/441

Zusammen mit Studierenden der Universität Duisburg-Essen richtet der Young Minds Philosophy e.V. zum dritten Mal die Young Minds Conference aus – diesmal mit einem Fokus auf Sozialphilosophie und am Campus Essen! Wir freuen uns auf Gastvorträge von Dr. Sophie Kikkert (LMU, München) und Dr. Maren Behrensen (Universität Twente, Enschede), sowie viele spannende Vorträge von Studis aus ganz Deutschland und darüber hinaus.

Dazu laden wir herzlich am 29. und 30. Oktober 2026 nach Essen ein!

Wir bitten um Anmeldung bis zum 25.10. unter

• https://eveeno.com/youngmindsconference2026

Alle Angemeldeten erhalten rechtzeitig genauere Informationen zum Programm (siehe unten) und zu den Räumlichkeiten.

Unsere Konferenz gibt Studierenden aus unterrepräsentierten Gruppen erste Einblicke in den wissenschaftlichen Karriereweg und ermöglicht ihnen, ihre Arbeiten zu präsentieren und sich auszutauschen. Interessierten Studierenden empfehlen wir, ihre Fachbereiche, Gleichstellungskommissionen oder ihren AStA zu kontaktieren, um Möglichkeiten einer Übernahme der Reise- und Übernachtungskosten zu erfragen.

Finanzielle Unterstützung für die Konferenz kommt vom Institut Philosophie der Universität Duisburg-Essen, von der Qualitätsverbesserungskommission der Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, dem GAP e.V., der DGPhil und dem SW*IP Germany e.V.

Bei allen Fragen steht das Orga-Team der Konferenz selbstverständlich gerne zur Verfügung. Dafür einfach eine E-Mail an youngmindsconference@gmail.com schreiben.

Herzliche Grüße

Das Team der Young Minds Conference 2026

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Donnerstag, 29.10.2026 (10:00 – 16:45 Uhr)

• Dr. Sophie Kikkert (LMU München): Rational Self-limiting Belief and its Remedy
• Anna-Sophie Thißen (Katholische Hochschule Köln): „Pregnancy does not belong to the woman herself.“ (Young 1984: 45) – Epistemische Ungerechtigkeit und die Ausbeutung weiblicher Produktivität im kapitalistischen Patriarchat
• Peixuan Zhao (Universität Gent): Stickiness and the Structual Origin of Affective Injustice
• Shenning Shi (Universität Gent): Affective Justice Without Emotional Labour
• Annalena Szegedi (TU Dresden): Zwischen Anpassung und Widerstand: Wut im Oppressive Double Bind

Freitag, 30.10.2026 (10:00 – 14:45 Uhr)

• Dr. Maren Behrensen (Universiteit Twente): Reading ‚There Is No Antimemetics Division‘ as an Allegory for Some Current Problems in Applied Social Epistemology
• Lena Rivera (TU Dresden): Verantwortung ohne Übernahme: Zur Verweigerung einer besonderen Verantwortung im Kontext sexualisierter Gewalt
• Josefine Schmeling (Universität Münster und Osnabrück): Mut zur Lücke – Was kostet Falbos ‘lückenlose’ hermeneutische Ungerechtigkeit?
• Emilia Lafleur (Humboldt Universität Berlin): Opfer der Umstände? Über moralische Schuld trotz rassistischer Sozialisierung

Ort: Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universitätsstraße 12, 45141 Essen

PhEEL Masterclasses in Emotion Theory

Duisburg-Essen University

The PhEEL Masterclasses in Emotion Theory present opportunities for advanced students and specialists to engage intensively with a prominent emotion theorist over the course of a day. We discuss two key texts that present the core of their account as well as their critique of other views (both pre-read). The Masterclasses are organised by the Philosophy of Emotion Essen Lab (PhEEL) at the University of Duisburg-Essen. They aim to promote a deeper understanding of important strands of contemporary research on emotions.

PhEEL Masterclass III:

Emotions, Appraisals and Goals

with Agnes Moors (Leuven)

5th November 2025

Timetable:

10-12: Stimulus Evaluation Theories

12-14: Lunch

14-16: Emotions as High-Impact Decisions: A Goal-Directed Theory

The PhEEL Masterclasses are organised by Hichem Naar and Neil Roughley. To register for participation, please write to hichem.naar@uni-due.de with your name and affiliation. All registered participants will receive papers to be pre-read.

In order to increase the accessibility of the Masterclasses to students, PhEEL will cover 50€ of the accommodation costs for the first ten external student participants to register.

Registration is now open for the workshop “Agency in the real world”, taking place on 30 October 2026 at the University of Konstanz. The workshop focuses on philosophical and interdisciplinary aspects of agency.

Speakers are:

– Helen Steward (Leeds)

– Thomas Müller (Konstanz)

– Hans J. Briegel (Innsbruck)

– Alexander Vining (Innsbruck)

– Jesse Mulder (Utrecht).

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please register by 15 October 2026.

November 19

9:45-10:00 Welcome

10:00-11:00 Vivien Kurpiela (University of Bonn): Spinoza’s Modal Integration Challenge

11:00-12:00 David Wörner (University of Stuttgart): Nominal Essence and the Question of Realism

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-14:30 Renata Ramos (Fluminense Federal University): Apperception or Reflection? Consciousness and the Monadic Hierarchy in Leibniz

14:30-15:30 Daniel Bella (University of Hamburg): Common Properties and Dispositions in Spinoza’s Metaphysics

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Robert Pasnau (University of Colorado Boulder): Could Early Modern Philosophy Have Begun with Nicholas of Autrecourt, circa 1330?

November 20

9:00-10:00   Alexandra Abranches (University of Minho – Braga): Astell and Immanent Critique

10:00-11:00  Matthew Leisinger (York University): Cudworth on Indifference

11:00-11:30  Coffee Break

11:30-12:30  Louis Pijaudier-Cabot (University of Milan): Presence and Eucharist in Leibniz

12:30-14:00  Lunch Break

14:00-15:00  Guido Seywald (University of Vienna): George Berkeley’s Master Argument and its Relation to his Critique of Abstract Ideas

15:00-16:00  Pia Schneider (UC Berkeley): Grasping Incongruence: Kant’s Argument in §13 of the Prolegomena

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:00  Ursula Renz (University of Graz): Perspective-Taking as a Norm of Doxastic Rationality: What’s the Point of Kant’s Second Maxim?

When: November 19–20, 2026

Where: LMU Munich, Ludwigstr. 28, room 115 (Freskensaal)

Organization: Sebastian Bender

Dear all,

we are pleased to announce call for registration for the international workshop in Bochum at the 22.-23. Oct. 2026. The workshop will be completely hybrid. If you want to participate in person, please register until the 11th of October 2026 (see below):

Workshop on: Perception-Thought Transitions: New Perspectives on the Bi-directional Relation of Perception & Thought. The workshop will focus on discussions of new philosophical results about the nature of perception and thought and their relationships.

Location: Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (see homepage for venue plan) & Online via Zoom

Date: October 22–23, 2026

Keynote speakers: Fiona Macpherson, Francesco Marchi, Albert Newen, Ophelia Deroy, Ned Block, Gabriele Ferretti, Kevin Lande, Ayoob Shahmoradi, Tyler Burge (tbc)

Scientific organization: Francesco Marchi, Albert Newen & Ayoob Shahmoradi (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Organizational support: Maja Griem (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Registration is free, but due to limit space, please register here for in-person participation: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScvAxQYxs1uDQ6M3NcYTbxIuM2_0EL_WTNB5D4TYRIPwDtpXQ/viewform?usp=dialog

Find the program here: https://perception-thought-transitions.philosophy-cognition.com/?page_id=28

Online participation does not need registration.

Find the Zoom link soon here: https://perception-thought-transitions.philosophy-cognition.com/?page_id=37

Registration is now open for the conference „Normative Reasons and Morality,“ taking place 19–20 November 2026 at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Speakers:

– Brendan de Kenessey (Baruch College, CUNY)

– Jimmy Goodrich (Wisconsin–Madison)

– Ulrike Heuer (UCL)

– Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld)

– Jiwon Kim (UCD)

– Peter Schaber (Zurich)

– Thomas Schmidt (Humboldt)

– Mathea Slåttholm Sagdahl (Oslo)

– Paulina Sliwa (Vienna)

– Jonathan Way (Southampton)

Attendance is free, but registration is required. If you would like to attend, please register by November 1, 2026 via: reasonsandmore@uni-frankfurt.de

Further practical information (programme, venue details, etc.) will follow closer to the event. We look forward to welcoming you in Frankfurt!

Kant’s Concept of Freedom: Transcendental, Moral, Political

5th International Doctoral Colloquium of the Kant-Gesellschaft

Fakultätssaal, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 28–29 September 2026

The 5th International Doctoral Colloquium of the Kant-Gesellschaft will take place at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz on 28 and 29 September 2026. It is organised in collaboration with the Kant-Forschungsstelle Mainz.

The colloquium aims to examine Kant’s multifaceted concept of freedom across his works, investigating its transcendental, moral, and political dimensions.

The talks will engage with important debates in Kant scholarship, such as free causality versus empirical temporality, the Canon Problem in the Critique of Pure Reason, the recognition of others’ freedom, autonomy and practical agency, as well as external freedom and its obligations.

Keynote speakers:

Pauline Kleingeld (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Joe Saunders (University of Durham)

Speakers:

Lara Biehl (Universität Bern)

Jing Gao (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Henning Kirschbaum (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Martin Obreque (Diego Portales University)

William Patterson (King’s College London)

Bennet Salzmann (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

Carlina Schreiber (Universität zu Köln)

Haorui Wu (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)

The colloquium is open to all interested colleagues and students; the conference languages are English and German. It begins at 9:00 on 28 September and ends at 13:00 on 29 September. To register, please write to kant@uni-mainz.de by 25 September 2026.

Further information and the poster: https://www.philosophie.fb05.uni-mainz.de/files/2026/08/Poster-Freiheit-9.pdf.

Organisers: Lucia Volonté, Henning Kirschbaum and Konstantin Pollok (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz). For further information, please contact henning.kirschbaum@uni-mainz.de or lvolont@uni-mainz.de.

The colloquium is generously supported by the Kant-Gesellschaft, the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, the Freunde der Universität Mainz, and the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie (GAP).

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?

Talks by:

• Ava Geenen (Chapel Hill): The New Sunk Cost Fallacy
• Frank Hofmann (Luxembourg): Inference, reasoning, and inquiry
• Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld): Epistemic Reasons and the Balancing View of Ought
• Stephan Leuenberger (Glasgow): Mental interstate movement: It’s the journey that counts
• David Lussi (Bern): Explaining Good Reasoning in Terms of Reasons
• Alessandra Marra (Munich): Logical Norms and Normative Logical Pluralism
• Conor McHugh (Nancy): What (if Anything) is Deductive Inference?

The workshop is hosted by the University of Bern’s Institute of Philosophy and organized by David Lussi and Andreas Müller. If you would like to attend, please write to andreas.mueller@unibe.ch before 6 September.