Art der Ankündigung: Veranstaltung

Am 17. Juni 2026 richtet das BMFTR-geförderte Forschungsprojekt Praktische Herausforderungen des Klimawandels (PRACC) seine Abschlusskonferenz mit dem Titel „Zwischen Bewahrung und Wiederherstellung: Naturschutz im Zeitalter des Klimawandels“ im Poppelsdorfer Schloss in Bonn aus.

Mit Projektende präsentiert die Abschlusskonferenz die wichtigsten Projektergebnisse und eröffnet einen Dialog zwischen Wissenschaft, Politik und Öffentlichkeit. Im Fokus stehen insbesondere die ethische, rechtliche und ökologische Einordnung der EU-Wiederherstellungsverordnung, welche von der Europäischen Union als politischer Rahmen geschaffen wurde, um geschädigte Ökosysteme langfristig zu regenerieren und ihre Funktionsfähigkeit zu sichern. In diesem Zuge werden weiter auch die praktischen Herausforderungen ihrer Umsetzung in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Kontexten beleuchtet und neben grundlegenden konzeptionellen Fragen auch konkrete Anwendungs- und Zielkonflikte diskutiert.

Veranstaltungsort:

Poppelsdorfer Schloss, Meckenheimer Allee 169, 53115 Bonn

Programm

Einführung:

Prof. Dr. Dirk Lanzerath

Deutsches Referenzzentrum für Ethik in den Biowissenschaften, Universität Bonn

Grußwort des Rektorats:

Prof. Dr. Annette Scheersoi

Prorektorat für Nachhaltigkeit, Universität Bonn

Keynote Lecture:

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hetzel

Institut für Philosophie, Universität Hildesheim

Impulsvortrag:

Dr. Stefan Klose

Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit

Podiumsdiskussion mit:

Dr. Marius Bartmann

Deutsches Referenzzentrum für Ethik in den Biowissenschaften, Universität Bonn

Prof. Dr. Dr. Tade M. Spranger

Centre for the Law of Life Sciences, Universität Bonn

Prof. Dr. Sandra Venghaus

Institute of Climate and Energy Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich

Prof. Dr. Max Weigend

Bonner Institut für Organismische Biologie, Universität Bonn

moderiert von:

Dr. Aurélie Halsband

Deutsches Referenzzentrum für Ethik in den Biowissenschaften, Universität Bonn

Kantsequentialism – A Masterclass with Douglas W. Portmore

Bielefeld University, 09–11 June 2026. 

Douglas W. Portmore defends a new moral theory he calls Kantsequentialism. On this view, our most fundamental moral duty is to adopt certain ends—in particular, these four: (a) not manifesting a lack of recognition respect for any person, (b) promoting the impersonal good, (c) being partial concerning certain special relationships, and (d) avoiding the risk of any personal or impersonal disaster. As its name suggests, Kantsequentialism is a hybrid of utilitarianism and Kantianism that combines their different strengths. From utilitarianism, Kantsequentialism takes its act-consequentialism—the idea that whether an agent ought to perform an act just depends on whether they ought to prefer the way it would make the world go to all the ways that the available alternatives would make it go. This allows Kantsequentialism to accommodate our commonsense views about action and reasons for action. From Kantianism, Kantsequentialism takes its commitment both to respecting autonomy and to what W. D. Ross called “the highly personal character of duty” (1930, 22). This allows Kantsequentialism to accommodate our commonsense views about morality, including the idea that, besides the relation of benefactor to beneficiary, there are several other morally relevant relations, including that of agent to patient, lover to beloved, promiser to promisee, etc. These relations are morally relevant despite being relevant only from one’s own actual perspective. In this masterclass, we will take a close look at Portmore’s theory and critically engage with it as a philosophical proposal.

The masterclass is organized by Benjamin Kiesewetter, Department of Philosophy, Bielefeld University. It is intended for PhD, MA, and advanced BA students. Attendance is free, but registration is required and places may be limited. Please register via: eike.schilling@uni-bielefeld.de. 

This is an on-campus event at Bielefeld University; remote participation is not available. For more information, see https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/abteilung/ereignisse/masterclass/.

Wittgensteins Werk ist durchzogen von Untersuchungen zu den Formen und Gestalten menschlichen Wissens: das im sinnvollen Satz artikulierte propositionale Wissen von Tatsachen, das unartikuliert-unartikulierbare eingespielte know-how des Sprachspiels, das „Jetzt weiß ich’s!“ des Regelfolgenkönnens, das praktische Wissen, was ich will, beabsichtige und tue, das erstpersonale „Wissen, wie es ist“ der gelebten Erfahrung, das zweitpersonale Wissen von den seelischen Zuständen anderer, die unhintergehbaren Gewissheiten der Lebensform, die dem Zweifel entzogen sind: Wie diese Gestalten des Wissens sich konstitutiv voneinander unterscheiden und doch wechselseitig bedingen, ist das Thema des 8. Wittgenstein-Forums der Internationalen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft. Wie verhalten sich die vielfältigen Sprachspiele des Wissens zueinander, wie hängen sie miteinander zusammen? Wie werden verschiedene Gestalten des Wissens erworben und tradiert, worin manifestieren sie sich, wie können sie befragt, bezweifelt und weiterentwickelt werden? In welchem Rahmen und vor welchem Hintergrund genießen bestimmte von ihnen begriffliche Priorität? Die Vorträge des 8. Wittgenstein-Forums der Internationalen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft verstehen sich als Beiträge zu einer übersichtlichen Darstellung der Grammatik des Wissens nach Wittgenstein.

Vorträge von: Valérie Aucouturier (Louvain), James Conant (Chicago), Fabian Goppelsröder (Karlsruhe), Jens Kertscher (Darmstadt), Gabriele M. Mras (Wien), Volker Munz (Klagenfurt), Gilad Nir (Potsdam), Genia Schönbaumsfeld (Southampton), Anne-Marie Søndergaard Christensen (Odense)

Organisiert von David Lauer und Yara Windmüller (Kiel) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Internationalen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft

Ort

Seeburg (Konferenzzentrum der CAU Kiel)

Düsternbrooker Weg 2, 24105 Kiel

Konferenzsprache: Deutsch, ausgewählte Vorträge auf Englisch

Anmeldung:

Senden Sie zur Anmeldung bitte bis zum 05.07.2026 eine E-Mail mit vollständigem Namen an Yara Windmüller (stu220550@mail.uni-kiel.de). Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos.

 

We are happy to announce that the first installment of this year’s inner speech series will take place on May 28th, with Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison) as our speaker. He will be giving a talk titled: „Do thoughts have a format?“. Further information and the abstract can be found below.

 

Date & Time: 28-05-25, 16:30-18:00 CEST

Link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/345014069399153?p=RWDfS3OrNuOdEmFgGE

 

Abstract

People vary substantially in how they describe their thoughts: many report near-constant inner monologue and vivid visual imagery; some report sporadic and condensed inner speech; others report a near-absence of inner speech, often coupled with little visual imagery and claims of “thinking in concepts.” I will first address the possibility that these reports are mere confabulations, and argue that although it is possible to be wrong about one’s own subjective experience, there is good reason to think these differences are real, as evidenced by the internal reliability and predictive validity of people’s reports. I will then consider whether people think in different representational formats, and make an initial case that while thoughts have conceptual roles, the question of their representational format may be a category error.

 

If you would like to subscribe to (or unsubscribe from) the mailing list, please contact: jonida.kodra@uni-osnabrueck.de.

 

We hope to see many of you there!

Best regards,

Jonida Kodra, Daniel Müller and Mathijs Geurts (University of Osnabrück and Paris Lodron University Salzburg)

Ankündigung Workshop Autonomy & Algorithms

 

Date

11 June 2026 – 12 June 2026

 

Event

Workshop

 

Location

Room 145/146, Building 50.41, KIT, Karlsruhe

 

As algorithms become increasingly pervasive in shaping the choices we make, they put pressure on traditional assumptions about autonomy. The way algorithms filter and present information has a profound, and sometimes distorting, impact on human inquiry and decision-making. This shift is especially evident in fields such as risk assessment, predictive policing, and personalized advertising. The workshop aims to combine systematic and ethical perspectives to explore unresolved questions, such as:

 

•     What does it mean to act and think autonomously in contexts mediated by algorithms?

•     How do algorithmic environments affect inquiry?

•     How does algorithmic influence differ from other forms of social or institutional influence?

•     Who is responsible for the impact that algorithms have on our autonomy?

 

Participating Speakers

·       Leonie Buschoff (TU Dortmund)

·       Simona Chiodo (Politecnico di Milano)

·       Keith Harris (University of Vienna)

·       Joshua Habgood-Coote (Universität of Leeds)

·       Alina Jacobs (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

·       Margherita Mattioni

·       Nicola Mößner (Aachen University of Technology)

·       Carina Prunkl (University of Oxford)

·       Otto Sahlgren (Tampere University)

·       Christian Seidel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

The workshop will take place from 11 June 2026 to 12 June 2026 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) 

and is organized within the DFG-project »The Ethics of State Mass Surveillance. 

Registration by email (office.seidel@itz.kit.edu) by June 5th 2026 required.

Workshop: Husserl, Sellars, Intentionality

12 May 2026 | KU Leuven

The workshop brings together two philosophical traditions that have had remarkably little to say to each other, given how much they share. Its guiding concern is to explore what the resources of Husserl’s and Sellars’ philosophies, taken together, can contribute to a theory of intentionality, the relationship of lifeworld and scientific theory, and what transcendental method still has to offer the philosophy of mind, including its more naturalistically inclined variants.

The format follows a Collective Research model. Junior researchers, mid-career scholars, and established figures are invited to pool their expertise rather than perform it. Those interested in commenting on paper drafts ahead of the event are welcome to write to agne.valatkaite@kuleuven.be. 

Attendance is free but registration is required for in-person or remote attendance. The registration form is open until 11th May 2026.

Further information: https://husserl-sellars-intentionality.pages.dev

Programme

09:45-10:00   Agnė Valatkaitė – Welcome

10:00-11:30 Gregor Bös [Leuven] – Husserl’s Lifeworld-Foundation of Science and Sellars’ Grain Argument 

Coffee Break

12:00-13:30 Luz Christopher Seiberth [Potsdam] – Accepting First Principles

13:30-14:30 Lunch

14:30-16:00 Agnė Valatkaitė [Leuven] – Grounding Material Inference: Varieties of Evidence and Subjunctive Robustness of Intentional Content 

Coffee Break

16:30-18:00 Alexander Porto [Duquesne] – We-Intentions and I-Intentions

Respondents: 

Emanuele Caminada

Sybren Heyndels

Julia Jansen

Batoul Sukkar

Henning Tegtmeyer

This workshop is funded by the Husserl Archives, the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the Doctoral School of Philosophy at KU Leuven.

Hamburg Philosophy of Fiction Workshop 2026

University of Hamburg, June 1–2, 2026

Speakers and talks:

Bahadir Eker: Fiction and Allovocal Speech

Manuel Englert: Fictional characters exist, but do not really exist

Stefan Hinterwimmer: An analysis of fictional quotes in everyday conversation and in Internet memes

Hannah H. Kim: Nonfiction is not (just) to be believed

Tilmann Köppe: An „invincible“ solution concerning truth in fiction

Eliot Michaelson & Alex Radulescu: Artist’s Intentions and the Problem of Novelty

Dolf Rami: On the distinction between fictional characters and fictional objects

Nadja-Mira Yolcu: Twisting the Tale: Narrators, Authors, and Insincerity

Funded by the University of Hamburg and the Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie – GAP.

To register, please email manuel.englert@student.uni-hamburg.de by May 22.

Modus: Präsenzveranstaltung

Kontaktadresse: emanuel.viebahn@uni-hamburg.de

Workshop

Acting As If: Perspectives on Pretending

Département de Philosophie

Université de Genève

27 May 2026

Espace Colladon

Rue Jean-Daniel Colladon 2

1205 Genève

Organized by:

Julia Langkau, Université de Genève

Michael Balmer, Université de Neuchâtel

PROGRAM

09:30-10:45   

Monika Dunin-Kozicka (Catholic University of Lublin):

“Pretending as Experience-Making“

11:00-12:15  

Michael Balmer (University of Neuchâtel):

“From Pretending to Collective Intentional Attitudes”

 

14:00-15:15   

Neil Van Leeuwen (Florida State University):

“Pretense is Representation”

15:30-16:45  

Julia Wolf (Ruhr University Bochum/University of Osnabrück):

“The Status of Pretence – Between Acting As-If and Thinking As-If”

Fehlende URL:

https://www.philosophie.lmu.de/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungsuebersicht/veranstaltung/workshop-on-jim-kreines-hegel-and-spinoza-cambridge-2026-3bddf394.html

This one-day workshop brings together scholars of early modern philosophy and German idealism to comment on and discuss topics related to Jim Kreines’s new book ‘Hegel and Spinoza’ (Cambridge University Press 2026). The book concerns Hegel’s engagement with Spinoza’s metaphysics, including Hegel’s interpretation of Spinoza’s monism, his criticism that Spinoza’s philosophy must eliminate all finitude and determinacy, and the way in which understanding this engagement can help us understand Hegel’s Logic.

The event is hosted by Sebastian Bender and Andrew Stephenson at LMU, Munich. The speakers are: Jim Kreines, Claremont McKenna; Karolina Hübner, UCLA; Ulrich Schlösser, Tübingen; Andreas Schmidt, Jena. Participation is free and open but please let u s know if you will attend so that we have an accurate idea of numbers.

Workshop on Jim Kreines’ Hegel and Spinoza (Cambridge 2026)

LMU, Munich, Friday June 26th, 2026, Leopoldstr. 13. House 2, Room 2401 (4th floor)

Program

10:00–10:05                       Welcome, Sebastian Bender & Andrew Stephenson, LMU

10:05–10:30                       Introduction, Jim Kreines, Claremont McKenna

10:30-12:00                        First Session, Karolina Hübner, UCLA

12:00–13:30                       Lunch

13:30–15:00                       Second Session, Ulrich Schlösser, Tübingen

15:00–15:30                       Coffee

15:30–17:00                       Third Session, Andreas Schmidt, Jena