Art der Ankündigung: Veranstaltung

We are happy to announce another season of the online Inner Speech colloquium starting next month, with a new list of speakers: 

– May 28th – Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

– June 25th – Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge)

– July 16th – Romain Bourdoncle (Collège de France) & Axel Baptista (Institut Jean Nicod)

– August 20th – Aleksandr Fadeev (University of Leuven)

– September 24th – Keith Frankish (University of Sheffield) 

Times are all 16:30 CEST

More info about the first talk coming soon. We hope to see many of you there next month! For more information or to subscribe to the mailing list, contact: jonida.kodra@uni-osnabrueck.de

Best regards,

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

Welche neuen ethischen Probleme stellen sich durch die fortschreitende Digitalisierung in allen Lebensbereichen? Und wie sollte Wissenschaft auf den Bedarf an ethischer Reflexion reagieren? Die Beiträge der Veranstaltung thematisieren die besondere Herausforderung künstlicher Intelligenz für die Ethik, die Notwendigkeit interdisziplinärer Forschung und Einwände, die man gegen das Projekt der Angewandten Ethik vorbringen kann.

Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen.

We are pleased to announce our workshop „Acceptance in Language, Mind, and Action“, which takes place from June 8-9th at the Free University of Berlin. 

The workshop will explore the potential role of acceptance across different areas of philosophy. It is hosted by our DFG project „Norms and Nature of Acceptance“, led by Moritz Schulz and Alexander Dinges. 

June 8th

12:50-13:00: Welcome

13:00-14:15: Laura Soter (York University)

14:45-16:00: Puneh Nejati-Mehr (London School of Economics)

16:30-17:45: Samuel Boardman (Saarland University)

June 9th

09:45-11:00: Henry Schiller (King’s College London)

11:30-12:45: Lukas Lewerentz (JLU Giessen & FU Berlin)

14:15-15:30: Ashley Shaw (Trinity College Dublin)

Venue: Seminarzentrum FU Berlin, Room L115, Otto-von-Simson-Str. 26, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem.

Participation is free of charge. Please register by emailing the organisers at samuel.boardmann@uni-saarland.de or lukas.lewerentz@fu-berlin.de. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We gratefully acknowledge support from the German Research Foundation (DFG: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP: Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie).

The workshop „Memory and Emotions“ explores the complex relationship between affective experience and episodic memory from a philosophical perspective. Focusing on issues such as emotional encoding, recollection, and the possible re-instantiation of past affective states, it addresses questions at the intersection of philosophy of mind and moral philosophy, including the role of memory in shaping and transforming emotions such as resentment.

Sven Bernecker (Cologne) –

FORGETTING RESENTMENT

Dorothea Debus (Erlangen) –

MEMORY, EMOTIONS AND SELF-UNDERSTANDING

Fabrice Teroni (Geneva) –

SOME KEY RELATIONS BETWEEN MEMORY AND EMOTIONS

Organisation: Katja Crone (Dortmund) & Eva Weber-Guskar (Bochum)

Ort: Veranstaltungszentrum Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Saal 1

Please register by 18 May via: inga.seiffert@rub.de

Aufklärung, Toleranz, Fortschritt: Ein deutsch-japanischer Dialog. Workshop in Marburg am 07.05.2026 und 08.05.2026.

07.05.2026:

13:20–13:30

Begrüßung

13:30–14:30

Achim Vesper – Kant, Mendelssohn und nachkommende

Generationen

14:30–15:00

Masahide Goto – Kulturelle Unterschiede und Toleranz – Moses

Mendelssohn und das heutige Japan

15:30–16:30

Sofie Møller – Kant on Progress

16:30–17:30

Anne Kühler – Von der Toleranz zur Neutralität – und wieder

zurück?

17:45–19:00

Keynote: Rainer Forst – Die Geschichte der Toleranz: Zwischen

Fortschritt und Regression

08.05.2026:

09:30-10:30

Kento Miyata – Why Follow the Discourse Principle? — The Unity

of Agency as the Source of Its Normativity

11:00–12:00

Shotaro Tahara – Amae as a Relational Autonomy

12:00–13:00

Eva Buddeberg – Grenzen der Toleranz in liberalen

Demokratien

Organisation: Eva Buddeberg und Masahide Goto

Ort: Universität Marburg, Ketzerbach 63, Raum +2/0140

Anmeldung erbeten bis zum 30.04.2026 unter hirschl(at)students.uni-marburg.de

The Right to Be Known. Epistemic Reparations and the Making of Rounder Stories

Jennifer Lackey (Northwestern University)

Monday, 4. May, 18:15–20:00 – Epistemic Reparations and the Right to Be Known

Tuesday, 5. May, 18:15–20:00 – Stories That Wrong and Stories That Repair

Wednesday, 6. May, 18:15–20:00 – Talking, Listening, and Learning

University of Bern (Switzerland)

Main building, Hochschulstrasse 4, room 120

Abstracts and additional information: https://www.philosophie.unibe.ch/atl

The Anna Tumarkin Lectures in Philosophy are a lecture series dedicated to presenting top women philosophers.

The Anna Tumarkin Lectures in Philosophy are organized by the Institute for Philosophy at the University of Bern and supported by the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Was schulden wir minderjährigen Flüchtlingen – und warum? Diese Fragen stehen im Zentrum des Buches „Migration, Kindheit und die Grenzen der Gerechtigkeit“ von Karoline Reinhardt (Universität Passau) und Gottfried Schweiger (Universität Salzburg).

Am 6. Mai 2026 (15:30–17:00 Uhr, online) diskutieren Susanne Mantel (Universität Heidelberg), Michael Reder (Hochschule für Philosophie München) und Ahmet Toprak (Hochschule Dortmund) mit den Autor:innen und dem Publikum zentrale Fragen des Buches. Moderation: Laura Martena (Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing).

Das Buch ist 2025 im Open-Access-Format beim transcript Verlag erschienen und online frei verfügbar.

Webseite: https://www.plus.ac.at/zentrum-fuer-ethik-und-armutsforschung/migration-kindheit-buchsymposium/

Ethics and Innovation Conference 2026

June 22–23, 2026 | Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH)

Hosted by the Institute for Ethics in Technology

The Ethics and Innovation conference brings together leading researchers of technology and ethics to critically examine the concept of innovation and to explore how ethical reflection can redirect innovation in policy and practice.

Across two days, the conference will connect foundational conceptual work with technology-specific and empirically informed perspectives. The contributions will include debates on imagination and creativity, responsible innovation and its limits, technology assessment, and the politics of technological change.

Confirmed speakers:

• Dr. Mandi Astola (Delft University of Technology)
• Prof. Dr. Vincent Blok (Wageningen University & Research / Erasmus University Rotterdam)
• Prof. Dr. Philip Brey (University of Twente)
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
• Dr. Benjamin Lange (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
• Dr. Konrad Kollnig (Maastricht University)
• Dr. Mareike Smolka (Wageningen University & Research / RWTH Aachen University)

Registration: https://forms.gle/6PBaFGDo57PHSEGq7

Lunchtalk-Reihe des DFG-Netzwerks “Methoden Praktischer Ethik” 

Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen, zuzuhören und mitzudiskutieren.

Erster Lunchtalk: Freitag, 24. April 2026, 12:00 – 13:00 Uhr: 

Dr. Kian Mintz-Woo (Cork): „Why Philosophers Should(n’t) Join Policy Commissions“

Abstract: This work tries to systematically canvas relevant considerations for philosophers considering joining policy commissions. We ask both whether she should engage with some given policy commission and whether she should engage with some given policy commission. Along the way, we consider some potential differences between normative philosophers and philosophers of science in policy roles.

Teilnahmelink (Zoom): Link

Nächste Termine der Lunchtalk-Reihe zum Vormerken:

• Freitag, 22. Mai 2026, 12:00 Uhr: Vortrag von Dr. Tanja Rechnitzer (Hannover)
• Freitag, 19. Juni 2026, 12:00 Uhr: Vortrag von Dr. Charlotte Unruh (Southampton)
• Freitag, 17. Juli 2026, 12:00 Uhr: Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Robert Ranisch (Potsdam)

We are pleased to announce the workshop “Causal Models, Causal Abstraction, and Levels of Causation”, which will take place on 11–12 June 2026 at the University of Hamburg.

Dates & Locations:

• 11 June: AS-Saal, Main Building, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg
• 12 June: ESA Ost 221, East Wing, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, 20146 Hamburg

Speakers:

• Kate Barnes (University of Colorado Boulder)
• Edoardo Fazzini (University of Bern)
• Laura Franklin-Hall (New York University)
• Michael Townsen Hicks (University of Glasgow)
• Max Kistler (University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
• Beate Krickel (TU Berlin)
• Matthias Rolffs (University of Bern)
• Bram Vaassen (University of Umeå)

Organisers: Thomas Kroedel (University of Hamburg) & Brian Ortmann (University of Hamburg)

The schedule and further updates will be posted on the workshop website: https://beyondcausalexclusion.org/about-2/

The workshop is part of the project “Beyond Causal Exclusion: New Challenges for Multi-Level Causal Models.” The project is a collaboration between the Universities of Bern and Hamburg, funded by SNSF and DFG. More information: https://beyondcausalexclusion.org/

If you would like to attend, please register by sending an email to: brian.ortmann@uni-hamburg.de

We would be very happy to welcome you in Hamburg.