Conference Agenda
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Daily Overview |
| 9:00am - 12:00pm |
C1: Epistemische Kompetenzen (in German) Location: 22.01 2A Chair: Bettina Bussmann Chair: David Lanius Organised by Bettina Bussmann (University of Salzburg), David Lanius (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).
Epistemische Kompetenzen aus der Perspektive einer Theorie von Fähigkeiten Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany Dimensionen epistemischer Kompetenz Universität Salzburg, Austria Empirisch informiertes Philosophieren University of Salzburg, Austria Affektive Lernziele mit kognitiver Relevanz Heinrich-Heine-University-Duesseldorf, Germany |
C2: Moral Understanding Through Reflective Equilibrium Location: 22.01 2D Chair: Norbert Paulo Organised by Norbert Paulo (LMU Munich)
Moral understanding and reflective equilibrium: Can we get everything we want? University of Bern, Switzerland Moral understanding: from virtue to knowledge University of Zurich, Switzerland Moral understanding in the face of moral disagreement Uppsala University, Sweden |
C3: The Structure of Scientific Discoveries Location: 22.01 2B Chair: Andreas Bartels Chair: Jan Michel Organised by Andreas Bartels (University of Bonn), Jan Michel (HHU Düsseldorf)
Imagination, Experience, and Scientific Discovery University of Connecticut, United States of America Serendipity and the Structure of Scientific Discovery (with a note on Rhetorical Justice) Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, The When Does a Scientific Discovery Occur? Universität Wuppertal, Germany |
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| 9:30am - 12:30pm |
SC1: Student Congress 1 Location: 23.02 02.45 "I didn't know what consent was:" Rape, Ignorance, and Our Epistemic Obligations Università di Torino, Italy 10:15am - 11:00am The Rationality of Hijacked Attitudes from an Internalist Perspective Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany 11:00am - 11:45am When Patients speak and Medicine doesn't listen: Testimonial Injustice and the Hidden Roots of Reductionism n/a 11:45am - 12:30pm Absicht jenseits des Wissens? Generative KI und die Grenzen von Anscombes Handlungstheorie Rheinische-Friedrichs-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Germany |
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| 10:00am - 12:00pm |
B1: Responsibility for Rationality: Foundations of an Ethics of Mind Location: 22.01 2C Chair: Geert Keil Presentation of the book Zürich, Switzerland Commentary University of Helsinki, Finland Commentary TU Dortmund, Germany Reply Zürich, Switzerland |
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| 12:15pm - 1:15pm |
Opening of the Publisher Exhibition - with vitamin-rich snacks (in German) Location: 23.01, Lobby Chair: Anna Schriefl Chair: Elke Brendel |
Presentation: Scicomm-Support (in German) Location: 23.01 3B Chair: Markus Schrenk |
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| 1:30pm - 4:30pm |
S01: Applied Ethics Location: 23.03 U1.65 Chair: Susanne Boshammer Challenging Incumbency Bias in Housing Policy University of Hamburg, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Why share personal information on social media? University of Salzburg, Austria 3:00pm - 3:45pm AI Mimicry and Human Dignity: Chatbot Use as a Violation of Self-Respect Umeå University, Sweden 3:45pm - 4:30pm Government vs. Private Actors: Who Should Take the Lead in Governing Carbon Dioxide Removal? Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany |
S02: Normative Ethics 1 Location: 23.03 U1.61 Chair: Christian Seidel Minimizing complaints and saving identified lives Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm A Weak Asymmetry in our Obligations to Future People LMU Munich, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Good/Bad Asymmetries and the Non-Identity Problem Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm The Risk of a Life Not Worth Living Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
S03: Normative Ethics 2 Location: 23.02 U1.22 Chair: Maike Albertzart Moral Luck and Mens Rea FAU, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Vices of Responsibility - On the Inability to Take Responsibility for Your Actions Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Principle Contractualism for Non-Ideal Worlds Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Korsgaard, Kantian and Hegelian Constructivism University of Konstanz, Germany |
S04: Philosophy of Cognition & AI 1 Location: 23.03 01.22 Chair: Nastasia Müller Intentionality and Semantics in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Philosophical Examination of Human Meaning and AI Limitations Humanistische Hochschule Berlin, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin 2:15pm - 3:00pm Unveiling the Unspoken: Teaching AI to Keep Silent University of Connecticut, United States of America 3:00pm - 3:45pm Is there a responsible use of deepfakes? Addressing ethical and epistemological challenges Bayreuth University, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Can “AI” Really Be Considered “Conscious” Under Illusionism? Ruhr University Bochum, Germany |
S06: Social Philosophy 1 Location: 23.02 U1.24 Chair: Stefan Gosepath Why Family Abolition? Children’s Autonomy, Role-Models, and Imagination Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Glaubwürdigkeit, Vertrauen und Sich-Verlassen 1: Universität Zürich, Switzerland; 2: Universität Stuttgart 3:00pm - 3:45pm Vernünftige Liebe FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Joint Duties and the Indeterminacy Challenge Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany |
S07: Political Philosophy & Philosophy of Law 1 Location: 22.01 2C Chair: Corinna Mieth State Entrapment, Private Entrapment, and their Implications University of Liverpool, UK, United Kingdom 2:15pm - 3:00pm Hopelessness, Injustice and Diachronic Democracy Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Affectedness, Republican Non-Domination and Democracy Universität Potsdam, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Competitive Social Institutions and the Radius of Care University of Groningen, Netherlands / University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| S09: Metaethics, Rationality & Decision Theory 2 Location: 23.01 3B Chair: Tobias Wilsch The Structure of Normativity Bielefeld University, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Expressivism and the varieties of “ought” 1: Umeå Universitet, Sweden; 2: Uppsala University, Sweden 3:00pm - 3:45pm Rank-Based Decision Theory and Conditional Deontic Logic University of Konstanz, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Reasons First, Deontic Logic Second Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany |
S10: Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory 1 Location: 23.03 01.43 Chair: Katja Crone Defining Pain-Related Suffering: Perceived Harmful Disruption to the Sense of Self Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2:15pm - 3:00pm The Mind’s Blueprint: Mental Health, Rational Ability, and Design Bielefeld University, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Rethinking Suicide Risk: A Normative Approach to Suicide Prevention TU Dortmund, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Control in auditory verbal hallucinations Osnabrück University, Germany |
S11: Philosophy of Mind and Action Theory 2 Location: 23.03 01.41 Chair: Tobias Starzak A Plank across the Gap. The Case of Pain 1: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany; 2: Berlin School of Mind and Brain 2:15pm - 3:00pm The limits of transparency and the role of memory University of Bern, Switzerland 3:00pm - 3:45pm Beyond the Here and Now: Pretence and the Origins of Imagination Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Imaginative resistance as mental effort: a skill-based approach University of Milan, Italy |
S13: Philosophy of Science 2 Location: 23.21 U1.73 Chair: Tom Sterkenburg Revisiting the Analogy Between Grounding and Causation Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, The 2:15pm - 3:00pm Constitution and Causation in Mechanisms université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France 3:00pm - 3:45pm The Causal Grounds of Really Statistical Explanations University of Zürich, Switzerland 3:45pm - 4:30pm Scientific knowledge of how to make something 1: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; 2: Ohio State University, US |
S14: Philosophy of Language 1 Location: 23.03 01.63 Chair: Katharina Felka Dual Character Eliminativism University of Zurich, Switzerland 2:15pm - 3:00pm Negotiating Scripts with Normative Generics University of Konstanz, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Meaning Minimalism about LLMs and Artificial Speech Acts Universitetet i Bergen, Norway 3:45pm - 4:30pm The concepts of lying and truth across cultures and LLMs 1: University of Granada, Spain; 2: University of Göttingen, Göttingen; 3: Tartu University, Estonia; 4: MPI Berlin, Germany |
S15: Philosophy of Language 2 Location: 23.03 01.61 Chair: Stefan Rinner Contrafactives and contrafacts Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Perfecting Conditionals. A Contribution to the Logic of Conversation University of Regensburg, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Against (any) Natural Logic for Logicality University of Siena, Italy 3:45pm - 4:30pm Minimalism without Creeping University of Vienna, Austria |
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| S16: Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics 1 Location: 23.21 U1.93 Chair: Alexandra Zinke No Variables! Remodelling Fregean Predicate Logic Utrecht University, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Dummett on (Frege on) definitions: Relaxing the ‘unique solution’ requirement. University of Torino, Italy 3:00pm - 3:45pm Kann Frege die Prinzipien der Logik rechtfertigen? Universität Münster, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Von der Tafel der Gegensätze zur logischen Sanduhr – Überlegungen zu Gottlob Frege Universität Münster, Germany |
S17: Logic & Philosophy of Mathematics 2 Location: 23.21 U1.44 Chair: Peter Fritz Explications in Mathematics 1: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; 2: Universität zu Lübeck; 3: Vrije Universiteit Brussels 2:15pm - 3:00pm Is theory closure a hallmark of logic's neutrality? 1: University of Trieste, Italy; 2: University of Padua, Italy 3:00pm - 3:45pm What Practices Cannot Tell Us. A Problem for Aposteriorism About Mathematical Knowledge Heinrich Heine University, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm The New Age of Enumerative Induction University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
S18: History of Philosophy 1 Location: 23.01 3C Chair: Kristina Engelhard “Everything Belongs to Everything”: Rethinking the Philosophical Background of Eristic in Plato’s Euthydemus University of Oslo, Norway 2:15pm - 3:00pm Seneca on the Stoic criterion of truth: A materialist critical approach to sensory perception University of Bonn, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm A Transcendental Ground for Second-Personal Ethics Yale University, U.S.A 3:45pm - 4:30pm From scientific philosophy to logic as a science University of Vienna, Austria |
S19: Epistemology 1 Location: 23.21 U1.72 Chair: Nadja El Kassar When They Stay Silent – Willful Hermeneutical Silence Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Epistemic dependence and perspectives: the role of testimony in changing how we think University of Oxford, United Kingdom 3:00pm - 3:45pm Epistemic Wrongdoing and the Need for Epistemic Redress and Forgiveness Technische Universität Dresden, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm What is a fig leaf ? Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany |
S20: Epistemology 2 Location: 23.21 U1.76 Chair: Moritz Schulz Der epistemische Konsequentialismus und Trade-Off Einwände Universität Heidelberg, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Epistemic Permissiveness and the Balancing View of Ought Bielefeld University, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Can Epistemic Normativity Be Reconciled with an Ought Simpliciter? Universität Mannheim, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Epistemic Policing as Demon-Exorcism: A New Argument for (modest) Externalism Goethe University, Germany |
S21: Didactics of Philosophy & Public Philosophy 1 Location: 22.01 2B Chair: Bettina Bussmann Was soll bei einer Urteilsbildung eigentlich gebildet werden? Unterrichtliche Urteilsbildungen im Spannungsfeld zwischen epistemischer und didaktischer Angemessenheit Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Mehr als nur Prämissen und Konklusionen: Ein sprechaktorientierter Ansatz zur Vermittlung argumentativer Kompetenzen Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Begriffsanalyse im schulischen Unterricht 1: Robert-Bosch-Gymnasium Wendlingen, Germany; 2: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 3:45pm - 4:30pm Public Philosophy als Fachdidaktik denken Universität zu Köln, Germany |
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| S22: Metaphysics/Ontology 1 Location: 23.21 U1.95 Chair: Andreas Hüttemann The counterfactual invariance of laws of nature 1: HHU Düsseldorf, Germany; 2: Umeå Universitet 2:15pm - 3:00pm How should Humeans deal with tied best systems? 1: University of Geneva, Switzerland; 2: University of Lisbon, Portugal 3:00pm - 3:45pm Laws of Nature as Results of a Trade-Off --- Rethinking the Humean trade-off conception 1: LanCog, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon, Portugal; 2: University of Geneva, Switzerland 3:45pm - 4:30pm Factual Difference-Making 1: LMU Munich, Germany; 2: Carnegie Mellon University; 3: University of British Columbia |
S23: Metaphysics/Ontology 2 Location: 23.21 U1.97 Chair: Matthias Rolffs Higher-Order Constructionism Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany 2:15pm - 3:00pm Biologische Individualität und die Frage personaler Identität University of Bielefeld, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Virtual Avatars as Parts University of Padua, Italy 3:45pm - 4:30pm CANCELLED The Burden of Independence: A New Dilemma on Structural Isomorphism University of Bern, Switzerland |
SC2: Student Congress 2 Location: 23.02 02.45 Who is Misogyny For? Reclaiming Feminist Theory with Queermisia in the Age of Reactionary Politics Bilkent University, Turkiye 2:15pm - 3:00pm Markets without Limits? An Analysis of Self-Defeating Commodification Universität Hamburg, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Creating Normativity and Responding to It: How Metaethical Constructivists Can Have It Both Ways Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm CANCELLED Ich sehe was, was Du nicht siehst! Das Bild als subjektiver Sinn im Objekt University of Bonn, Germany |
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| 2:15pm - 4:30pm |
S08: Metaethics, Rationality & Decision Theory 1 Location: 23.03 01.24 Chair: Daniele Bruno Practical Irrationality and Self-Efficacy Belief Academia Sinica, Taiwan 3:00pm - 3:45pm Deciding Decision-Making Away 1: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; 2: Oxford University 3:45pm - 4:30pm What should a theory of motivational change look like? Zurich, Switzerland |
S12: Philosophy of Science 1 Location: 23.21 U1.75 Chair: Claus Beisbart Beyond Distrust in Science: Unpacking the Strategic Redirection of Trust Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany 3:00pm - 3:45pm Science’s Mythstake: How the myth of “THE scientific method” fuels public distrust of science Heinrich Heine Universität, Germany 3:45pm - 4:30pm Climate Tipping Points: Deep uncertainties and values in climate communication 1: Leibniz University Hannover, Germany; 2: Bern University |
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| 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
K2: Erkenntnis Lecture Location: 23.01 3A Chair: Barbara Vetter From capacities to the moral ‘ought’: Prospects of a capacity-based moral constitutivism University of Nuremberg-Erlangen, Germany |
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| 6:30pm - 7:30pm |
Erkenntnis Reception Location: 23.01, Lobby |
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| 7:00pm - 9:00pm |
Mitgliederversammlung (in German) Location: 23.01 3A Chair: Elke Brendel Chair: Markus Schrenk |
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