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Daily Overview |
| 8:30am - 6:00pm |
W04: The Situated Mind: Perception, Experience, and Imagination Location: 23.21 U1.95 Is situated cognition well-equipped to illuminate the full diversity of our mental phenomena? This workshop will critically probe this question by evaluating whether the notion of a situated mind can be beneficially applied to various mental domains.
How to Imagine the Impossible Claremont McKenna College, United States of America Expertise-By-Experience in Psychiatry as Attuned Responsiveness Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, The Practices of Imagining University of Antwerp, Belgium Freeing Imagination from the Image: An Argument Against Imagery Essentialism from Aphantasia Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany Mind Wandering as Spontaneous Agency Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Rethinking the Conceptual Model of Imagination Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Depersonalisation as an Existential Boundary Situation Osnabrück University, Germany |
| 9:00am - 4:30pm |
W07: Hoffnung, Verzweiflung und Zeitbezug Location: 23.21 U1.93 Dieser Workshop befasst sich mit Hoffnung, Verzweiflung und deren Zeitbezug. Menschliches Handeln ist konstitutiv auf eine kontingente Zukunft gerichtet, die man nie ganz in der Hand hat. Zu dieser Unverfügbarkeit kann man sich hoffend oder verzweifelnd verhalten, selten auch indifferent. Der Workshop will Natur und normative Dimension dieser Einstellungen thematisieren.
Hoffnung als ethischer Standard Universität zu Köln, Germany Shaping Our Mental Lives: Hope, Despair and Attention FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany Was ist eine Verzweiflungstat? Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Die Epistemologie des Möglichen: Hoffnung als moralische Ressource Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany No Need to Despair over the Standard Problem for the Standard Theory of Hope Goethe University |
| 9:00am - 5:45pm |
W03.1: Similarity after Carnap - Perspectives from Philosophy and Cognitive Science Location: 23.21 U1.75 In his Aufbau programme, Carnap sought to provide a formally rigorous account of how property concepts—and ultimately scientific theories—can be constructed on the basis of similarity, particularly through a procedure he called quasi-analysis. Goodman famously challenged the viability of this method, later even claiming that the appeal to similarity is inherently problematic. This workshop aims to bring together scholars from both philosophical and psychological traditions to debate the role of similarity in constituting categorization, analogical reasoning, and belief systems—and to explore the continuing relevance of Carnap’s work in this debate.
A representational generalization of Carnap’s quasi-analysis for Goodman’s interpretation of the AUFBAU as a theory of mapping scientific knowledge (online) independent, Japan Similarity, Direct Measurements, Conceptual Spaces and Kolmogorov-Chaitin complexity for scientific theory selection and induction Accenture, Switzerland What Carnap’s Aufbau can do for conceptual spaces (online) University of the Basque Country, Spain Sameness and Similarity (online) Umeå University, Sweden Similarity and probability in generalisation Radboud University, Netherlands, The The Role of Similarity in Carnap's Program of an Inductive Logic University of Cologne, Germany Structuring Qualities: From Carnap's Quasi-analysis to Quality Space Theory Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany The Limited Place in Cognitive Space (online) 1: Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Royal Holloway, University of London |
| 9:00am - 6:00pm |
W09.1: Data-Driven Methods for Philosophy Location: 23.21 U1.72 Computational methods have revolutionized most fields of academic research, including the humanities. More recently, they have also been put to use in the philosophy of science, history of philosophy, and metaphilosophy. In this satellite workshop, we discuss techniques from the digital humanities, network science and artificial intelligence research that can support the study of philosophical corpora.
Using Network Analysis in Integrated History and Philosophy of Science Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany edhiphy.org: Mention-Networks for the history of analytic philosophy (of science) Tilburg University, Netherlands, The Computational History and Philosophy of Science Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Patterns, pathways & surprises: Introduction to OpenAlex Mapper Utrecht University, Germany |
| 9:00am - 6:30pm |
W01: Climate Ethics Under Conditions of Increasing Non-Compliance Location: 23.21 U1.44 It is not just the climate that is changing. The political environment in which humanity’s response to the climate crisis is decided is changing as well. The assumption that, by and large, we are entering a period in which the severity of the problem will become more widely acknowledged and the will to act collectively and decisively will ultimately emerge, has become less certain over the last years. We are facing a world that is both warmer and more polarized in its responses to climate change. In this workshop we want to ask how these developments affect ethical thinking in relation to climate change. |
| 9:40am - 6:40pm |
W05: Functional Explanation in the Philosophy of Language Location: 23.21 U1.46 The workshop brings together researchers in the philosophy of language and linguistics to focus on the role that the attribution of functions to linguistic entities such as concepts (e.g. concepts of race and gender), speech acts, linguistic systems (e.g. modal and moral language), or language as a whole can play in settling debates in the philosophy of language.
Linguistic Functions and Conceptual Engineering Dartmouth College, United States of America The Power of Grammatical Metaphor: A Metafunctional Perspective Ghent University, Belgium Do Spiders Threaten Each Other? Toward a Cross-Species Theory of Illocutionary Acts University of Wollongong, Australia Fixing (or Ameliorating?) the Social Function of Praise University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Deception and Social Repair King's College London, United Kingdom |
| 9:45am - 5:30pm |
W10: Mehr als Brieffreundinnen: Wie historische Philosophinnen in systematische Philosophielehre integriert werden können Location: 23.21 U1.97 How can we systematically integrate texts by historical women philosophers into university teaching? This question will be addressed in a full-day workshop as part of the GAP.12 Congress in Düsseldorf. We will present innovative teaching formats and materials that aim at increasing the visibility of women in philosophy. These include information materials created by the BMFTR joint project, a reader project with texts by early modern female philosophers translated into German for the first time as well as a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on “How To Teach Historical Women Philosophers.”
Teaching Philosophy of Mind as Philosophy of Education: Introducing 17th Century Women into History of Philosophy McGill University, Canada Teaching Women into the History of Early Analytic Philosophy University of Manchester, United Kingdom |
| 10:00am - 3:30pm |
W08: New Work on Metaphysical Indeterminacy Location: 23.21 U1.73 The received view in analytic philosophy used to be that only our representations of the world can be indeterminate. The aim of this workshop is to showcase and offer a forum for the discussion of cutting edge work on this topic.
Metaphysical Indeterminacy of Spatiotemporal Relations Ludwig Maximilian universitat, Germany A Supervaluationist Theory of Causal Indeterminacy University of Bern, Switzerland Dimensions, Degrees, Indeterminacy Ca'Foscari University Venice, Italy |
| 10:15am - 5:15pm |
W02.1: Explanation and the “practical turn" in philosophy of mathematics – an interdisciplinary perspective Location: 23.21 U1.76 Chair: Deborah Kant Chair: Eva Müller-Hill The practical turn in the philosophy of mathematics shifts the focus from traditional foundational questions to the actual practice of mathematics, opening new avenues for interdisciplinary engagement. One such field is mathematics education, where overlaps emerge particularly in epistemological questions—for example, the nature and role of explanation. This workshop aims to provide a forum for exploring these.
Collective understanding in mathematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium Characterizing consensus and disagreement in mathematical practice Universität zu Lübeck / Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Germany ‘Mathematical explanation’ from an enactivist perspective Univeristy of Agder, Norway Mathematics as Explanation and Scientific Understanding – Kantian Foundations, Abduction, and Cognitive Intelligibility University of Pavia, Italy The Practical Turn: ITPs and the Essence of Mathematical Explanation University of Toronto, Canada |