Tagungen & Workshops

Conference Date:  21-23 September 2023, Hamburg

Speakers:

• Tim Williamson (Oxford/Yale
• Elke Brendel (Bonn)
• Cian Dorr (NYU)
• Samuel Elgin (UC San Diego)
• Peter Fritz (ACU)
• Jeremy Goodman (USC)
• Ole Hjortland (Bergen)
• Julien Murzi (Salzburg)
• Cristina Nencha (Bologna)
• Agustín Rayo (MIT)
• Sam Roberts (Konstanz)
• Barbara Vetter (FU Berlin)

Funded by:
Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

Registration:
To register, please send an email to Lukas.Skiba@uni-hamburg.de

Event Description:
The conference marks the ten-year anniversary of Timothy Williamson’s Modal Logic as Metaphysics which is widely regarded as one of the of the last decade’s most important monographs on metaphysics, logic, and their connection. It has initiated and advanced a long list of research projects and debates concerning such diverse topics as (i) the methodology of logic and metaphysics, (ii) the structure and nature of modal reality, and (iii) the formal language in which logico-metaphysical theorizing should be conducted. The aims of the conference are (a) to assess the book’s contribution to these and related areas of research with a (modest) degree of hindsight, (b) to re-evaluate its main claims both in light of the constructive developments as well as the critical attention they have attracted over the last ten years, and (c) to identify future directions of research by focusing on so far under-appreciated challenges to the book’s central tenets, on strategies to meet these challenges, and on as yet under-investigated applications of the book’s main insights.

WORKSHOP 26. June 2023

VULNERABILITY AND THE STATE – THE CASE OF CHILDREN

Institute for Philosophy

Uni Hamburg

AS Saal, ESA 1

10:00 – 16:30 h

PROGRAMME:

10:00 – 10:10:           WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

10:10 – 11:00:           Giacomo Floris (Hamburg): Parental Love and Filial Equality

 11:00 – 11:10:           BREAK

 11:10 – 12:00            Colin MacLeod (University of Victoria): Nurturing Justice

 12:00 – 13:30            LUNCH

13:30 – 14:20:          Jurgen de Wispelaere (Freiburg) and Jasmina Jenat (Ljubljana): The Case for a Youth Basic Income: A First Dive

 14:20 – 14:30            BREAK

 14:30 – 15:20            Daniel Weinstock (McGill): (New?) and Further Thoughts on Children and Voting

15 :20 – 15:30           BREAK

15 :30 – 16:20           Anca Gheaus (CEU) : Raising Effective Egalitarians

16 :20 – 16 :30          CONCLUSION

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Christine Straehle
Professor for Practical Philosophy
Institute for Philosophy
University of Hamburg
christine.straehle"AT"uni-hamburg.de

26. June 2023
WORKSHOP

VULNERABILITY AND THE STATE – THE CASE OF CHILDREN

 Institute for Philosophy
Uni Hamburg
AS Saal, ESA 1 
10:00 – 16:30 h

PROGRAMME:

10:00 – 10:10:         WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
10:10 – 11:00:          Giacomo Floris (Hamburg):  Parental Love and Filial Equality
11:00 – 11:10:           BREAK
11:10 – 12:00            Colin MacLeod (University of Victoria): Nurturing Justice
12:00 – 13:30            LUNCH
13:30- - 14:20:          Jurgen de Wispelaere (Freiburg) and Jasmina Jenat (Ljubljana): The Case for a Youth Basic Income: A First Dive
14:20 – 14:30            BREAK
14:30 – 15:20            Daniel Weinstock (McGill): (New?) and Further Thoughts on Children and Voting
15 :20 – 15:30           BREAK
15 :30 – 16:20           Anca Gheaus (CEU) : Raising Effective Egalitarians
16 :20 – 16 :30         CONCLUSION

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Christine Straehle
Professor for Practical Philosophy
Institute for Philosophy
University of Hamburg
christine.straehle@uni-hamburg.de

 

31 May-1 June 2023, Gästehaus der Universität Hamburg, Rothenbaumchaussee 34, 20148 Hamburg

This conference seeks to explore the role of knowledge in enabling organizations to make responsible decisions. Various disciplines investigate the qualities organizations and their members need to generate, share, and store information for decision-making often in isolation from each other. We aim to bridge these disciplinary boundaries by bringing together fifteen scholars working across philosophy, organizational studies, psychology, sociology, and law. Talks explore foundational topics such as whether responsibility for actions based on group beliefs transmits to the members of the organization; psychological issues such as what we can learn from research on conspiracy theories about organizational decision making; as well as applied issues such as platform surveillance, corporate bullshit, and the impact of workplace democracy on corporate decision making. 
 
The programme is available here. 

Registration required: 
There is a limited number of places available for participants.
Please send an email to Lily Tappe to register for the conference lily.tappe"AT"uni-hamburg.de 
until 30 April and we try to accommodate you.

The conference is organized by the research group “Culpable Ignorance, Moral Knowledge in Organizations” and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. 

Agenda
Wednesday, 31 May 2023

• Boudewijn de Bruin, University of Groningen
  Epistemic virtues and organizational knowledge
• Joseph Uscinski,University of Miami
  What Can the Dynamics of Conspiracy Theories Tell us about Organizational Decision-making?
• Santiago Mejia, Fordham University
  Individual Character and Organizational Culture: the `Person-in-Organization’ as the Locus of Virtue and Vice
• Rafael Wittek, University of Groningen
  Context or Consonance? A Cause-Mapping Analysis of Cognitive Reactions to Organizational Change
• Mona Simion, University of Glasgow
  Group Belief and Responsibility Transmission
• Lily Tappe, University of Hamburg
  Wilfully ignorant and equally culpable? - Testing the equal culpability assumption for assigning moral blame in cases of culpable ignorance
• Alexander Sarch, University of Surrey
  Why We Need the Collective Knowledge Doctrine: The View from England
• Marco Meyer, University of Hamburg
  The Knowledge-Based Firm: Implications for Ethical Decision-Making
  

 Thursday, 1 June 2023

• Steven Bland, Huron University
  Bounded Rationality and Epistemic Virtues
• Mark Alfano, Macquarie University
  Trust from mistrust
• Tong Li, University of Hamburg
  Shaping Organisational Epistemic Infrastructure With Epistemic Virtues for Digital Responsibility: The Role of Ethics Professionals
• Säde Hormio, University of Helsinki
  Workplace democracy and deliberation in decision making
• Mandi Astola, Delft University of Technology
  When is corporate bullshit wrong?
• Erwan Lamy, ESCP Business School Paris
  NEVA model and epistemic responsibility: a proposal to make people more epistemically virtuous in organizations
• Christopher Baird, Glasgow Caledonian University
  Prying platforms: an interactivist account of collective epistemic vice

Program-Poster (PDF)

The Berlin-Hamburg Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy is organized by The Philosophy Departments of Berlin and Hamburg and takes place alternately in these two cities and brings together scholars on Early Modern Philosophy from all ober the year. Attendance is free, but please register at hu.uhhearlymodern"AT"gmail.com.“

Conference in Hamburg                            Poster

Invited Speakers:        
 Fabrice Correia (Geneva)
Kit Fine (NYU) tbc
Peter Fritz (ACU)
Nick Jones (Oxford)
Jessica Leech (KCL)
Francesca Poggiolesi (Paris)
Lisa Vogt (FU Berlin)
Isaac Wilhelm (Singapore)

Funded by:
Ideas and Venture Fund, as part of the Excellence Strategy of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

Registration:
To register, please send an email to lukas.skiba@uni-hamburg.de<br />(lukas.skiba"AT"uni-hamburg.de)
Event Description:
The last decades have seen two paradigm shifts in theoretical philosophy. One concerns explanation and has resulted in the rehabilitation of metaphysical or grounding explanations. The other concerns quantification and has resulted in the rehabilitation of higher-order quantification as a useful tool in formulating metaphysical theories. This conference is concerned with a natural point of contact between these two developments: the higher-order metaphysics of ground. The conference will bring together philosophers working on ground and/or on higher-order metaphysics to explore: (i) the potential of higher-order resources to elucidate the notion and workings of ground (and related phenomena) (ii) the potential of ground-theoretic resources to shed light on the metaphysical world view of higher-orderism.