Our Graduate Conference is the highlight of each year – based on a chosen topic for which we prepare in our weekly meetings during two semesters. It is led and organised by the Forum’s members and aims at bringing together students, graduates and key researchers from their respective fields.
You can find a list of all past conferences below:
Filtering Truth
14th WFAP Graduate Conference on Epistemic Bubbles, Echo Chambers and the Spread of Misinformation
July 3 – 5, 2025, University of Vienna
Wait, What!?
13th WFAP Graduate Conference on Nonsense and Category Mistakes
July 4 – 6, 2024, University of Vienna
Website & Poster
HEY!
12th WFAP Graduate Conference on Attention and Salience
July 6 – 8, 2023, University of Vienna
Website & Poster
Don’t know, should care
11th WFAP Graduate Conference on Knowledge, Ignorance and Moral Responsibility
July 7 – 9, 2022, University of Vienna
Website & Poster
Just Saying?
10th WFAP Graduate Conference on the social and political implications of language and its philosophy
July 5 – 7, 2021, University of Vienna
Website & Poster
Boxing Philosophers
9th WFAP Graduate Conference on Modality and Counterfactuals
June 2020, University of Vienna
Website & Poster
Logic Rulez!?
8th WFAP Graduate Conference on the Normativity of Logic
June 24 – 26, 2019, University of Vienna
Website & Poster
“We Couldn’t Agree on a Title”
7th WFAP Graduate Conference
June 07–08, 2018
About Democracy and Rationality
With keynotes from Hélène Landemore (Yale) and Kai Spiekermann (LSE)
Don’t know, don’t care
6th WFAP Graduate Conference
June 6–8, 2017
About Epistemic Vices
With keynotes from Alessandra Tanesini (Cardiff) and Maria Lasonen-Aarnio (Ann Arbor)
What in the World(s)?!
5th WFAP Graduate Conference
September 13-15, 2016
About Analytic Metaphysics
With keynotes from Sophie Allen (Keele) and Graham Priest (CUNY)
“The Odds for Bayesianism”
4th WFAP Graduate Conference
May 28-30, 2015
About the purpose of Bayesianism in Philosophy
With keynotes from Anna Mahtani (LSE), Jon Williamson (Kent) and Jonathan Weisberg (Toronto)
“We need to talk” – Language and Philosophical Method
3rd WFAP Graduate Conference
May 22-24, 2014
About Philosophy of Language and Philosophical Methodology
With keynotes from Jessica Brown (St Andrews), Jason Stanley (Yale) and Jonathan Weinberg (Arizona)
“How Am I Supposed To Know?” – Sources of Knowledge
2nd WFAP Graduate Conference
May 2-4, 2013
About Knowledge
With keynotes from Jennifer Nagel (Toronto) and Richard Foley (New York)
“Nothing but the Truth”
1st WFAP Graduate Conference
March 9-11, 2012
About Theories of Truth
With keynotes from Leon Horsten (Bristol), Paul Horwich (New York University) and Jeffrey Ketland ( MCMP/Edinburgh)